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Oct 9, 2026, 6:32 AM

Treasure Trove: On Thanksgiving in Canada and Other Places

From the Herzl and Zionism Collection of David Matlow, Toronto (www.herzlcollection.com). Photograph by David Matlow.

The Thanksgiving holiday which gives us this long weekend in Canada has a long tradition in our country. Long before European explorers arrived, First Nations across Turtle Island (for some Indigenous peoples, Turtle Island refers to the continent of...

Maximillian Hollander

Oct 6, 2026, 6:12 PM

October 7th, a date which will live in infamy

Calendars run our lives. Dates—birthdays, holidays, yahrzeits—guide us through time as it passes, giving us moments to pause and consider people, things, or events we might not otherwise think about. Some of these dates are given to us, like the...

Andrzej Pawluszek

Oct 6, 2026, 3:22 PM

Tucker Carlson Crosses the Hitler Line

Tucker Carlson has built a career on provocation. His sympathetic treatment of authoritarian leaders and his repeated use of rhetoric widely condemned as antisemitic no longer surprise anyone who follows him. Carlson understands the attention economy: outrage means clicks,...

Oct 2, 2026, 9:57 AM

Israel’s Balkan Embrace Comes with Dangerous Historical Baggage

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Israel has never had the luxury of treating history as merely history. For a country whose national consciousness was forged by the Holocaust, the memory of collaboration, persecution, ethnic cleansing and genocide is not an academic exercise. It is part...

Elchanan Poupko

Sep 30, 2026, 12:21 AM

Sukkot, Survival, and Operation Pastorius

As you look out at the beautiful waters of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Island, you would never imagine that one of the great battles of WWII is visible from the windows of peaceful Long Island...

Nestor Daniel Scherman

Sep 23, 2026, 7:16 PM

Did Europe Really Learn to Live in Peace, or Did America Keep the Peace?

Did Europe Learn to Live in Peace? There is something extraordinary about Europe that we hardly notice anymore. For more than eighty years, France and Germany have not fought each other. Neither have Germany and Poland, France and Britain, or...

Vincent James Hooper

Sep 21, 2026, 7:57 PM

The Room at Southwick

Anthony Maras's Pressure, released in UK cinemas this month, is a war film with almost no warfare in it. There are no beach landings, no shelling, no bodies face down in the Channel surf. There is only a room,...

Sep 19, 2026, 1:36 AM

Legacy of Albanian Besë During the Holocaust

More than 5,000 miles away in Kosovo, 57-year-old Skender Bunjaku appears on my Zoom screen. Much later, I’ll learn that he’s been a member of the Kosovo Police for the past 26 years. He’d enlisted immediately after what he...

Sep 10, 2026, 6:40 AM

Treasure Trove: Infamy, Interconnectedness and Ice Cream

From the collection of David Matlow. Photograph by David Matlow.

When we talk about the horrors of October 7 we don’t need to say the year. For those of us of a certain age, the same is true for September 11. When we don’t attach the year, it is...

Hande Gençünal

Aug 25, 2026, 3:06 AM

Two Voices One State: Ireland 1937–1945

How a country remembers a period is often less simple than what actually happened during it. Thinking about Ireland's years in the Second World War, we first look for a single story, either heroism or guilt. But what historians...

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