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Irina Tsukerman

Jul 13, 2018, 6:44 AM

American Jewish organizations fail to combat anti-Semitism

Only aggressive, systematic, and consistent measures will make it clear that messing with the Jews is a bad plan

Jul 12, 2018, 6:43 PM

The House of Death is Life.

I was always told by my grandfather that everybody was gone, deported, murdered, exterminated, burned, it was ‘the unspoken’, an unspeakable pain. There were no graves and therefore we never spoke of Jewish graves, cemeteries, or burial in general...

Jul 11, 2018, 3:29 PM

‘There is no Jewish Question’

Fishing boat transporting Jewish refugees from Falster (Denmark) to Ystad in Sweden in September/October 1943. Photographer: Mogens Margolinsky. Source: National Museum of Denmark

In mid-1942, the prime minister of Finland, Johann Rangell, was asked by SS chief Heinrich Himmler about the “Jewish Question.” Rangell responded that there was no Jewish Question in Finland, only respected Jewish citizens.1 Finland was an ally of Germany...

Jul 11, 2018, 1:21 PM

Israel’s Immigration Policy: A Mixture of Racism and Idiocy

Just imagine what would have happened if the labor migrants or refugees from Eritrea (let's leave the answer to the question what they really are to another article) announced all of a sudden that they were converting to Judaism....

Jul 10, 2018, 3:59 PM

The Triple-Threat Facing Jews in Europe

Melanie Phillips recently published an essay based on her Simon Weisenthal memorial lecture delivered on Holocaust Memorial Day. In it, she details the threats that Jews in Europe are facing today, and the picture she draws is both worrying...

Jul 10, 2018, 12:13 PM

Why I chose the Canteen over the Pina Colada

It has been almost a year already since I made the life-changing decision to leave my comfortable life in Miami behind and embark on a new and unfamiliar path: Making aliyah and joining the Israel Defense Forces. In a...

Jul 8, 2018, 12:02 PM

Jewish journalists have Israel’s back and wish Israel had theirs

The authors surveyed journalists for Jewish media in more than 20 countries across eastern and western Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Australia. This is the second of three articles, reviewing the study's findings. The full study, A World...

Jul 6, 2018, 5:58 PM

Ride for the Future

Unlike all the other days of our vacation, as we woke up early last Thursday morning, dark clouds filled the sky. Over 200 of us met at the JCC in Krakow, Poland and boarded buses to bring us to...

Jun 30, 2018, 2:33 PM

An Open Letter to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Dear Ms. Ocasio-Cortez: Congratulations on your primary win. As a New Yorker (resident of Astoria, just outside your district) and a progressive, I’m inspired by your victory. As a Jew, I’m terrified, for what your recent comments about Israel portend for...

Dana Janine Diamond

Jun 28, 2018, 4:03 PM

America’s Farewell to Judeo

I conducted research on this since the election. A lot of people voted for Trump because they wanted Gorsuch, because their Christian religion values embryos equally or even over actual human life. This is not true in the Jewish...

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