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Jul 16, 2026, 9:15 AM

Being Falsely Accused of Genocide Is Better Than Being the Victim of One

War is always a human tragedy and the suffering in Gaza has been terrible. Innocent civilians have been killed, families have lost their homes, and many children have suffered. No decent person can witness such horror without feeling deep...

Jul 16, 2026, 5:03 AM

They Stamped Every Neighborhood But Ours

There is a particular loneliness in being counted only when someone is counting victims, and forgotten every other day of the year. This summer, as the World Cup came to New York, the City handed out a “Neighborhood Passport,”...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jul 16, 2026, 4:53 AM

The Kremlin Method, Practiced in Vilnius

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Lithuania's Genocide Centre defends claims it knows to be false, answers evidence by designating the people who carry it, and has adopted the technique it condemns in Moscow. Lithuania is right about Russia. The Kremlin chooses its conclusion first and...

Jul 15, 2026, 6:24 AM

Let The Doves Fly – How Hadassah is a Lifechanging Moment in My Life

Artwork courtesy of the author.

Think about the dog days of summer. Think about concerts and festivals. Finally, think about Woodstock. That iconic moment in the summer of 1969. What comes to mind? Rain, mud, traffic, crowds, and a galaxy of rock and roll...

Jul 14, 2026, 11:07 AM

Never Again Requires a Plan

There is a sound every Jewish parent knows. It is not the shofar. It is not the clink of kiddush cups. It is not the sound of a child asking why this night is different from all other nights, usually...

Janet Bond Brill

Jul 13, 2026, 6:56 PM

‘To My Beloved Marylka’: A Jewish Child’s Blessing to the Sister Who Saved Her

A hidden child's First Communion card revealed a private message between two Jewish sisters hiding as Catholic girls. The card is small enough to lose. It has been folded, softened, stained by time or water or hands. Its die-cut edges...

Jul 13, 2026, 12:58 PM

Trapped in China

China and I are not friends. I first realized that long ago when, passing through one of its many airports, an unsmiling immigration officer confiscated my favorite oversized razor. And again, years later, when during a two-day-multiple-airport layover, my then-eight-year-old...

Eric M. Leiderman

Jul 13, 2026, 5:02 AM

Did America Prove Herzl Wrong?

Theodor Herzl never witnessed the rise of American Jewry. This illustration imagines Herzl overlooking New York as the United States emerged as the most successful Diaspora community in Jewish history. (AI-generated illustration created with ChatGPT/OpenAI. Not a historical photograph.)

Theodor Herzl remains one of the defining Jewish thinkers of the modern era because he recognized a truth that many of his contemporaries preferred not to see. Writing amid the rise of European nationalism and in the shadow of...

Menachem Rosensaft

Jul 13, 2026, 4:49 AM

Ambassador Rose misspeaks on the Holocaust. Again.

Screenshot from U.S. Ambassador Tom Rose's video on the 85th anniversary of the Jedwadne pogrom

Like stagnant, unrefrigerated salami inauspiciously ingested during a heatwave, Ambassador Tom Rose is a gift that keeps on giving. The U.S. ambassador to Poland has made it his mission to absolve non-Jewish Poles in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II...

John C. Landa Jr.

Jul 12, 2026, 10:44 AM

“Genocide” and the Mass Slaughter of Truth

We often speak of disinformation as a creature of the internet, but it has for centuries been a potent weapon of antisemites. Anti-Jewish libels have been devoured by the masses throughout history, triggering outrage and violence: “The Jews caused...

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