Seeking safety on trains
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Otto Silbermann’s unusual flight from Nazi pursuit ends in a way too unexpected to reveal. Otto ...
Tag: Germany
How the Nazis took over Germany
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Even the Nazis were surprised at how quickly and easily they took over Germany. In Hitler’s ...
His comedy mocks Germany’s history with Jews. After his TV show was canceled, he’s thinking about leaving the country.
By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ (JTA) — Shahak Shapira was 14 when he moved with his mother and brother from Petach Tikvah in ...
Editorial: Ofra Bloch talks about intergenerational trauma
Our family Kabbalat Shabbat tradition includes candle lighting, of course, and then wishing everyone “Shabbat Shalom.” I add, “May the ...
Here’s the Jewish angle on MSPIFF
AJW Staff Report The much-anticipated Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival (MSPIFF) is underway, running through April 20, with more ...
Hungary, the Jews and the ‘Viktator’
After Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party won Hungary’s 2014 parliamentary elections, they erected a “Memorial ...
Trump withdraws U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal
President Donald Trump announces his decision to leave the Iran nuclear deal, on Tuesday in the ...
The ‘Queen Social Bee of Knollwood’
Paula Rubin, who survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, and was a successful businesswoman in St. Paul, died at 92 By ERIN ...
Germany’s silence after the Shoah
In Germany, more than a dozen years after the end of World War II, the citizenry remained ignorant of the ...
Editorial: Preventing the spread of nuclear weapons
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has caused a stir with his revelations that Israel planned to attack Iran on ...
