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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.

Congressman Says Jews Are Crazy

Congressman Bowman is not the first observer to make the insulting and false claim that Israeli Jews are mentally disturbed as a result of the Holocaust.

A Forgotten Display of Zionist Unity

The Zionist movement had always expected that the Negev desert would be part of the future Jewish state. But London and Washington had other ideas.

FDR’s Secret Plea to Hitler

The president who presented himself to the public as a humanitarian and a champion of the downtrodden went out of his way to maintain good diplomatic and economic ties with the world’s most brutal violator of human rights.

Are Jews Provoking a Jihad? Debunking An Old Lie

The spark that ignited this literary dust-up is an essay in the September issue of Commentary by Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, supporting freedom of worship for Jews at Judaism’s holiest site, the Temple Mount plaza.

When a Christian Zionist Took on Jewish Anti-Zionists

Sharing his observations of the new state in The Zionist Quarterly in the summer of 1951, Sugrue occasionally indulged in the kind of rhetoric typical of early journalistic affection for Israel— “weather-kissed kibbutzniks,” a taxi driver pointing out the hill “where Samson was born”— but mostly his essay was a heartfelt reflection on the meaning of the Jewish state and its place in the world.

Kristallnacht in Lod?

Even if the events in Lod differed in some important respects from the pogroms in Nazi Germany, the behavior of the mobs in Lod should at least warrant a serious communal discussion about these issues.

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