The last generation

Published on April 4, 2013

All my adult life, I have felt a burden to live more than one life. I am a child of survivors and a mourner of many who did not survive. In 1944, my grandparents and more than 700 others were murdered in a little-known massacre in Kremnicka, Slovakia.

Sixty-five found executed in Syria’s Aleppo, activists say

Published on January 29, 2013

At least 65 people were found shot dead with their hands bound in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday in a "new massacre" in the near two-year revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, activists said.

Israel to plant more than 3,000 trees to memorialize Newtown victims

Published on December 31, 2012

More than 2,000 people have donated funds to plant a grove of more than 3,000 trees in Israel in memory of the victims of the Newtown shooting.

Sandy Hook: Despair gives way to hope

By Rabbi David Wolpe
Published on December 19, 2012

At first it is an anguish so deep that it destroys faith in life. We are witnesses to pain and loss so immense that to yearn for a resting place, to find anything good or hopeful or healing, feels like a betrayal. In the face of such tragedy, do we seek out sparks of hope because we are healers or deniers?

White House readies gun-control plan as more children laid to rest

Published on December 19, 2012

The White House revealed the first steps of a gun-control plan on Wednesday as the United States grieved for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in another wave of funerals.

Jewish parent power tools can help kids cope with the tragedy at Sandy Hook and beyond

Published on December 19, 2012

There’s been a lot of talk in the news about what to say to children about the massacre at Sandy Hook. A steady stream of experts attempting to provide some sort of parental protocol for addressing this unimaginable tragedy with our kids.

An outsider’s viewpoint on the Sandy Hook shooting

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on December 18, 2012

At first Newtown funeral, Noah Pozner remembered as loving ‘little man’

Published on December 18, 2012

Veronique Pozner remembered her son Noah as a rambunctious, video-game loving "little man," a boy with a perpetual smile and twinkly blue eyes who dreamed of becoming a doctor, a soldier and manager of a factory that makes tacos -- his favorite food.

Newtown temple opens fund for family of Noah Pozner

Published on December 17, 2012

As the family of Newtown massacre victim Noah Pozner prepared for the 6-year-old's funeral, the family's synagogue began collecting money for the Pozners.

Sandy Hook: The cultural phenomenon behind mass shootings

Published on December 16, 2012

It has been 13 years since the murders at Columbine High School, when two teenagers killed 13 people and wounded 21 others. Since that time, ABC reports, there have been 31 school shootings.

Sandy Hook, Sandy and the politics of learned helplessness

By Marty Kaplan
Published on December 16, 2012

"We have got to get Michelle to make this her priority."

Sandy Hook: Beyond gun control

By David Suissa
Published on December 16, 2012

When something happens that overwhelms our emotions - as when a shooter murders 20 schoolchildren in cold blood- we get dizzy and out of balance. The shock and horror are too much to take.

Jewish 6-year-old youngest of Newtown shooting victims

Published on December 15, 2012

A Jewish child was identified as the youngest of the 26 victims killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting massacre in Newtown, Conn.

Jewish glory, frustration mark London Games

Published on August 13, 2012

The London Olympics may have “lit up the world,” as organizing committee head Sebastian Coe put it, but for Jews the 2 1/2 weeks offered healthy doses of frustration and glory.

Editorial Cartoon: Obvious politics — Minute of silence

By Steve Greenberg
Published on August 1, 2012

Editorial cartoon by Steve Greenberg.

Munich's indelible stains

Published on July 26, 2012

Under the headline "Indelible Stains," the Los Angeles Times listed “10 Olympic controversies that forever leave their mark on the Summer Games.”

Munich widows call for own moment of silence at opening ceremonies

Published on July 25, 2012

Widows of Israelis murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics are asking the crowd at the opening ceremonies of the London Games to stand for a minute of silence, regardless of whether the International Olympic Committee recognizes it.

L.A.‘s little-known plaque and grove of trees honor ‘Munich 11’

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on July 24, 2012

In the summer of 1984, when Los Angeles hosted the Olympics, then-Mayor Tom Bradley and the local organizers of the Olympic Games unveiled a large bronze plaque honoring the 11 Israeli athletes murdered by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Summer Games in Munich. The Israeli Olympic delegation was present for the unveiling, as were Jewish community leaders, according to a Los Angeles Times report.

Where are the Munich elegies?

Published on July 23, 2012

This year, Tisha b'Av marks not only the destruction of both Temples, but with the opening ceremony of the London Olympics just a night earlier, the 40th anniversary of the Munich massacre.

As London’s Jews prepare for Olympics, Munich 11 on their minds

Published on July 2, 2012

For the British Jewish community, the most memorable moment of the London Olympics may be a somber one.

A teacher and three students shot dead outside French Jewish school

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on March 19, 2012

Syria storms out of U.N. rights meeting

Published on February 28, 2012

Syria's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva stormed out of the U.N. Human Rights Council Tuesday after demanding angrily that countries stop "inciting sectarianism and providing arms" to opposition forces in his country.

Ukraine marks Babi Yar massacre anniversary

Published on October 3, 2011

Ukraine marked the 70th anniversary of the massacre at Babi Yar, one of the deadliest of the Holocaust.

Lawmakers from around the world gather at Babi Yar

Published on September 20, 2011

International parliamentarians from Europe, Israel, Turkey and other nations gathered at the site of the Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine.

Real Housewives of New York Experience a Massacre

By Ilana Angel
Published on September 17, 2011

Opinion: The Norway massacre and the anti-Zionist smear

Published on August 9, 2011

In the aftermath of Anders Breivik's terrorist rampage in Norway, a "blame the Jews" theme has emerged: assertions that Breivik was driven by fanatical devotion to Israel.

Documentary recalls the horrors of Ma’alot school massacre

Published on May 3, 2011

Ma’alot-Tarshiha is a quiet Jewish-Arab city in the Galilee within walking distance of Israel’s border with Lebanon. But 37 years ago, it was the scene of a horrific attack by Palestinian terrorists who took more than 100 students hostage in a school building, killing 22 and gravely wounding 68.

Graphic photos chronicle Babi Yar massacre

Published on November 8, 2010

A graphic photo exhibit chronicling the Nazi massacre of Jews at Babi Yar is on display at a meeting against anti-Semitism in Canada.

American to plead guilty to Mumbai charges

Published on March 17, 2010

An American citizen of Pakistani origin reportedly has agreed to plead guilty to charges against him in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks.

David Headly, 49, is scheduled to appear Thursday in a federal court in Chicago to change his plea from not guilty, according to news reports, citing a federal court notice.

Headly was arrested last October in Chicago as he attempted to flee to Pakistan.

Them vs. Us

By Rabbi Dov Fischer
Published on December 10, 2008

Parshat Vayishlach (Genesis 32:4-36:43) Certainly, ours is a history of being targeted by "them" for no reason other than our being "us." The Christian, en route to liberate the Holy Land from the infidel Muslim Saracens, stopped along watering holes throughout Europe to massacre whole Jewish bystander communities.

Iraqi First Lady at Museum of Tolerance: I remember the Jews of Kurdistan

By Tom Tugend
Published on September 28, 2008

The wife of Iraqi president Jalal Talabani paid a visit to the Simon Wiesenthal Center on Friday, toured its Museum of Tolerance, and recalled her friendship with the Jews of her Kurdish hometown

Fields of Dreams

By David Suissa
Published on September 11, 2008

I used to think that between the time of the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 A.D., and the birth of Israel in 1948, there was no such thing as an


exclusively Jewish city. Sure, there were plenty of Jewish ghettos and neighborhoods scattered throughout the globe, but a city with only Jews in it? I never imagined it.

Bosnia genocide unrolls in scroll of shame

Published on August 6, 2008

Radovan Karadzic has been arrested. He faces charges of genocide and crimes against humanity before the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague. It's an occasion to recall the genocide in Bosnia and the shame of those who did not prevent it

VIDEO: Israeli Olympic athletes remembered

Published on August 5, 2008

Photo montages, vintage news footage, music (Enya.)

Munich massacre survivor still carries Olympic scars

Published on July 31, 2008

Thirty-six years on, Munich survivor Dan Alon still carries the scars of the 1972 massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games, which he and four others escaped.

ADL’s decision doesn’t go far enough

By David N. Myers
Published on August 30, 2007

While acknowledging that the massacres were a genocide, the ADL and its national director, Abraham Foxman, continue to refuse to support the congressional resolution (HR 106) that officially recognizes the Armenian genocide.

Terrorism of ‘70s Forced Israeli Move

By Hirsh Goodman
Published on December 15, 2005

The dates and times are all one blur. What remains crystal clear, however, is what it was like to be an Israeli in the early 1970s, when the phenomenon of international terror began: Japanese terrorists landing at Lod Airport and gunning down dozens of pilgrims just arrived from Peru; German terrorists trying to shoot down an El Al airliner taking off from Kenya; the hijacking of Israeli and foreign aircraft en route to Israel; attacks by the Red Brigades on Israelis and on embassies in London and Seoul, and in Athens, Paris and Rome. And, of course, the horrible massacre at the Munich Olympics.

‘Munich’—a Risky Move for Spielberg

By Ivor Davis
Published on December 1, 2005

The billboards for Steven Spielberg's new film "Munich," which opens Dec. 23, will soon be sprouting on buses, benches and boulevards around the nation. The image is simple and stark. A lone man sits gloomily in a dark, heavily draped hotel room, his body sparely illuminated by the light of a single window. His shoulders are hunched disconsolately and a pistol dangles from his hand. He seems very much alone.

Q & A With Benny Morris

By Ari Shavit
Published on January 29, 2004

Benny Morris says he was always a Zionist. People were mistaken when they labeled him a post-Zionist, when they thought that his historical study on the birth of the Palestinian refugee problem was intended to undercut the Zionist enterprise.

Poles Remember Massacre

By Ruth E. Gruber
Published on July 12, 2001

Sixty years after hundreds of Jews in a Polish village were slaughtered by their neighbors, Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski offered an apology.