Holocaust

‘Anne Frank, Superstar’? A satirical musical reimagines the Holocaust victim as a symbol of woke

The show is framed as an ultra-progressive regional theater company staging an adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary.

"Slam Frank"'s Instagram account, the show's primary engine of promotion, has stoked people's confusion.
THEN-US PRESIDENT Joe Biden is joined by President Isaac Herzog and then-prime minister Yair Lapid at Yad Vashem in 2022. Israel ferries foreign officials to the Hall of Remembrance instead of focusing on the Jewish connection to the land, says the writer.

Politicizing the Holocaust: It has come back to bite Israel - opinion

MK Tally Gotliv seen during a court hearing of Yonatan Urich, at the court in Lod, August 19, 2025

Tally Gotliv labels court security guards as 'Judenrat,' causing coalition outrage

PRO-PALESTINIAN protesters gather near the International Court of Justice in The Hague last year amid the accusation against Israel of genocide. The line between scholarship and activism has been erased, the writer charges.

Truth under siege: Omer Bartov, a case study - opinion


Aliza Mamo's life of resilience: 106 years of faith - opinion

Family of Aliza Mamo, soon turning 106, shares her inspiring journey from Djerba to Israel.

Aliza Mamo, who will soon be turning 106.

Israeli soccer fans cause outrage in Poland with 'murderers' banner

The "Murderers since 1939" banner was displayed prominently across a row of seats by fans of Maccabi Haifa.

Maccabi Haifa fans hold up a banner that reads "Murderers since 1939" during a match in Poland.

Amnesty UK draws criticism for arguing journalist death toll in Gaza higher than in any other war

Amnesty International UK claimed Gaza has the highest journalist death toll in modern history, prompting criticism for omitting Holocaust-era killings of Jewish journalists documented by Yad Vashem.

Hundreds of people gathered at the Utrecht Central Station march to show solidarity with Al Jazeera journalists killed in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif, in Utrecht, Netherlands on August 14, 2025.

Germany's shift: Moral commitment vs political reality - opinion

The the ongoing war in Gaza has reinvigorated Germany’s internal debate: Can abstract moral universality be reconciled with particular responsibility to the Jewish people?

GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER Johann Wadephul speaks at a news conference at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem last month. Germany raises its voice not because it forgot its past but because it remembers it, says the writer.

Hypocrisy from Warsaw: Does Poland want to build bridges with Israel or burn them? - opinion

If Poland truly wants to be taken seriously as a friend of the Jewish people and of the Jewish state, it must do more than send an ambassador and issue empty platitudes.

IT’S LAUGHABLE that Poland is positioning itself as a moral beacon; pictured: PM Donald Tusk.

'The Last Baker of Vienna': A novel on displaced Jews in post-WWII Europe - review

Chana, the heroine of The Lost Baker of Vienna, gives voice to author Sharon Kurtzman’s feminist subtext.

CLASS PORTRAIT of school children at Schauenstein displaced persons (DP) camp, circa 1946.

Comparing Oct. 7 to the Holocaust does a disservice to both - opinion

Comparing October 7 to the Holocaust has damaged the memory of all victims while undermining Israel’s right to determine its independent policy and act to bring our hostages home.

Evyatar David (L), Rom Braslavski.

Grapevine, August 8, 2025: Time to heal

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

HAIFA MAYOR Yona Yahav and Indian Ambassador J.P. Singh are surrounded by Indian dancers.

'We have a Holocaust before our eyes': Hostage families in panic after Hamas, PIJ videos

Many drew comparisons between the plight of the hostages and the Holocaust and called on the government to avoid putting the captive Israelis in further danger.

Evyatar David (L), Rom Braslavski.

Flotilla activist inherited $27m. from Nazi-profiteering family

Marlene Engelhorn admitted that her family fortune profited from the Nazi regime.

Activists announce Marlene Engelhorn, heiress from Zyklon-B fortune, as participant in Gaza flotilla, August 2025.

US Holocaust Memorial Museum chair: What's at stake in this pivotal moment - opinion

We have been taught by Holocaust survivors never to give up and never give in, a lesson that is relevant today.

THE WRITER speaks on the eruption of global antisemitism, addressing an event on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in January 2024.