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Apr 26, 2024, 4:54 PM

‘The 5th Question’ — my grandson’s poem

Sunrise - photo: Menachem Rosensaft 2023

The Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism, taught that in remembrance lies the secret of redemption. But for remembrance to be meaningful, it must also be rooted in compassion and empathy. In this spirit, I am proud to share...

Apr 24, 2024, 3:25 PM

The UN must recognize the Srebrenica massacre for what it was

Srebrenica massacre memorial gravestones, at the Potočari genocide memorial. (Michael Büker, own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia)

Just as it is unconscionable to deny the genocide of Europe's Jews, we cannot minimize the slaughter of the Bosniaks

Apr 23, 2024, 3:02 AM

Meditating on Bergen-Belsen: Passover After Oct. 7

The joyous atmosphere that usually characterizes the Jewish festival of Passover is tempered if not absent this year. Passover is meant to celebrate the liberation of the Jewish people from bondage in Egypt and their birth not just as a...

Apr 26, 2022, 4:20 PM

New York City still celebrates 2 French Nazi collaborators. Why?

A sidewalk plaque along Manhattan's "Canyon of Heroes" remembers a ticker-tape parade in 1931 honoring Pierre Laval, who would go on to serve as the head of France's Nazi-aligned Vichy government. (Jacob Fishman)

The markers for Philippe Pétain and Pierre Laval are on Broadway’s Canyon of Heroes in lower Manhattan. That's an obscenity.

Apr 8, 2021, 12:56 PM

Writing poetry helps me process the unspeakable evils of the Holocaust

Barbed wire fence against a dark sky. (Getty Images via JTA)

A Kafkaesque, morbid language of dreams and nightmares can reveal the nocturnal universe of the Nazi killing machine... and preserve memories of our kin

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Adjunct professor of law at Cornell Law School and lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School.