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Rafael Medoff

Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.

The real history of the Jews in Vienna’s Leopoldstadt district is as harrowing as what’s depicted in a hit Broadway play.
The suit that Al Jazeera has filed in the International Criminal Court could shine an embarrassing spotlight on the network itself.
There need to be meaningful consequences which will clearly establish that in contemporary American society, racist humor is no laughing matter.
After the U.S. government apologized to Nazi Germany, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise spoke truth to power for the first and only time.
Hollow condemnation of anti-Semitism, that do not name names, signal that anti-Semites and their followers are a legitimate part of American political culture. And that’s just wrong.
Nancy Pelosi was fortunate to have as her role model a man who courageously put his humanitarian principles above his narrow political needs.
First, they ignored it. Then they de-Judaized it. Now they’re exploiting it.
Today known as FDR Drive, it was renamed to honor a president who is deservedly revered for his many achievements, but whose legacy is tarnished by his tragic abandonment of the Jews.
The story of how that came about involves some surprising twists and turns, and a stormy debate about Jews and Arabs that could have been taken straight out of today’s headlines.
Is there a basis for comparing today’s editors of The Harvard Crimson to their pre-World War II predecessors?
Why is Russian television suddenly interested in how U.S. journalists covered Hitler?