Category Archives: Holocaust

The Israeli Mind: How the Israeli National Character Shapes Our World

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Luke Ford

By Alon Gratch: * [My father] started out working in an uncle’s appliance store, but business was so slow that pretty soon the uncle needed an out. He set the store on fire, collected insurance, and used that money to … Continue reading →

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JJ: Historian Timothy Snyder presents a provocative, new take on the Holocaust

Posted on September 11, 2015 by Luke Ford

Danielle Berrin conducts this interview: Yale historian Timothy Snyder is among the world’s leading scholars of Eastern Europe. Educated at Oxford, he is the author of five award-winning books, including the acclaimed “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin,” about Nazi … Continue reading →

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JTA: Mindful of risks, European Jews urge aid to refugees

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Luke Ford

Nowhere in this story do I hear these pious Jewish leaders expressing concern about what a flood of Muslims into Europe will do to Europeans. All I hear is concern for the refugees and concern for Jews. But what about … Continue reading →

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LAT: More than seven decades later, Monaco apologizes for deporting Jews

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Luke Ford

From the Los Angeles Times: Monaco committed the “irreparable” injustice of deporting Jews to Nazi camps during World War II, Prince Albert II said Thursday in belated apology for the action 73 years ago that sent scores of residents and … Continue reading →

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Judaism: Love the Stranger Because You Were Once Strangers

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

The rabbi does not say anything about the Jewish state needing to do anything for these refugees. He doesn’t say anything about Jews needing to do anything for these refugees, beyond hectoring the goyim with obscene Holocaust parallels to admit … Continue reading →

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