NEW YORK, NY — November 10, 2019 — Every year in late summer, the streets around Grzybowski Square ring with the sounds of klezmer. A triangular patch of land in the heart of downtown Warsaw, Grzybowski Square was part of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II and is just a stone’s throw from the Nozyk Synagogue, the city’s only …
By BEN HARRIS
Revising Rashida Tlaib’s Revisionist History
By JONATHAN FELDSTEIN
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL — May 19, 2019 — Rep. Rashida Tlaib suggesting that her people made way for Jews in “Palestine” is dishonest and whitewashes the historical reality that the leaders of the indigenous Arab population of Ottoman and British controlled Palestine colluded with the Nazis to exterminate the Jews of Europe and Palestine. Her recent remarks beg anyone of decency …
By JONATHAN FELDSTEIN
To Be a Jew for a Day
By JONATHAN FELDSTEIN
Last month I went to a site of historical, cultural and religious significance literally in my own back yard, but which I’d not made time to get to. I have wanted to go to the Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem since it opened, and finally made the time. The museum is significant in many ways; one of the things …
By JONATHAN FELDSTEIN
Yom HaShoah Statement By Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino
WHITE PLAINS, NY — April 27, 2014 — “On this Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial day, I join with people everywhere commemorating the memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust seven decades ago. This is a day of remembrance, not just for those of the Jewish faith, but for all people who should pause and recognize the unimaginable crimes …
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