The American Jewish Establishment Has Failed to Grapple with the Threat of Anti-Semitism
Who will speak for the Jews?
February 17, 2020
A Museum of Italian Jewish History Tells a Very Local Story
The Jews of Ferrara.
In 2018, the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah opened in the city of Ferrara, whose Jewish history is known to Americans primarily because of the 1971 film The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, based on Giorgio Bassani’s novel of the same name. Created pursuant to an act of the Italian parliament, the museum was the result of a nearly eighteen-year discussion of where and how to create a memorial to the Holocaust. The result is as much about the history of Ferrara’s Jews as about their fate under fascism. Carlin Romano writes:
February 17, 2020
The Growing Influence on Liberal Christian Denominations of Anti-Israel Propaganda
The World Council of Church’s new supersessionism.
The Pitfalls of Holocaust Education without Jews
At the very least, Holocaust education shouldn’t treat Israel as an unfortunate but ignorable extra to Jewish identity.
Restoring the Graves of American Jews Who Died Fighting in World War II and Were Buried as Christian
Replacing Latin crosses with Stars of David.
A Museum of Italian Jewish History Tells a Very Local Story
The Jews of Ferrara.