Thoughts on Diaspora Jewry
Playwright and film director David Mamet (b. 1947) writing in The Wall Street Journal: We Jews have been the world’s foster children—homeless for 2,000 years, and thus powerless but to accept …
Israel
Antisemitism Has a Long History
Judith Davis writing in The Times of Israel: Israel could stop waging war against terrorism tomorrow and the antisemites would still gleefully hunt Jews around the world. They’ve been doing …
Variety: ‘Over 1,000 Jewish Creatives and Professionals Have Now Denounced Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Zone of Interest’ Oscars Speech in Open Letter (EXCLUSIVE)’
More than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” Oscar speech.
‘The Zone of Interest’ Executive Producer Disagrees with Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars Speech Critical of Israel
“I just fundamentally disagree with Jonathan on this.”
Holocaust Survivors’ Foundation USA Open Letter to Jonathan Glazer
David Schaecter, a 94-year-old Holocaust survivor, wrote this letter on March 11, 2024: I am 94 years old and the only member of 105 souls in my family to survive …
Almost Half of World Jewry Now Lives in Israel
Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, writing in Tablet: There will …
Never Again?
The central lesson of the Holocaust is what it says about humanity’s capacity for evil.
Israel’s Expansion of Diplomatic Relations in 2020
In its first seventy-two years, Israel made peace with two Arab countries, Egypt and Jordan. In the span of four months, Israel had made peace with four more. Netanyahu, Benjamin. …
Auschwitz Losing Followers
This makes me sad. Holocaust education and remembrance remain important.
A Year-End Reflection
Seventy seven years after the end of the Shoah the Jewish people are once again under attack, both in Israel and in the diaspora. Compared with my father, who survived …