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Feb 7, 2019, 2:13 PM

How Britain and Ukraine can learn from each other on Shoah remembrance

Natan Sharansky addressing guests at the House of Commons event for the Babi Yar memorial (Jewish News)

Precisely one year ago, Ukraine joined the international community in declaring January 27 an annual day of Holocaust Remembrance. This may sound like a very long way away from where we are in the UK but in fact there...

Jan 28, 2019, 9:21 PM

Israel must stop pandering to Holocaust distorters

Aftermath of the Kovno, Lithuania (or Kaunas) 'garage' massacre in June of 1941, perpetrated by pro-German Lithuanians (public domain)

Eastern European countries are systematically rewriting the narrative of WWII and the slaughter of European Jewry

Nov 29, 2018, 2:28 PM

Speaking truth to power: just answer the questions

Thanks to what a friend calls “the orange poltroon” in the White House, being a journalist has never felt tougher. The atmosphere is toxic in every country, from the US to Russia, from Britain to — of course — Israel. And...

Sep 20, 2018, 12:03 PM

Uman — Not Just for Men, Not Just on Rosh Hashana

Uman never seemed an attractive spiritual destination to me. Having been born in the former Soviet Union and having visited Ukraine often as a child, I still remembered the ugly, dilapidated towns and the old, potholed roads that looked unattended...

Sep 6, 2018, 4:28 PM

The Midnight Plane to Czernowitz: The 2018 International Yiddish Conference

Have you ever missed an anniversary, a birthday, or event and regretted it for years, or even a lifetime? I have. It was missing out in attending the 1908 International Conference on Yiddish Language that took place exactly 110...

Ziona Greenwald

Sep 5, 2018, 11:08 PM

Uman for Rosh Hashanah – Not on my tab, please

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men traveling to Uman in the Ukraine for Rosh Hashanah, seen at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, on September 5, 2018. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)

There are only 2 reasons that other people's Rosh Hashanah plans are any of my business

Jul 8, 2018, 9:45 PM

Herr Dr. Assad and His Barrel Bombs

First, I must pay a tribute to the passing of Dr. Charles Krauthammer, long-time columnist of The Washington Post and fan-favorite commentator on Fox News here in the in the US. He swayed me as much as anyone to...

Irina Tsukerman

Jul 5, 2018, 10:57 AM

Is there a connection between an Israeli ex-Minister turned Iranian spy and Equatorial Guinea’s corrupt dealings with Russia, China, and Iran?

At first glance, the story of Gonen Segev, the former Israeli minister of energy and infrastructure, turned Iranian spy, may sound stereotypical. The disgraced former minister got in trouble after various nefarious criminal schemes aimed at sating his greed and debts...

May 30, 2018, 5:47 PM

For Memorial Day, Thank You to the Liberators

Illustrative. Survivors in Dachau greet their American liberators. (Source: USHMM)

Suffering does not move armies, but suffering does move soldiers. Much as we might wish it otherwise, World War II was not fought to save the Jews. It was fought to stop aggressive countries from changing the balance of power...

May 24, 2018, 3:28 PM

Wait, which side are the bad guys on?

Governments agree: All countries are capable of violating human rights...except their own country

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