Daily Archives: June 4, 2017
New study claims Swiss rejected fewer Jews during Nazi era
According to historian Ruth Fivaz-Silbermann, who presented her 1,000-page postgraduate research project, ‘The flight to Switzerland’, at Geneva University last Saturday, 15,519 Jewish people tried to enter Switzerland via the Franco-Swiss border between 1939...
There is no Hebrew word for history
The question we must ask is why do we commemorate an event of 50 years ago, why is it important in a time and age when people want to forget? People have no patience...
Jewish immigrant’s closet on display at NYC’S Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sara Berman, a onetime Jewish immigrant in New York City, certainly had a unique personal style.
It wasn’t just her choice of clothes, which were all in shades of white, cream and neutrals. It was...
Hillel Kogan’s We Love Arabs explores the relationship between Arab and Jewish Israelis
Why do people have to take controversial issues so seriously? In a world where every political debate turns into a new reason to abuse barbiturates, it feels like it's time for everyone to just...