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The Blogs: September 5: The Munich Massacre

3+ hour, 56+ min ago  (675+ words) The summer Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 presented West Germany with a golden opportunity to welcome visitors to the "new" Germany. A quarter of a century after the fall of Adolf Hitler's genocidal Nazi regime, which persecuted and murdered German…...

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The Blogs: When Neighbors Forget Who You Are: Rose, a Holocaust Survivor

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1042+ words) Not long after the October 7 Hamas attacks in Israel, a stranger sent me a message on Instagram. I had never spoken to this person before. "You dirty people. You are bombing hospitals. I hope Adolf comes back to life, because…...

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The Blogs: MK Celebrates Nazi Legacy and the ‘Worst of the Worst’ of the Death Penalty

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (121+ words) Such a debauched spectacle normally would not merit a response. Tragically, the level of bloodlust that permeates the present zeitgeist and the very real possibility that this bill may come to fruition necessitate our doing just that. Not to counter…...

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The Blogs: Shoes on the Danube Bank: Where the Dead Have No Graves

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (404+ words) The shoes are full of stones scattered in them." Jewish mourning at the site follows the logic of obligation, while gentile visitors act within a grammar of expression rather than duty; these modes are sincere within their own frameworks, but…...

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The Blogs: Emanuel Baptist Church Turns Sunday School into Holocaust Memorial Visit

3+ week, 20+ hour ago  (363+ words) Emanuel Baptist Church Turns Sunday School into Holocaust Memorial Visit'The Times of Israel - Follow You will receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile page You will no longer receive email alerts from this author. Manage…...

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The Blogs: We Are Asking Holocaust Education to Do the Impossible

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (45+ words) We Are Asking Holocaust Education to Do the Impossible'The Times of Israel - Follow You will receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile page You will no longer receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert…...

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The Blogs: A Day Trip to Auschwitz, 1989

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (1042+ words) A woman and a man stand in a field of tall grass. She has her arm around his waist. She leans slightly into him. Between them, pressed against her grandmother's leg, a toddler clutches a dandelion " picked from the ground…...

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The Blogs: Grandma, great-grandma and a Latvian identity crisis

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (450+ words) Perhaps the first antisemitic joke in my life directed at me personally was about me being mixed rather than simply Jewish. A classmate learned that I had both Jewish and German ancestry and exclaimed, "I've just discovered the cause of…...

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The Blogs: The Body Count Fallacy: Why Death Tolls Don’t Determine Who Is Right in War

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (220+ words) In modern war, public judgment often follows a deceptively simple formula: count the dead, and you will find the aggressor. The greater the disparity in casualties, the clearer the moral conclusion appears to be. It is an emotionally powerful framework…...

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The Blogs: We are not alone in the fight against Holocaust denial

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (718+ words) In Germany, I found an unexpected answer. I recently attended the March of Life conference in T'bingen, Germany, a small university town that was a hotbed of Nazism 90 years ago. From this region came individuals responsible for the murder of…...