Numbered, Nagila: Two Highlights of the NYJFF
The sixteen-day 22nd annual New York Jewish Film Festival, presented by The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, ended last week. Two of the standout documentaries they screened were...
View ArticleHolocaust Remembrance Day 2013
Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel started out in its standard manner here in Jerusalem. As the sun set Sunday night, the city ground to a halt as pretty much all commerce shut down. The Adopt-A-Safta...
View ArticleSuburban Detroit Mom Says No to Reading about Anne Frank’s Vagina
Gail Horalek, a parent in Northville, Michigan, filed a formal complaint with the local School Board after her 7th Grade daughter was assigned to read “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.” The book...
View ArticleJesus as Holocaust Victim? No, Jews for Jesus. No!
Just in time for Passover, Jews for Jesus, an organization dedicated to the notion that one can believe in Jesus and still be Jewish, saw fit to release a really offensive video. In the Schindler’s...
View ArticleZara Holocaust Shirt and Sweatshops
Spanish fashion retailer Zara earned the ire and incredulity of people worldwide after tweets aimed at the company lambasted it for producing a child’s sheriff star shirt that resembled the uniform...
View ArticleJewliciousReels: Son of Saul Crowned King at Cannes
The buzz at Cannes this week is about SON OF SAUL, a dark Hungarian film set at Auschwitz-Birkenau, that critics say is unlike any other Holocaust themed film in its approach to the subject. It has...
View ArticleCrossfit A-Hole Desecrates Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin is made up of 2,711 uneven concrete slabs. It kind of looks like a graveyard for the many murdered Jews of Europe who were never afforded a dignified burial. It’s out...
View ArticleCrossFit Herzl Doppelganger Apologizes
You just can’t stay mad at Dave Driskell. The cross fit evangelist sparked a bit of outrage the other day after posting a photo of himself doing a handstand on the Berlin Holocaust Memorial. The...
View ArticleHolocaust Memorial Day 2016, Jerusalem
Holocaust Memorial Day began last night at sunset. Pretty much everything shuts down – bars, restaurants, shops etc. Television programming is all Holocaust and Shoah-related while the radio played...
View ArticleIran: Kim Kardashian is a Secret Agent
James Bond’s classic weapon was a Walther PPK. The KGB dispatched its enemies with a 9mm Makarov. The Mossad’s weapon of choice is a Beretta Model 70 using .22 LR ammunition. Now, according to the...
View ArticleUS Holocaust Memorial Museum asks Pokemon Go to Pokemon Stop
As the world downloads and plays Pokémon Go, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has asked the maker of the online game to Pokémon STOP, and not inundate the memorial and educational center with game...
View ArticleADL freaks at Trump Scion , Obama Gives $38Billion to Pump Zion, and Other...
Media sites and the ADL freaked on Thursday when they thought that Donald Trump Jr. was invoking Holocaust imagery when he complained that Hillary Clinton was a media darling and that if Republicans...
View ArticleOutrage As Bibi Blames ‘Aging’ For Dwindling Number Of Holocaust Survivors
“Holocaust survivors are a national resource for us as politicians seeking to score moral or rhetorical points, and it’s downright irresponsible to allow them to die like that.” Tel Aviv, April 19 –...
View ArticleIt’s Holocaust Remembrance Day again
It’s Holocaust Remembrance Day again. It’s getting harder and harder to feel a true sense of mourning, though. Maybe it’s because so much time has now passed – more than 70 years – since the Holocaust...
View ArticleKasztner: Holocaust Hero or Accessory to Mass Murder?
By Paul Bogdanor Between May and July 1944, a team of 150-200 Nazi SS men led by Adolf Eichmann succeeded in deporting more than 400,000 Jewish men, women, and children from Hungary to Auschwitz. In...
View ArticleSarsour Assures Jews Polish Mass Murder Of Jews Not Systemic
“I am not going to sit here and be dictated to by those who are probably white, male, and non-Muslim about what I should be fighting.” New York, February 6 – A leading Muslim women’s activist sought to...
View ArticleUnion Rules Broken When Jews Forced To Dig Own Graves
The executioners’ union might also demand involvement. Riga, Latvia, April 11 – The head of a local professional association voiced dissatisfaction with the way mass execution of area Jews was...
View ArticleSirens Across Israel – Yom Hashoah / Yom Hazikaron and then…
And then? Independence Day! Let me backtrack a bit. Every year in Israel after Passover, a siren sounds across the country to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day. When the siren sounds, its tradition to...
View ArticleTJS S3E17: The Kastner affair
The memory of the the Holocaust is dark and traumatic enough that it threatens to overwhelm even the light of the present. Here is the first part of an exploration of Holocaust memory in Israel’s open...
View ArticleTJS S3E18 The Eichmann Trial
The Holocaust was so dark and vast that Jews around the world struggled to integrate it into their consciousness, despite the hundreds of thousands of survivors in their midst. One of the turning...
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