Posts Tagged: Shoah
‘A Sign of Faith’ in Jewish German Life: University of Potsdam Opens City’s First Synagogue Since the Holocaust
The city of Potsdam opened its first synagogue since the Holocaust on Wednesday, nearly 83 years after the last Jewish house of worship was destroyed...
70 Years Later, Still No Answers on the Holocaust
I’ve listened to the stories of Holocaust survivors, studied the history, and read many books about what happened 70 years ago. But for me, the learning...
Jewish Organization in France Asks Visiting Iranian President to Mark Holocaust Remembrance Day to ‘Demonstrate Genuine Desire to Reconcile With West’
Jewish leaders in France invited the Iranian president to attend a ceremony commemorating the Holocaust, Israel's Channel 2 reported on Wednesday. Hassan Rouhani – whose state visit...
Protest Breaks Out During Mohammed Bakri Film Screening in Israel
A fracas erupted during the screening of Israeli-Arab filmmaker Mohammad Bakri's 2009 documentary Zahra at the Carmiel municipality auditorium in Israel on Thursday night, Israel's...
Jewish Author Howard Jacobson Argues Paradox Plagues Holocaust Deniers, Anti-Semites
JPost - Critically acclaimed British author Howard Jacobson presented a rhetorical assault on the logic of anti-Semitism on Monday night, arguing that the Jewish...
Toulouse Shooting Revisited by French Police With Arrest of New Suspect
French authorities have detained a 25-year-old on suspicion of helping the gunman who killed three Jewish children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in...
An Iranian in Lyons and Paris
A "face-off" between the governments of Tunisia and France, which wished to retain and even expand the naval base it had kept at...
Defendants in $57 Million Claims Conference Fraud Trial Found Guilty
More than three years after the discovery of fraudulent activity at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany ("Claims Conference"), which continued for about...
Antisemitism Exists
We live in a world that is, thank G-d, very comfortable for Jews. Most of us are safe and hidden from any hate...
68 Years after Auschwitz Lessons Learned and Unlearned
On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz Birkenau Death Camp. Actually "liberated" is the wrong word. Opened the gates of hell...
On Holocaust Memorial Day Obama Vows to Prevent Genocide
AFP - US President Barack Obama on Sunday vowed to prevent genocide, as the world marked Holocaust Remembrance Day on the anniversary of the...
The World Learned the Wrong Lesson From the Holocaust
Yesterday was Yom Hashoah. Holocaust Remembrance day in Israel. It is the day Israelis and Jews the world over remind themselves, "Never again." For years,...
Antisemitism: A Specific Phenomenon (REVIEW)
Antisemitism: A Specific Phenomenon, by Clemens Heni (Berlin: Edition Critic, 2013). A publication of the Berlin International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. "As time...
Remembering Those Who Had Courage to Care
It is fitting that the United Nations, as part of the international commemoration of the Holocaust on January 27, is paying tribute this year not...
