This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fateful decision to round up more than 130,000 Japanese-Americans and hold them in detention …
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By Rafael Medoff
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2/16/22
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The chairman of Yad Vashem on Tuesday invited Whoopi Goldberg to visit the Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem to learn more about the causes of the Shoah. The invitation came on the heels of a …
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2/4/22
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In the course of a few days in January 1942 — 80 years ago — Hitler’s henchmen, including SS chieftain Reinhard Heydrich, Adolf Eichmann and other top members of the Third …
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By Ken Cohen, FLAME
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2/10/22
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Yet again, those who wanted to learn about “Maus” had to leapfrog obstacles. This time, it wasn’t the limitations …
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By Mike Wagenheim, JNS
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2/10/22
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Shoah trivialization isn’t a new phenomenon, but it’s a “rising trend,” and it received a boost thanks to COVID-19, according to the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM), whose …
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By David Isaac, JNS
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1/26/22
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Standing in the foyer of her childhood home at Reilstraße 18 in Halle, Germany, 90-year-old Eve Kugler recalled fleeing her hometown soon after Kristallnacht when she was a girl of 7. Now, 83 …
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By Israel Kasnett, JNS
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11/17/21
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It was basically the complete opposite of what they expected.
A group of German Jews who fled Hitler and Nazi Germany, and who signed up to be American soldiers, wanted to exact revenge. Instead, …
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By Alan Zeitlin, JNS
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11/10/21
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A narrative cartoon in Jewish Currents called “When Settler Becomes Native” included a cartoon image of myself with a quote from a JTA article I wrote about my …
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By Sarah Levin, JIMENA
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10/20/21
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Michael Oren, Israel’s former ambassador to the United States who is now a candidate to head the Jewish Agency, has rightly said that the decline in support for Israel among …
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By Melanie Phillips
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10/20/21
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Some Jewish liberals say that they saw this coming, that the movement to stop the teaching of critical race theory in the schools was bound to negatively impact teaching about the …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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10/20/21
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