As part of a recent interfaith Holocaust memorial service, I delivered a sermon at the historic St. Giles Cathedral, the Mother Church of Scotland; I’m told I was the first rabbi ever to do so. I consider it more than a coincidence that the event took place on the 45th anniversary of my father’s death, a connection that is particularly stark because my father was a Holocaust survivor.
I ask you, is this a sheyn punim (a pretty face)? I’ve been dying to say those words for the past four years, ever since I came to China to work as a teacher of oral English at Nanyang Normal University.
Sometime around my 50th birthday, I was hit by
I will give them in My house and in My walls a place and a name, better than sons and daughters; an everlasting name I will give him, which will not be discontinued.
Isaiah 56:5
Today, January 27th, marks the 71st anniversary of the liberation of
To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, Mark Ludwig, executive director of the Terezin Music Foundation (TMF), has created “an artistic memorial” to the 15-20 million people who died or were imprisoned in the Third Reich’s more than 42,500 camps and ghettos. Terezin served as a Nazi propaganda ploy to showcase how well Jews were treated in the camps, for example, by allowing musical and theater productions.
Following an impressive festival run, Son of Saul is set to open in a limited theatrical release in the United States on December 18.
The many thousands of Syrian refugees seeking a safe haven on our shores are being twice victimized – first by the bloody civil war that caused them to flee their homeland, and a second time by the prejudice and fear making us indifferent to their suffering
This evening, the Smithsonian Channel will premiere “The Day Hitler Died,” a riveting documentary based on recently discovered taped interviews of members of Adolf Hitler’s inner circle trapped inside his bunker beneath Berlin as the Red Army besieged the city
Editor's note: This post contains plot spoilers.
Until the publication of Daniel Goldhagen’s Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust in 1996, it was generally believed that the Holocaust was primarily perpetrated by hardcore Nazis.
Negotiators from the P5+1 and Iran have concluded their 20-month long negotiations process with an agreement to limit Iran’s nuclear program, but the agreement still faces major hurdles and a divided country as it moves towards implementation.
Together, we will champion the lessons of Passover by bringing greater wholeness, justice, and belonging to our world.