As a queer Jew, learning Anne Frank was bisexual is a game-changer
by Yonah Bex Gerber This story originally appeared on Alma. Like many American children, I first read Anne Frank’s diary in school. And like many…
Holocaust
The son of Holocaust hero Chiune Sugihara is setting the record straight about his father’s story
by Cnaan Liphshiz (JTA) — After decades of relative obscurity, the tale of the Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara has become one of the best-known Holocaust rescue…
Back-to-back Israeli holidays are exhausting – and emotionally manipulative
by Elana Sztokman TEL AVIV (JTA) — Wednesday night (May 8) was one of the hardest nights on the Israeli calendar. In that hazy space…
In the wake of another deadly synagogue shooting, we need Holocaust education more than ever
by Janice Weinman, Ellen Hershkin (JTA) — On the Shabbat morning of April 27, Hadassah member Lori Gilbert-Kaye was murdered while celebrating Passover at the Chabad…
Discovery Channel and PBS to air Holocaust documentaries for Yom Hashoah
by Curt Schleier (JTA) — Alan Moskin served in Patton’s 3rd Army as it liberated Mauthausen. The experience, he said in an unintentional wordplay, was…