In Hungary, rising anti-Semitism, growing fascism – and a Jewish renewal
Danielle Berrin
July 19, 2017
Category
fascism
The prayers of the refugees should be our prayers
David Seidenberg
November 23, 2015
As we read in last Shabbat\’s Torah portion, Jacob left Canaan for Paddan-Aram, not knowing whether he would return, asking for divine help.
Rise of Greece’s Golden Dawn: A presage of doom
Jewish Journal
March 14, 2013
The undisguised extremism promoted by Golden Dawn is a chilling watershed in Greece’s postwar democracy. Fascist gangs are turning Athens into a city of shifting front lines, seizing on crimes and local protests to promote their own movement, by claiming to be the defenders of recession-ravaged Greece.
Honoring of Italian fascist angers local Jewish group
Jewish Journal
October 10, 2012
A new Italian women’s group has added its voice to protests over a publicly funded monument honoring the World War II-era fascist leader Rodolfo Graziani.
The new ‘Fascism’
Jewish Journal
November 17, 2011
These days, the word “fascism” is used here in Israel – as also abroad – almost casually. It is sometimes spoken with glee, often spoken in sorrow. Yet while it is fair (and painful) to say that a crop of laws, recent and prospective, are anti-democratic, the word “fascism” simply does not fit the Israeli reality. Bibi Netanyahu makes a preposterous Mussolini. (Of course, so did Mussolini.) The Israeli people, setting aside the most extreme of the settlers, are grotesquely miscast as Fascisti.
The other ‘N- word’
Jordan Susman
March 14, 2008
Few words have the power to upset individuals and corrode a conversation more than the N-word. Its very use short-circuits rational discourse. Thrown around with frequency in certain circles, the N-word provokes and torments, gaining totemic power with each use. The N-word I refer to is, of course, \”Nazi.\”
For Rosh Hashanah: Make your own joy
Rabbi Perry Netter
September 21, 2006
World War I, Fascism, Nazism, Stalinism, Maoism, Auschwitz and Hiroshima: I, for one, was delighted to see the 20th century end. Because how could the next one be worse? But halfway through the first decade of the 21st century, we are beginning to see how.
A Friendly Drink in a Time of War
Paul Berman
February 5, 2004
A friend leaned across a bar and said, \”You call the war in Iraq an anti-fascist war. You even call it a left-wing war — a war of liberation. That language of yours. And yet, on the left, not too many people agree with you.\”
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