David Cesarani, the great British historian of the Holocaust and Anglo Jewry, has died at the age of 58, London’s Jewish Chronicle reports. The London Times columnist David Aaronovitch described him as “a man of luminous intelligence and splendid academic achievement.” Cesarani — as a research professor in History at Royal Holloway, University of London…
Some 42 percent of New York Times Magazine online readers said they would use a time machine to go back and kill “baby Hitler.” Another 30 percent said no, and 28 percent said they were unsure. The query on Friday came a day after “Back to the Future” Day, in honor of the 80s movie…
A town in northern Spain held an official ceremony to celebrate its name change from “kill Jews town.” In June, the town formerly known as Castrillo Matajudíos published its new name — Castrillo Mota de Judios, or Castrillo Jews’ Hill — in the official state gazette. The name change was approved by the regional government…
In December 1976, thanks to my therapy experience with young adult children of Holocaust survivors, I found myself attending a workshop with Dr. Henry Krystal, the psychoanalyst who virtually created trauma therapy as a specialized field. I knew, of course, that Krystal was himself a Holocaust survivor and that he had initiated the psychoanalytic study…
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton will be the speaker for a rally in Tel Aviv to mark the 20th year since the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The rally on Saturday night will cap a week of commemorative events in the country, including a state ceremony at Mount Herzl, and a special Knesset…
Palestinian officials reacted warily on Sunday to what U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hailed as Jordan’s “excellent suggestion” to calm Israeli-Palestinian violence by putting a sensitive Jerusalem holy site under constant video monitoring. “This is a new trap,” Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said on Voice of Palestine radio, accusing Israel of planning to use…
Jared Fogle, the former Subway spokesman, has paid $1 million in restitution to his victims. Fogle, known as “The Subway Guy,” pleaded guilty in August to charges of distributing and receiving pornography, and having sex with minors. Also as part of his plea deal, Fogle, who is Jewish, will serve between five and 12-and-a-half years…
Thousands of Israelis demonstrated against the current government and called for a solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. About 3,000 demonstrators met Saturday night in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square and marched to the Israel Defense Department headquarters. The demonstrators chanted slogans such as “Jews and Arabs don’t want to hate each other,” and “Israel, Palestine, two…
An Arab woman was shot and killed by Border Police officers at the entrance to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron after she took out a knife and threatened them. The woman acted suspiciously early Sunday afternoon as she waited to enter the site holy to both Muslims and Jews. She then took out…
A three-alarm fire that destroyed a historic synagogue in New Jersey appears to be accidental after a preliminary investigation. The fire on Friday at the Polie Zedek synagogue in New Brunswick, New Jersey, left only the shell of the building and destroyed everything inside, according to local reports. One of the Torah scrolls was saved…
Israel said on Sunday that one of its citizens, probably a member of the country’s Muslim Arab minority, had illegally flown to rebellion-wracked Syria by using a paraglider to cross the Golan Heights frontier. Israeli media gave the man’s age as 23 and quoted investigators as speculating that he sought to join Islamic State or…
דעבאָראַ בראָדי, אַ לערערין פֿון קינדער מיט ספּעציעלע באַדערפֿענישן, האָט זיי געלאָזט אָנטאַפּן די זאַכן.
