Edwin Black
ARTICLES BY: Edwin Black
Hillel at the Crossroads: Accusations of Intimidation in Boston
This article is Part IV of a continuing series. Click here for Part I, Part II and Part III. When one speaks to Eric Fingerhut, the CEO of Hillel...
Hillel at the Crossroads: NEU Hillel Protests ‘Fear-Based Tactics’
This article is Part III of a continuing series. Click here for Part I and Part II. Next in Part IV: Accusations of Intimidation in...
Hillel at the Crossroads: How Things Broke Down in Boston
This article is Part II two in a continuing series. Click here for Part I. Next in Part III: NEU Hillel Protests "Fear-Based Tactics." Northeastern University Hillel board chairman Sheldon Goldman is incensed...
Hillel at the Crossroads: Who’s Responsible for Hillel?
This article is Part I in a continuing series. Next in Part II: How Things Broke Down in Boston. When Hillel International CEO Eric Fingerhut stands...
Taxpayer Support for Palestinian Terrorist Salaries Becoming Impossible to Defend
The subject of government subsidies for Palestinian terrorists is again in the international spotlight. What began in November 2013, as a barely believable revelation -- that taxpayers...
Stunning Federal Court Decision Approves Passover Punishment
Three judges of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit surprisingly rejected the appeal of Susan Abeles -- a Washington, DC Orthodox Jew, who was...
Replacing the UN with ‘The Covenant of Democratic Nations’
For years, foreign policy critics, politicians and outraged members of the general public have been urging the US to defund and quit the United Nations. Some...
What Really Happened at Conference of Presidents-Azerbaijan Hanukkah Party
On December 14, 2016, the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations (the Presidents Conference) and the Embassy of Azerbaijan held a historic Hanukkah party in Washington, DC...
Passover Vacation Punishment Case Against Orthodox Employee Continues to Travel Through the Courts
Susan Abeles’ saga began in 2013 when she took time off to observe the last two days of Passover, just as she had done annually...
Will Obama Launch a January Surprise at the United Nations?
Anxiety continues to roil through the pro-Israel community about a possible last-minute political move by the Obama administration that could permanently alter the Israeli-Palestinian geopolitical landscape. Forty-eight...
Monitoring Changes at Detroit’s Holocaust Memorial Center
Of the many local and regional Holocaust memorials and museums scattered across America, one stands out among the best: The Holocaust Memorial Center in suburban...
When Iraq Expelled Its Jews to Israel: The Inside Story
After Adolf Hitler’s defeat in May 1945, many Nazis melted away from the Reich, smuggled out by such organizations as the infamous Odessa group and...
How the Nazis Targeted Blacks, and the Impact of the Holocaust on African Americans
In recent years, some in the African American community have expressed a disconnect to Holocaust topics, seeing the genocide of the Jews as someone else’s...
For Many, Israel Is a Geopolitical Tourist Destination
For a hard-core segment of travelers to Jerusalem, the magic in the air when the sun sets at the Sabbath is not just the serene...
