Holocaust

Black and white image of the courtroom during the Eichmann trial
Israel

The Eichmann Trial 60 Years Later: What Have We Learned?

Rabbi A. James Rudin
 April 9, 2021
April 11, 2021, marks the 60th anniversary of the opening of Adolf Eichmann’s trial, which coincided with the young Jewish state’s bat/bar mitzvah year of independence. These two events represent a microcosm of modern Jewish history.
Black and white image of the authors parents on their wedding day
Jewish History

On Yom HaShoah, Hear the Message of the Saved Remnant

Aron Hirt-Manheimer
 April 7, 2021
My mother’s answer to hate is love. When I asked her what she wishes for herself and for the world, she said, “For myself good health, so I can be good to others. For the world, peace not war. No bad person wins in the end. What did Hitler achieve?”
Teenagers walking down railroad tracks while visiting a concentration camp
Jewish Values

Ghetto: A Poem

Samantha (Sami) Silk
 April 5, 2021
the path that we now follow / is the Exodus our ancestors never chose / flooding with pain they died not to swallow / the past spills into the river and flows
those who are saved

Those Who Are Saved

Helene Cohen Bludman
Very few Jews managed to escape the Holocaust and find refuge in the United States. In her novel Those Who Are Saved, Alexis Landau tells the story of Vera and Max, whose artistic talents and connections afforded them a new life in America without sacrificing the privileged lifestyle they enjoyed before the war.