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Jul 8, 2025, 8:39 PM

Israeli-Armenian activist sees hope after years of mistrust

Newly dedicated sign adjacent to Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate honors late Armenian photographer Elia Kahvedjian. (Photo by Father Emmanuel Atajanyan)

It didn’t make international headlines, but yesterday, the capital of a nation whose people were devastated by genocide during World War II memorialized victims of a nation ravaged by genocide during World War I. On July 7, the Municipality of...

Warren J. Blumenfeld

Jul 8, 2025, 7:11 PM

Comparing Germany & the US South’s Reflections of the Wars They Instigated

In the aftermath of two tragic wars perpetrated and rationalized on the socially constructed notion of “race” and racial superiority, and tied to issues of economics and land acquisition or maintenance, how have Germany following defeat in WWII and...

Jul 7, 2025, 10:24 PM

Vienna 1897, New York 2025?

A city that was a center of culture, finance, and political power. with a large and thriving Jewish community elected an antisemitic mayor. The impact on two residents of that city would change the Jewish world forever. What are...

Juda Engelmayer

Jul 7, 2025, 12:07 AM

To Understand the Jews, Walk in Our Footsteps — Not Just Past Our Gathered Shoes

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A Jew as a poisonous mushroom PRAGUE — I stood today before gravestones so old their Hebrew letters are more memory than inscription. Some lie buried so deep that only the tips protrude from the earth. The stones lean and...

Jul 5, 2025, 3:39 PM

When is it too late?

Screenshot from Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary, Shoah.

When does the damage to civil liberties and the assault on human rights become normalized? And so normalized as to be irreversible?

Yael Chaya Miriam Gray

Jul 3, 2025, 11:59 PM

The Six Million Are the Parah Adumah

There are truths too large for comprehension, too raw for theology, too sacred for speech. They live where language breaks. And yet they insist on being named—not with sound, but with trembling. The Torah commands the taking of a Parah...

Jun 27, 2025, 6:24 PM

Fifteen Minutes Before the Holocaust – Israel Becomes a Great Power

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Only now, as Israel takes decisive initiative and rises from catastrophe, do I feel able to speak the bitter truth. Only now, as our nation emerges as a true regional power, can we admit what was once unthinkable: we...

Jun 26, 2025, 11:30 PM

From Ashes, A New Dawn: Hope, Family, & Survivor’s Spirit – Claire Grunwald

From the Ashes, A New Dawn: Hope, Family, and the Spirit of a Survivor – The Story of Claire Grunwald "From the ashes rises many a new generation." Claire Grunwald, born in Debrecen, Hungary in 1932, truly embodied this powerful...

Carol Silver Elliott

Jun 25, 2025, 11:40 PM

Last week I had the gift of vacation, and we traveled, as we often do, with close friends. This year’s adventure found us cruising on the Danube River, seeing sites from Budapest to Passau, Germany and points in between....

Jun 25, 2025, 10:27 PM

Discoveries beyond the Kindertransport lists: The journeys on the ferries

When Jeremy Frankel reached out to me to ask if I had discovered his cousin’s Kindertransport list I did not know that we would soon be joining the dots of the Kinder's train journeys with those of their ferry...

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