By chance, several weeks ago someone — I can’t remember whom but please identify yourself so I can say thank you — dropped Dan Grunfeld’s autobiography at my home. 

The very name of the documentary “They Survived Together,” which premieres at the Museum of Tolerance on April 6, seems to promise a happy ending.

In 1944, during the most intense final period of the murder of the Jews, there was an advertisement in major newspapers: “Jews for Sale.” There were no takers; after all, what was one going to do with these Jews and who would pay for their ransom?

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.

Shortly after Abraham Joshua Heschel’s death in December 1972, one of his students, Jacob Neusner, published an article in praise of his teacher’s scholarship.

One can’t imagine why the Squad has just voted to condemn to death so many Palestinians, men, women, and children.

There is anger in Rosensaft’s poetry, an anger most reminiscent of the early writing of survivors.

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.

The American people are in a strange place this fall, days before election day. We are living through five crises simultaneously. A health crisis. An...

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.

Steven Lowenstein, a distinguished Jewish historian and accomplished social worker died on May 31, the 8th day of Sivan at the age of 75. Born...

One of the few delights of this period of enforced home stay has been the possibility of reading all those books one has wanted...

Dario Gabbai, the last of the Sonderkommando — those prisoners forced to work in the vicinity of the gas chambers — died March 25,...

“Our People: Discovering Lithuania’s Hidden Holocaust” is a powerful, poignant and painful exploration of the murder by bullets of Lithuanian Jews by Lithuanian nationalists...

When Republican impeachment lawyer Steven Castor and Republican representatives implied Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman might have dual loyalty to the Ukraine, many Jews cringed....

Recently, a group of scholars from Hebrew Union College, American Jewish University (AJU), UCLA and USC gathered to honor Steven Lowenstein on the forthcoming...

Last week I was in Poland for five days to participate in events marking the rebirth of Jewish life — not death — in...

About a decade ago, I appeared on a panel with the late Robert Wistrich, who had coined the phrase “The Longest Hatred” to describe...

As I read Ed Elhaderi’s powerful memoir — “Nomadic Soul: My Journey From the Libyan Sahara to a Jewish Life in Los Angeles” —...

As I was working with the team creating the Dallas Holocaust Museum and Human Rights Center, we decided to tell the story of the...

Simcha Rotem, who was among the last known fighters from the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, died Dec. 22 in Jerusalem after a long illness....

There has been a spate of White House memoirs in recent months, many intended to settle scores; publicize gossip, accusations and rumors to score...

The massacre of 11 people at the Tree of Life Congregation synagogue in Pittsburgh has prompted comparisons to the 1938 attacks on the synagogues...

Only a confirmed hater of Palestinians — and a confirmed anti-Semite — could believe that they have the leadership they deserve. Permit me to explain. Last...

Some books are timely, others are useful and still others are good. Joshua D. Zimmerman’s “The Polish Underground and the Jews 1939-1945” (Cambridge University...

January 27th, the anniversary of the Soviet liberation of Auschwitz, is the day designated by the United Nations as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Observed...

When Rose Pilch was called to the Torah one recent Shabbat at Temple Beth Am, the entire congregation stood up in admiration and celebration....

My Passover holidays were interrupted by the news, shared by friends in the synagogue, that the press secretary to the president of the United...