Poland’s Pious Forgers
by Georgia GilholyZofia Kossak-Szczucka became one of the Jewish people's fiercest defenders, co-founding two underground organizations that helped Jews flee the Nazi genocide. Continue Reading »
Music in the Death Camps
by Peter J. LeithartDoes music weaken us? Does it enslave us? Were music and death companions from the very beginning? Continue Reading »
Calendar as Catechism
by Shalom CarmyThe Jewish calendar is the Jewish catechism: So said the -nineteenth-century German champion of Jewish Orthodoxy, Samson R. Hirsch, and with good reason. Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Passover: Despite differences in theology and observance, most Jews, even those who are not well-versed in the entire . . . . Continue Reading »
Two Families and the Communion of Saints
by George WeigelChristians live in a different time zone because of the communion of saints: our spiritual solidarity, in this world, with those Christians who now live in the presence of the Thrice-Holy God and those who are being purified. Continue Reading »
The Jealous God of Chanukah
by Cole S. AronsonThe Maccabees kept nothing, whether sublime or obscene, from their creator’s redemptive touch. Continue Reading »
Holocaust Analogies and Twenty-First-Century Victimhood
by Melissa Langsam BraunsteinResurgent anti-Semitism is a growing problem, but insult is added to injury when people use Jewish suffering to cement their own victim status. Continue Reading »
Auschwitz and “Intrinsic Evil”
by George WeigelThe lethal reality of what happened at Auschwitz-Birkenau stands in contradiction to the claim that there are no “intrinsically evil acts.” Continue Reading »
Scrolls of Hate and Hope
by Erica BrownAnti-Semitism is hardly a thing of the past; it’s a constant, vicious drumbeat—and it’s louder today than it has been in decades. Continue Reading »
The Vanity of Guilt
by Andreas LombardSince the fall of the Berlin Wall, no political question has so deeply divided Europe, and especially Germany, as that of mass migration from Africa and the Near East. Do European states have the right to protect themselves from an unprecedented influx of migrants? Are they permitted to . . . . Continue Reading »
Auschwitz Rightly Remembered
by Michel GurfinkielCatholics used to say humorously—back when mutual toleration among Christian churches, or between Christian and non-Christian persuasions, was not yet an admission of religious indifference—that no faith was so close to the truth, nor so manifestly erroneous, as Anglicanism. This is how . . . . Continue Reading »
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