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Jan 12, 2021, 3:01 PM

Sinat Chinam (baseless hatred) is said to have caused the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple. Now it is causing the undoing of the West. God’s ways are inscrutable they say, but can anyone understand people?...

Sep 3, 2019, 1:53 PM

My mother died in 1987 when I was 14. She wrote me this letter. I got it a few months ago. * * * R. had traveled in blood. She made her first journey in the second year after her birth....

Jun 19, 2018, 11:57 PM

Separation issues

There are endless amounts of articles, comments, celebrities, journalists and officials who feel the need to associate the separation of parents and children at the US Mexican border with the Shoah. They wag their finger and solemnly declare "never again"...

Dec 12, 2017, 5:58 PM

Bloodthirsty Zionists

According to various sources such as Wikipedia and the Jewish Virtual Library, the total number of Arabs killed in the Arab Israeli conflict, including Palestinian terrorists and civilians, numbers approximately 91,000. This includes all wars and all Arab armies...

Aug 17, 2017, 7:26 AM

White nationalists clash with counter-protesters in the street after the "Unite the Right" rally was delcared a unlawful gathering by Virginia State Police August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Treating the Charlottesville marchers is if they are real Nazis is an affront to America's history

Apr 12, 2017, 11:51 PM

You know what's really insulting? All those fake declarations of 'never again' each year. The reason why Obama's White House press secretary never said anything stupid about chemical weapons is because under Obama the Democrats did nothing to end the...

Apr 10, 2017, 11:07 PM

On being kicked out of Egypt

The story of Pesach always struck me as a bit weird. Especially from a Jewish perspective. Why are we supposed to celebrate being kicked out of a country again? Jews have been banished and expelled from many places. But we...

Apr 5, 2017, 9:48 PM

Jews have been dealing with fake news for a very long time. We are all familiar with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Der Stürmer. But even before the the creation of the printing press all kinds...

Mar 24, 2017, 7:36 AM

On the defense of persecuted minorities

As a young adult I loved reading William Shirer's book 'The Rise and fall of the third Reich'. I read his other books too, 'The collapse of the Third Republic' about France and 'This is Berlin” about his time...

Nov 11, 2015, 7:30 PM

The first person who was executed by the Germans in the Netherlands during the Second World War for acts of resistance was a Jew. His name was Leendert Schijveschuurder. His descendants were later massacred in the Sbarro pizza bombing...

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Born in Switzerland in 1973. Raised in Holland. My parents were Holocaust survivors.