An Object Lesson in Misplaced American Jewish Priorities
The bankruptcy of Philadelphia’s National Museum of American Jewish History was the inevitable result of a decision to build an overpriced monument to the vanity of its builders.
Hating Israel Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry
Future protests should be held at the museum instead of in front of the White House, said Eric Resnick, representing the anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace.
European Floats Depict Vermin, Chimneys, Poison Gas, Bags of Money …
The carnivals mocking ultra-Orthodox Jews and even victims of the Holocaust were all in good fun—the “just kidding” of kitsch without any malignant intent. Honestly, can’t Jews take a joke?
The Vatican Opens its Wartime Archive
For many in the Jewish world, it will be a seminal moment in the relationship between Catholics and Jews since the Second Vatican Council of 1965 famously exonerated the Jewish people of the charge of “deicide”—collective, eternal responsibility for the suffering and death of Jesus.
J’Accuse! Our Dreyfus and Theirs
Whatever WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange might be, he is no Dreyfus.
Sanitizing Soros through Guilt by Association
Just because George Soros is a magnet for anti-Semites does not mean there aren’t well-founded grounds for complaints against his behavior.
Jewish Settlers for Sanders, Go Bernie Go!
Bernie, who in the past eschewed his Jewish identity, has made it an issue in the 2020 presidential campaign.
Kirk Douglas’s Quintessential American Jewish Life
The Hollywood icon’s journey of assimilation, Jewish pride, love for Israel, and ultimately, a return to Judaism embodied hope for the future.
Int’l Holocaust Day, 75 Years After Auschwitz, Not Much Learned
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, is January 27, designated by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 60/7 in 2005.
A Great, but Fragile, Triumph of Zionism
The arrival of dozens of world leaders to Jerusalem to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day and commit to fighting anti-Semitism represents recognition of Zionism’s fundamental truth: Israel is the one and only eternal homeland of the Jewish people.