Weisz-Gut has now lived for over a year in Oswiecim, a town of around 40,000 inhabitants whose name was Germanized into Auschwitz by the Nazis during the Second World War when they occupied Poland.

Born in Baghdad, former track and field champion Aviva Ballas was one of Israel's top runners in the early 1970s. From her home in Switzerland, she recalls the stroke of luck that saved her from ...

The idea that the Jews are the "Chosen People" is not particularly fashionable, even among many Jews. It's viewed as sectarian, supremacist and even racist. Here are four ways that all of us, Jews and ...