Posts Tagged: Rafael Medoff
D-Day and the Bombing of Auschwitz
JNS.org - Seventy years ago this week, the Allies staged the D-Day invasion, landing some 24,000 troops on the beaches along France's Normandy Coast...
Obama’s Empathy Won’t Stop Genocide
JNS.org - In his May 7 remarks upon receiving an award for fighting genocide, President Barack Obama explained why he is not fighting genocide....
‘A Death Sentence for the Jews’: 75 Years Since the British White Paper
JNS.org - "We know we are going to be bamboozled," a despondent Stephen Wise, the foremost American Jewish leader of his time, confided...
Libyan Family’s Travails Provides Glimpse at Jews in Arab World During Holocaust
JNS.org - Although the commemoration of Yom HaShoah focuses primarily on the ghettoes and death camps in Europe, the persecution of Jews in North...
50 Years Later: The March That Launched the Soviet Jewry Movement
JNS.org - "We didn't know you couldn't organize a mass rally in four days, and sometimes if you don't know, then you just plunge...
New York Times Column on Anti-Zionism a Reminder of its Own Publisher’s Past
JNS.org - The New York Times raised some eyebrows in the Jewish community last week with a lengthy feature about four self-described religious Jews who oppose...
Mahmoud Abbas Flunks History
JNS.org - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has reiterated that he won't recognize Israel as a Jewish state, and he's claiming support for that...
Martin Luther King Day: Remembering an Early Zionist Protest Against Racism
JNS.org - For American Jews, the birthday of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is an occasion to recall the impressive...
Ariel Sharon’s Forgotten Legacy: Jews Marching to the White House
JNS.org - Although Ariel Sharon will be remembered primarily for his achievements on the battlefield and his decisions as an Israeli political leader,...
When Helen Keller Confronted the Nazis
JNS.org - June 27 is Helen Keller Day—the annual occasion when students across America learn about the disabilities activist whose remarkable achievements inspired her generation, and...
Three Graves in Jerusalem, Three Lives Linked by History
Leading up to Jerusalem Day this year, leaders of four U.S. Orthodox organizations in March sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about...
How the St. Louis Saved Jewish Lives – in Holland
This week's symposium on "Performing Arts in Holland During the Holocaust" at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem explored the fascinating subject of how Dutch Jews under...
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...
Is Israel’s Response ‘Disproportionate’? A History Lesson
The fact that the casualty toll from the first days of the Gaza fighting was three Israelis and 30 Arabs "underscores what critics of Israeli...
