Victims and villains: the Holocaust, Churchill and Dresden – TheArticle
admin | April 24, 2020
This is a year of anniversaries. They mark a succession of momentous events 75 years ago which only those of advanced age will remember.
admin | April 24, 2020
This is a year of anniversaries. They mark a succession of momentous events 75 years ago which only those of advanced age will remember.
admin | April 24, 2020
Obviously the concept of days has become a bit of a joke as our perception of time starts to align with those melted clocks on Salvador Dal paintings. But don't mind me, you're not here for an existential crisis. You're here to find out what movies are on TV.
admin | April 24, 2020
This essay was originally published on April 9 2020 in The Arrow: A Journal of Wakeful Society, Culture & Politics. The toilet paper aisle at my local grocery store was the first to go barren. Similar scenes of scatalogical scarcity are now the norm across North America and many other parts of the world as consumers prepare for months of physical distancing to slow the spread of COVID-19.
admin | April 14, 2020
On Google's image search (images.google.com), benign search terms relating to Jews or Yiddish phrases yield alarmingly hateful and inciting results.
admin | April 14, 2020
Aron Bielski is the youngest and last living member of the Bielski brigade, which he founded along with three of his brothers. Their activities have become widely known as one of the largest partisan groups that rescued Jews during the Holocaust. He was born on July 21, 1927, into the family of Davidand Beila Bielski, who had 10 sons and two daughters, in what is today Belarus.
admin | April 14, 2020
At the entrance to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Hall of Remembrance stands a quote from Gen. Dwight D.
admin | April 14, 2020
It was a lovely spring day when Corporal Ian Forsyth arrived at a place of darkness and death. The 21-year-old wireless operator with the 15th/19th Kings Royal Hussars was among the first British troops to reach the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany 75 years ago this week. We werent expecting to see anything we didnt know there was such a place.
admin | April 9, 2020
An internally circulated report prepared by the department responsible for combating antisemitism in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs warns that there is a stark rise in antisemitic publications and social media posts blaming Jewish people for the spread of Coronavirus. The report describes the use of egregious conspiracy theories that blame Jews for purposely spreading the virus globally in order make money by developing a vaccine. Much of the outbreak of antisemitic expressions have been found in the United States, France and Germany, which already had numerous anti-Jewish publications prior to the outbreak of the virus, in addition to the Arab and Muslim world as well.
admin | April 9, 2020
With theaters around the world dark and the transition of live entertainment to online platforms, Temple Emanuel Streicker Center will commemorate Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) with the PBS/WNET film of Jeff Cohen's acclaimed drama The Soap Myth.
admin | April 9, 2020
Photo Credit: Sam Davidowicz The Novominsker Rebbe, Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, who served as President of Agudath Israel of America since 1998, died early Tuesday morning at the age of 89, a victim of the coronavirus pandemic. He died at home in Boro Park