
The Whoopi Goldberg Controversy (Redux)
To assert that the Nazi assault against the Jews was not racial is absurd
Michael Berenbaum is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute and a professor of Jewish Studies at American Jewish University.
To assert that the Nazi assault against the Jews was not racial is absurd
The author tells the story of three generations of his family, his grandparents, and most especially his grandmother.
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.
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.