Today, Barack Obama made his required political stop at the Yad Vashem Museum to memorialize the six million victims of the Shoah. While there he recommitted himself to ensuring the survival of the State of Israel invoking the phrase “Never Again.”
It’s unfortunate that a slogan first popularized by Meir Kahane has been absorbed into the [...]
Jim Lobe notes that McCain’s AIPAC speech predictably invoked the Holocaust to explain why the U.S. and Israel must stand alone as a bulwark against Iran:
…While he did not repeat the Bush administration’s mantra that “all options”, including a military attack, should remain “on the table” in dealing with the alleged threat, he suggested that [...]
Seattle’s Music of Remembrance is hosting several performances this week of Tony Kushner’s new version of Brundibar, the children’s opera performed at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
If truth be told, this is not the full-fledged production featuring Maurice Sendak’s extraordinary sets which was performed earlier this year in New York and New Haven. A Broadway [...]
On Yom Kippur 5728, I donned
Dark holiday clothing and walked to Jerusalem’s Old City.
I stood for quite a while in front of the kiosk shop of an Arab,
Not far from Shchem (Nablus) Gate, a shop
full of buttons, zippers and spools of thread
Of every color; and snaps and buckles.
Brightly lit and many colored like the open [...]
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