The Holocaust

Leaked Ahmadinejad Diary Proves Iran Prez Is Jewish

Katie Halper | Posted 10.08.2009 | Comedy


Katie Halper

I attended Camp Havanagila, a Zionist summer camp in the Catskill Mountains, when I was young, and so, it seems, did Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Another Way to See "Inglourious Basterds"

Mark Blankenship | Posted 09.27.2009 | Entertainment


Mark Blankenship

Maybe I'm alone here, but I say Inglorious Basterds is about something more.

Understanding Domestic Terror USA -- It's About the Twisted Theology Stupid!

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics


Frank Schaeffer

Republican leaders never kill anyone themselves, and they always "deplore" violence. But it is their language, anti-American speech and hate that feeds these individuals.

Obama: The Roger Federer of Politics

Scott Malcomson | Posted 07.10.2009 | World


Scott Malcomson

Each man raises the level of play with a cool focus and economy of gesture that make most other players look crude.

Remembering Anne Frank, Who Would Have Been 80 This Week

Lea Lane | Posted 07.10.2009 | Living


Lea Lane

Anne Frank was a brilliant, budding writer. We can only imagine what this perceptive, creative girl would have accomplished had she lived to celebrate her 80th birthday, on June 12.

Elie Wiesel in Buchenwald: The Moral Challenge to Learn, and Act

Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.06.2009 | World


Rachel Sklar

Today, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel joined Barack Obama at Buchenwald, one of Nazi Germany's worst concentration camps, but he worried that "the world hasn't learned" from the tragedy.

Obama At Buchenwald: 'No Patience' For Holocaust Denial (VIDEO)

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 07.06.2009 | World


WEIMAR, Germany (AP) - President Barack Obama toured a World War II concentration camp Friday after prodding the international community to redouble e...

Ahmadinejad: Holocaust A 'Big Deception'

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 07.04.2009 | World


TEHRAN, Iran — The main pro-reform candidate accused hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of driving Iran toward "dictatorship" and hurting i...

Czech Pig Farm Site Seen As Affront To Roma Holocaust Victims

GlobalPost | Posted 06.19.2009 | World


Bruce I. Konviser | Global Post LETY, Czech Republic -- In a small grassy clearing marked with boulders, dozens gathered last week to pay homage t...

Voice of Hope

Angella Nazarian | Posted 06.10.2009 | World


Angella Nazarian

So now, Skokie has a new memorial to commemorate one of the world's greatest tragedies. Israel too, has a Holocaust memorial, but its annual moment of remembrance is just as powerful.

Yad Vashem Fires Employee Who Compared Holocaust To Palestinians' Plight

Haaretz | Yoav Stern | Posted 05.24.2009 | World


Yad Vashem has fired an instructor who compared the trauma of Jewish Holocaust survivors with the trauma experienced by the Palestinian people in Isr...

Remembering the Holocaust, Obama Must Act for Darfur

Susan Morgan | Posted 05.24.2009 | World


Susan Morgan

Today Darfur activists from around the country, joined by actress Mia Farrow, sent an open letter to President Obama expressing concern about the administration's lack of action to end the Darfur genocide.

Remembering the Days of Remembrance

Joan Garry | Posted 05.24.2009 | Living


Joan Garry

Obama, the first president to ever host a White House seder, was at the Capitol Rotunda at 11am this morning helping us all to remember to the Holocaust.

Elie Weisel Attacked as ¨Zion-Nazi¨ by Ahmadinejad Backer

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.22.2009 | World


Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Only time will tell if the world's got the guts to deal with the menacing smirk and threats of Mahmoud Ahamdinejad.

Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) Marked In Israel And Around The World (PHOTOS)

Jerusalem Post | Posted 05.22.2009 | World


Israel came to a standstill for two mournful minutes on Tuesday as air-raid sirens pierced the air in memory of the 6 million Jews murdered by the Naz...

Pope Writes Explanatory Letter On Holocaust Denier

AP | FRANCES D'EMILIO | Posted 04.11.2009 | World


VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI has sent a letter to Roman Catholic bishops around the globe saying the Vatican made "mistakes" in its handling...

Bishop Who Denied Ovens Is Toast

Elayne Boosler | Posted 03.12.2009 | Comedy


Elayne Boosler

Here's some suggested reading material for Bishop Richard Williamson: Auschwitz For Dummies, Bergen-Belsen for Bishops, The Audacity of Pope, Better Late Than Never Again and more.

Pope Ratzinger to Canonize Tomás de Torquemada, His Predecessor as Inquisitor General?

Don Parker | Posted 03.05.2009 | Comedy


Don Parker

According to a highly placed source who can see the Vatican from his front porch, Pope Benedict XVI plans to extend his "big tent" reconciliation reun...

The Jewish Reaction to the Pope's Welcoming Back Holocaust Denying Bishop: Disproportionate!

Rabbi Irwin Kula | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living


Rabbi Irwin Kula

How is it that the view of some cranky powerless bishop evokes calls of a crisis in Catholic -Jewish relations, despite the revolutionary changes in Church teachings regarding Jews since Vatican II?

Jews Agree with Holocaust-Denying Bishop, We Can't Believe the Holocaust Happened Either

Elayne Boosler | Posted 03.02.2009 | Comedy


Elayne Boosler

Bishop Williamson finds no "historical evidence" to prove the Holocaust happened, yet he has no trouble believing that God had a son on earth by immaculate conception who returned from the dead.

Swastikas Daubed On Holocaust Memorial

AP | Posted 02.03.2009 | World


BERLIN — Berlin police say vandals have daubed swastikas on some of the slabs that make up the German capital's Holocaust memorial. A police st...

Israel, Stop! Just. Stop.

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 01.29.2009 | World


Lorelei Kelly

Killing lots of people on the other side is not only ineffective, it is counterproductive. It hurts your cause. It gets more of your own people killed in the long run. Israel, you are so better than this.

Actress Kate Winslet Struggles With Making The Reader, The Nazi Era and Oscar Buzz

Brad Balfour | Posted 01.23.2009 | Entertainment


Brad Balfour

Kate Winslet: "All that mattered at the end of the day was that I made [Hannah Schmitz] my own and...played the... the truthfulness of that, the vulnerability of her and that I understood her."

Prominent Republicans Invoke the Holocaust to Win Jewish Votes in Pa

Brian Ross | Posted 11.27.2008 | Home


Brian Ross

The McCain-Palin campaign has reached a new low. An email that was sent to Jewish voters invoked fears of the Holocaust to stampede them away from Obama at the polls next week.

Up Against a Wall (Street): The Financial Crisis and Jewish Values

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 11.20.2008 | Living


Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

The crisis in the Western world is not financial, but a crisis of values. Isn't that what all our financial experts have been saying -- the collapse was caused by greed and material insatiability?