Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse, And The Nazis
Walt never met with Hitler, but it is beyond dispute that the Fuhrer adored Disney’s work.
Louis Pasteur: The Jewish Connection
Beginning in 1891, the Pasteur Institute opened facilities in different countries, and currently there are 32 institutes in 29 countries in various parts of the world.
The Anti-Semitism Of George Bernard Shaw
An avid and unapologetic eugenicist, Shaw suggested that the Nazis “make it punishable incest for a Jew to marry anyone but an Aryan.”
Swordfish: A Kashrus Tale Of Legends
If a fish has scales as a juvenile, but lacks them as an adult, is it kosher?
Hermann Hesse, The Nazis, And Anti-Semitism
Hermann Karl Hesse (1877-1962), a Nobel Prize-winning German novelist and poet, is best known for his inspired explorations of self-understanding, spiritual realization, and psychology,...
Fischer And Spassky: Two Infamous Jewish Anti-Semites
An incredible child protégé and a world chess champion, Boris Spassky (1937- ), best known for his “Match of the Century” loss in Reykjavík to Fischer, will always be inexorably tied to the latter.
Karl Marx: A Self-Hating Jew
In On the Jewish Question, Marx contemptuously criticized Judaism (and, to a lesser extent, Christianity) from the standpoint of social emancipation, regarding Jews as the embodiment of capitalism and the creators of its evils.
A Forgotten Holocaust Hero: Himmler’s Personal Physician
Kersten’s intervention with Himmler to save Jews is historical fact for which he should be recognized and honored, but he turned out to also be a Holocaust fraudster...
The Woman Who Hid Anne Frank – And The Dutch Jew Who Betrayed Her
After conducting a years-long investigation, the team concluded that Arnold van den Bergh (1886-1950), a prominent Jewish businessman, a founder of the Jewish Council in Holland, and a notary for a German art dealer selling stolen Jewish art to Hermann Goering, was the most likely quisling.
Jews of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
There is a rich Jewish history in this part of the world. Now the hidden customs are being revealed, as many seek to reconnect with their roots.
The Anti-Semitism Of Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh (1902-74) earned worldwide fame for making the first solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic on “The Spirit of St. Louis” in 1927....
Benjamin Franklin And The Jews
Any document from the Revolutionary War period relating to Jewish soldiers, particularly those killed or wounded for the cause, is truly extraordinary and monumentally rare, let alone one originally signed by Franklin.
Pablo Picasso And The Old Jew
The sense of the painting is that the old man has sacrificed himself to save the boy, as whatever meager provisions exist have been provided to the child.
The Jew Who Invented The Telephone And The Record Player
In 1886, Berliner commenced work on what would become the gramophone, the recording and reproduction of sound by means of disc records.
Thomas Edison, The Jews And The Edison Israel Stamp
All of these songs have been selected because of special demands from the public, each composition being very popular among the Hebrews.
Ben Shapiro Celebrates Son’s Bris In Boca Raton
Ben shared that he and Mor had bounced around different names, but they seemed to have become more Israeli and more Tzioni over time.
Jean Jacques Rousseau And The Jews
French thinkers of the Enlightenment were generally not pro-Semitic, to say the least.
The Disturbing Legacy Of ‘Operation Susannah’ And The Lavon Affair
Ben Gurion used the broad public demand in Israel for a retaliatory action against Egypt to launch a February 28, 1955, attack on Gaza in which 39 Egyptians were killed and Israel suffered no casualties.
LBJ: An Unheralded Holocaust Hero
LBJ was an important initiator in providing American aid to Israel. As early as 1951, with Israel in desperate need of money and material to settle the massive influx of Jewish immigrants, he successfully lobbied the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for $150 million (equivalent to $1.66 billion in 2022 dollars) in support.
Art Spiegelman: A Man Or A Maus?
The story evolves during several sessions when an adult Artie comes to visit his cantankerous and eccentric elderly father, who is ill, in a bad second marriage, and still mourning the loss of Anja a decade earlier.
The Zionism Of Rosa Parks And Bayard Rustin
Later in life, Parks frequently and vociferously spoke out against skinheads – who typically manifest neo-Nazi beliefs regarding Jews – and the Ku Klux Klan, whom she blamed for “keeping the flames of prejudice flickering” and for much of the continuing racism in America.
Diego Rivera’s Jewish Roots And The Rosenberg Case
My Jewishness is the dominant element in my life. From this has come my sympathy with the downtrodden masses which motivates all my work.
J. Robert Oppenheimer: Indifferent To Judaism, Concerned About Israel
Oppenheimer was a strong Israel supporter who played an important role in the development of the Jewish state’s nuclear capability.
Wyatt Earp’s Mezuzah
Another intriguing “Wyatt Earp Jewish connection” involves the long-standing mystery of the legendary fallout between Wyatt and Doc Holliday.
How Jewish Mathematician Abraham Wald Helped Win World War II
Wald asserted that Air Force data had ignored the thousands of bombers that had been unable to return to base because they’d been struck in other plane sections, including the engines, the cockpit, and the tail which, he maintained, are the very areas that must be more heavily armored.
Carl Jung: Kabbalist And Anti-Semite?
In contrast with the broad scrutiny brought to bear by the critics on Jung’s apparent anti-Semitism, little attention has been given to his preoccupation with Kabbalah in general and with his Jewish mystical visions in particular.
From Boro Park to Staten Island: A Modern-Day Jewish Exodus
Can Staten Island ever become a bustling Jewish neighborhood like Boro Park?
Little-Known Holocaust History – Bolivia: The Country That Saved 20,000 Jews
In the late 1930s, Bolivia’s president, German Busch, desperately sought ways to revitalize his country’s economy. Mauricio (Moritz) Hochschild – a Jewish business tycoon and a friend of the president – convinced Busch that Jewish refugees could be of help in this effort.
George Bush, James Baker, And The Jews
Undoubtedly the greatest manifestation of his antipathy was his infamous declaration: “[Expletive] the Jews. They don’t vote for us anyway.”
History Of Jews In Golders Green
The Jews who landed at London’s port, located at the eastern end of the city, did not have the wherewithal to go far, and settled in what it still known as the East End, like what happened in the Lower East Side of New York.