By CHRISTIANITY TODAY— Nearly one year after Jews for Jesus launched one of its most successful and controversial evangelism campaigns, more than 1.3 million people worldwide have watched That Jew Died for You. The three-minute YouTube video depicts Jesus carrying the cross to a gas chamber. The film’s goal was to “reshape views of Jesus…
By RICHARD L. CRAVATTS, AMERICAN THINKER— “What if the Jews themselves were Nazis?,” mused French philosopher, Vladimir Jankélévitch in 1986. “That would be great. We would no longer have to feel sorry for them; they would have deserved what they got.” The recasting of Israelis, and, by extension, Jews as Nazis has, in fact, taken…
By RICHARD COHEN, WASHINGTON POST— Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s anti- Semitism is getting the better of him. Once again, the Turkish prime minister has trotted out the Hitler analogy in relation to Israel and what it has done in Gaza. “They curse Hitler morning and night,” he said of the Israelis. “However, now their barbarism has…
FOR THE NAME AND THE PLACE On the 60th anniversary of Yad Vashem Excerpt from DARK STARS, WISE HEARTS: Personal Reflections on the Holocaust in the Modern Times forthcoming book by Inna Rogatchi By Dr INNA ROGATCHI (C) Inna Rogatchi, 2014 – The Law to Remember I do not know anyone who visited Yad Vashem…
By JONATHAN TOBIN— President Obama was in Los Angeles this week to hobnob with some of his biggest fans in Hollywood. He gave his usual stump speech blaming the Republicans for all the country’s ills at a private fundraiser where he rubbed elbows with Barbra Streisand and Jeffrey Katzenberg. After that, he attended a gala…
In 1945 renown movie director, Alfred Hitchcock was asked to produce a film that would document the horrors of the Holocaust. That movie proved so potent, so damning that the allies suppressed the film’s release. According to the Independent, Hitchcock’s documentary on the Holocaust was mothballed to the Imperial War Museum, much like the fictional…
By JEFF JACOBY, BOSTON GLOBE— IT WASN’T a failure of Holocaust remembrance that explains why Frazier Glenn Miller opened fire outside two Jewish community facilities in Overland Park, Kan., murdering three people on the day before Passover. Miller, a 73-year-old former Ku Klux Klan grand dragon, knows all about the Holocaust — enough, at any…
By ROCHEL SYLVETSKY, ARUTZ 7— “I survived and that was a miracle”, says the late Simon Weisenthal, summing up his Holocaust experiences in a recently released documentary “The Lessons of Survival”, filmed by Dr. Inna Rogatchi. The riveting film is based on her never-before publicized conversations with the larger-than-life Nazi hunter as well as her…
By RENEE GHERT-ZAND, TIMES OF ISRAEL-— Residents of the Jerusalem’s Talpiot neighborhood who have watched nuns in their white habits go in and out of a house at 10 Ein Gedi Street for the past half century will soon notice their absence. Beit Avraham (House of Abraham), as the sisters of the Evangelical Sisterhood of…
By SHELLEY NEESE— While intense anti-government rallies spread throughout Ukraine, the Jewish community of Dnepropetrovsk refused to let the country’s unrest cloud their recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On 27 January—while President Yanukovych battled with opposition leaders and protestors fortified their barricades—a group of 300 people gathered at the Memory of the Jewish People…