Michael Berenbaum is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute and a professor of Jewish Studies at American Jewish University.
Israeli historian Dina Porat has written a fascinating book about a small band of Holocaust survivors who were intent on full-scale revenge.
The fact that Rabbi Marvin Hier is stepping back from his many years at the helm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center is a major transition in American Jewish leadership.
To assert that the Nazi assault against the Jews was not racial is absurd
The author tells the story of three generations of his family, his grandparents, and most especially his grandmother.
The very name of the documentary “They Survived Together,” which premieres at the Museum of Tolerance on April 6, seems to promise a happy ending.
In 1944, during the most intense final period of the murder of the Jews, there was an advertisement in major newspapers: “Jews for Sale.” There were no takers; after all, what was one going to do with these Jews and who would pay for their ransom?
Contrary to Nazi ideology, Jews are not a race, they are a people and a religion. But the issue of race did undeniably apply to the Holocaust.
Both Heschel’s scholarship and his politics have endured, and he has had a lasting impact on the American Jewish community and the world.
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