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📋 A new report released by the WJC and UNESCO examines the threats that AI poses when it comes to safeguarding the record of the Holocaust. Malicious actors can easily manipulate AI to spread Holocaust distortion, denial, and even promote far-right ideas. ❗ Policymakers need to address these risks, and prevent AI from being abused to magnify the rise, reach, and impact of antisemitic ideology i...

For 🎵 World Music Day, we are sharing the world of klezmer, the historic music of Ashkenazi Jews. Today klezmer is seeing a revival with a modern twist.

Jews have a long heritage and history in the Balkans. Today, many of those communities, previously devastated by the Holocaust and caught behind the Iron Curtain, are growing again.

Sofia, home of the Bulgarian Jewish community.

We Connect And Protect The Jewish People.

This years Diplomacy Summit was like no other. As 120 hostages remain in Gaza and the explosive rise in antisemitism around the world, the Lauder Fellows advocated for the release of the hostages and urged world leaders to take action to address the antisemitism that has creeped its way into the classroom.

The festival of Shavuot celebrates the moment in biblical history when, amid the uncertainty of wandering through the desert, the children of Israel received the Torah - the guidelines for their very lives - and became the Jewish people. No matter where we find ourselves, we the Jewish people are connected and responsible for each other, as one. Kol Yisraʾel arevim zeh laZeh.

Speaking at the Jerusalem Post conference in New York, WJC President Ronald S. Lauder reflected on the historic times the Jewish people are living through, the importance of Jewish unity, and the multi-front war Israel is facing, both on her borders and social media.

Members of WJC's Executive Committee met in Israel in May 2024.

In just 36 hours from May 24-25, 1991, over 14,000 Ethiopian Jews were rescued from the region and brought to Israel and a new home. It was one of the biggest rescue operations in Israel's history, known as Operation Solomon.

The Farhud, meaning 'violent dispossession' in Arabic, was an anti-Jewish pogrom carried out in Baghdad, Iraq on June 1, 1941. A vicious mob went door to door to Jewish homes in Baghdad, killing, raping, looting. Horrific scenes which are familiar to us yet again from October 7. It was a shocking turning point for the Iraqi Jewish community.

During the Bosnian War of 1992-1995, ethnic cleansing was committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina against Bosnian Muslim and Croatian civilians. In the region of Prijedor, thousands of people were rounded up and sent to concentration camps, where they were murdered, beaten, raped, starved. Over 3,000 innocent people were killed in Prijedor during the war. On May 31st every year, the victims of ethn...

Lag Ba'Omer is a Jewish holiday celebrated with bonfires. This is the history behind Lag Ba'Omer and its traditions.

Football can bring the world together

A sister sings in honor of her fallen brother in Israel

Berlin's Bebelplatz is renamed to Hamas Hostages Square

Ester Kamińska: The mother of Jewish theatre

The importance of Queen Esther

When Israel rescued the Jews of Iraq

WJC Jewish Diplomatic Corps Israel Solidarity Mission

Israel at 76

Yom HaZikaron 2024: In remembrance of Israel's fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism

Empowering Transatlantic Civil Society Responses to Online Antisemitism Across Latin America

The Jewish Brigade, a WWII-era Jewish fighting unit

A gem of Jewish heritage: The Sarajevo Haggadah

The Jewish world through the Haggadah

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the military arm of the Iranian regime

Iran's genocidal threats against Israel