Holocaust

Today I was finishing 'Auschwitz,' a granular history of the place and the camp, how a no place became a notorious place, and an inside look at the ironies of history. (Auschwitz started by deporting Jews.)In the final pages I came across a reference to Topf …

Consider how abolition, the great moral crusade of the 19th century, is now taught in schools. The New York State Regents curriculum guide, which shapes public high school education in the state, refers to people who took action to abolish slavery and names f…

Many of us are feeling some combination of despair, outrage, and shock at reports of the conditions at the U.S. southern border. Its devastating to learn that our government is separating children from their families, cramming people into overcrowded detentio…

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (WTHR) Authorities are looking for the person who hit and killed a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor with their car. A $50,000 reward is offered for information leading to the arrest, according to NBC LA. Gennady Bolotsky was hit by a whi…

Anna Lind-Guzik ("a writer, attorney, and scholar of Soviet history, international law, and human rights, with degrees from Duke University, Harvard Law School, and Princeton") has written an essay defending Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's use of the term "concent…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Capitol Hill, February 27, 2019(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Democrats are split over Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s comments earlier this week equating American immigrant-detention centers with the concentration camps …

A Belgian court has ordered a rising star of the extreme right to take a bespoke tour of a Holocaust memorial museum before facing trial for anti-Semetism, hate speech and firearm offences. I am an avid fan of museums and I would also like to visit this muse…

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) had a powerful response for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Fox News Tuesday amid controversy after Ocasio-Cortez claimed the "U.S. is running concentration camps on our southern border." What's the background? The back-an…

Like the vast majority of American Jews, J Street is outraged by the Trump administrations disgraceful, inhumane treatment of migrants and refugees and supportive of members of Congress like Representative Ocasio-Cortez who are strongly challenging the presid…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused U.S. immigration officials of running "concentration camps" on the U.S. southern border. Ocasio-Cortez spoke to her followers on Instagram in another one of her live, unscripted videos on Monday evening. The New York Dem…