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Aug 8, 2023, 5:59 AM

Daffodils, Hadassah and Holocaust Education

The Daffodil Project. Image courtesy of the author.

It started with a walk around my old neighborhood. As I continued along a busy main street, I passed by a small group of yellow flowers. Something was tugging at me to backtrack. This time, I listened to my...

James C. Rotenberg

Jul 20, 2023, 10:30 PM

Is Kristallnacht Still Relevant: QAnon, the Brownshirts of Today

Photo courtesy of Hadassah.

The QAnon conspiracy cult enjoyed a major victory when far-right extremist Marjorie Taylor Greene won a congressional seat in Georgia and was sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives in January 2021. QAnon, known for its members’ outrageous conspiracy...

Andy Blumenthal

Jul 16, 2023, 2:49 PM

No More Burning Holy Books

Wow, what a week it has been with the threat in Sweden by an activist to burn the holy Torah this weekend. After prior burnings of the Quran in Sweden, permission was granted for a new protest where the activists...

Nov 11, 2022, 12:28 PM

Can Abraham Pass the Test? Another View

This week’s portion Va-yera concludes with the Akedah of Isaac. It is fitting that as usual the portion coincides both with the dates of Kristallnacht (November 9-10th, 1938), widely regarded as the prelude to ‘The Final Solution’ and the assassination...

Linda Pardes Friedburg

Nov 11, 2022, 12:17 PM

Parshat Vayera – Going Beyond Ourselves

"And God appeared to him in Alonei Mamre..." (Breishit18:1) "וַיֵּרָא אֵלָיו יְהוָה בְּאֵלֹנֵי מַמְרֵא וְהוּא יֹשֵׁב פֶּתַח הָאֹהֶל כְּחֹם הַיּוֹם." (בראשית יח:א) Abraham is a paradigm of going beyond one's comfort zone, and this is why God appears to him. He...

Nov 10, 2022, 6:31 PM

The 84th Anniversary of Kristallnacht

Today is the 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht. My grandfather was among the thirty thousand men who were taken that day to Dachau. Originally from Iluk, Yugoslavia, he had become a stockbroker in Vienna. On the day that life as...

Phyllis Greenberg Heideman

Nov 9, 2022, 1:20 PM

Kristallnacht in Dubai: Finding hope despite a rising tide of extremism

A group of young leaders from Lebanon, Syria, and Gulf countries join the Sharaka organization on the March of the Living, visiting Auschwitz, April 27, 2022. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)

As more and more people know less and less about the Holocaust, new allies in the fight against hate and antisemitism are emerging in the lands of the Abraham Accords

Nov 9, 2022, 11:16 AM

Kristallnacht: A Lethal Legacy of Legends and Lies

If ever a human-orchestrated catastrophe in modern history was shrouded in strategic timing, propaganda, and meticulously-synchronized destructive actions, it is the so-called Nazi pogrom of November 1938. Organized in retaliation against all Jews for the crime of one Jew,...

Kenneth Jacobson

Nov 8, 2022, 10:04 PM

When a Nazi analogy is worth it - and when it's not

Synagogue in Hanover, Germany, set ablaze during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938 (public domain)

Sure, use the history of World War II to convince the world to stop Putin's land-grabbing, but that doesn't make every extremist politician the Gestapo

Miriam Leah Epstein Preil

Nov 6, 2022, 11:57 PM

SHATTERED! A Poem In Memory of Kristallnacht

There is FAITH even while Life is SHATTERED S p I r I t H O ...

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