What I Saw At Corrie Ten Boom’s Hiding Place
by Jonathon Van MarenThe story of the ten Booms is one of extraordinary power: of a family sacrificing all for the Jewish people. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousFor a magazine devoted to religion and public life, the piece by R. R. Reno entitled “Engines of Destruction” was rather strange (January 2024). Religious analysis was almost completely absent: Except for an attack on the positioning of Christian leaders and Pope Francis, it was . . . . Continue Reading »
The Ulma Family and Living the Parable of the Good Samaritan in Wartime
by Filip MazurczakThe Ulmas are relevant exemplars of how to maintain one’s humanity and decency amidst the demoralization of war, which, in 2024, continues to rage in the Holy Land, Ukraine, and Nagorno-Karabakh. Continue Reading »
The Undying People
by Meir Y. SoloveichikThe collection of Yad Vashem, Israel’s museum of the Holocaust and memorial to its victims, presents us with a chronicle of human barbarity and evil. But in its celebration of those “Righteous Gentiles” who protected Jews, it preserves a luminous moral and spiritual legacy. Among those . . . . Continue Reading »
Poland’s Pious Forgers
by Georgia GilholyZofia Kossak-Szczucka became one of the Jewish people's fiercest defenders, co-founding two underground organizations that helped Jews flee the Nazi genocide. Continue Reading »
Music in the Death Camps
by Peter J. LeithartDoes music weaken us? Does it enslave us? Were music and death companions from the very beginning? Continue Reading »
Calendar as Catechism
by Shalom CarmyThe Jewish calendar is the Jewish catechism: So said the -nineteenth-century German champion of Jewish Orthodoxy, Samson R. Hirsch, and with good reason. Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Passover: Despite differences in theology and observance, most Jews, even those who are not well-versed in the entire . . . . Continue Reading »
Two Families and the Communion of Saints
by George WeigelChristians live in a different time zone because of the communion of saints: our spiritual solidarity, in this world, with those Christians who now live in the presence of the Thrice-Holy God and those who are being purified. Continue Reading »
The Jealous God of Chanukah
by Cole S. AronsonThe Maccabees kept nothing, whether sublime or obscene, from their creator’s redemptive touch. Continue Reading »
Holocaust Analogies and Twenty-First-Century Victimhood
by Melissa Langsam BraunsteinResurgent anti-Semitism is a growing problem, but insult is added to injury when people use Jewish suffering to cement their own victim status. Continue Reading »
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