Ofer Aderet (Haaretz)
By Ofer Aderet (Haaretz)
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Fast Forward The bountiful conspiracies about Hitler’s Jewish blood
Most of the claims about ‘Hitler’s Jewish blood,’ repeated Sunday by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, arise from the fact that the identity of his paternal grandfather is unknown. The answer to that question seems to have been buried with his grandmother.
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News How Trump Threw A Bone To Poland’s Populists — And Whitewashed Their Anti-Semitism
The Polish government can claim a huge victory in the fight over the country’s honor as well as its campaign to rewrite history and erase the stains of Poland’s past. President Donald Trump, the leader of the free world, adopted the Polish narrative of victimhood and its unilateral pretension of innocence in its entirety, granting…
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News When Joy Turned to Terror for Jews in Arab Lands on Day That Led to Israel’s Founding
Shimon Sasson, 84, of Tel Aviv, was 15 when the riots broke out in the port city of Aden. It happened just after November 29, 1947, the date on which the United Nations approved the partition plan for Palestine, paving the way for the founding of the State of Israel. “I heard the report on…
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Culture Elie Wiesel’s Wrenching Lost Version of ‘Night’ Was Scathing Indictment of God and Fellow Jews
The 150-page work that historian Dr. Joel Rappel pulls off the shelves of his vast library is a difficult document to read. It’s not the handwriting that makes the task hard – it’s actually quite legible. The content – a searing indictment against God and anyone who believed in him during the Holocaust – is…
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News The Polish Hipster Who Found Out He’s Jewish — and Reclaimed Warsaw Building
Two years ago, the serenity of the residents at 62 Zlota Street was disturbed. Krzysztof Gutkowski and Ida Zagrzejewska, a thirty-something Polish couple, entered the large building in the Polish capital with unusual news. “Nice to meet you, we are your new landlords,” they told the dozens of speechless tenants. “They were afraid we had…
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Fast Forward Acing ‘Penelope Cruz’ Quiz, Israeli Reclaims Spanish Citizenship
Who is the author of Don Quixote, which Spanish chemist won the Noble Prize, what is Spain’s tallest mountain, and who is Penelope Cruz? These are but a few of the questions posed to Israelis trying to attain a Spanish passport as part of a new law that grants descendants of Jews forced out the…
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Fast Forward Yitzhak Navon, Former Israeli President, Dies at 94
Yitzhak Navon, who served as Israel’s fifth president between 1978-1983, died on Saturday. He was 94. Navon was born in 1921 into a distinguished Jerusalemite Sephardi family who has lived in the city for over 300 years. His paternal family descended from Spanish Jews who settled in Turkey following the Spanish Inquisition. His mother was…
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Culture Yiddish Sex Tips for Girls Find Home in Jerusalem Library
A few months ago, Dr. Yoel Finkelman was browsing through the catalog of the New York auction house Kestenbaum & Company; it’s a regular chore at the National Library’s collections department. He noticed an interesting item. Finkelman, the curator of the library’s Judaica collection, noticed a Yiddish pamphlet titled “Advice for Women and Young Women…
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