“In the eight decades since the Holocaust, the growing trend toward the universalization of the Holocaust has long since gotten out of hand. Scholars, self-styled “human rights” organizations and others eager to make use of the historical suffering of the Jewish people for their own purposes have seized on the Nazi campaign to exterminate the Jews as an all-purpose metaphor for what they deemed to be bad behavior.” – Jonathan S. Tobin
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G-D AND MAN
Watch Our Dramatic Reading of “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner”: Mosaic, Dec. 16, 2020 — Mosaic and Ruth R. Wisse invite you to a special holiday dramatization of the classic Yiddish story.
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Zero Tolerance for Empty Words of Holocaust Remembrance: Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS, Jan. 26, 2025
What Happens When We Forget the Holocaust?: Jacob Howland, Unherd, Jan. 27, 2025
Eighty Years After Liberation, Both the Anguish and the Resilience Live On: Deborah Fineblum, JNS, Jan. 22, 2025
Poland, Netanyahu and the Holocaust: Ruth R. Wisse, WSJ, Jan. 23, 2025
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Holocaust Re-education: Seth Mandel, Commentary, Jan. 27, 2025 — In recent weeks, the Irish Jewish community, including a very prominent Holocaust survivor, pleaded with President Michael D. Higgins to politely decline the honor of speaking at the government’s official ceremony.
PMO Unveils New Database for Eichmann Trial Documents: JP staff, Jerusalem Post, Jan. 27, 2025 — In recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a collection of materials from the 1961 Adolf Eichmann trial is now available through a new advanced search tool, the Prime Minister’s Office announced on Monday.
At Auschwitz, World’s ‘Betrayal’ of Israel Casts a Dark Shadow: Canaan Lidor, JNS, Jan. 27, 2025 — As world leaders and dignitaries gathered on Monday at the Auschwitz Museum for a Holocaust commemoration ceremony, Shaul Spielmann, 93, wondered about the sincerity of their gesture.
Revelation at Auschwitz: Menachem Z. Rosensaft, Tablet, Jan. 27, 2025 — As we observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, which this year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, it is incumbent on those of us who consider ourselves religiously observant Jews—and I include Conservative, Reform, Orthodox, and Reconstructionist Jews as well as members of other streams of Judaism in the category of “religiously observant”—to ask ourselves, not for the first time, the question that risks shattering our faith in and our relationship with God: How do we reconcile, how can we reconcile, the brutal, systematic genocide of millions of women, children, and men with the concept of an omniscient, omnipotent, protective God whom we consistently praise and thank in our liturgy for performing miracles on behalf of the Jewish people in biblical times?