Rafael Medoff / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Rafael Medoff / JNS.org
Austria Sends Jewish Historian to Jail After He Exposes Holocaust Crimes
JNS.org - An Austrian Jewish historian and journalist named Stephan Templ is scheduled to soon begin serving a year in government prison. Officially, he is accused...
Hillary Clinton’s Aide Sidney Blumenthal Psychoanalyzes Netanyahu—Poorly
A close adviser to then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton has claimed that the policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are shaped by his private...
Did Jonathan Pollard Really Cause Antisemitism?
JNS.org - Did jailed Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard’s actions provoke anti-Semitism in the United States? In the days leading up to the July 28 revelation that the...
Ralph Nader Targets ‘The Jews’ and Linguistically Hijacks Anti-Semitism
JNS.org - Ralph Nader, the famous crusader against fraud and corruption, believes he has uncovered a horrific new injustice—and the perpetrators are “the Jews.” “You never avoid...
Is Proposal to Admit 100,000 Gazans a Path to Peace or Danger for Israel?
JNS.org - In some ways, the life of Isaac Rotenberg symbolized the rise and success of the State of Israel. Deported with his family to the Sobibor...
Pope Francis: Why Didn’t US Bomb Auschwitz and Why Don’t We Take More Action Today?
JNS.org - “The great powers had photographs of the railway routes that the trains took to… Auschwitz,” Pope Francis remarked this week. “Tell me,” he asked, “why...
French Rejection of Tel Aviv Students Echoes 1942 Benzion Netanyahu Episode
JNS.org - The world-famous Louvre art museum stands accused of discriminating against Israeli students, after being exposed by some clever amateur investigative journalism that echoes a...
When a Piece of Paper Meant Life or Death
JNS.org - “It is a fantastic commentary on the inhumanity of our times,” journalist Dorothy Thompson wrote at the height of the 1930s European Jewish refugee...
Remembering a Fighter Against Oppression of Jews and Blacks
JNS.org - Before he gained fame for posing as an African-American in order to expose racism, journalist John Howard Griffin secretly helped rescue Jewish...
An American Trapped in the 1948 Siege of Jerusalem
JNS.org - "We are so used to bombs and the sound of firing guns that we don't get upset anymore." In choosing those words, Florence...
Baltimore ‘Riot Mom’ Needed in Jerusalem
One of the most enduring images from the Baltimore riots was that of the irate mother of a rioter vigorously admonishing and slapping her law-breaking...
Dewey Defeats Truman – This Time in Israel
JNS.org - Israelis went to bed on March 17 thinking that the two main political parties in that day's election were tied and that...
Netanyahu’s Congressional Speech Follows in Rabin’s Footsteps
JNS.org - The supposedly unprecedented step taken by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his plan to speak directly before Congress about the Iranian...
A Cartoonist Urges Restraint – Except When it Comes to Israel
JNS.org - One might think cartoonists, as champions of irreverence and untrammeled free speech, would be...
