Michael Berenbaum is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute and a professor of Jewish Studies at American Jewish University.
Contrary to Nazi ideology, Jews are not a race, they are a people and a religion. But the issue of race did undeniably apply to the Holocaust.
Both Heschel’s scholarship and his politics have endured, and he has had a lasting impact on the American Jewish community and the world.
One can’t imagine why the Squad has just voted to condemn to death so many Palestinians—men, women and children.
Menachem Rosensaft is general counsel for the World Jewish Congress. But he is a poet by night, whose fierce writing wrestles with the darkness again and again.
I sleep far less comfortably worrying about the domestic issues dividing Israelis from another and the polarization of the American populace.
Secretary of State-elect Antony Blinken was reared for his job by his stepfather, a Holocaust survivor.
They were most willing to confront the dark side of Jewish behavior. Dworzecki’s admonishment: “Remain Silent or tell the whole truth.”
Judaism will be much enhanced by such adaption as has been this reader.
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