The Whoopi Goldberg Controversy (Redux)
January 5, 2023
To assert that the Nazi assault against the Jews was not racial is absurd
Michael Berenbaum
Michael Berenbaum is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute and a professor of Jewish Studies at American Jewish University.
A Legacy of Basketball and the Holocaust in ‘By the Grace of the Game’
May 4, 2022
The author tells the story of three generations of his family, his grandparents, and most especially his grandmother.
New Documentary “They Survived Together” Reveals Price of Survival
April 5, 2022
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.
Jews For Sale
March 10, 2022
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?
Whoopi Goldberg is Half Right, But What She Got Wrong is All Important
February 3, 2022
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.
The Enduring and Challenging Legacy of Abraham Joshua Heschel
December 8, 2021
Both Heschel’s scholarship and his politics have endured, and he has had a lasting impact on the American Jewish community and the world.
The Pious Foolishness of the Squad
September 29, 2021
One can’t imagine why the Squad has just voted to condemn to death so many Palestinians—men, women and children.
Poems Born in Bergen-Belsen
April 20, 2021
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.
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