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Articles
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May you Live Long and be Prosecuted
By Efraim Zuroff
Despite the mass murderous role played by the Einsatzgruppen in the Holocaust, relatively few of those who carried out the killings were brought to justice. At 100, Herbert Wahler has outlived other Germans listed as members of the genocidal Einsatzgruppe C. His age should not shield him from accountability.
May you Live Long and be Prosecuted
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The Danger of Desmond
A Light Unto his Nation – a Dark Side to Jews
By David E. Kaplan
The recently departed Archbishop Desmond Tutu was a shining example of a fighter against injustice. And here lies the conundrum! How are we to relate to the legacies of legends who have contributed significantly to mankind but have revealed themselves unapologetic antisemites?
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The BBC – on the Frontier of Antisemitic Bias
Written by Lay of the Land UK correspondent
Since its founding in 1922, the BBC has faced accusations of antisemitism. If during the Nazi era it declined to adequately expose the horrors of the Holocaust with the ‘defence’ that Jews were “not reliable reporters”, in November 2021 it reported on a mob attack on a bus with Jewish passengers in London as having been “provoked”!
The BBC – on the Frontier of Antisemitic Bias
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Bnei and Bnot Mitzvah and the Quest for Meaning
By Richelle Budd Caplan
What was it like to be a Jewish boy turning 13 or a Jewish girl turning 12 during the Holocaust unable to truly celebrate their Jewish rite of passage? Yad Vashem has launched a twinning bar/bat mitzvah program providing young Jews today with an extraordinary experience of connecting with Jewish children who were tragically denied the experience of a bar/bat mitzvah during the Holocaust.
Bnei and Bnot Mitzvah and the Quest for Meaning
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