As one who grew up in a city heavily populated by Ukrainians, there was no love lost between the Jews and the Kapusta (Ukrainian word for cabbage) eaters. Despite many exceptions on both sides, there were a good many Jews who saw the ancestors of the local Ukrainians as “pogromchiks” who would ride into a shtetl and revel in the […]
I have no idea how many of you have been following the trial of 94 year old Oskar Groning, who was sentenced last week at a courthouse in Luneburg, Germany to four years in prison for his role as an accomplice in World War II Germany. I have no idea how many of you reacted to a 94 year old […]
The latest “Who is a Jew” brouhaha in Israel deserves a response, only because there are minimally three parties who can be accused of being hot headed and saying stupid things. Should cooler minds ever prevail, perhaps the following three parties will reconsider their thoughtless reactions that can only exacerbate the situation. Accordingly, I accuse: Reform Jews here in these […]
If anyone thinks that last Thursday’s front page New York Time’s obituary of Nicholas Winton was solely to bring to light the life of an abashed 106 year old Briton, then think again. As much as the obituary extolled the valiant efforts of Nicholas Winton, who at the tender age of 29, executed the rescue of 669 (mostly) Jewish children […]
Last week, when Queen Elizabeth II paid a visit to Bergen–Belsen, in addition to making history, in that it was her first time to visit a former Nazi Concentration Camp, the 89 year old British monarch in all likelihood made a deep impression on countless individuals world over. Ironically enough, it was not so much what Her Royal Highness did […]
