Author: Reporter

Almost 80 years after the Holocaust, about 245,000 Jewish survivors are still living across more than 90 countries, a new census report revealed on January 23. Nearly half of them, or 49%, are living in Israel, while 18% are in Western Europe, 16% in the United States, and 12% in countries of the former Soviet Union, according to a study by the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, also referred to as the Claims Conference. Before the publication of the demographic report, there were only vague estimates about how many Holocaust survivors are still alive. Their...

In the aftermath of World War II and the murder by Nazi Germany of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, the world united around a now-familiar pledge: Never again. A key part of that lofty aspiration was the drafting of a convention that codified and committed nations to prevent and punish a new crime, sometimes called the crime of crimes: genocide. The convention was drawn up in 1948, the year of Israel’s creation as a Jewish state. Now that country is being accused at the United Nations’ highest court of committing the very crime so deeply woven into its...

Winter is well underway, inflicting its usual array of symptoms like coughs, nasal congestion, fatigue, and fever, and this year a new COVID-19 variant is dominating the scoreboard. COVID-19 is leading hospital admissions among the respiratory viruses, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since the beginning of January, 25 U.S. states had high or very high levels for respiratory illnesses with fever, cough, and other symptoms. That was down from 37 states in early January, the CDC said. Since the beginning of October, there have been at least 16 million illnesses, 180,000 hospitalizations, and 11,000...

As a bout of bitter and deadly cold sweeps the U.S., millions of Americans are being told to dress in layers if they must go outside. In places that rarely experience bone-chilling temperatures, that advice can be confounding. What does it mean to layer up? Is it different from just putting on a coat? Is there a way to do it wrong? People in Minnesota, a state that is no stranger to the cold, have wisdom to share. WHAT IS LAYERING? Layering means wearing multiple pieces of clothing to keep your body comfortable in cold weather. Each layer creates...