Remembering a Woman Who Helped Yiddish Flourish in Mexico City
In 1945, a young girl from Brooklyn fell in love with a Mexican Jew and decided to leave it all to go to Mexico City. Little did she know her strong Yiddish upbringing would...
Litvaks Didn’t Suffer Enough to Deserve Lithuanian Citizenship?
Lithuanian officials state that Jews were not oppressed in Lithuania:
In an astonishing display regarding the ignorance of rampant anti-Semitism in inter-war Lithuania, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius stated that there was “no violence, repressions...
![By April Brady / POMED (Mohammed bin Salman's Saudi Arabia: A Deeper Look) [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/800px-Jamal_Khashoggi_in_March_2018-324x235.jpg "The Khashoggi Affair and the Specter of the New Nuclear Deal with Iran")
The Khashoggi Affair and the Specter of the New Nuclear Deal with Iran
The outrage over the missing Washington Post columnist and critic of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Jamal Khashoggi has seemed to have reached with the Saudi Royal Family even allegedly having considered replacing the...
For Israelis, Donald Trump is U.S. history’s most ‘Israeli’ presidential candidate
This presidential election season is nothing if not fascinating, and the media coverage itself is driving considerable debate. What’s also interesting, but has so far gone unexplored, is how Israeli media are covering the...
Photos from the World’s Most Isolated Jewish Communities
In their beautiful new book, Scattered Among the Nations: Photographs and Stories of the World’s Most Isolated Jewish Communities, Bryan Schwartz, Jay Sand, and Sandy Carter explore what it feels like to practice Judaism...
Wiesel: De Auschwitz a Disneylandia
Wiesel: De Auschwitz a Disneylandia, una viuda expresada en Yiddish:
El alma de Wiesel, como la de muchos intelectuales judíos, se expresa y entiende mejor en Yiddish, la lengua que, por algún motivo permite niveles...
Coco- A Movie for Both Children and Adults to Enjoy
The Disney/Pixar Companies have redeemed themselves after the 2013 debacle of requesting to trademark, “Dia de los Muertos”, with their new movie, Coco. In this movie, they finally get it right by hiring a...
Meet Marita Lorenz, Holocaust survivor, raped by a US soldier, CIA spy, Castro Lover…
He explained, she said, "We killed the President that day. You could have been a part of it - you know, part of history. You should have stayed."
From the Testimony of Marita Lorenz at...
How did Adolf Hitler die, why did he hate Jews, who was his wife...
From his visceral hatred of Jews and his obsession with occultism to his bizarre relationship with his wife Eva Braun, we delve into the mind of the world's most notorious dictator.
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Elie Wiesel’s Phrases for Reflection
"Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil."
(Interview with U.S. News and World Report, 1986)
"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides....