Jewish refugees

My Word: UN Solidarity Day ignores Jewish refugees expelled from Arab countries - opinion

Two years after October 7, 2023, to mark International Solidarity with the Palestinians, while ignoring what has been inflicted on Israel and the Jewish world, is particularly jarring.

REFUGEE IMMIGRANTS to Israel from Yemen pose at their camp site near Ein Shemer in 1950.
The Departure and Expulsion Memorial in Jerusalem.

US Jewish Congressmembers sponsor bipartisan bill to create ‘Jewish Refugee Day’

 HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - JULY 07: James Gunn, Peter Safran, Nicholas Hoult, Rachel Brosnahan and David Corenswet seen at the Los Angeles Premiere of Warner Bros. "Superman" TCL Chinese Theatre on July 07, 2025 in Hollywood, California.

Five facts on Superman’s Jewish immigrant origins and James Gunn’s reboot

 Pedestrians walk past the Marks & Spencer store near Marble Arch on Oxford Street in London on February 29.

The untold story: How Marks & Spencer helped save the Jews of Europe


Flight to freedom

The riveting stories of Shlomo Hillel, Operation Babylon and Atlit.

Shlomo Hillel at home in Jerusalem

Polish diplomat in Istanbul rescued hundreds of Jews from the Holocaust

Rychlewicz never applied for recognition for his actions or advertised them, according to the report.

Turkish Jews join to blessing prayers of Mi Sheberah by Chief Rabbi Izhak Haleva at Neve Shalom synagogue in Istanbul

Why isn't there an UNWRA for Jewish refugees from the Arab countries?

YEMENITE JEWS near their tents in Israel in 1949.

Israel ambassador calls on UN to recognize Jewish refugees

Ambassador Danny Danon introduced the resolution at a General Assembly discussion marking 72 years since the November 29 Partition Plan.

THE MOSSAD saved Jews in foreign lands from North Africa to Iraq to Syria to Ethiopia

The ignored lessons of Evian 1938

DISPLACED SYRIANS walk in a refugee camp in the Turkish border town of Suruc in January 2015

The forgotten Palestinian refugees

The book captures the full horror of suffering Jewish children whose homes were under attack.

War of Independence

WWII refugee and three term mayor of Portland, Oregon dies at 84

The late former mayor Vera Katz escaped France by hiking through Pyrenees to Spain then arrived in New York City at the age of 7.

A pedestrian walks through a snow covered park in downtown Portland, Oregon.

Once upon a child

The ‘Kindertransport’ starting in 1938 enabled thousands of children to escape the clutches of the Nazi regime, but was the lifesaving venture all positive for those who lived it?

A TRAVELER looks toward the ‘Kindertransport’ memorial in London

Comment: Remembering the ethnic cleansing of the Middle East's Jews

This is the untold story of the Jewish forgotten refugees. These Jews, who survived ethnic cleansing and were systematically expelled, were now forgotten.

Yemenite Jews in Ma'abarot (Absorption Camp) Rosh Ha-Ayin in 1949

Escape from Cyprus: The story of ‘Hatikva'

As the passengers sang loudly, the Palestinian sawed the lock from a hatch cover in the floor of their cage.

Hatikvah crew members in Cyprus (from left) Hugh McDonald, Sam Gordon, Harold Katz, Joe Gilden and Murray Greenfield.