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May 19, 2025: I’m wondering if anyone has experience with exposure.co. The photo essays it creates look beautiful. I now share blog posts on my Squarespace site but …
Mar 27, 2025: Three prominent Yale professors depart for Canadian university, citing Trump fears Yale Daily News: Three prominent critics of President Donald Trump are leaving Yale’s faculty — and the United States — amid attacks on higher …
Mar 20, 2025: CNN: Pentagon Purging Articles on Holocaust Remembrance in Name of DEI CNN: Articles about the Holocaust, September 11, cancer awareness, sexual assault and suicide prevention are among the tens of thousands either …
Mar 18, 2025: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. Responds to Trump's Call for Impeachment of a Federal Judge For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. …
Mar 14, 2025: Lessons of the Shoah Laurie Winer writing on Substack: Magical thinking is far from new. Adolf Hitler came to power amid similar lies and conspiracy theories. We should …
Mar 7, 2025: Timothy Snyder: ‘Antisemitism in the Oval Office’ Yale historian Timothy Snyder writing on Substack: The attempt to humiliate Volodymyr Zelens’kyi in the Oval Office a week ago was an American …
Mar 6, 2025: Pierre Joris (1946-2025) The New York Times: Pierre Joris, a poet and translator who tackled some of the 20th century’s most difficult verse, rendering into English the …
Mar 6, 2025: Administration Continues to Weaken US Government The Washington Post: On Tuesday afternoon, the Trump administration announced that 443 federally owned properties were eligible to be sold, including …
Mar 4, 2025: Deborah Lipstadt Explains Why She Won’t Teach at Columbia Deborah Lipstadt explains why she won’t teach at Columbia: My decision to withdraw my name from consideration for a teaching post at Columbia is …
Mar 2, 2025: NYT: ’The MAGA War on Speech’ The New York Times Editorial Board: Government officials are supposed to use their considerable regulatory powers for the benefit of the public, not …
Mar 2, 2025: Manton Reece: 'Something is wrong with Trump' Manton Reece : We can all see it. It is beyond political parties. Beyond ideology. Beyond whether he is corrupt or competent. David Brooks, on the …
Mar 1, 2025: Purge at DC US Attorney’s Office Spencer S. Hsu writing in The Washington Post: Seven top leaders of the U.S. attorney’s office for Washington, D.C., were demoted to misdemeanor and …
Mar 1, 2025: Long-Time Washington Post Cartoonist Quits After Cartoon Criticizing Amazon Killed Ann Telnaes writing on Substack: I’ve worked for the Washington Post since 2008 as an editorial cartoonist. I have had editorial feedback and …
Mar 1, 2025: Yale Historian Timothy Snyder’s Dire Warning About Elon Musk and Donald Trump Yale historian Timothy Snyder quoted in an interesting interview conduced by David Horowitz in The Times of Israel: I don’t think either Musk or …
Feb 27, 2025: The Holocaust History Podcast The Holocaust History Podcast, hosted by historian Waitman Wade Beorn, explores various aspects of the Holocaust through discussions with diverse …
Feb 20, 2025: Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker Explains Important Lessons of the Holocaust A verypowerful speech.
Feb 18, 2025: 500 Days of Captivity - Bring Them Home Yechiel (Michael) Leiter, Israel’s new ambassador to the United States, speaking at Washington Hebrew Congregation and praying for the release of all …
Feb 16, 2025: The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner The second and final volume of the biography of Adolf Hitler by German historian Volker Ullrich is entitled Hitler: Downfall: 1939-1945. Roger Abrams, …
Feb 16, 2025: Understanding the Magnitude of the Holocaust The emphasis on deportations to death camps, particularly from western Europe and particularly to Auschwitz, overshadows the benighted experience of …
Feb 16, 2025: George Will: Holocaust Museum Showcases Lessons for Today George Will writing in The Washington Post on the 25th anniversary of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington: Nothing — nothing — is …
Feb 16, 2025: The Need for a Jewish State Theodor Herzl wrote in 1896, more than 40 years before the Holocaust: My happier co-religionists will not believe me till Jew-baiting teaches them …
Feb 16, 2025: Hitler’s Last Direct Order Roberts, Andrew. The Storm of War (p. 553). HarperCollins e-books. Kindle Edition (footnote omitted): The last direct order to be personally signed …
Feb 15, 2025: Expanding our Understanding of the Holocaust Dan Stone’s 2024 important book entitled The Holocaust: An Unfinished History documents and explains that the images of concentration camps and gas …
Feb 15, 2025: Google Calendar no longer shows Holocaust Remembrance Day and Jewish American Heritage Month Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle: Google Calendar has removed International Holocaust Remembrance Day and Jewish American Heritage Month from its default …
Feb 15, 2025: International Youth Meeting Dachau Starts July 26th The International Youth Meeting Dachau, established in 1983, gathers young people globally to explore historical and contemporary issues related to …
May 7, 2024: President Joe Biden delivers remarks at U.S. Holocaust Memorial Days of Remembrance Ceremony May 7, 2024 at the U.S. Capitol: .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } …
May 5, 2024: A Jewish Photographer Documented Nazi Deportation of Jews The Times of Israel: Unique and chilling images of one of the first deportations of German Jews from their homes during World War II have been …
May 4, 2024: Switzerland and Dachau Germany’s National Socialist (Nazi) government and Switzerland had substantial ties. Switzerland’s contribution to the construction of the Dachau …
Apr 25, 2024: What It’s Like to be Visually Jewish at Yale Bret Stephens writing in The New York Times: Netanel Crispe, from Danby, Vt., is a 21-year-old junior studying American history at Yale. He is also, …
Apr 23, 2024: Holocaust Museum Calls on American Colleges and Universities to Protect Jewish Students following Eruption of Antisemitism USHMM: The shocking eruption of antisemitism on many American college and university campuses is unacceptable and university and all other …
Mar 29, 2024: The CIA and Nazi War Criminals The Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act established the Nazi War Criminal Records Interagency Working Group to locate, identify, inventory, recommend for …
Mar 29, 2024: Antisemitism: ‘We will never be done with it’ Jean Cassou (1897-1986) quoted in Sapir Journal: An antisemite will always, in the course of his argument, turn to assure you that he is not an …
Mar 27, 2024: X’s Lawsuit Against Anti-Hate Research Group Dismissed The New York Times: X sued the Center for Countering Digital Hate in July in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California after the …
Mar 26, 2024: Steven Spielberg, Honored by USC Shoah Foundation, Cautions Against Rise of Extremism .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, …
Mar 26, 2024: Anti-Semitism: Zurich attacker radicalized in Tunisia and online SWI: The 15-year-old Swiss national with a Tunisian immigrant background is in custody until further notice. On the evening of March 2, he attacked a …
Mar 24, 2024: A Small Taste of How Hamas Hostages are Suffering Lauren Markoe writing in the Forward: Smack in the middle of the National Mall, there is a shipping container that advocates for the hostages taken …
Mar 23, 2024: Norman Miller (1924-2024) The New York Times: At 15, he escaped to England. At 20, he enlisted in the British Army and identified Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1892–1946) who, as the …
Mar 21, 2024: Martin Greenfield (1928-2024) The New York Times: Defying boundaries of taste and time, Martin Greenfield made suits for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the gangster Meyer Lansky, …
Mar 21, 2024: Amnon Weinstein (1939-2024) The New York Times: Amnon Weinstein, an Israeli luthier who restored violins belonging to Jews during the Holocaust so that musicians around the …
Mar 21, 2024: Canadian Jewish Film Festival Cancelled Due to Gaza-Related Threats The Forward: Concerts, book talks and other cultural events are increasingly being canceled because of security concerns about protests over Israel’s …
Mar 21, 2024: We Need to Take the Far Right Seriously Jeremy Stern in a long, thoughtful piece in Tablet Magazine entitled “Can Germany’s Far Right Be Stopped?” writes: If you really want to stop people …
Mar 20, 2024:
Variety: ‘Over 1,000 Jewish Creatives and Professionals Have Now Denounced Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Zone of Interest’ Oscars Speech in Open Letter (EXCLUSIVE)’
More than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone …
Mar 19, 2024: Google Engineer Uses AI to Identify Faces in Holocaust-era Photographs Daniel Patt, a software engineer for Google, is the founder of a website called From Numbers to Names, which uses artificial intelligence to find old …
Mar 15, 2024: ‘The Zone of Interest’ Executive Producer Disagrees with Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars Speech Critical of Israel I just fundamentally disagree with Jonathan on this. The war and the continuation of the war is the responsibility of Hamas, a genocidal terrorist …
Mar 15, 2024: ‘The Zone of interest’: A ‘Vacuous’ Movie Manohla Dargis writing for The New York Times: What is the point of “The Zone of Interest”? I’ve seen Jonathan Glazer’s movie twice, and each time …
Mar 14, 2024: Producer of an Oscar-Winning Holocaust Film Offended by Jonathan Glazer’s Remarks at the 96th Oscars Richard Trank, Academy Award-winning producer of the 1997 Holocaust documentary ‘The Long Way Home’, writing in The Hollywood Reporter: …
Mar 12, 2024: Switzerland Reports Unprecedented Antisemitism in 2023 SWI: The Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities (SIG) and the Foundation against Racism and Anti-Semitism (GRA) reports that in 2023, 1,130 …
Mar 12, 2024: Holocaust Survivors’ Foundation USA Open Letter to Jonathan Glazer David Schaecter, a 94-year-old Holocaust survivor, wrote this letter on March 11, 2024: I am 94 years old and the only member of 105 souls in my …
Mar 11, 2024: Almost Half of World Jewry Now Lives in Israel Alvin H. Rosenfeld1 writing in Tablet: There will be no Jewish future worthy the name without the State of Israel. At present, something like 47% of …
Mar 11, 2024: The History of the Swastika May Surprise You .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, …
Mar 11, 2024: Germany's Domestic Secret Service Continues Legal Battle with AfD DW: The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence service, …
Mar 10, 2024: Jews in Hiding Dara Horn, writing in The Atlantic: At a Shabbat dinner I attended at one college, students went around the table sharing what they wished they could …
Mar 9, 2024: Josette Molland, Member of French Resistance, Holocaust Survivor and Artist (1923-2024) Josette Molland was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. She was captured by German forces and imprisoned in Romainville, …
Mar 9, 2024: US Attorney General Speaks Out Against Antisemitism US Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke to the ADL’s “Now Is Never” Summit in New York on March 7, 2024. Garland1came from a family of immigrants …
Mar 9, 2024: Never Again? David Horovitz, founding editor of The Times of Israel, writes in his newspaper: We had thought, after World War II, that much of humanity had …
Mar 4, 2024: Orthodox Jew Stabbed in Zurich JTA: Swiss Jews are planning a vigil after a 50-year-old member of the Orthodox community in Zurich was stabbed Saturday night in what police say may …
Mar 4, 2024: Two Famous Holocaust Photos in the Public Domain A Jewish boy surrenders in Warsaw Inside Buchenwald From: Wikipedia’s List of photographs considered the most important
Mar 3, 2024: Jerry Seinfeld Heckled by Anti-Israel Supporters TMZ: Jerry Seinfeld exited the annual State of the World Jewry address . . . in NYC to anti-Israel protesters accusing him of supporting genocide …
Mar 3, 2024: Paris: Man Attacked Near Synagogue ABC News: French authorities are searching for an assailant who attacked a man leaving a synagogue in Paris, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said …
Mar 3, 2024: Antisemitism Today Noah Feldman, a professor at Harvard Law School, writing in Time, asserts that today’s antisemitism is more likely to come from the left: Neither …
Feb 29, 2024: Audrey Hepburn's Poignant Reaction to Anne Frank's Diary Audrey Hepburn describing her reaction to reading the Anne Frank’s diary in 1946: I was exactly the same age as Anne Frank. We were both 10 when war …
Feb 29, 2024: UK Prime Minister Speaks Out Against Antisemitism; Pledges More Funding On February 28, 2024, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak spoke at the annual dinner of the Community Security Trust (CST), whose mission is to protect the …
Feb 25, 2024: Germany Rearming: Where will this lead? DW: Germany’s military, the Bundeswehr, is going on a buying spree to make up for years of neglect. The challenge it faces, however, is more …
Feb 24, 2024: Une agression antisémite dans un bus parisien (en français) Times of Israel: La vidéo a fait le tour des réseaux sociaux ces derniers jours : elle montre un homme, Léo Nicolian, extrémiste connu de la sphère …
Feb 24, 2024: New Documentary on October 7 Hamas Attack Three days after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, Israeli filmmaker Duki Dror visited site of the Supernova music festival and began work on a …
Feb 23, 2024: Harvard Crimson Editorial on the Antisemitic Cartoon Campus discourse has gone toxic, and this ugly, thoughtless Instagram post is the worst of it. Harvard Crimson
Feb 23, 2024: Yad Vashem Chairman Reacts to Statements made by Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan strongly condemned the remarks made by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, asserting that they are not only …
Feb 23, 2024: Why Antisemitism Persists - A Jewish Perspective Boaz Munro1 writing in Tablet: Why don’t we see more efforts to dismantle antisemitism? Well, for one thing, Jews make up only 0.2% of the global …
Feb 23, 2024: Margot Lobree, child survivor of the Holocaust Olivia Grady writing for Elon University’s ‘Today at Elon’: “Now, I want you all to take a moment and imagine as a child, coming home one day, and …
Feb 23, 2024: Simone Veil (1927-2017) An interesting podcast episode recounting the life of Simone Veil, Holocaust survivor, abortion rights activist and former president of the European …
Feb 23, 2024: Film: ‘Ida’ Anna, a young woman training to be a nun in 1960s Poland is on the verge of taking her vows when she meets her only living relative for the first time …
Feb 23, 2024: Harvard Antisemitic Cartoon Harvard University Interim President Alan M. Garber: A few groups purporting to speak on behalf of Harvard affiliates recently circulated a …