Posts Tagged: holocaust
Are US Detention Centers Concentration Camps or Not?
Allow me to tell you a little story about Jack and Bella Bajnon. A gentle, long-married couple, Jack and Bella lived down the block from where...
The Theft of Childhood: Protecting Our Children From Ideological Warfare
Around the world, millions of childhoods are under threat from war. Sadly, this isn’t a new phenomenon. Protecting children isn’t something that humankind has historically...
Ocasio-Cortez Should Visit ‘The Evidence Room’
JNS.org - It’s a sign of how politicized our national discourse has become that nothing is out of bounds -- not even the Holocaust. When Rep....
The Real Problem Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Refusal to Apologize
Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez an antisemite? Does she care one iota about offending Jews? This week, the freshman Congresswoman from New York was once again under fire,...
There Is No Dachau in Texas
You wouldn’t think it would be necessary, in this day and age, to explain to a member of the US House of Representatives that there...
Ocasio-Cortez’s Analogy Reflects a Deep Misunderstanding of the Holocaust
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) recently told her Instagram followers that the United States is “running concentration camps” on the southern border. Aside from the insensitive...
Did Dutch Jews Really Go Like Lambs to the Slaughter?
Retired General Toine Beukering is a freshman Dutch nationalist senator. He represents the right-wing "Forum for Democracy," a new party that has become the biggest...
The Horrendous Way a German Museum Remembers the Holocaust
The Nazi racial laws that led to the murder of millions of Jews in the Holocaust were enacted in the city of Nuremberg. Nuremberg is...
On Shavuot, We Are All Individuals — Not Numbers
Jack “Srulek” Feldman is a smiling, sprightly old man who lives in Rochester, New York, where -- until relatively recently -- he owned and ran...
Rethinking Holocaust Restitution: A Case for Jewish Dignity
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki recently asserted that his government would never agree to pay restitution for properties stolen from Jews during the Holocaust. This...
After the Holocaust and in Times of Darkness, We Must Remain Faithful
A couple of days ago, my friend Yossi Fachler messaged me from Poland. He is currently there on a trip with yeshiva high school students...
Polish Far-Right Supporters Protest Against Restitution of Jewish Property
Hundreds of far-right supporters marched in Warsaw on Saturday to protest against a US law on the restitution of Jewish property seized during or after...
From ‘Oy’ to Joy: A Call for Positivity in Jewish Engagement
JNS.org - There is a dissonance between the Jewish story and narrative. We are a people who have demonstrated an inverse relationship between numbers and impact...
March of the Living Transcends Distinctions to Provide a Deeply Meaningful Jewish Experience
JNS.org - There are no words for the experience of commemorating the horrific deaths, together with Holocaust survivors, on the sacred grounds of the Birkenau extermination...
