https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to holocaust en https://religiondispatches.org/2026/02/05/ferocity-responses-tim-walzs-anne-frankice-comments-are-revealing When Minnesota Governor Tim Walz invoked Anne Frank while criticizing ICE deportations in his state, the backlash was immediate and fierce. Walz, who earned a master’s degree in Holocaust education, said that , “We have got children in Minnesota hiding… Thu, 05 Feb 2026 02:10:21 EST Joel Swanson a3526b03-a67f-4c3e-8fdc-72c49df06f01 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/01/24/florida-attempts-make-it-illegal-argument-sacred-work-white-discomfort In Florida, a state senate committee wants to make it illegal to cause discomfort to white people. This bill, which reads like a scene from 1984 , is a doozy. You can, and should, read the full text of it… Mon, 24 Jan 2022 06:27:41 EST Robert P. Jones ba57c5a8-05f8-4fcb-9688-c0e49a17f741 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/05/30/children-bellow-and-roth-new-book-short-fiction-takes-male-jewish-experience “I’m unbelievably bored writing about Judaism as a journalist,” author Gordon Haber said during a recent conversation with RD. When Haber compiled Uggs for Gaza And Other Stories, his debut short story collection, he didn’t set out to tackle the… Tue, 30 May 2017 03:35:13 EDT Stephanie Russell-Kraft d55c7e75-2a7c-41c4-b867-cbc8d029ff84 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/04/28/promise-reminder-us-apathy-genocide-endures Today, after our invasion of Iraq led to the creation of Daesh, and after our silence in the face of murderous actions emboldened the Asad regime, we are intimately linked to the death of Syrians. Fri, 28 Apr 2017 02:41:21 EDT Hussein Rashid c48d0599-8d70-4339-aadb-462094bcdd24 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/05/searching-vain-pure-elie-wiesel When they read Elie Wiesel’s Night, my Bible-belt students are regularly caught up short. They are flummoxed by the events about which Wiesel wrote; by the very fact that the Holocaust took place. But they are just as flummoxed by… Tue, 05 Jul 2016 03:34:33 EDT Martin Kavka 7a34f0ed-5a83-412f-9635-7fcd6b82e106 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/02/nazi-jewish-prisoner-and-magic-bible-or-christian-romance-fiction-gone-very-very-wrong Is there a prize for most offensive conversion narrative? Wed, 02 Sep 2015 02:29:31 EDT Julia Seymour a7b6c64e-d677-45e7-a41c-8fe5eddf5d06 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/07/29/will-huckabees-ovens-comment-be-end-his-candidacy Alright, Governor Huckabee, since you asked… After Mike Huckabee, who portrays himself as perhaps the most loyal friend Israel has in American politics, told Breitbart News that President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran “will take the Israelis and… Wed, 29 Jul 2015 05:45:21 EDT Sarah Posner ebd64d8e-2166-47aa-8055-ceb98e1a7527 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/11/19/secret-family-history-shows-regular-life-under-reich-sarah-wildman-paper-love Sarah Wildman’s new book, Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind (Riverhead) chronicles her quest to find the woman her grandfather left behind in Vienna when he escaped the Nazis in 1938. It’s part memoir, part personal… Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:00:23 EST Sarah Posner, Sarah Wildman 2d7d651f-1020-4bc0-84ad-405ebb41c8c9 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/08/29/elie-wiesel-distorts-bible-controversial-child-sacrifice-ad A close look at scripture challenges Elie Wiesel’s narcissistic new tale of exceptionalism. Fri, 29 Aug 2014 04:24:07 EDT Seth Sanders 6fb1c500-2511-4e66-94e2-6cf27a6c556c https://religiondispatches.org/2013/12/12/and-what-non-jewish-jews The Pew poll revealed a significant number of Americans who, despite having no apparent reason to do so, identify as Jews. Thu, 12 Dec 2013 05:42:14 EST Shaul Magid e7dd4581-dc28-4303-b74a-622933cbaaf4 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/12/12/opportunity-knocks-pew-results So the ground is shifting beneath our feet—what else is new? Thu, 12 Dec 2013 05:41:13 EST Rachel Barenblat 67ed8849-6bf6-4127-97a3-9cb95994bf30 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/06/18/when-childrens-literature-not-defined-innocence I wanted to think about how we mediate the past for children—and how we tell stories about children who lived in the past. Writing about religion, memory, and children’s literature became my way of doing that. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:52:00 EDT Jodi Eichler-Levine f62da051-1859-4c1b-9156-87cc889800b9 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/06/11/suspicion-modern-age-pope-regresses Called to the carpet for the decision to reinstall controversial bishops, the Vatican has taken to doing what it does best: issuing public statements, coupled with obfuscation and outright denial. Tue, 11 Jun 2013 03:14:17 EDT Louis A. Ruprecht 2a81e355-81ba-426b-8c86-aca7c0abf187 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/05/23/american-jews-holocaust-new-age-hasidism If traditional notions of Judaism and Jewishness are at odds with the contemporary world, one can either change Judaism, or one can change the world. A new book makes a case for the former. Thu, 23 May 2013 04:21:01 EDT Martin Kavka 78bf69d1-6f41-4233-8c96-788ca104d8e0 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/01/28/popes-dubious-holocaust-remembrance I have a better idea. Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:59:44 EST Evan Derkacz ae036706-3629-4f48-bd17-d65ce97819d0 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/12/17/newtown-tragedy-horror-no-future We remember child martyrs in the crusades, young Holocaust victims like Anne Frank, the deaths of Emmett Till and four little girls in Birmingham, Alabama. The children of the day care center in Oklahoma City. Our enduring image from that dark day is a fireman, soaked in blood, carrying a baby on the cover of the magazines. Youth move us because they bring to the light the existential horror of no future. Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:17:51 EST Jodi Eichler-Levine d0a17855-d6d8-4531-8d61-52cf4e32f941 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/11/26/reading-beinart-and-lerner-gaza-burns I know it sounds strange but it’s a great time to be an Jewish American activist working for Middle East peace. After all these years in the closet there’s hope that the Beinartians and the Lernerites have begun a critical dialogue for Jewish Americans. Mon, 26 Nov 2012 01:37:49 EST Ira Chernus 86f2efdc-8363-4220-bdbf-847bfe768608 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/08/08/wiesel-romney-stop-lds-baptisms-holocaust-victims Romney can’t help, but there are steps the Church could take. Wed, 08 Aug 2012 07:06:45 EDT Joanna Brooks 7f02b82d-e23b-4f9f-abae-9f02aa6fe8d3 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/05/09/where-wild-things-arent-just-jewish Maurice Sendak lived in the shadow of the Holocaust, yet he refused to claim that identity and chosenness solely for the Jewish people. Wed, 09 May 2012 06:20:31 EDT Jodi Eichler-Levine 0155f881-ba36-4315-8d97-ea545f0c0ceb https://religiondispatches.org/2012/03/26/religious-freedom-rally-sets-stage-1st-amendment-collision A report from the principally Catholic anti-contraception rally in Maryland reveals a constituency whose calls for religious freedom appear to be at the cost of freedom for all others. Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:29:51 EDT Sarah Posner c05b6988-b688-4966-a767-27420f2c843d https://religiondispatches.org/2012/03/08/fake-rabbi-showdown Recently, a controversial megachurch minister Eddie Long was crowned a Davidic king “on behalf of the Jewish people”; but he’s far from the first non-Jew to make use of a so-called rabbi to bolster his spiritual authority. Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:55:37 EST Peter Manseau 4bbb5faa-e9fe-499c-b6b8-4f24989b952a https://religiondispatches.org/2012/01/26/how-anne-frank-turned-occupy Throughout his 32-minute set, Mangum returned more than once to the sad fate of the teenage diarist, and in doing so he created a moment that seemed at once a communal high point of the movement and a peculiarly ominous sing-along, Kumbaya mashed up with catastrophe. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:51:38 EST Peter Manseau ef42bdc3-7d24-43f6-bc87-496687d8c2fb https://religiondispatches.org/2011/06/03/h-word ‘Holocaust’ and other terms associated with World War II have been creeping into the public discourse with an alarming frequency. Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:09:55 EDT Shalom Goldman 8c8d8ca8-7476-4350-a7c1-24b9a3b8842c https://religiondispatches.org/2011/04/12/holocaust-over-avraham-burgs-israel-and-jews-victims A recent book by an eminent Israeli has caused a sensation in Israel as it calls on Jews to move past the Holocaust, which has rendered them oblivious to the suffering of others. Though Burg is firmly rooted in the tradition of Israeli apostates, his thesis overlooks several critical phenomena. Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:07:45 EDT David Biale 6ca1e2df-2f1a-4916-8616-6eefa4e76b56 https://religiondispatches.org/2010/12/20/pope-benedicts-blind-spot-holocaust On numerous occasions Pope Benedict has ignored the connection between Christian anti-Semitism and Nazi racial anti-Semitism, and when posed a question about German responsibility for the Holocaust he fails to address it directly. Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:39:35 EST Kevin P Spicer a2af0c6f-6ed1-4ff9-9db2-d3d7f6808665