European Jews trapped in Nazi ghettos and concentration camps during the Holocaust were dependent on life-saving shipments of food, medicine, clothing and money transfers for sheer survival. These parcels and transfers, donated by relatives, friends and Jewish institutions, were morale boosters that prolonged the lives of the recipients. In some cases, they arrived too late […]
Presidential debates in the United States should not only illuminate and clarify the issues of the day. They should also be on a cordial level. Regrettably, the televised debate on September 10 between Vice President Kamala Harris and the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, fell short of that standard. With less than […]
How long can Israel tolerate the intolerable status quo along its northern border with Lebanon? Since October 8, Israel has been embroiled in a low-intensity war of attrition with Hezbollah — Hamas’ ally and Iran’s chief proxy in the Middle East — that has periodically degenerated into a full-scale war. Hezbollah’s secretary-general, Hassan Nasrallah, has […]
Krzysztof Lang’s stand-alone movie, March 1968, has been lengthened and converted into The End of Innocence, a powerful four-part series that starts on the ChaiFlicks streaming platform on September 12. It focuses on an exceedingly dark chapter in contemporary Polish history during which upwards of 30,000 highly assimilated secular Jews were forced to flee the […]
Tucker Carlson, one of Donald Trump’s favorite broadcasters, coddles Nazi apologists. On his show, Tucker on X, he recently interviewed Darryl Cooper, whom he introduced as “the most important popular historian working in the United States today,” a title that is completely overblown and unwarranted. Cooper, a podcaster and the writer of the newsletter Martyr […]
Much to the consternation and alarm of most Germans, the Alternative for Germany Party (AfD) won the recent election in Thuringia and finished second in neighboring Saxony, both of which are in eastern Germany. Chillingly enough, this was the first time since the 12-year Nazi interregnum that a far-right party had amassed a majority of […]
Pierre Goldman was a throwback to the past, a fervent left-wing Jewish revolutionary who sought to upend the existing social and political order and who was prepared to accept the consequences. Accused of armed robbery and murder, he attempted to prove his innocence through two sensational trials in the mid-1970s that touched on issues such […]
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s recent decision to suspend the export of some weapons to Israel was disappointing but not surprising. Starmer, the leader of the left-of-center Labor Party, is far more critical of Israel than his right-wing Conservative predecessor, Rishi Sunak, who was generally supportive of Israel’s just military campaign to eradicate Hamas and […]
The recovery of six deceased hostages on August 31 in a Hamas tunnel under the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah has further divided Israel. This combustible issue has torn the country asunder far more than Israel’s acceptance of German reparations in the 1950s, its lack of preparedness for the 1973 Yom Kippur War, its […]
As Israel fights Palestinian forces in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israeli troops have been drawn into a third front in the West Bank, which is inhabited by three million Palestinians and 500,000 Israelis. In the past few days, Israel has conducted significant counter-terrorism operations in the northern West Bank in a bid […]