Josef Stalin: The Night the Soviet Dictator Had 13 Jewish Poets Murdered
Less well-known is the Night of the Murdered Poets, which took place on Aug. 12, 1952. In this horrific event, 13 Soviet…
David Dushman: The Last Surviving Soldier Who Helped to Liberate Auschwitz Dies at 98
On Jan. 27, 1945, troops of the Red Army liberated Auschwitz, one of the most infamous of the Nazi concentration camps.
Bigotry Against Mizrahi Jews: Even Their Fellow Jews Have Been Guilty of Discrimination
The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain. Quote: “My Safta and Saba [grandmother and grandfather] never talked openly about the trauma they faced as children and into adulthood because they felt there was no point in talking about the traumas of the past. But their stories of persecution and anti-Semitic violence have…
The Rhineland Massacres: First Killing of Jews by Christian Crusaders — But Not the Last
The Rhineland Massacres, also known as the German Crusade of [the year] 1096, were a series of mass murders of Jews perpetrated by mobs of German Christians…
New Remembrance Rituals: Preparing for a Day When There Are No Survivors Left to Tell Their Stories
The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain. Quote: “But that model of memorial faces a problem that is growing more pressing each year: the dwindling number of survivors still living and able to share accounts of their painful past. That reality drove Michal Govrin, an Israeli writer and professor, and the daughter…
Caroline Glick: Israeli Journalist’s Fiery Exchange With Danish EU Ambassador
Glick gives an impassioned response to comments from the European Union’s ambassador…
DNA Evidence: Ashkenazi Jews Are Not Khazars — But Antisemites Still Try to Use the Myth
The Khazar myth of Ashkenazi ancestry is the hypothesis that Ashkenazi Jews are primarily, or to a large extent, descended from Khazars. They were a multi-ethnic conglomerate of mostly Turkic peoples who formed a semi-nomadic political entity (late 6th century C.E.) in and around the northern and central Caucasus and the Pontic-Caspian steppe. Genetic and…
Michal Govrin: Preparing to Remember the Holocaust When the Last Survivors Have Died
The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain. Quote: “Called Hitkansut, which means gathering in Hebrew, the new program is modeled in part on the Passover seder, with a modified haggadah guiding the ritual. It begins with an invitation to gather, much like the invitation at the beginning of the maggid, or storytelling,…
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