George Soros arouses strong reactions. Very strong reactions. A financier and backer of progressive causes, he has been praised by liberals and lambasted by conservatives. Donald Trump, the former president of the United States; Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary, and Republican Party figures like Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, and Marjorie Taylor […]
President Joe Biden made an impassioned and important point a few days ago in a speech to Howard University’s graduating class. Warning that malevolent elements in the United States are attempting to roll back generations of racial progress, he correctly classified this kind of bigotry as a phenomenon passed on from one generation to the […]
Much to its dishonor, the Polish government recently conducted an orchestrated campaign against a respected Polish scholar who disagrees with its skewed nationalistic narrative of the Holocaust. The object of its wrath, Barbara Engelking, is the director of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and the author […]
Evan Gershkovich, a 31-year-old Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent in Russia, faces the horrendous prospect of spending up to 20 years in a Russian penal colony should he be convicted of espionage. The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants living in the United States, he was detained in Yekaterinburg on March 29 while gathering material for a […]
Eighty years ago today, with the arrival of spring and the blooming of yellow daffodils in Poland, a small and resolute band of sparsely-armed Jewish fighters in the Warsaw ghetto rose up defiantly in a courageous, last-ditch stand to confront their genocidal Nazi tormentors. In remarkable feat of bravery that emboldened Catholic Poles to mount […]
Yair Netanyahu, the eldest son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, vents his spleen occasionally. When he does so, he reinforces the widespread belief in Israel and abroad that his opinions are not only grotesque, noxious and incendiary, but mired in the swamp of ignorance and malice. Apparently unemployed, he has all the time in […]
At a press conference in Kyiv on February 24, the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, took a question from an Israeli reporter about Israel’s cautious position on the war. Israel has adopted a nuanced stance toward the conflict in Ukraine, with many observers having described it as a […]
One year on, the revanchist war that Russian President Vladimir Putin began in Ukraine last February 24 has degenerated into a protracted struggle of epic proportions with no end in sight. Universally regarded as the deadliest armed conflict in Europe since World War II, it has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of Russian and […]
Seventy five years ago this month, two Polish Jewish refugees and their infant son arrived in Canada, a distant nation of peace, tranquility and stability and their future place in the sun. David and Genia Kirschner, my parents, were Holocaust survivors in their early thirties when they set foot in the new world in the […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is at it again in a feeble attempt to justify Russia’s unwarranted and unacceptable invasion of Ukraine. Several days ago, he compared Western support of Ukraine in its defensive war against Russia to Nazi Germany’s plan to exterminate Jews in Europe. Lavrov’s appalling comparison reminded observers of an outrageous remark […]