The reason November 9 -- the day the Berlin Wall fell -- is not a national holiday in Germany, is that it also marks a much darker anniversary: Kristallnacht, the so-called "Night of Broken Glass."
When I wrote this book, Objects of Remembrance: A Memoir of American Opportunities and Viennese Dreams, there was a question of genre: Was this a Holocaust or refugee book?
President Obama's new Sudan strategy lays out a path for the administration to follow, and provides a basis for the advocacy community to hold the administration accountable.
Can a woman not only forgive the man who killed her husband, her child, her mother, but accept him as her friend and neighbor? Can a man forgive himself for the brutal act he committed?
Days after the release of the Obama administration's new Sudan policy, I appeared on Aljazeera with Tahir el-Faky of the Darfuri rebel group Justice and Equality Movement and Mahmood Mamdani.
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden talked tough when they were presidential candidates, but this administration's day-to-day diplomacy on Sudan has been troubling.
In Rwanda and across Africa, the Millennium Villages project has demonstrated that food scarcity can be all but vanquished if the required resource management, investment and political will are available.
It is as well that Christopher Columbus was so sure of himself, because he was in many respects staggeringly incompetent. The very basis of his journey to the New World was a miscalculation.
Fear is part of what makes travel so enlivening and revelatory. You're perpetually off-balance and on guard. After a while one yearns for the mindlessness of familiar routines.
I attended Camp Havanagila, a Zionist summer camp in the Catskill Mountains, when I was young, and so, it seems, did Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The reality of Darfur's continuing strife does a disservice to the ongoing efforts to keep this issue burning brightly for the policymakers and diplomats who have so far failed to help end the crisis.
Everyone knows that genocide means mass murder and that the Holocaust should be restricted to the mass murder of 6 million Jews during World War II. Abuse of these terms is inexcusable.
A video showing the 11-year-old Anne Frank for a just 10 seconds, the first moving image of the young diarist, who died in a German concentration camp in 1944, has become a widely viewed.
Last week on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, NBA star Tracy "T-Mac" McGrady and I had the chance to discuss the ongoing crisis in Darfur.
The discussion tomorrow will center on the balance of carrots and sticks that the administration will use to press for change in Sudan and how to deal with an independent southern Sudan.
The sad truth is that a much-needed debate over what an effective counterinsurgency strategy would look like in eastern Congo -- similar to what is going on regarding Afghanistan -- is virtually non-existent.
The history of the Holocaust runs fathomless with tales of personal tragedy. Yet few remain more dramatic - or more contentious - than the story of R...
Would Ben Stein hear out Ahmadinejad on the Holocaust the way Glenn Beck heard Stein out on his anti-evolution film? Fair and balanced, anyone?
Ahmadinejad's Israel-bashing, Holocaust-denying statements are bizarre, yet well calculated ploys to distract. We would be well served to remember that he is doing this for a reason. What we should not do is take the bait.
'You catch more bears with honey.' As others have noted, that is a perfectly pleasant world view in the abstract, but let's not forget that we are talking about a government headed by an indicted war criminal.
As a Jew and a Canadian, it's hard not to react strongly and violently to the actions of Ahmadinejad. But I also believe in the United Nations.
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