As Yom Kippur approaches, the legacy of America’s treatment of Jewish refugees must be a call to action
Increasing numbers of migrants are pouring into American cities. They need our help.
Increasing numbers of migrants are pouring into American cities. They need our help.
A historian responds to the claims FDR could have met with the 400 Orthodox rabbis marching to save Jews of Europe
A history professor responds to a debate in Ken Burns' latest documentary about FDR's inaction in face of Nazi atrocities
The U.S. State Department presented a program of speeches and a play highlighting the history of the MS St. Louis for about 200 people, including more than 30 survivors. The highlight of the event was the play “The Trial of FDR.” That play is expected to be shown throughout the country to remind people of…
Just because your last name’s Hitler, doesn’t mean you’re a bad guy. That’s the message in a 1942 letter sent by Adolf Hitler’s nephew to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, asking for permission to enlist in the U.S. military to fight his uncle’s “devilish and pagan regime.” Yahoo! reported on the letter’s publication this week on…
It isn’t often that a community can say that its rabbi’s American past goes back further than the country’s first synagogue. Or that its rabbi had ancestors who landed in New Amsterdam in the 1640s. Or, for that matter, that its rabbi’s great-grandfather was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States. But…
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