When Good Intentions Meet Reality
By Symi Rom-Rymer
In a recent posting on the Washington Post's OnFaith blog, a Rabbi and law professor recount their experience on a joint US Jewish-Muslim...
The French Railroad On Trial
By Symi Rom-Rymer
Reuters reported this week that 100 French and American plaintiffs are suing SNCF, the French national railroad company, for their role in transporting...
Gay Memorial… Just for the Guys?
By Talia Ran
When taught about the Holocaust, we are asked to never forget those who lost their lives during such a tragic time. However, for...
How Do You Teach Human Rights?
By Symi Rom-Rymer
On International Holocaust Memorial Day (January 27) this year, a report from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) was released outlining...
Do You Want to Friend Heino?
By Symi Rom-Rymer
"My name is Henio Zytomirski. I am seven-years-old. I live on 3 Szewska Street in Lublin.” So begins the profile of Heino Zytomirski, a young...
Heeb Magazine Must Be Hilarious—Fake Holocaust Memoir Writing Contest
By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler
In their most recent gimmick, Heeb has outdone even their own high standard of Jewish tomfoolery. Really outdone it. The idiosyncratic Jewish quarterly...
Impresario for the Lost Voices of Theresienstadt
By Mandy Katz
Perhaps an apt follow-up to my post Monday about a journey from the Holocaust to the Ivy League? Yesterday's Washington Post carries an...
An "Outrageous Display of Unrepentant Racism, Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia"
When Dinko Sakić, the last living Holocaust concentration camp director, died last week, Jewish organizations and others hoped that his funeral would not be used...
Unnerving News of Untried Nazi Criminals
Some recent worrying reports have reached us regarding infamous Nazi criminals who are not only escaping the public spotlight and the inevitable justice it would...