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Nov 8, 2024, 11:09 PM

86 Years After Kristallnacht: The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same

Waking up in the early morning to finish my Kristallnacht post, I was shocked and horrified to find out that another November pogrom was going at that very moment; beatings, arrests and, yet again, the fear of hostages be...

Sep 27, 2024, 11:02 PM

On Rosh Hashana, Remembering Pope Pius the 12th Saving the Jews in WWI

The tragedy of the Armenian Massacre could also have become a Jewish Massacre had it not been for Pius’s quick intervention during World War One. However, many Jews today do not know about Pius’s rescue actions of 1917 or...

Apr 19, 2024, 7:19 AM

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Fighting for Survival

“The more things change, the more they stay the same” As we recall the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of April 19, 1943, it is more important than ever to remember that Jewish men and women possess a long history of fighting...

Jan 9, 2024, 5:59 PM

Unconditional Surrender: Why a Cease Fire with Hamas Won’t Work

As the Israel/Hamas conflict rages on for what seems like an eternity, it is now in its 13th week. Although most of us can accept on an intellectual level that war’s prerogative means human suffering and devastation, the mounting...

Dec 4, 2023, 8:25 PM

The Red Cross is failing Israelis

A Hamas terrorist stands guard as a Red Cross vehicle transports newly released hostages in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on November 28, 2023. (AFP)

It was MIA during the Holocaust, but it can still find its moral compass now and redeem itself

Nov 6, 2023, 8:55 PM

Commemorating the 85th Anniversary of Kristallnacht with Fresh Tears and Hope

In light of the terrorist attack by Hamas on Oct.7, this year’s 85th commemoration of the Nazi onslaught against the Jews of Germany in the early morning hours of November 9th and 10th might appear to have shrunk in...

Nov 9, 2022, 11:16 AM

Kristallnacht: A Lethal Legacy of Legends and Lies

If ever a human-orchestrated catastrophe in modern history was shrouded in strategic timing, propaganda, and meticulously-synchronized destructive actions, it is the so-called Nazi pogrom of November 1938. Organized in retaliation against all Jews for the crime of one Jew,...

Apr 29, 2022, 2:02 PM

Should We Keep Building Holocaust Memorials?

After 77 years, the reality of the Holocaust era is becoming harder and harder for people to grasp. Indeed, the unspeakable horrors experienced by its victims coupled with the complicity of the bystanders and of course, the inconceivable cruelty...

Feb 8, 2022, 12:08 AM

Whoopi Goldberg Needs Holocaust Education

According to the Oxford Dictionary, the definition of View is “to regard something in a particular light.” On January 31, Whoopi Goldberg revealed just that, her view on what the Holocaust was all about. She stated emphatically, at least...

Nov 5, 2021, 1:08 AM

Premeditating Kristallnacht: The So-Called Pogrom

For the few of you who may think that the violence and destruction of the “Night of the Broken Glass,” or “Kristallnacht,” was the work of the outraged masses of ordinary Germans, this post may come as a complete...

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Dr. Karen Sutton is associate professor of history at the Lander College for Women, a division of Touro University, in New York City.