Michael Berenbaum is a distinguished professor of Jewish studies and director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at American Jewish University in Los Angeles. He has created Holocaust and human rights museums on three continents and in several American cities, headed the Shoah Visual History Foundation and was the executive editor of the second edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica.
Michael Berenbaum
By Michael Berenbaum
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Synagogues are the public manifestation of the Jew’s place in society, writes a scholar of the Holocaust
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The sexual misconduct investigation of an adored rabbi was rushed by Hebrew College
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Lawrence Langer, who has died at 94, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for 'Holocaust Testimonies'
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A Los Angeles synagogue moving its service due to a nearby pro-Palestinian demonstration is an example of what not to do
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Gerda Weissmann Klein, the Holocaust survivor, author, speaker, and activist died on April 3, 2022 in Phoenix, Arizona at the age of 97. Her book, “All But My Life,” first written 1957 and continuously in print for the past 65 years, was among the earliest Holocaust memoirs. Her riveting survivor testimony is shown as the…
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News Remembering Richard L. Rubenstein, the radical theologian
The 1966 publication of the first edition of “After Auschwitz” assured Richard L. Rubenstein’s place in Jewish theology. Written 21 years after the liberation of the camps and 18 years after Israel’s creation, the issues raised in “After Auschwitz” were so remarkably simple, his points so basic, that they could not be ignored. Rubenstein, who…
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Community Why would the government of Israel undermine the legacy of Yad Vashem?
The proposed nomination of Effie Eitam to head Yad Vashem would irrevocably wound Israel and the Jewish people’s memorial to the Holocaust. It will seriously weaken Israel’s ability to invoke the moral authority conferred on the Jewish people by that event. The move is unwise and undermines the memory of the Shoah’s victims and the…
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Culture Remembering Elie Wiesel, the Moral Force Who Made Sure We Will Never Forget
Editor’s Note: Elie Wiesel was born on this day in 1928. Here’s what Michael Berenbaum had to say about his passing on July 2, 2016. Elie Wiesel, the world’s best known and most influential Holocaust survivor, is no longer. His death at 87, announced Saturday, makes us ever more acutely aware that we are coming…
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