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Maccabi Lev Ari

Jun 23, 2026, 2:28 PM

I Bore Witness to an Age and Felt the Spirit of Masada

I am a son of this moment. Since October 7, for over 2 1/2 years, I have lived inside a nightmare that the world prefers to read in headlines and forget by morning. We buried our dead. We waited in agony...

Eugene J. Levin

Jun 23, 2026, 11:26 AM

VALKININKAI, CHAPTER IV

The Safer Place Was German-Controlled Leyzer Goldman’s escape route ran out of Lithuanian-administered space and into a Nazi-administered town. Earlier in this series: Carts, Sacks, and Certificates; There Were No Germans in Town; and Valkininkai, Chapter III: Rosh Hashanah Road to...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jun 23, 2026, 5:18 AM

A Letter to Elisabeth

Lietukis Garage pogrom - Source: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/photo/aftermath-of-a-massacre-at-lietukis-garage-in-kovno

A Wehrmacht soldier described the Kaunas killings to his wife four days into the occupation. It was not testimony. That is why it counts. On June 29, 1941, a German soldier sat in the driver's seat of his car in...

Jun 22, 2026, 8:19 PM

The Song of Moses

Before I look back at the ancient history of Israel, I begin with two events from more recent times. 1. On 9 May 2024, roughly six months after 7 October 2023, the ‘International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen 2024’ was awarded to...

Janet Bond Brill

Jun 22, 2026, 7:05 PM

Jewish Resistance: It Began with the Children

The first line of Jewish resistance in Warsaw was not a rifle. It was a seven-year-old slipping through a gap in the wall. She was seven the first time she went through. Not over it. Over it was for the desperate and...

Sheldon Kirshner

Jun 22, 2026, 6:50 PM

The Plight Of Partial Jews In Nazi Germany

Germans of mixed race ancestry fared badly in Nazi Germany. Thomas Paul Bernstein was one of them, a half-Jew who barely survived the brutalities of the Third Reich. He and his sister, Barbara, tell their story in Holocaust: German History...

Eugene J. Levin

Jun 22, 2026, 7:33 AM

Valkininkai, Chapter III

Rosh Hashanah Road to Eišiškės Subtitle: The third Valkininkai chapter follows the calendar, from forced labor on Shabbat to the removal of women and children on Rosh Hashanah. Earlier in this series: Carts, Sacks, and Certificates and There Were No Germans...

Johnathan Orlianski

Jun 21, 2026, 6:53 PM

The Family Erased

My name is Johnathan Orlianski. My family name was once spelled Orliansky, before it was changed after my family arrived in Israel in the 1970s. I live in Israel. I am the great-grandson of Rabbi Zalman Orliansky, author of Machaze...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jun 20, 2026, 10:56 PM

Where Lithuania Starts the Clock

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The official origin date of the Lithuanian Holocaust was chosen to put a German hand on the rifle. The Government of Lithuania are, in my judgment, the worst Holocaust revisionists in Europe. Not because they deny that the Holocaust happened....

Jun 20, 2026, 9:52 AM

Some People Leave Behind Arguments. Others Plant Green Trees.

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This week, as Jews around the world read Parashat Korach, I found myself thinking about the difference between arguing and building. Korach’s story is remembered as a story of conflict. Yet what often remains after every dispute is a simple...

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