Jews and the Civil Rights Movement in Minnesota
By LAURA WEBER Published in 1949, Jews in Transition, by Rabbi Albert I. Gordon, was the first book-length look at ...
Tag: Mordecai Specktor
Editorial: In solidarity with Ukraine
Like many American Jews, I’m here because Cossack militia men wanted to kill my grandparents. They fled to the United ...
Gehry’s masterpieces
A general view from Main Street of the three components of the Chiat/Day complex, Venice, Calif., including what’s known as ...
Editorial: Colleyville, ‘Maus,’ Whoopi and the neo-Nazis in Orlando
We couldn’t get out of January without one more publicized kerfuffle over antisemitism. Of course, the main outrage last month ...
A funny satirical film comes with a warning
In late December, the No. 1 film worldwide streaming on Netflix was the social-political satire Don’t Look Up, directed by ...
Editorial: ‘Opposing’ views of the Shoah?
In the middle of October, a truly confounding news story made the rounds. Apparently, NBC News received a recording of ...
Editorial: Reflections on a brief visit to Poland
Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych (left) led visitors Maj-Britt Syse and Max Specktor through the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute. In the Warsaw ...
A tour of Łódź
A shul stands abandoned in a building’s inner courtyard. (Photos: Mordecai Specktor) By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Łódź, Poland — Milena Wicepolska, ...
In the footsteps of Polish Jews
The Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, which was unveiled April 19, 1948, honors those who fought in the 1943 Warsaw ...
Editorial: Putting antisemitism in perspective
"Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem," by Francesco Hayez. “The saddest day in Jewish history is the ninth of Av, ...
