Posts Tagged: Israel Holocaust
As Israel Marks Yom HaShoah, PM Bennett Stresses Holocaust as ‘Unprecedented Event in Human History’
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett marked the onset of the country's annual Holocaust commemoration day, Yom HaShoah, with a resolute reminder of the uniqueness of...
Holocaust Remembrance: Responsibilities for All Society
When I began my career nearly 50 years ago, Holocaust remembrance events were few and far between. One of my first assignments out of graduate...
‘Distortion’ and ‘Trivialization’ of Holocaust Poses Urgent Challenge, Says Newly-Appointed Head of Yad Vashem
The newly-appointed head of Israel's national memorial to the Holocaust has identified the "trivialization" and "distortion" of the Nazi persecution of the Jews as the...
Kristallnacht: A Lesson in How Incitement and Propaganda Lead to Horrific Violence
On November 9-10, 1938, the Nazis began destroying thousands of Jewish properties and homes throughout Germany. The onslaught became known as Kristallnacht -- the “Night...
Antisemitism in the Shadow of the Holocaust
My earliest memory of the word “Holocaust” was a bedtime story that my mother told us soon after giving birth to her fifth child, my...
Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘Never Again’ Is More Than a Slogan
JNS.org - On January 27, the world marks the horrific murder of six million Jews -- men, women, and children -- by the Nazis and...
Mourning the Holocaust, but Celebrating Israel
JNS.org - At last week’s World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, Israel’s former Ashkenazi chief rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, himself a survivor, said he was incapable...
Rashida Tlaib’s ‘Calming Feeling’
I must admit that I was probably wrong when I suggested that the Tlaib/Omar Israel fiasco was likely just a light thunderstorm that would quickly...
An Open Letter to a Righteous Among the Nations Recipient
Dear Aleksandra Cybulska, I just read about your designation as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, the Jerusalem-based Holocaust museum and research center. Heartfelt congratulations on...
Israel and the Meaning of ‘Never Again’
The Holocaust wasn’t perpetrated by a barbarian society in a distant past. It was perpetrated 70 years ago by the most advanced European country -- the country that...
Remembering the Holocaust, Forgetting the Survivors
This January 27, nations around the world will mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the most horrific evil ever perpetrated upon humanity: the near destruction of Europe’s Jews. During a special...
Confronting the Politicization of the Holocaust
JNS.org - About a month ago, I wrote in this column about a group of British animal rights activists who employed Nazi imagery in a vicious...
Wielding the Holocaust Stick
JNS.org - In late November, radical protesters in London attacked a Jewish communal building. As they wrestled with police at the gates, they screamed abuse about...
Israel’s Independence Day: We Have a Lot to Celebrate
Last week, we commemorated the genocidal murder of 6 million Jews – the most barbaric episode in our 2,000 years of exile which was sporadically...
