Holocaust
We need these “Jewish” movies now
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 15, 2020
Time for the Jewish Academy Awards.
Reform US rabbi in Dresden explains ultra-Orthodox traditions to German Jews
By Tom Heneghan — December 20, 2019
PARIS (RNS) — The story of Akiva Weingarten, an ultra-Orthodox New Yorker who was ordained in Israel and started over as a Reform rabbi in Germany, sounds like a made-for-TV movie saga.
Anti-Semitism is a public health crisis
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 4, 2019
(RNS) — Let's start treating Jew hatred the way we treated cigarette smoking. Make it taboo.
‘The Survivors’ unmasks the generational trauma of the Holocaust
By Yonat Shimron — December 4, 2019
(RNS) — A former speechwriter for Barack Obama, Adam Frankel has written heart-wrenching memoir about confronting the secrets of the past.
Former refugees mark 75th anniversary of the only US safe haven during Holocaust
By Bob Smietana — August 8, 2019
(RNS) — During WWII, a group of refugees from the Holocaust found a safe haven in upstate New York as guests of President Roosevelt. Former refugees returned this week to mark the 75th anniversary of their arrival in 1944.
Doubting the Holocaust in Boca Raton
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 9, 2019
It’s not just Holocaust denial. In some ways, it’s even worse than that.
Thou shalt not compare historical horrors?
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 25, 2019
Yes, the Holocaust is unique. But, exactly how unique?
About AOC and “concentration camps”
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 21, 2019
When you are speaking to people who refuse to hear, sometimes you have to scream. Like it or not, that is what AOC was trying to do.
D-Day was the beginning of American Jews’ ‘coming of age’
By Paul O'Donnell — May 22, 2019
(RNS) — When Jewish men and women returned to civilian life in 1945, they no longer perceived themselves as members of a vulnerable minority group, but rather as part of a proud, self-confident community.
An open letter to Rashida Tlaib
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 14, 2019
Perhaps Rep. Tlaib was trying to say something different. Let's give her the opportunity to clarify her words and thoughts.
German military to appoint Jewish chaplains and open forces to Muslim imams, too
By Tom Heneghan — April 5, 2019
(RNS) — After the Holocaust, Jewish males born in postwar Germany were exempted from military service, but about 300 volunteers are now in uniform.
Releasing Vatican WWII archives removes an obstacle to Catholic-Jewish peace
By A. James Rudin — March 4, 2019
(RNS) — The long-simmering controversy over Pius XII's response to the Holocaust has the power to undo many of the extraordinary positive gains that have been achieved since 1965.
Pope: Vatican next year to open archives on wartime Pius XII
By Frances D'Emilio — March 4, 2019
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis said Monday he has decided to open up the Vatican archives on World War II-era Pope Pius XII, who has been criticized by Jews of staying silent on the Holocaust.
How a national emergency order endangers the ‘other’
By Jonathan Perlman and Eric C Manning — February 20, 2019
(RNS) — The leaders of two congregations that have suffered violence incited by hate, we recognize the president's 'emergency' isn’t about an invasion, but the language of governmental overreach.
Auschwitz survivors pay homage as world remembers Holocaust
By Vanessa Gera — January 27, 2019
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday amid a revival of hate-inspired violence and signs that younger generations know less and less about the genocide of Jews, Roma and others by Nazi Germany during World War II.
