Holocaust
Why “Schindler’s list” still matters
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 11, 2018
The best thing about "Schindler's List" has almost nothing to do with the Holocaust. It is deeper than that.
Pope warns Lithuanians to guard against anti-Semitism
By Nicole Winfield — September 23, 2018
KAUNAS, Lithuania (AP) — He denounced those who get caught up in debating who was more virtuous in the past and fail to address the tasks of the present — an apparent reference to historic revisionism.
When Leonard Cohen wrote about Eichmann
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 30, 2018
Eichmann was normal. Deal with it.
Why Mark Zuckerberg is wrong about the Holocaust
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 23, 2018
(RNS) — The Facebook co-founder's refusal to kick Holocaust deniers off his platform masks a larger, ugly trend in American society.
Remembering the children of the Warsaw Ghetto on the 75th anniversary of the uprising
By Samantha Baskind — April 19, 2018
(RNS) — While the Warsaw Ghetto uprising offers a narrative that has been vibrantly told again and again, mythologized by an American culture that craves happy endings, however feeble they may be, the ghetto’s story also speaks to a different kind of memory: one of lost innocence and mercilessness.
Could armed Jews have prevented the Holocaust?
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 12, 2018
(RNS) — The idea that Jews with guns could have made any meaningful resistance is the cruelest, most cynical, most ignorant alternative fact there is.
More anti-Semitism, but less of it is violent, report says
By Jerome Socolovsky — April 11, 2018
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Violent attacks on Jews worldwide dropped in 2017 despite a rise in other forms of anti-Semitism, researchers reported Wednesday, in a year characterized by normalization and mainstreaming of anti-Semitism not seen in Europe since World War II.
Hindus chant to ‘purify’ former Nazi concentration camps
By Tom Heneghan — March 30, 2018
PARIS (RNS) — Should they be embraced as allies against racism or condemned for trying to whitewash and deny history?
Parliament’s action imperils Polish-Jewish relations
By Agnieszka Markiewicz — February 5, 2018
WARSAW, Poland (RNS) — The ultimate cause of the current crisis is that Poland has not sufficiently confronted its past.
Pope denounces Holocaust ‘indifference’ amid Polish uproar
By Jerome Socolovsky — January 29, 2018
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Poland, which is largely Roman Catholic, is considering legislation that would outlaw blaming Poles for the crimes of the Holocaust.
A Holocaust museum in Brooklyn focuses on faith, survival
By Yonat Shimron — January 16, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — The Amud Aish Memorial Museum, located far from the tourist crowds, near the very edge of the Brooklyn, focuses on the experiences of Orthodox Jews during and after the Holocaust.
Larry David should be ashamed
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 5, 2017
(RNS) — Larry David’s opening SNL monologue was not only tasteless and unfunny. It was dangerous.
Sally Quinn, Magic, and Meaning
By Jana Riess — September 12, 2017
Journalist Sally Quinn is probably best known for fifty years of reporting on Washington's social scene. In the last decade, though, her focus has turned to faith, and it's been personal as well as professional.
Don’t throw the word ‘Nazi’ around
By Holly Lebowitz Rossi — August 25, 2017
(RNS) — 'Nazism shouldn’t be a casual catch-all term to describe the bad guys,' writes Holly Lebowitz Rossi.