Rochelle Saidel

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Jan 25, 2024, 10:01 PM

Remembering Women’s Voices on Shabbat Shira

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, falls on Shabbat B’Shallach, also Shabbat Shira, this year. The coincidence gives us the opportunity to celebrate women’s voices in the Torah while also commemorating women Holocaust survivors, many of whose voices were...

Dec 6, 2023, 8:53 AM

Recognizing October 7 Sexual Atrocities at the UN

(WARNING: This article contains graphic descriptions of atrocities)

Nov 9, 2023, 10:31 PM

Let’s Talk About Rape

The Times of Israel’s excellent article by Carrie Keller-Lynn (Nov. 9) detailed rape during the October 7 pogrom, after it was kept mostly as a gray topic for nearly five weeks. Because of our work on rape during the Holocaust...

Aug 11, 2021, 3:55 PM

Isn’t New York Covid Vaccine Kosher? An open letter to the Health Ministry

An open letter to the Israel Ministry of Health: I went to my Maccabi health plan on Agrippas Street, Jerusalem, on August 10 for my scheduled third COVID-19 vaccine shot at 1 PM. I am an Israeli citizen well over...

Apr 7, 2020, 9:54 PM

La Guardia’s great nephew Richard Denes, a baby in Ravensbrück, dies of COVID-19

Former New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia’s sister, Gemma La Guardia Gluck, was a political hostage in Ravensbrück women's concentration camp from June 1944 until the spring of 1945. Her baby grandson, Richard Denes, was also there during...

Feb 21, 2018, 2:28 PM

My People Were Refugees, Too

Wearing a large button that says “My People Were Refugees Too,” I attended a Hadassah chapter meeting in Jerusalem this week. Most people who saw the button knew it was to protest the deportation of African refugees from Israel....

Nov 24, 2014, 1:04 PM

Remembering the heroism of Haviva Reick

November 20, 2014 was the seventieth anniversary of the murder of Holocaust heroine Haviva Reick. The single word that best describes her is idealistic. In the thirty short years of her life, she was a leader and role model,...

Mar 18, 2013, 5:12 PM

A new blood libel and my broken wrist

Before falsely charging Israel of crimes against Ethiopian women, come visit Hadassah hospital's emergency ward

Dec 19, 2012, 1:19 PM

Time to talk about sexual violence during the Holocaust

Despite evidence that rape was widespread, the topic has so been left out of the Final Solution narrative

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About Me

Dr. Rochelle G. Saidel is founder and executive director of Remember the Women Institute, co-editor of Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust, and Exhibition Coordinator for VIOLATED! Women in Holocaust and Genocide. See www.rememberwomen.org.