Daily Archives: February 22, 2018
Simon Wiesenthal Center Considers Travel Advisory For Poland
In wake of the controversial new Holocaust Law in Poland and the anti-Semitism it has unleashed that has left the Jewish community shaken, the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) is considering issuing a Travel Advisory...
Black History Month: Harlem’s Ethiopian Jews
For the month of February, writer Antwaun Sargent was invited to explore works of art in the Jewish Museum collection that celebrate the intersection of black and Jewish experience. The series continues with Photo...
Gal Gadot Among Oscar Presenters
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the next group of presenters for the 90th Oscars telecast. They are Gal Gadot, Mark Hamill, Armie Hammer, Oscar Isaac, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gina Rodriguez, Eva Marie...
Remembering the Danes’ Heroic Holocaust Actions
On February 13, 2018, Prince Henrik — husband of Danish monarch Queen Margrethe — died at the age of 83. Many Jews recall the courage of the Danish royal family, and the entire Danish people, during the Holocaust —...
Slap-happy comedian Sarah Silverman: Whose side are you on?
Stop the presses! A vulgar American Jewish comedian has praised a Palestinian teenage girl who assaulted an Israeli soldier. Put it on the front page!
The comedian, Sarah Silverman, recently sent out a tweet demanding...
From Holocaust to ‘Polocaust’: A change in common parlance doesn’t change the facts
I interviewed Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister of Poland, during his September visit to New York. The public-relations maven who arranged the meeting pitched Morawiecki—then still deputy prime minister—as a rising star anxious to...
Florida shooting exposes need for stricter gun control, say Jewish groups
Major American Jewish organizations are calling for stricter gun-control laws in the wake of the Feb. 14 mass school shooting in Parkland, Fla., that left 14 students and three staff members dead.
A spokesperson for...
‘Inheriting Genocide’ unpacks how Holocaust trauma spans generations
Does time—even an entire generation or multiple generations—actually heal all wounds? The question is a prominent one for trauma experts who study the Holocaust.
Natan Kellermann, Ph.D., a leading researcher on transgenerational trauma and the...
Growing cloud of corruption allegations may steer Israel toward elections
As both ongoing and newly launched investigations involving Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continue to agitate the political sphere, it is becoming increasingly likely that he will announce early elections, and that his government will not complete...
Eighth century clay seal with ‘signature of prophet Isaiah’ found in Jerusalem
A historic archaeological discovery near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount may be proof of the life of the biblical prophet Isaiah, according to an article in the Biblical Archaeology Review. A broken, eighth-century BCE clay seal impression,...