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Rafael Medoff

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

In a region where over 200,000 people were slaughtered just twenty years ago, all the activists who have been yelling at Israel suddenly seem to have lost their voices. Why?
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?
What does Roosevelt’s mass internment of the Japanese have to do with his response to the Holocaust? More than you might think.
It is not widely known that the history of the Tuskegee pilots is connected to the controversy over the Roosevelt administration’s refusal to bomb Auschwitz.
Is it really a source of pride for American Jewry if its leaders aspire to be presidents-for-life?