Holocaust

Published Mar 27, 2023  •  3 minute read Amina Abdulle, equity consultant for the Greater Essex District Public School Board, accompanied a group of two dozen educators on a trip to Poland to learn more about jewish life and the Holocaust. Photo by Amina Abdulle /Windsor Star A Windsor educator…

(RNS) — In 2008, Shay Pilnik was a Ph.D. student living in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, whose first university gig came in the form of a Holocaust course that nobody wanted to teach. “To pitch myself as a candidate for that class was very easy,” Pilnik said about becoming an adjunct instructor…

Late last year, the English Montreal School Board (EMSB) invited Steven Rambam to speak to a class of grade 10 students at Westmount High School. The idea was to educate the kids on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism. Rambam was introduced to the class as a “Nazi hunter” and a “hero”.…

The Michigan Republican Party is facing bipartisan backlash over social media posts Wednesday that tied recently passed gun bills to the Holocaust. The firestorm started when the state GOP posted a photo showing wedding rings that had been removed from Holocaust victims, embossed with the words, “Before they collected all…

As people still reel from a mass shooting at Michigan State University that left three people dead and another five injured, Michigan Republicans are now comparing modest gun regulation to the Holocaust. In a Twitter post Wednesday morning, the official Michigan GOP account posted a photo referencing the Nazis’ seizure…

(March 22, 2023 / JNS) “History has shown us that the first thing a government does when it wants total control over its people is to disarm them. President Reagan once stated, ‘If we lose freedom here, there is nowhere else to escape to. This is the last stand on…

Twitter is running ads for companies including Nokia, The Wall Street Journal, and Mailchimp alongside tweets from Holocaust deniers, according to a report by nonprofit watchdog group Media Matters for America. Media Matters reviewed five Twitter accounts belonging to neo-Nazis, antisemites, and Holocaust deniers and found that ads for prominent…

'In the case of the Ukraine war, escalation may lead to a nuclear holocaust, annihilation of life on earth,' writes Evelyn Tischer. Canada should broker a peace deal rather that commit tanks to Ukraine, writes Evelyn Tischer. Photo by Spencer Platt /Getty Images Federal Defence Minister Anita Anand announced on…

JTA — Germany held a ceremony to celebrate the first German-Jewish sites to be given UNESCO’s World Heritage designation on Wednesday. The sites in the upper part of the Rhine River valley are known as the origin point of Ashkenazi culture and where the Yiddish language first began to develop…

There has been virulent and negative reaction to this writer’s story, published last week, on the Holocaust. That was perhaps predictable, but it is still more than a little depressing. The article dealt with the virtual suppression, for many decades following World War II, of most public discourse on the…