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…ime when the underpinnings of the universe were questioned.” Both of Kaptchuk’s parents, who were Poles, sur- vived the Holocaust. “That really defines a lot of what I do. My father was a Red, so I have a tendency to get pleasure from subversiveness.” A particularly radical son...

…ormer Attorney General of Canada, who attended the conference, the air was filled with hate speech such as “too bad the Holocaust was not completed.” The conference became a “festival of hate such that we had not experienced anywhere at any time before.” It was “a state sanctione...

…erican Jews and to Israel: “To put the matter brutally, many American Jewish leaders were capable of ignoring the Asian holocaust in favor of economic and military aid to Israel ... It is not merely we nor the Vietnamese who must live with that fact. So must Israel. So must the A...

…. | once asked him, “How come you’ re taking Hebrew lessons?” He replied, “1 can’ t speak it.” And when | mentioned the Holocaust, he responded, “I resented it.” Tweets range from the trivial (David Gregory announcing that he was going to eat a bagel before moderating Meet the P...

…ensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. —VIKTOR E. FRANKL, Holocaust survivor; author of Man’s Search for Meaning I believe that life exists to be enjoyed and that the most important thing is to feel good about yourself...

…estinian who was living abroad. The hostage soldier’s ordeal was made even worse by the fact his mother, Esther, was a Holocaust survivor, born in a displaced-persons camp in Germany at the end of the war. Rabin had been ready to approve a rescue attempt from the outset, assumin...

…ch that Conflicts with Reputational and Privacy Rights Defamation: “He that filches from me my good name:” Whenever a Holocaust denier or defamer of the Jews spews out his poison, I get calls and emails demanding that I sue them for defaming the Jewish people or committing a “b...

…Palestine at the time. It was as if America had lost two million in the Vietnam War. One-third of the Israeli dead were Holocaust survivors. The Arabs paid a heavy price too, and not just the roughly 7,000 people who lost their lives. Nearly 700,000 Palestinian Arabs had fled —...

…of becoming willing executioners, a phrase coined by the historian Daniel Goldhagen to describe Germans involved in the Holocaust. Desire + Denial. We all carry out this sum easily, often automatically and unconsciously. When we are pushed by a desire to eliminate others or to a...

…esonates for a people who remember how the world closed its doors to millions of Jews in the 1930s. Their deaths in the Holocaust were but an obscene multiple of the deaths endured in the crusades and pogroms of earlier centuries when the Jews were betrayed by those who had the p...

… ultimately sent the passengers to Hamburg. The sight of thousands of Jewish refugees shipped to Germany soon after the Holocaust sparked international outrage and sympathy for the Zionist cause, a key goal of the trip. “The Exodus showed that if the British are callous enough to...

…ily Jewish Chicago suburb, one of the judges argued that allowing Nazis to march through a city where a large number of Holocaust survivors live ‘just might fall into the same category as one’s ‘right’ to cry fire in a crowded theater.”*° Some close analogies to shouting “Fire!”...

…ich they and their families endured before arriving in Palestine. Nor did they ever speak to me in any detail about the Holocaust. No one on the kibbutz did. It was as if the memories were scabs they dared not pick at. Also, it seemed, because they were determined to avoid someho...

… wife Marilyn, whose father’s entire family had lived in the Ukraine, where almost all of them were murdered during the Holocaust. The difficulty was exacerbated when one of the Ukrainian lawyers with whom I was working was found dead in his bed just hours after we completed an e...

…en reading a study of anti-Semitism by Jean-Paul Sartre. Now, on stage, giving credit to Thomas Merton's poem about the Holocaust, he requested that all the lights go off except one dim blue spot. Then he began speaking with a German accent: My name is Adolf Eichmann. And the Je...