Holocaust Education Won’t Succeed Without Storytelling
Since Holocaust Remembrance Day falls this week, it’s a good time to remember a timeless truth: Nothing sticks in the memory like human stories.
Following the Money is Not Enough
Quite stealthily, it came out that America is preparing to transfer as much as $100 million in aid for Palestinians.
Why are Jews and Poles Still Arguing about the Holocaust?
A misleading article about historians and Polish complicity has exacerbated a controversy that distracts us from the need to fight contemporary anti-Semitism rather than relitigate old battles.
Israel-Bashing Disguised as Jewish Studies
Michael Fischbach’s book review in “American Jewish History” is a vicious screed that challenges the very legitimacy of Israel’s existence and justifies the anti-Israel “right of return.”
Biden’s ‘Nine-Miles-Wide Plan’
What should American Jews do? Turn to all our tried-and-true methods of lobbying and protest. And do it now—while there is still time.
Anti-Semitic or Just ‘Strident’?
An alternative definition by the “Nexus Task Force on Israel and Antisemitism” offers an escape route to those who oppose Israel’s existence.
Jewish Group and African American Ministry Host Joint Passover Event Building Bridges on the Foundation of Shared History of Slavery
Jerusalem, Israel, March 17, 2021, For Immediate Release…. The Genesis 123 Foundation and COGIC (Church of God In Christ) Israel Jurisdiction have announced the joint hosting of a gripping webinar addressing the common history of Jews and African Americans as slaves. “Common History, Common Destiny: the Jewish and African American Experience of Slavery and Liberation […]
A Bicentennial To Mark Modern Zionism
The man at first believed passionately in assimilation as an answer for Jews and later, due to what he saw as rising anti-Semitism advocated a new idea, what eventually became known as Zionism.
Meghan Markle and the Jewish question
This has become a terrifying looking-glass world where morality has been turned back to front. It’s where in the minds of millions—particularly, the young—venality, disloyalty and spite register as evidence of moral worth.
Remembering Manfred Gerstenfeld: Truth Against Myth
When what some observers called the “new anti-Semitism” began to gather pace at the turn of this century, there were a handful of scholars, Gerstenfeld among them, who were equipped to explain that while the wine was new, the bottles were old.
