FDR, the Nazis, and the Jews of Morocco: a Troubling Episode
December 18, 2020
Many who are celebrating normalization have papered over the harsh reality of what happened after the Allies’ victory.
Rafael Medoff
Dr. Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies; his most recent book is The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust.
African-American pilots over Auschwitz
January 18, 2008
Last week, President Bush remarked that the United States should have bombed the Auschwitz death camp in 1944. Next week, Americans will commemorate the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. and the struggle for Civil Rights. What do these two occasions have in common? More than one might think.
Sympathy for the suffering goes to the dogs
May 18, 2007
Kristof knows that one way to change government policy is through an outraged public, but getting the American public to care about millions of nameless genocide victims in faraway Africa is no easy task. \”What we need,\” he proposes, \”is more troubled consciences — pricked, perhaps, by a Darfur puppy with big eyes and floppy ears.\”
L.A. Pageant Raised Curtain on Holocaust
July 17, 2003
Sixty years ago this week, many residents of Los Angeles became aware of the Nazi Holocaust for the first time, thanks to a dramatic pageant staged at the Hollywood Bowl by an alliance of Jewish activists and Hollywood celebrities.
Bush at Auschwitz: Troubling Contradictions
June 5, 2003
On Sat., May 31, President Bush visited Auschwitz, and spoke about the horrors of that place where some 1.5-million Jews were gassed to death by the Nazis.
American Jews and Saddam: A Lesson from the 1930s?
February 13, 2003
Should American Jews support U.S. military action to remove Saddam Hussein from power?
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