Menachem Z. Rosensaft
By Menachem Z. Rosensaft
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Opinion The new face of Holocaust denial is harder to spot — and more dangerous
The grandson of Jews murdered in Nazi gas chambers responds to deniers in a New Hampshire legislative meeting
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Opinion I won’t vote for Democrats who backed Mamdani. I know I’m not the only one.
A lifelong Jewish Democrat says he is committing to consequences before Mamdani’s supporters can try to win him back
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Opinion Critics of Trump’s US Holocaust Memorial Council firings run the risk of trivializing the cataclysm
A former council member says the firings shouldn’t be lamented as though they reflect Nazi-like oppression
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Opinion Ben Carson Needs To Stop Using the Holocaust To Score Political Points
Ben Carson’s ignorance of the historical facts of the Holocaust is every bit as appalling as his insensitive exploitation of the memory of that genocide in his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Arguing against any form of gun control, Carson wrote in his new book, “A More Perfect Union,” that “German citizens were disarmed…
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Opinion Leaders Must Speak Out on Wailing Wall Arrest
Israel’s Declaration of Independence provides that “The State of Israel…will uphold the full social and political equality of all its citizens, without distinction of race, creed or sex” and “will guarantee full freedom of conscience, worship, education and culture.” Last week, officials of the Jerusalem police violated Anat Hoffman’s most basic civil and human rights…
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News Elan Steinberg, Fighter for Jews, Dies at 59
Immediately after Elan Steinberg died early on April 6 at age 59, those who understood the tremendous historical role he had played spoke about what he had meant to them and to the Jewish community. Calling him “One of the great Jewish activists of the past decades,” World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder described…
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Opinion Making Holocaust Remembrance Matter
On January 27, the 66th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the United Nations and much of the world will be observing Holocaust Remembrance Day. Sadly, the rhetoric of commemoration will once again be severely undercut by the international community’s wholly inadequate response to the numerous genocides that have taken place, and continue to take…
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Opinion Analogies Have Consequences
In 1995, right-wing Israeli demonstrations opposing any political accommodation with the Palestinians featured posters depicting Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in the uniform of a Nazi SS officer. The message was duly received. On November 5, 1995, Yigal Amir, a far-right Israeli law student, assassinated Rabin at a Tel Aviv peace rally. Members of Israel’s…
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