The IDF Deputy Chief of Staff’s Abuse of Holocaust Remembrance
Israel doesn’t need a second Yom Kippur.
May 6, 2016
The IDF Deputy Chief of Staff’s Abuse of Holocaust Remembrance
Israel doesn’t need a second Yom Kippur.
In his Yom Hashoah address, Yair Golan, the IDF’s deputy chief of staff, said that he was “frightened” by “signs” of similarities between Israeli society today and “revolting processes that occurred in Europe in general, and particularly in Germany” in the years before World War II. He further called for Yom Hashoah to be a national day of atonement on which to ponder abuses committed by Israeli soldiers. Ruthie Blum responds:
May 6, 2016
In Defense of Sykes-Picot
Don’t blame the treaty for the Middle East’s problems.
French Jewry’s Enthusiastic But Discreet Role in Resisting the Nazis
And the French Resistance’s own ambivalence.
Did Joshua Really Make the Sun Stand Still?
Or was he just trying to undermine his opponents’ morale?
The Medieval Origins of the Kaddish
Saving the lowliest sinners from hellfire.