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Daniel S. Mariaschin. Credit: B’nai B’rith International.

Daniel S. Mariaschin

Daniel S. Mariaschin served for 27 years as CEO of B’nai B’rith International. The views expressed here are his own.

The New York Public Library chose to host a man who demonizes Zionism and Israel.
What seems to be missing in the indignant, self-absorbed statements by certain Congress members is a severe absence of self-respect for their country and for the “values” they say they hold.
My fifth-grade teacher recognized a symbol of hatred and didn’t want her one Jewish student to be hurt in any way.
It is past time that responsible political leaders, members of parliament, clear-eyed journalists and community leaders do a deep dive into who is funding violence against Jews and what is out there that drives it.
The autocrats and opportunists at the United Nations lob any conceivable canard at Israelis, no matter how brazen; from “apartheid” to “gender-based violence” to “Judaizing” Jerusalem.
“Bau, Artist at War,” tells the story of graphic artist Joseph Bau, interned in the Krakow-Plaszów concentration camp from 1942 to 1945, and his wife, Rebecca Tennenbaum.
Those who claim the sky is falling because Israel is standing up to the neighborhood bully are either tremendously naive or find something appealing in Tehran’s culture of hate—or both.
A week or two of goodwill toward Israel following the terror attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, have morphed into a year-and-a-half of laceration of Israel for seeking to defeat an existential enemy.
Memory is not the work of a day. We must not lose a minute in telling—and retelling—what happened when the world turned dark.
For a country that exiled its Jewish community—and tortured and sentenced to death thousands of Jews—you would think that it would show some sensitivity towards Israel, recognizing the threats it faces.
Amid the war in Gaza, the new Hellenic-Israel relationship is weathering its first crisis.
We must tell our extraordinary story to open and fair-minded Americans.