Rafael Medoff / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Rafael Medoff / JNS.org
New Research Sheds Light on Nazi Influence in Arab World
Nazi Germany's effort to recruit supporters in the Arab world is attracting new attention among scholars. With the 70th anniversary of a Palestinian Arab leader's sabotage...
Palestinian Authority Treatment of Obama Bethlehem Visit Conjures Up Political Mirages
The Palestinian Authority's removal of a monument showing all of Israel as "Palestine" from the route on which President Barack Obama traveled during his...
The Holocaust and ‘Hatikvah’: A Song of Hope in a Time of Despair
A national anthem written more than 50 years before the birth of the state for which it was composed, "Hatikvah" has served as a source...
Passover, Peace, and Palestine: An Arab-Style Seder in 1920s Long Island
Passover at Irma Lindheim's Long Island home in the 1920s was not your standard Jewish holiday experience. There was plenty of matzo ball soup and brisket,...
Obama, FDR, and Zionism
President Barack Obama has spoken of his deep admiration for Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his desire to emulate FDR's style of leadership. But many Israelis...
Grim 75th Anniversary: Hitler’s Dream, Austrian Jewry’s Nightmare
Adolf Hitler had long dreamed of making his native Austria a part of Germany and subjecting Austria's Jews to the same fate he had in...
A Holocaust Pageant That Was ‘Too Political’ for FDR
Seventy years ago this week, 40,000 New Yorkers watched as Jewish activists and Hollywood celebrities joined hands to bring news of the Holocaust to the...
Study Equates Zionist Pioneers with Arab Terrorists
The film is grainy and amateurish, but the image is stirring: one-armed Yosef Trumpeldor, Zionist national hero, ploughing a field in the Galilee in 1913. By coincidence,...
Kibbutzim in Africa?
They may not wear those classic blue "kibbutznik hats," but some Ethiopians, Sudanese, and Eritreans may soon be establishing Israeli-style communes in eastern Africa. It's part...
Ed Koch, FDR, and the Holocaust
"Mayor Koch last night took on the ghost of President Franklin D. Roosevelt," an item in the New York Daily News in 1988 began, which probably...
How the US Press Soft-Pedaled Hitler
"There is at least one official voice in Europe that expresses understanding of the methods and motives of President Roosevelt—the voice of Germany, as represented...
‘Beethoven Was a Zionist’: A Memoir From Israel on the Eve of its Creation
"Today I saw The Land for the first time, and it was beautiful." With those simple but moving words, veteran American Zionist activist Harold Manson began...
Babe Ruth and the Holocaust
Babe Ruth is remembered for his home runs on the field and his hot dog binges and other peccadilloes off the field. But as the American public...
Defiance, Then Destruction: Chanukah in the Warsaw Ghetto
"Never before in Jewish Warsaw were there as many Hanukkah celebrations as in this year of the wall." That entry from the diary of Hebrew educator Chaim Kaplan...
