Jewish History

By Jonmaesha Beltran | – (Cronkite News) – PHOENIX – Seventy-five years after the atrocities of Auschwitz, memories of the Holocaust are fading for younger generations who learn little about genocides in school, according to education advocates who believe they have the answer: Make it Arizona law to teach about the horrors of the Nazi’s […]

Jewish History

Universal ethical truths are at the core of Jewish High Holy Days

Juan Cole

By Ronald W. Pies | – My most vivid adolescent memories of the Jewish High Holy Days are the painful rumbling of my empty stomach as I fasted on Yom Kippur, and the sharp blasts of the shofar – the ram’s horn – sounding from the synagogue pulpit. I was one of millions of Jews […]

Christianity

Why Good Friday was Dangerous for Jews in the Middle Ages and how that Changed

The Conversation

By Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski | – As Christians observe Good Friday they will remember, with devotion and prayer, the death of Jesus on the Cross. It is a day of solemnity in which Christians give thanks for their salvation made possible by the suffering of Jesus. They prepare for rejoicing on Easter Sunday, when the resurrection […]

Holocaust

Outreach of Israel’s Netanyahu to Polish Right Roiled by Holocaust Assertion

AFP

A Polish law made it illegal to accuse the Polish nation or state of complicity in Nazi German crimes

Holocaust

How Will Generations that didn’t Experience the Holocaust Remember it?

The Conversation

Keeping the memory of the Holocaust has become increasingly important because it can bring awareness to contemporary atrocities

Holocaust

Quantifying the Holocaust: Measuring murder rates during the Nazi genocide

The Conversation

Hitler “ordered all action speeded up.”

Antisemitism

Palestinian president widely condemned for ‘anti-Semitic’ comments

AFP

Mahmud Abbas drew widespread condemnation over alleged comments suggesting the “social function” of Jews in banking had led to past massacres

Jewish History

The Jewish Community in Multi-Cultural Morocco (Video)

Juan Cole

Myriam Ait Malk | (Video Documentary) | – – Documentary on the Jewish Community in Morocco – by Myriam Ait Malk

Holocaust

Muslims who saved Jews from Holocaust Honored (& Case of Albania)

contributors

Interfaith Peacemakers | – – [N.B. The interfaith ‘I am your Protector” Campaign, founded by Dani Laurence, last week commemorated in several cities the Muslims who saved Jews from the Holocaust. Laurence told Alarabiya, “”The way Muslims are often portrayed in the media, public discourses can lead to fear and hatred. I Am Your Protector […]