Editorial: Looking ahead to the second century
We made it. The newspaper of Minnesota’s Jewish community is marking 100 years of continuous publication — under the American ...
Tag: Germany
Preserving the story of German-speaking Jews
Executives from the Leo Baeck Institute were in Minneapolis recently to discuss the Jewish experience in Germany, past and present ...
Remembering at Bergen-Belsen
Commemorations have been given an added urgency by what some perceive as a potential threat against Israel from a nuclear-armed ...
Editorial: Israel as a political football
Following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s March 3 address to a joint session of Congress (minus about 60 members, including ...
Can 'Diplomacy' save Paris from a devoted officer of the Reich?
This impassioned debate about the prospects for human civilization is a profile in conscience By MICHAEL FOX It is not ...
Gus Gutman leaves a legacy in two countries
Beginning in the 1990s, Gus Gutman made several trips back to his native Germany where he spoke about his Shoah ...
Editorial: Russia’s antigay laws and the Olympics
The Olympic movement professes to be above politics; but politics has dogged the Olympic Games since 1936. Berlin won the ...
Nazi SS commander found living in Minneapolis
Documents indicate that Michael Karkoc, 94, was a top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled ...
Who is to blame for restitution fraud?
After botched probe, Claims Conference chairman Julius Berman addresses accountability By URIEL HEILMAN NEW YORK (JTA) — Now that it's ...
Hitler Youth’s shattering rendezvous with reality propels 'Lore'
Lore is a deeply moral film, a coming-of-age story for the daughter of an SS officer By MICHAEL FOX Set ...
