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.

NOVEMBER 28, 2025|ByLIAT COLLINS

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’

'Recognizing Jewish Refugee Day helps to ensure that Congress continues to bring awareness to the history of antisemitism and stand with the Jewish community around the world.'

NOVEMBER 25, 2025|ByGRACE GILSON/JTA

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

Superman has always been an immigrant, and, by extension, a Jewish immigrant, long before today’s culture wars. Gunn’s film merely foregrounds a theme embedded in the hero’s DNA since 1938.

JULY 9, 2025|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

It is a story which is mostly unknown and, in my humble opinion, is begging for a research assistant to properly investigate and perhaps base a doctoral thesis on the subject.

APRIL 24, 2024|ByLAWRENCE (SHMUEL) BECKER

'Paddington Bear' author found inspiration in Jewish refugee children

The author, who recently died, was inspired in part by the thousands of Jewish refugee children who came to the United Kingdom during World War II.

JULY 2, 2017ByGABE FRIEDMAN/JTA

Video shows Jared Kushner's grandmother speaking about life as a refugee

Rae Kushner survived the Holocaust by escaping from the Novogrudok, Poland ghetto through an underground tunnel, living in the woods for nine months and ending up in a displaced persons camp.

JANUARY 31, 2017ByJOSEFIN DOLSTEN/JTA

Report: Several Jewish families affected by Trump’s refugee ban

The executive order prohibits refugees from entering the United States for 120 days, with an indefinite ban on those fleeing war-torn Syria.

JANUARY 30, 2017ByJTA

Protesting in Jerusalem against the US travel ban on Jan. 29, 2017

Remembering the Holocaust – passing the torch

The Holocaust was the lowest moral depth that the human race has ever sunk to.

JANUARY 29, 2017ByELIEZER SHENVALD

A man sits on the railway tracks in the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau as thousands of people, mostly youth from all over the world, gather for the annual March of the Living t

A day of commemoration for refugees

The resolution began with the partition plan and ended with the expulsion of 850,000 Jews from Arab lands, including Iraq, Syria, Morocco, Libya, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen.

DECEMBER 5, 2016ByMADELINE ROACHE