Posts Tagged: Rafael Medoff
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...
Ralph Nader Targets ‘The Jews’ and Linguistically Hijacks Anti-Semitism
JNS.org - Ralph Nader, the famous crusader against fraud and corruption, believes he has uncovered a horrific new injustice—and the perpetrators are “the Jews.” “You never avoid...
Is Proposal to Admit 100,000 Gazans a Path to Peace or Danger for Israel?
JNS.org - In some ways, the life of Isaac Rotenberg symbolized the rise and success of the State of Israel. Deported with his family to the Sobibor...
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...
When a Piece of Paper Meant Life or Death
JNS.org - “It is a fantastic commentary on the inhumanity of our times,” journalist Dorothy Thompson wrote at the height of the 1930s European Jewish refugee...
An American Trapped in the 1948 Siege of Jerusalem
JNS.org - "We are so used to bombs and the sound of firing guns that we don't get upset anymore." In choosing those words, Florence...
Dewey Defeats Truman – This Time in Israel
JNS.org - Israelis went to bed on March 17 thinking that the two main political parties in that day's election were tied and that...
A Cartoonist Urges Restraint – Except When it Comes to Israel
JNS.org - One might think cartoonists, as champions of irreverence and untrammeled free speech, would be...
Little Left of Cuban Jewry’s Rich Past
JNS.org - The new U.S. policy of rapprochement with Cuba, which was accompanied by the celebrated release of imprisoned Jewish aid worker Alan Gross,...
A Debate on Illegal Immigration – Into British Mandatory Palestine
JNS.org - The national debate on immigration is very much on the minds of some American Jewish leaders and organizations, and the same was...
Jewish Boycotts – Then and Now
JNS.org - A clash between anti-boycott activists and a group of Jewish studies professors, which has recently become the subject of much debate in...
Hong Kong Dispute Echoes Holocaust Controversy
JNS.org - The Obama Administration's reluctance to support pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong revives a familiar clash between human rights and diplomatic relations—a conflict...
Teaching Palestinian Children to Kill in Gaza and Beyond
JNS.org - For most third graders, the school year began this week with the hustle and bustle of new teachers, fresh notebooks, and crisply ironed...
The Atrocious Accusation of Israeli ‘Genocide’
JNS.org - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan claims Israel is carrying out "systematic genocide" in Gaza. South Africa's ruling party, the African National...
