Rafael Medoff
ARTICLES BY: Rafael Medoff
How Zionists Helped Defeat Segregation
This year, Martin Luther King, Jr., Day will be commemorated just before the 75th anniversary of a remarkable but little-known campaign by American Zionists and...
Israel Population Surprise: FDR Said It Couldn’t Be Done
“You know there is not room in Palestine for many more people,” US President Franklin D. Roosevelt told prominent American Jewish leaders in early 1938....
Joe Biden, FDR, and the Nazis
Regardless of the outcome of next week’s election, former Vice President Joe Biden will have the distinction of being the first American presidential candidate to...
Farrakhan, Hitler and The New York Times
The New York Times is under fire for publishing an article about one of the world’s most notorious antisemites, without any mention of his antisemitism. Sadly,...
A New Blow to Iran’s Forgotten Jews
Isn’t there something incongruous about a human rights organization providing a platform to a journalist who has whitewashed human rights abuses? Next week, an online event...
The Yom Kippur Sermon That Rabbi Stephen Wise Didn’t Give
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, the most prominent American Jewish leader of the 1930s and 1940s, was a renowned orator who did not shy away from...
Some Other Prominent Jews Who Resigned in Protest
With her recent resignation from The New York Times, Bari Weiss joined a small but distinguished group of American Jews who have resigned in protest...
The Problem With Trump and Henry Ford’s ‘Good Bloodlines’
President Trump’s recent remark about Henry Ford’s “good bloodlines” has aroused curiosity and controversy. Trump actually is not the first president to subscribe to the...
Despite COVID-19, Syrian Atrocities Still Matter
At a time when a deadly virus is ravaging the globe, the atrocities committed in recent years by the Syrian government might seem to pale...
Bombing Auschwitz
The new BBC documentary about the question of bombing Auschwitz deserves an award -- for creative fiction. Through omissions, distortions, and “reenactments” of conversations with...
Why FDR Turned Away Jewish Students
A recent New York Times article told the poignant story of an unlikely romance between two prisoners in Auschwitz. Buried deep within the full-page feature about...
Amid NBA-China Uproar, Remembering When Jews Mixed Sports and Politics
The growing relationship between the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the government of China has become a source of controversy. One NBA team’s general manager...
There Is No Dachau in Texas
You wouldn’t think it would be necessary, in this day and age, to explain to a member of the US House of Representatives that there...
When Jewish Politics Trumped Holocaust Rescue
In view of recent discussions about ethical lapses among today’s American Jewish leaders, it’s worth recalling a troubling episode 75 years ago this autumn when...
