By Victor Sharpe February 01, 2009 http://www.americanthinker.com/victor_sharpe/ The four thousand year old association of Jewish life in Gaza is little remembered in today’s world. Of course people know of the biblical story of Samson being blinded by the now extinct Philistines and how he brought down the temple to their gods in Gaza. But very […]

By Myrna & Robert Ulfik Today the Dominican Republic welcomes thousands of sun-worshippers to Sosúa, its popular North-Coast beach resort. In 1940, the Dominican Republic also welcomed travelers, but they were hardly tourists: they were Jews fleeing Nazi terror – and in all the world, this was the only haven offered to them. The unlikely […]

Leslie Bell Posted Nov 19 2008 The Cousins Bielski , Leslie Bell “You survive for a purpose that’s bigger than yourself.” – Lt. Yehuda Bielski In September I attended a special screening of the movie “Defiance” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan. The film attempts to depict the formation of the Bielski partisans […]

The Chanukah story as we know it describes a wicked tyrant, Jewish resistance, and the miracle of oil that burned for eight days instead of one. Behind the tale, in the pages of history, lies a parallel story that amplifies what we know of ancient times and also raises a couple of interesting questions. When […]

By: Myrna & Robert Ulfik Date: Wednesday, December 03 2008 Today the Dominican Republic welcomes thousands of sun-worshippers to Sosúa, its popular North-Coast beach resort. In 1940, the Dominican Republic also welcomed travelers, but they were hardly tourists: they were Jews fleeing Nazi terror – and in all the world, this was the only haven […]

Ruth King In West Point Cemetery at the United States Military Academy there is only one grave for an American soldier who fell fighting for another country. His gravestone reads: “Colonel David Marcus–a Soldier for Humanity.” David Marcus, known as “Mickey,” was an officer in the U.S. Army who became a volunteer warrior in Israel’s […]

By Sorah Shapiro Albert Einstein’s letter on God, in which he described the Bible as “pretty childish,” sold not long ago for more than $400,000. That letter is far from the definitive word, however, on Einstein and religion. In fact, there exists a vast library of personal letters and other archival material that reveal Einstein’s […]

By Leslie Bell The Cousins Bielski , Leslie Bell You survive for a purpose that’s bigger than yourself. – Lt. Yehuda Bielski In September I attended a special screening of the movie “Defiance” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan. The film attempts to depict the formation of the Bielski partisans and some of […]

Nearing the somber 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Los Angeles Jews celebrate the story of a Torah that was pieced together from scattered texts smuggled into a Nazi labor camp. By Duke Helf November 07, 2008 in print edition B-1 During World War II, Jewish inmates of the Yanov labor camp in occupied Poland defied their […]

By Dr. Ervin Birnbaum Munich, 1938: The Fuse Is Lit , Dr. Ervin Birnbaum The Munich Conference at the end of September 1938 played a frightful role in human history. Before Munich, the seemingly inexorable movement of mankind toward the dark void of World War II could in fact have been halted. For five years […]