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Words matter. They always have. And when antisemites can’t openly say “Jew” with contempt, they invent substitutes. Today, one of those substitutes is “Zio.”

Short for Zionist, the word “Zio” has been deliberately twisted into a…

As the war in Ukraine grinds into yet another year, the idea of peace negotiations continues to resurface — often with more hope than clarity. Recently, attention has turned to Abu Dhabi as a possible venue for future talks. The choice is…

Commemorating the Holocaust primarily as a warning against hate is too narrow. Hate didn’t create the Holocaust; explanation did. And explanation didn’t begin with violence, but with an interpretive move that accounted for failures. It…

It’s a story often repeated: On June 22, 1982, Joe Biden was a Senator from Delaware and confronted then Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin during his Senate Foreign Relations committee testimony, threatening to cut off aid to Israel….

JTA — A proposal by officials at Deutsche Bahn, the German federal railway system, is serving up a potential train wreck of gargantuan proportions when it comes to preserving the memory of the Holocaust.

The officials have proposed a…

The aphorism “amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics,” is attributed to US Major General Omar Bradley, first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in recognition of his exceptional skill in organizing and leading large…

This week, as we read Parshas Beshalach, a painful chapter in our national story reached a solemn conclusion. The last of more than two hundred hostages was returned to Israel for Jewish burial. For months, the entire nation had prayed for…

The Iranian opposition does not suffer from a lack of hashtags or exiles with microphones. It suffers from a shortage of nerve. Leadership against a regime built on terror, prisons, and execution squads does not come from think tanks in…

Eighty-one years after the liberation of Auschwitz, it is tempting to believe that we understand what happened there – that the facts are settled, the lessons learned, the warnings absorbed. But Auschwitz was not only a site of murder. It…