Tag: jewish

Never Again For The Jewish People: 80th Anniversary Of Wannsee

Senior faith leaders from around the world, including Simon Wiesenthal Center Associate Dean and Global Social Action Director, Rabbi Abraham Cooper (pictured on screen), gathered to address the rise of anti-Semitism in Berlin today,...

𝐘𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 – 𝐉𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫; 𝟖𝟎 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐌𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫

(personal recollections from Yaakov Orenstein, z"l, Lechi member) For eight months since I arrived in Tel Aviv until my arrest, I met with Yair almost every day. We lived on Rines Street in a rented...

Verbal violence

Definition: Verbal abuse (also known as verbal aggression, verbal attack, verbal violence, verbal assault, psychic aggression, or psychic violence) is a type of psychological/mental abuse that involves the use of oral language, gestured language,...

Urgent Surgery for Holocaust Survivor, Psychologist and Educator Levy Van Leeuwen

There have been studies indicating that the most important factor in keeping Jewish kids Jewish is summer camps. Looking back at all my years at Camp Moshava in Wild Rose, Wisconsin, there is no question...

Holocaust Museum removes photo of Hitler with Mufti of Jerusalem

When Yad Vashem exhibits were redone, a telling photo of Adolf Hitler with Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al Husseini was not returned to the prominent position it had had before. Writes Shalom Pollack I...

No news without Jews

Despite the fact that Jews make up only 0.2% of the world’s population they manage to feature almost 100% of the time in daily news reports. Likewise, no international news bulletin is complete unless the...

Broken glass and shattered illusions

One would have imagined that the night of 9 November 1938 in Germany would have shattered forever any lingering illusions that one could appease Jew-hate by negotiations and reason. It was on Kristallnacht that any...

Why Do Jewish Organizations Continue to Honor Kissinger?

I first took notice of the fact that Henry Kissinger is frequently invited to speak before Jewish organizations in 2019. The Jewish Leadership Conference, a politically conservative entity connected to the Tikvah Fund, held...

Eyes Wide Shut: AB 101 Bill Poses Danger for California Students

“High school students want to see themselves reflected in history,” said Assemblymember Jose Medina, as he introduced his signature ethnic studies graduation requirement bill, AB 101, to colleagues on the Assembly floor.

Band-aids don’t work

Trying to staunch major traumas with band-aids is a losing strategy. The following quote I read recently precisely sums up some of the challenges we face at the moment and our often inadequate responses: “We don’t...