A man who was a student once at New York’s Yeshiva University wrote of attending a Talmud class taught by a European-born rabbi who was a fine scholar and an excellent teacher. The rabbi had called upon him to explain…
Ezra Pound was an extraordinary and original poet who was emulated by T. S. Eliot and a hero of modernists of all sorts. Yet for all his genius — or perhaps because of it — he fell under the spell…
The new anti-Semitism — let’s call it Jew hate, since that is what it is, not a study of ethnography — realizes that Hitler really ruined it for Jew haters big time. If he only had been allied with America…
Adolf Hitler often takes the spotlight as the chief perpetrator of some of the most horrific atrocities of the past 100 years. Hitler’s years of unprovoked aggression, culminating in the bloodiest and largest conflict in history, plus his effort to…
We’ll hear a lot of calls, many of them well intended, to “take down the temperature” of political rhetoric. And the temperature will go down — briefly. (Except on @MSNBC where some guest or host will surely call Trump a…
In these incredibly harrowing times, I try to relax by watching movies late at night. Unfortunately, too many are horror films of one kind or another: Serial killers who torture their victims and stage their murders, or visions of our…
Saturday A super great day. I awakened and looked at my swimming pool. It was a miracle. The icky green spots are gone, gone, gone, and it’s a perfect aqua blue. There is not a cloud in the sky. I…
In the long ago and far away, as the anti-Semitism of Adolf Hitler’s Nazis slowly became front and center in 1920s Germany, what became known as the “Hitler Youth” came into existence. Over there at the Holocaust Encyclopedia is this…
It wasn’t about Israel. It was Nov. 28, 1941. Israel, founded in 1948 — seven years later — did not exist. The territory of modern-day Israel and Palestine was then under the control the British. Europe was at war. Adolf…
