Posts Tagged: holocaust
Dutch Woman Saved More Than 100 Jews in the Holocaust, Dies
Tina Strobos, a Dutch woman who hid and rescued more than 100 Jews during the Holocaust, passed away last week at her home in...
Buried by the Guardian: Iran Leader’s Religious Justification for Genocide
The book, "Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America's most important newspaper", written by Laurel Leff, is an in-depth look at how The NYT...
Europe’s Future, 70 Years After Wannsee Confererence
On January 20, 1942, the Nazi leadership gathered in a villa on the outskirts of Berlin and adopted the "Final Solution to the Jewish...
Germany’s First Lights
Every year I spend one night of Chanukah with my grandmother who is eighty-nine years old. Every year it seems that I manage to leave...
Two Cultures, Two Genocides, One Story
If you saw David Gewirtzman and Jacqueline Murekatete standing together it would be hard to imagine that they had anything in common. David, eighty-three,...
Justice Cannot Be Denied – Making History’s Wrongs, Right
I recently had the opportunity to serve as host to an historic conference calling upon the Government of Romania to address the mass genocide which...
Stories of the ‘Jewish Pope’ – Rabbi Israel Meir Lau
Israel Meir Lau, the former Chief Rabbi of Israel -and both former and current Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv - shared the stage...
Why Hitchens Is Wrong on Israel
I enjoy reading Christopher Hitchens, the Anglo-American gadfly journalist, even when he gets it completely wrong. Here is an example. In his autobiography,...
How The Media Can Help Heal Gilad Shalit
For five long years, a media campaign swirled around the abduction and internment of Gilad Shalit, gaining momentum with every passing day. Without...
The Jewish Solution Problem
Have you ever wondered what goes through a black man's mind when he reads about slavery, apartheid and oppression? How Muslim women in the United...
Ignoring Romania’s Holocaust Complicity: Not an Option
More than 70 years after the start of World War II, one would think that few secrets remain from what might be the...
The Elevator Interview – Elie Wiesel (Exclusive)
AJ: As a Holocaust survivor and Jewish activist, what do you think Jews could or should be doing for our continued, proud survival? EW: The primary...
Top Ten PR Books for Israeli and Jewish Leaders
The next few weeks with be tough for Israel as the upcoming UN sessions loom. Therefore, I composed a list of must-read public relations books,...
How Anti-Semitism Prevents Peace
Despite the obsessive preoccupation with Israeli building activities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the greatest obstacle to peace between the Israelis and the...
