Shoah
Holocaust survivor recalls ‘Night of Broken Glass’ horrors in interactive, virtual reality project
By Kirsten Grieshaber — November 9, 2023
BERLIN (AP) — The virtual reality project guides users through interactive reconstructions of spaces, such as synagogues, that were destroyed during Kristallnacht.
Out of the death penalty in Pittsburgh, a testament of life
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 3, 2023
Robert Bowers cannot become the best known name from that horrific day. Let us remember his victims. Each one had a name.
Why there is no ice cream at Auschwitz
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 16, 2023
Because some places are holy. The survival of our culture depends on our ability to recognize that.
Pope Francis puts Jews’ desperate wartime appeals to Pope Pius XII online
By Claire Giangravé — June 23, 2022
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The data, which will be available online for free, comprises more than 2,700 requests sent to the Vatican by Jews persecuted by the Nazi regime.
Poland and the Jews. It’s complicated.
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 27, 2022
(RNS) — Yes, these bones can live.
Poland keeps ambassador at home amid dispute with Israel
By Vanessa Gera — August 17, 2021
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Israel downgraded diplomatic ties with Warsaw and strongly criticized a new Polish law that restricts the rights of Holocaust survivors to reclaim property.
Germany celebrates a historic milestone of Jewish culture — while looking forward
By Ken Chitwood — May 6, 2021
BERLIN (RNS) — As their community turns 1,700 this year, Germany’s Jews want to cast off the bleak history of the Holocaust in favor of a ‘living Judaism.’
Yes, there was an Armenian genocide
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 24, 2021
(RNS) — The Armenian genocide is a Jewish issue. More than you think.
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.
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.
What’s Auschwitz? 2/3 of millennials don’t know it was a Nazi death camp, survey reports
By Mark A. Kellner — April 12, 2018
(RNS) — It also found that 31 percent of all Americans and more than 4-in-10 millennials believe that 2 million Jews or less were killed during the Holocaust — substantially less than the historically accepted figure, which is closer to 6 million.
Trump’s you-know-what countries, and one great Jewish writer
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 12, 2018
When a president uses racist language, it's time for the early warning system to kick in.
Ten books you should be sneaking into synagogue on Yom Kippur
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 26, 2017
(RNS) — This rabbi knows that there are many ways to access God. Some Jews do it through the prayers of the liturgy. But, others get in touch with the sacred, and themselves, through the written word – a literary ladder to God, if you will.
Artist’s drawing of a herring on a bialy gains an audience in Bialystok — and Hollywood
By Menachem Wecker — July 31, 2017
(RNS) — That a symbol of Jewish folkways would command attention in Hollywood reflects the ways many Jews think about their identity.
‘Denial’ is the movie for the election season
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 26, 2016
"Denial" is not only about the Holocaust. It is about frightening trends in America today.
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