Israel Demands Hostage Releases, Hezbollah Warns of Action, and IDF Faces Legal Challenges
Israel has countered Hamas’ initial offer in ceasefire negotiations by demanding the release of at least ten living hostages. Meanwhile, legal battles are escalating in Germany where an NGO has filed a complaint against an IDF soldier. Also, Hezbollah’s leader has issued a stern warning that the group may take further actions against Israel.
The world should be on trial in Jerusalem
After Israel defeats Hamas in Gaza, should it try the Oct. 7 terrorists Eichmann-style in Jerusalem? Or, given Israel’s unfairly tainted reputation, might such a trial be seen as more “impartial” if it were held in Nuremberg?
Holocaust Remembrance: By the Numbers
January 27 is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and was designated as the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. The day remembers the killing of six million Jews, two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population, and millions of others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
Calling on Christians: Be a modern day Bonhoeffer; Fight Hamas
The antisemitism spreading across the world seems eerily similar to the hatred of the Nazi rallies of pre-war Germany. In this context, the October 7 massacre became the Kristallnacht of our era.
A Bavarian scandal shines a light on Germany’s ‘Holocaust guilt’
“Anyone who thinks, writes down and spreads such thoughts must not bear any political responsibility in Germany,” declared Saskia Esken, chair of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD). But not everyone would agree.
Jew-hatred struts the stage in Berlin
The obscene spectacle staged by musician Roger Waters exposes the moral vacuum in Holocaust memorializing.
The Rampant Use and Abuse of the Holocaust Analogy
From Donald Trump to Sergei Lavrov to Ken Burns, everyone is comparing everyone else to the Nazis.
Golden menorah donated by German Christians still looking for a permanent home
Three years ago, a group of devout Christians gifted a golden menorah to Israel to “return the stolen light of the Temple” and to do a partial “tikkun” on the Holocaust. Like the original Menorah in the Tabernacle, the golden menorah has yet to find a permanent home. In 2018, a group of 12 Christians […]
Rare DNA from Medieval Jewish cemetery in Germany sheds unprecedented light on origin of Ashkenazi Jews
In 2013, the local authorities of the city of Erfurt, the capital of the German State of Thuringia, decided to grant permission to turn a building that had been built as a granary in 1454 into a parking lot. However, at the time, the granary was erected in an area that had previously been part […]
A Revived Iran Deal is Bad News for Democracy
It is sobering to note that it always takes a crisis or a conflict for Western nations to recognize that their systems of government are worth defending.
