By Herb Keinon, JPOST— For the first time in years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address at Yad Vashem to start Holocaust Remembrance Day did not focus on Iran and its nuclear program. Rather, the core message of his speech Wednesday evening was the danger of the spread of anti-Semitic lies that is making odd bedfellows…
Israel Today— Six million brothers – by Yair Engel of blessed memory. They look down on us from above, Six million brothers. They look down on us from above crying or laughing, and we’re down here, not understanding at all sitting on another planet, crying and embarrassed. How can a person get up in the…
By Jeff Jacoby, Jewish World Review— Long before the Holocaust had run its course, there was already a desperate urge to keep it from being forgotten. In hiding and on the run, amid the shadows of gas chambers and the smoke of crematoria, Jews frantically sought ways to bear witness to the enormities of the Nazis.…
By Gregory Korte, USA Today— WASHINGTON — President Obama warned of growing anti-Semitism in the United States and the world Wednesday as he honored two Americans and two Poles who helped save Jewish lives during World War II. “Here, tonight, we must confront the reality that around the world, anti-Semitism is on the rise. We…
Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, who came in second to Senator John McCain in the Republican Presidential primary, visited Yad Vashem yesterday, February 3. He was hosted by the Christian Friends of Yad Vashem. Huckabee’s VIP entourage included Congressman Bob McEwen from Ohio, Mathew Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, the singer and…