Holocaust Studies
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Tina Strobos was born in Amsterdam in 1920 to a socialist, atheist family that treated resistance as second nature. They were freethinking activists with generations of women who had sheltered refugees long before the Nazis darkened Europe. By 16 she was studying medicine in a comfortable Amsterdam home, intent on becoming a psychiatrist. But at […]
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I am a Coloradan. Before that though, I am a Jew. An unapologetic, visible Jew. Today those two identities seem to be in conflict. Yesterday, Melat Kiros, the young democratic socialist who called the slaughter of 1,200 of my brothers and sisters on October 7 "inevitable," is now the Democratic nominee for Colorado's 1st Congressional […]
Adam Louis-Klein was a left-wing Yale philosophy grad, conducting fieldwork among indigenous Amazonians for his PhD in anthropology. Completely cut off from the world, he finally got online, and the horrors of October 7th hit him like a freight train -- and what he saw in his own academic circles shook him even more. Today […]
She was five weeks old when her parents fled their bombed-out village in North Vietnam. By six, she was on a plane to Israel. By twenty, she was a radar spotter on the Lebanese border, watching for Hezbollah. Today, Ai Lien Luong Phung owns four kosher restaurants in South Florida. This is her unusual story. […]
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Venezuela called Israel a genocidal, Nazi-like state. Is Israel right in sending a search and rescue team to help them?
