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A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

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This World Series echoes 1941, when Cardinals legend Leo Durocher battled Hitler from the dugout

By Rafael MedoffPublished October 28, 2024

As the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers face off in this year’s World Series, some recall the first time the two teams met in the Fall Classic, in 1941—a contest remembered for one of baseball’s most famous plays. But that World Series was...

Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and author or editor of 16 books about the Holocaust and Jewish history. His commentary was distributed by JNS.org.

U.S. action against genocide: A brief guide

By Rafael MedoffPublished April 13, 2017

President Donald Trump’s missile strike against Syria inaugurates a new chapter in the long and controversial history of American responses—and sometimes non-responses—to mass murder around the world.Although the killing of Syrian civilians by President...

Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and author of 16 books about Jewish history and the Holocaust. His commentary was distributed by JNS.org.

Comparing Rwanda and the Holocaust: A valid analogy?

By Rafael MedoffPublished July 13, 2016

At a memorial in Rwanda to the victims of the 1994 genocide, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week wrote in the visitors’ book that he was “reminded of the haunting similarities to the genocide of our own people.”Certainly all instances...

Although Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (right) sparked an international outcry when he claimed Israeli rabbis were plotting to poison Arab wells, Palestinian leader, including the late PA President Yasser Arafat (left), have accused Israel of nefarious poisoning schemes for more than three decades.  

‘Poisoning’ accusations are a Palestinian tradition

By Rafael MedoffPublished June 29, 2016

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas must have been surprised at the international outcry over his accusation last week that Israeli rabbis are plotting to poison Arab wells. After all, Abbas and his colleagues have been making similar allegations...

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Christians mostly failed to act in response to Kristallnacht

By Rafael MedoffPublished November 2, 2011

WASHINGTON-Most American Christian leaders strongly condemned the Kristallnacht pogrom that the Nazis carried out against Germany's Jews 73 years ago this week, when hundreds of synagogues were torched, the windows of thousands of Jewish businesses were...

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