The American Jewish Committee has come out against President Donald Trump’s new executive order banning travel to the United ...

The Japanese army forced Jewish refugees into one working-class district, Hongkou, leading to crowded, unsanitary conditions in which disease spread rapidly. "Two bedrooms. Ten people living there ...

They sailed into Shanghai in July 1939 during the worst of the summer heat, finding a patchwork city of 4 million people throbbing with rickshaws, beggars, opium dens and malaria. For Gerd "Jerry ...

May is Jewish American Heritage Month. And this year, it lands in a time of rising antisemitism, civic unrest, and surging ...

OSWEGO, N.Y. — During World War II, nearly 1,000 Jewish refugees who had escaped the Holocaust were brought to the United States and given safe haven at an Army post in Upstate New York.

It is especially appropriate that I was there for HIAS’ seventh annual Refugee Shabbat, observed from Friday, Feb. 28, to Saturday, March 1, to recognize the major impact of the global Jewish ...

About Face: Jewish Refugees in the Allied Forces is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...

A PHOTO of displaced Iraqi Jews in 1951. The government hopes to give a voice to the story of the millions of Jewish refugees (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) Seventy-five years ago this month ...

Oswego. N.Y. — During World War II, it served as America’s (and the world’s) only dedicated refugee shelter for people fleeing the Nazi Holocaust. In recent years, it has become a locally ...