I will never forget that cold winter day. January 17, 1981. A 'whose who' of Jews, led by Simon Wiesenthal, Eli Wiesel, and Nobel laureates along with...
Rabbi Asher Lipner, Ph.D. | Posted 05.17.2012
Jewish children will only be safe when Jewish and non-Jewish people of good conscience work together to demand that the rabbis stop covering up abuse, and that the prosecutors use all their resources and authority to bring the abusers to justice.
Posted 05.17.2012
By Alessandro Speciale Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican's doctrinal office said "further discussions" will be needed with the ...
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.17.2012
No crime in the annals of history has been as well documented as Nazi Germany's Final Solution. Against this backdrop, how do we account for the growing phenomenon of Holocaust revisionism and denial?
James Peron | Posted 05.16.2012
Some assume that quoting an anti-gay gay means they aren't bigoted. Citing a bigot, even one who is a member of the group against whom he is bigoted, does not exonerate you. If anything, it shows how desperate you are to justify your position.
Rabbi Yonah Bookstein | Posted 05.09.2012
The power of teshuva can turn this hurtful incident into a one that teaches compassion and love.
Posted 05.09.2012
Police in Central Florida say members of a white supremacist group were plotting to kill Jews, minorities, and immigrants in the area with plans that ...
Dr. Michael Sharnoff | Posted 05.03.2012
Norway has never posed a direct threat to Israel nor has it advocated Israel's liquidation. However, many in its government, and some large businesses, have recently displayed a pattern of strong anti-Israel and often anti-Semitic attitudes.
Rabbi Ted Falcon | Posted 04.30.2012
There is no adequate way to embrace the horrors of annihilation, of the Jewish people and of so many others, during those terrible Nazi years. Beyond name though it might be, it is important to remember, not only for our own sake, but also for the world's.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 04.19.2012
WASHINGTON -- House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on Thursday defended his decision to give money to an anti-incumbent super PAC to help defeat ...
Lea Lane | Posted 04.18.2012
I met Cecilie Klein in the early 1980s. Fragile, intelligent, in her 50s, she was a Holocaust survivor finally ready to tell her experiences. I never forgot her remarkable story.
Howard Meyer | Posted 04.16.2012
Nasally voices, anxiety and austerity are not representative of the Jewish community at large. It's not so much that these stereotypes make Jews look meek and cheap; nobody I know even sounds like that.
Christina Patterson | Posted 04.12.2012
Günter Grass may or may not be right to say, in his poem, that Israel's nuclear weapons are a threat to world peace. But he's right to say that the West's attitude to Israel, and its nuclear arsenal, involves an awful lot of hypocrisy.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 04.12.2012
A man walks down a street. He's doing nothing wrong. But someone thinks he looks wrong. And something bad happens. Later, there's sorrow and commenta...
Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 04.11.2012
In the ongoing discussion about when criticism of Israel can be labeled as anti-Semitism, Nathan Sharansky said that it's anti-Semitism when Israel is demonized, when Israel is delegitimized and when a double-standard is used to assess Israeli behavior.
Jacques Berlinerblau | Posted 04.10.2012
One doesn't spend a quarter-century working in the American academy without coming across all manner of opinionated, irrational and overheated types. None more so than those whose out-of-class activism consists of lambasting the State of Israel.
Dora Levy Mossanen | Posted 04.09.2012
The problem arose when I became more familiar with the Romanovs and the extent of their anti-Semitism. I faced a dilemma. Here was I, a Jewish writer, who had developed deep compassion and even love for my charges.
Posted 04.09.2012
By Jessica Calefati and Ryan Hutchins Religion News Service NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (RNS) A satirical student newspaper is under investigation by Rutg...
Steven C. Eisner | Posted 04.04.2012
Do Roger's remarks "Burke?"
Chaim Levin | Posted 05.30.2012
I wear my yarmulka because I am proud: I am Jewish and gay. I am equally proud of both identities and would not want see anyone discriminated against because of either.
Posted 03.29.2012
A synagogue and school located in Chicago's North Side Lakeview neighborhood was vandalized overnight Tuesday with anti-Semitic hate graffiti includin...
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.27.2012
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has the greatest regard for the Dalai Lama and his efforts on behalf of his people. Our Center honored him with our Humanitarian Prize in 1996, and he has always served as a role model for dissent with dignity.
Symi Rom-Rymer | Posted 05.26.2012
In recent decades, French society has become increasingly divided. Social ills have become more increasingly apparent but little has been done to address them.
Lilac Sigan | Posted 05.23.2012
The serial killer in France that shot 3 little children coming out of school, one of them an 8-year-old girl that was grabbed by her hair and shot in ...
Carly Loper | Posted 05.22.2012
Toulouse is a smaller city where everyone knows everyone. It's charming and peaceful. Bad things don't happen here. Many people at school, including students in my class, knew the victims.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 06.01.2012