Tibor Rubin Is Dead at 86; Medal of Honor Was Delayed by Anti-Semitism

“When Corporal Rubin’s battalion found itself ambushed by thousands of Chinese troops,” the president said at a White House ceremony, “the Americans’ firepower soon dwindled to a single machine gun. The weapon was in an exposed position and three soldiers had already died manning it. That was when Corporal Rubin stepped forward. He fought until […]

On a Cold, Dark Oslo Street Corner, Remembering Norway’s Lost Jews

It took 45 minutes for the twelve people to read out the names of 767 Norwegian Jews deported by the Norwegian authorities during the Nazi occupation. By Lene Johansen Twelve people are standing in a circle under a streetlight at the base of the historic fortress in the center of Oslo. It is only 4 […]

Scholars Unveil New Edition of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’

By ALISON SMALE BERLIN — Not since 1945, when the Allies banned the dubious work and awarded the rights to the state of Bavaria, has Hitler’s manifesto, “Mein Kampf,” been officially published in German. Bavaria had refused to release it. But under German law, its copyright expires Dec. 31, the 70th year after the author’s […]

Promo for 2016 March of the Living

Alumni Reflection: Ryan Leibowitz, 2015

This past April, I embarked upon the March of the Living. Prior to the trip, I traveled by myself through Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic and Germany. While I did not consciously design this portion of the trip to have a Jewish focus, I did make an effort to check out the Jewish synagogues, museums, etc. […]

Hungarian couple uncovers last records of murdered Jews in apartment wall while renovating

More than 6,000 pages were found documenting the city’s former Jewish residents. by Sam Sokol A couple renovating their apartment in Hungary’s capital happened upon thousands of pages of census records documenting Budapest’s Jewish population culled for the purposes of ghettoizing them during the Holocaust, media reports said. According to a report in The Guardian, […]

Germany withdraws Eurovision contender after uproar on anti-Semitic, homophobic lyrics

BERLIN – Germany withdrew its contender for next year’s Eurovision song contest on Saturday following a backlash from critics who accuse the R&B artist of using anti-Semitic and homophobic slurs in his songs. Xavier Naidoo, a singer of Indian and African heritage whose albums have sold millions, was selected as Germany’s candidate by public broadcaster […]

Reflecting on Ezra Schwartz’s murder

By Jack Rosenbaum I write this with heavy heart and compassion for family and friends of Ezra Schwartz in Sharon, Massachusetts and for the rest of “Am Yisrael”.  Yesterday, his life was violently cut short in one of the dastardly conceived attacks now being perpetrated by misguided Palestinian Arabs. There are special moments and segments […]

Kristallnacht Film Forum draws 1,000 to see ‘Defiant Requiem’

Ivy Dash, chair of this year’s 14th annual Kristallnacht Film Forum, first went on the March of the Living in 1990 as a junior in high school. The trip had a deep impact on Dash’s life. Dash said: “The experience of traveling to Poland and Israel with Jewish teens from around the world helped shape […]

Three Roads From Nuremberg

Seventy years to the day after the start of the epoch-defining trials, three Jewish advocates stand above the rest: Jacob Robinson, Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, and Raphael Lemkin By Michael R. Marrus Much of what we now understand as the Holocaust—the persecution of the German Jews in the 1930s, the evolution of systematic, European-wide mass murder […]