CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION, IsraelEd.org
• Published September 15, 2022
Sept. 15, 2009 — Goldstone Presents Gaza War Report
Judge Richard Goldstone, a South African Jew who prosecuted 1990s war crimes in Yugoslavia and Rwanda, presents his U.N.-sponsored “Report on the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict.” The...
This Sunday, the first installment of Ken Burns’ documentary “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” is set to air on Nine PBS locally from 7 to 9 p.m. The three-part, six-hour series focuses on “America's response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of...
(JTA) – A rare silver coin minted by Jewish rebels in defiance of the Roman empire during the Great Revolt rebellion 2,000 years ago was looted from an archaeological site and traded on the black market. Now, after years of work by American and Israeli...
It was Abakumov who in October of 1946 first alerted Stalin to the threat posed to Communism by “Jewish bourgeois nationalism” and launched into the post-war antisemitic campaign against “Rootless Cosmopolitans,” i.e. the Jews.29 This dark period...
This is part 2 of 3 detailing the story of the Soviet hunt for the Chabad underground. Part 1
In the beginning of 1946, a 22-year-old yeshivah student named Leibel Mochkin arrived in Lvov to scout out the town. With the help of his older brother, Shmuel (Mulle)...
Why didn’t the United States do more to help Europe’s Jews during the Holocaust? This question haunts the history of the United States and the Holocaust and lurks behind practically every storyline in the new film on the subject from Ken Burns, Lynn...
By Dovid Margolin, CHABAD.ORG
• Published September 11, 2022
On June 6, 1950, Maj. Gen. Mikhail Popereka, a deputy minister of the Ukrainian branch of the MGB Soviet secret police—the precursor to the KGB—drafted an 11-page memo on the status of the ongoing investigation into the case of the “Chassidim”...
By Benjamin Ivry, The Forward
• Published September 11, 2022
Unlike his much-respected and deeply mourned mother, who died Sept. 8, King Charles III has shared a series of empathetic friendships with Jews. One reason might be easy to pinpoint. The late Queen was admired for her love of horses and dogs in addition...
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Last month, at the Pan American Games in Medellin, Colombia, spectators, journalists and the event’s organizers lined up with anticipation along the side of a pool to watch a 400-meter medley. They were there to see Nora Tausz...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 7, 2022
Do Jewish tradition and scientific reasoning provide two different and sometimes contradictory sources of truth? It's a question that Jewish thinkers throughout the ages have strived to address. For the past year, St. Louis Jews have been invited to not...
