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Sep 17, 2024, 12:53 PM

What’s missing in Holocaust education? Hamas

Giving a passionate speech at the Holocaust Education Trust dinner in London recently, the British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer proclaimed that studying the Holocaust will become a critical, vital part of every single student's identity. Not only will...

Sep 17, 2024, 10:02 AM

October 7, 1944: A Lens for Reflecting on October 7, 2023 & 2024 & Taking Action

Prewar portrait of Ala Gartner, who was later imprisoned in the Auschwitz camp. —⁠US Holocaust Memorial Museum

October 7, 1944. Eighty years before October 7, 2024, the one year anniversary of October 7, 2023, the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust. At this difficult anniversary, another October 7 comes to mind. In 1944, in Auschwitz-Birkenau. On...

Sheldon Kirshner

Sep 14, 2024, 4:57 PM

More Than Parcels

European Jews trapped in Nazi ghettos and concentration camps during the Holocaust were dependent on life-saving shipments of food, medicine, clothing and money transfers for sheer survival. These parcels and transfers, donated by relatives, friends and Jewish institutions, were...

Sep 13, 2024, 5:54 PM

It has become commonplace for anti-Israel protesters to accuse the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) of practicing genocide in its war against Hamas in Gaza. The term "genocide", incidentally, was coined during the Holocaust by a Polish-Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin....

Sep 5, 2024, 3:53 PM

The Torah of the Current Messiah – I

In the previous six Posts, I discuss the subtle and sensitive theme about the Current Messiah, especially the Current Messiah as a Saviour King! Now I would like to substantiate and verify this claim by describing the stages which...

Solly Kaplinski

Sep 4, 2024, 10:38 PM

Finding myself in the words…

A number of years ago, I bumped into a former Rondebosch High School student of mine, Brian, in a department store in Cape Town. If I recall correctly, he was at the time a lecturer at the University of...

Sep 3, 2024, 5:35 PM

The Romanian-American writer and professor Eli Wiesel (1928-2016), who survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald, where his parents and a younger sister died, was an excellent writer who authored 57 books. His first book, Night, is a memoir of these experiences....

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Sep 3, 2024, 6:56 AM

What makes evil so tenacious?

The answers are right before our eyes—nothing mysterious or deep There are the real and the imagined persistence of evil. Why Does Evil Persist? Evil is any unnecessary hurt. Some really monstrous evil is still around as if humans don't learn and don't...

Shmuel Rosenman

Sep 1, 2024, 5:01 PM

85 years after WWII’s outbreak, the battle for truth and memory continues

As we mark this year’s September 1—a day that commemorates the 85th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II—we find ourselves not only reflecting on the past but confronting the stark realities of the present. The urgency of...

Sep 1, 2024, 9:05 AM

The Story of Bulgarian Jewry I Was Compelled to Tell

March 1943. Bulgarian authorities prepare to deport 20,000 Jews from Bulgaria, expelling thousands from their homes in Sofia and sending them to the countryside. Held in detention camps, they fear they will meet the same fate as the 11,343...

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