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Tuesday, April 18th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
INCREASING TIES Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) Before There Was a State: Israel from the inside with Daniel Gordis, Substack, Apr. 17, 2023, Includes video — Tonight, in Israel and throughout the world, begins the observance of Yom HaShoah, technically called Yom Ha-Shoah ve-ha-Gevurah, which roughly translates as Memorial Day for Victims of the Holocaust and their Bravery. […]
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Ben Cohen Algemeiner, Apr. 17, 2023 “I kept asking myself, what did the Jews do to warrant the slaughter of six million of them, including one-and-a-half million kids?” It was a dreary afternoon on July 30, 1897, when Ernst Bergmann, a German tourist on vacation in the spa town of Marienbad, mailed a postcard to a […]
Andrew Silow-Carroll JTA, Apr. 16, 2023 “David never takes his good luck for granted — the film is organized around his suspicion that there is a missing piece to his story of survival and that, as Avi says, “He could not have done it alone.”” Holocaust documentaries tend to sit along a scale from […]
Dara Horn Tablet, Feb. 3, 2023 “In recent years, American Holocaust educators panicking over the deaths of the last survivors have embraced increasingly desperate tactics to reimagine Holocaust education for the future—most famously, by transforming now-dead survivors into artificial-intelligence-enabled holograms.” Last week, an editorial in Kentucky’s Courier-Journal newspaper went viral for its sheer absurdity. In it, a group of […]
Machla Abramovitz Mishpacha Magazine, July 19, 2017 “As tragic as their lives in the ghetto were Rosenzweig’ relatives and the thousands of others who perished were given a gift — most of them were brought to kever Yisrael in individually marked graves their death records intact as opposed to the horrifying fate of being […]
Gil Troy WSJ, Apr. 14, 2023 “It was my good fortune to be born in this free and glorious country, where children may laugh and play and have real happiness.” Irwin envisioned “a world of liberty and justice” where “the homeless Jewish wanderers must be given the right to live the life of a free […]
Tuesday, April 11th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
INCREASING TIES WATCH: Ruth Wisse Reflects on Anti-Semitism, the University, and American Society, Free as a Jew: Mosaic Magazine, Feb. 6, 2023 — In an in-depth discussion with Bari Weiss, drawn from her memoir Free as Jew (originally published in Mosaic), Ruth R. Wisse discusses her own remarkable life, the state of American Jewry today, the decline of America’s universities, the perils […]
Sheryl Abbey Jerusalem Post, Apr. 5, 2023 “Sometimes you need just one fate.” Wearing his trademark khakis, clogs and wide felt hat, artist Gunter Demnig angled out of his van and approached those of us gathered outside an old half-timbered house. Local historian Michael Schroeder stepped forward to greet him. “Yes, everything is in order,” he assured […]
Moshe Phillips Isranet, Mar. 30, 2023 “And We Are Not Saved” is at once a bitter, provocative, and emotional work. It is unlike any other Holocaust memoir in its scope, attitude, or conclusions.” As we approach the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising there can be no doubt that the mainstream media will […]
Samuel Rubinstein UnHerd, Mar. 9, 2023 “The problem with ‘Holocaust-as-civics-lesson’, like the problem of treating the collapse of Weimar Germany as a parable, is that it means that the Holocaust has to be ‘updated’ to reflect present political concerns.” It’s like clockwork. Every few months the government announces a new plan to tighten immigration […]
Ben Cohen JNS, Feb. 10, 2023 “… while antisemitic ideology isn’t very imaginative, it compensates for that weakness by being highly adaptive—able to reinvent its obsession with supposed Jewish malignancy in almost any situation and winning supporters accordingly.” In the world of Jewish advocacy, the “working definition” of antisemitism endorsed by the International Holocaust Remembrance […]
Friday, March 3rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Shabbat reading: The Torah Is Sanctioned by God: In the Footsteps of the Abravanel: Rabbi Avi Weiss, The Torah.com, Feb. 9, 2023 — The Book of Deuteronomy poses a unique challenge for those who believe that God authored the Torah: It is presented as an address by Moses! This includes the book’s many laws, which […]
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