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Jun 8, 2024, 11:44 PM

Self-Hating Jews: The Modern Day Kapos

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I won't be buying Levi's jeans anymore, nor will I be booking a vacation at a Hyatt hotel. As to Ben & Jerry´s, they have been off my groceries list for some time now. As a third generation descendant born...

May 4, 2024, 1:26 PM

“After Saturday, comes Sunday.”

"Jews, go back to Poland!" A Jewish student on television recounts the experience of taking final exams while hearing the calls to exterminate his people outside the classroom. Let us change for a moment the discriminatory slurs against Jews, which...

Mar 13, 2024, 5:27 PM

We will be their voices

We will be their voices.

"How long will you remain in the United States?" the immigration officer asks us. -"About 4 hours." -"Final destination?" -"Israel." -"Be careful. Avoid going to the south." We leave early. From our hotel in Jerusalem, Waze marks an hour and...

Jan 19, 2024, 5:50 PM

New survivors and survivors anew

January 27th: International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. As a teenager, I grew up with the angst that one day due to natural causes, there would be no survivors left of the Holocaust, of...

Nov 28, 2023, 7:47 PM

Feminists, where are you? Your silence is deafening

To those of us who saw the sadism and brutality of the sexual violence committed against Israeli women on 7/10 by Hamas terrorists, we will never be able to erase those images. After those traumatic acts came another one:...

May 3, 2022, 6:00 PM

Music for the Jews

Poland, 1988. First time the “March of Living” was going to be held. Jewish youth from around the world, Shoah survivors, world-renowned religious and political leaders, we would all be joining in a silent three kilometer walk that would...

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Attorney at Law in Guatemala, Harvard Law School LLM ´99 (when it was respectable to attend there), Honorary President of the Jewish Community of Guatemala, Activist.

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