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‘True story, phony AI photo’ - opinion

For some time now, AI-generated Holocaust images have been flooding social media.

AN AI-generated image of a nurse holding a smiling woman in her arms in a concentration camp.
 Auschwitz concentration camp, operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during the Holocaust.

On This Day in 1945: Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp is liberated by Soviet Army

PORTRAIT OF Aaron Sapiro, the Jewish lawyer who sued Henry Ford.

Jewish lawyer who sued Henry Ford for libel remembered in new documentary

Gold.

Parashat Bo: The world is catching up, again


Letters from the dead: Letter written by WWI soldiers found in bottle off Australian coast

The letter penciled in 1916 finally reached the families of Malcolm Neville, 27, and William Harley, 37, decades after their death.

Members of the Australian Lighthorse Association watch over an Anzac Day dawn service at Bogan Gate in western New South Wales. Members of the Australian Lighthorse Association watch over an Anzac Day dawn service in the western New South Wales town of Bogan Gate, located 400 km (249 miles) west of

Egypt’s Khaled El-Enany set to become first Arab head of UNESCO despite criticism

Enany, 54, was elected last month by UNESCO's 58-member Executive Board with 55 votes, beating Edouard Firmin Matoko of Congo-Brazzaville.

Egypt's Antiquities Minister Khaled El-Enany speaks in front of the Bent Pyramid of Sneferu that was reopened after restoration work, in Dahshur, south of Cairo, Egypt July 13, 2019.

Defense Ministry reveals rare recordings of Yitzhak Rabin 30 years after his death

The recordings all depict Yitzhak Rabin in closed-door conversations and span a variety of topics, but focus mostly on the IDF and the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Portrait of Yitzhak Rabin

Fisherman digging for worms uncovers lost hoard of medieval coins

Sofia Andersson, an antiquarian at the County Administrative Board of Stockholm, said the discovery is “one of the largest silver hoards from the early Middle Ages ever found in Sweden.”

Ett unikt föremål bestående av tre myntkedjor av vikingatida engelska mynt, sammanfogade med silverringar och hängande på en kopparplatta. Fyra mynt längst till vänster sitter löst, och det är oklart om de har ingått i kedjan. Alla mynten är av de engelska Crux- och Long Cross-typer.

Revisiting JPost's coverage of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, 30 years later

The following is the full text of the article published on the front page of The Jerusalem Post on the morning of November 5, 1995, following the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

The Jerusalem Post's front cover on the Rabin assassination

Agile and vicious Nanotyrannus was not just a teenage T. rex

Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosaurus both were members of a lineage of meat-eating dinosaurs called tyrannosaurs, but were not the same genus, the researchers said.

The skeleton of a Nanotyrannus lancensis is displayed as part of the "Montana Dueling Dinosaurs & Distinguished Fossils" collection at Bonhams auction house in New York, November 14, 2013. The "Montana Dueling Dinosaurs", a Nanotyrannus lancensis and a Chasmosaurine Ceratopsian which experts believe

Former Columbia professor claims campus antisemitism focus fosters ‘Jewish victimization’

Professor Marianne Hirsch also argued the Holocaust must be taught alongside Gaza and the "Nakba," warning against “exceptionalism” in Holocaust memory.

Columbia University professor emerita Marianne Hirsch.

Yitzhak Rabin assassination 30 years on: A lesson on condemning intolerance - opinion

Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination was an attack on the very foundation of Judaism by an observant Jew, a product of Religious Zionism’s educational and religious institutions. 

Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin speaks at a rally in support of the Oslo Accords, prior to his assassination at Tel Aviv’s Kings of Israel Square (later renamed Rabin Square), Nov. 4, 1995.

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The street that earned its place in the dictionary: "The only place where time stands still"

When the sun sets, Dizengoff transforms from quiet cafés to a lively, brightly lit bar street, attracting young people, tourists, and locals. At night, it becomes Tel Aviv’s center of life.

Dizengoff.