Posts Tagged: FDR
Modern-Day Immigrants, and How Eleanor Roosevelt Saved Jewish Refugees from the Holocaust
JNS.org - In 1940, a passenger cargo ship called the SS Quanza left the port of Lisbon carrying several hundred Jewish refugees to freedom. But...
At Presidents Day, Un-presidential ‘Joke’ About Jews is Whitewashed
JNS.org - Another Presidents Day, another whitewash of a president’s “joke” about Jews. The latest offender is Susan Butler’s “Roosevelt and Stalin: Portrait of a Partnership” (published...
Pope Francis: Why Didn’t US Bomb Auschwitz and Why Don’t We Take More Action Today?
JNS.org - “The great powers had photographs of the railway routes that the trains took to… Auschwitz,” Pope Francis remarked this week. “Tell me,” he asked, “why...
How FDR Would Handle Iran
If Franklin Delano Roosevelt were alive today, how would he deal with negotiations with Iran and their claim of the right to enrich uranium? ...
Ed Koch, FDR, and the Holocaust
"Mayor Koch last night took on the ghost of President Franklin D. Roosevelt," an item in the New York Daily News in 1988 began, which probably...
A War to End All Middle East Wars
Perhaps it is a combination of closer-to-home concerns and widespread Middle East unrest that has allowed the compelling threat of Iranian nuclear belligerency to slink...
Ruth Gruber: Touching Worlds
Meeting a legend is a life changing experience. Encountering the dedication and courage of the powerful persona and the historic legend that is Ruth Gruber is...
