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The $12 million emergency fund, part of a larger $1.2 billion reparations package, will be disbursed to 8,500 Jewish survivors in Ukraine.

As the United States revitalizes its alliances in East Asia, World War II reparations issues loom large. The United States’ two closest allies in the region — Japan and South Korea — remain at odds on issues ranging from forced labor that Koreans performed for Japanese corporations to the comfort women system of sexual enslavement. The failure to redress these issues has stretched the bilateral relationship to its thinnest point in 50 years. Although the new administration in Seoul promise...

<p>Meg Jacobs, Gregory Brew and Kai Bird discuss the similar economic and international contexts of the two presidencies, and suggest that Biden may, like Carter, ultimately be more effective than he is given credit for. </p>

U.N. human rights investigator Miloon Kothari has now apologized for criticizing the “Jewish lobby,” but Israel advocates have long celebrated the power of the Israel lobby in forming U.S. policy.

The D.C. museum marked the 75th anniversary of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

The revelations came from documents referred to as "The Uber Files" obtained by The Guardians and shared with the ICIJ.

Austria bestowed one of its highest honors on American Jewish Committee (AJC) CEO David Harris. The Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria was presented today to Harris during the AJC Board of Governors meeting.

Former US Middle East envoy: Saudis believe relations with Israel are coming – it is only a question of when.

We honor the Mapping Project’s work in a tradition of activist journalism, and holding the powerful to account.

Fifty years later, the ironies of Watergate still haunt the presidency.