With gratitude toward Donald Trump
September 1, 2016
No one compares to Adolf Hitler. He was incomparably evil. Nothing in American politics compares to Nazism. Nothing, not now – and hopefully never!
Michael Berenbaum
Michael Berenbaum is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute and a professor of Jewish Studies at American Jewish University.
With gratitude toward Donald Trump
August 3, 2016
No one compares to Adolf Hitler. He was incomparably evil. Nothing in American politics compares to Nazism. Nothing, not now – and hopefully never!
Elie Wiesel, the moral force who made sure we will never forget the evil of the Holocaust
July 6, 2016
Elie Wiesel, the world’s best-known and most-influential Holocaust survivor, is no longer.
Jews could laugh everywhere, even in the Holocaust
April 27, 2016
Chaya Ostrower, “It Kept Us Alive: Humor in the Holocaust,” Translated by Sandy Bloom. (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2014) pp. 439.
Marjorie Pressman, rebbetzin and philanthropist, 94
April 5, 2016
Marjorie Pressman, a notable communal leader and rebbetzin par excellence of Temple Beth Am in Los Angeles, where her husband, Rabbi Jacob Pressman, served as rabbi from 1950-1985, died at home April 4 after a period of declining health. She was 94.
Remembering the November 1938 pogroms known as ‘Kristallnacht’
November 4, 2015
Nov. 9, 2015, marks the 77th anniversary of the 1938 pogroms launched throughout Germany, a nation that, after March 1938, also included Austria.
Hitler needed plenty of help to kill the Jews – but no inspiration
October 21, 2015
In a speech to the World Zionist Congress, on Tuesday October 20, 2015, the Prime Minister of Israel said:
Rabbi Jacob Pressman, spiritual leader of Temple Beth Am, dies at 95
October 1, 2015
Rabbi Jacob Pressman, spiritual leader of Temple Beth Am for 35 years, community leader and civil rights activist, died peacefully at his home on Thursday morning, Oct. 1.
The Iran deal is done: What history should teach us
September 2, 2015
Thirty four Senators – 32 Democrats, plus two Independents who caucus with the Democrats – have come out in favor of the Iran deal, enough Senators to sustain a presidential veto, so approval of the deal with Iran and five American partners is a foregone conclusion.
To those who hear anti-Semitism when it is not there
August 19, 2015
I’ve learned a new term: “dog whistle.”
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