Israeli Jews

the article, A Journey to Forgiveness by Mark Gibson, Eva explains in minor detail about what happened to her and most others during the Holocaust. Someone as brave and kind-hearted like Eva is someone who should never be overlooked. We know that Jews were pulled away right and left to determine their fate, but do we know what happened when you were a twin? Exactly - you don’t. Eva and her sister were taken away from their mother after the rest of the family (their father and two older sisters)…

Nazi regime and their allies brutally killed close to six millions innocent Jews (more than two thirds of Jewish population in Europe at that time). With Adolf Hitler’s appointment as a chancellor of Germany, life of Jews changed very significantly. Starting in Germany, and later through majority of German-controlled lands, Jews were forced into ghettos and then killed in the gas chambers, in many places throughout Europe Jews were gathered together, they were forced to dig a pit and were…

All throughout Jewish history, and even into the 21st century, Jews have been constantly fighting the battle against anti-Semitism. This has been a recurring hardship for Jews all around the world. The Nazi rise to power in Germany led to the prime example of anti-Semitism thus far, the development of the Final Solution. This was the plan to exterminate all of the Jewish people, and resulted in the death of six million Jews, two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population. More than 70 years after this…

killed a variety of people. However, that is not the whole story. He did not only kill people, but also he emotionally and physically hurt them. Hitler did not only kill Jewish people, but he also killed Soviet prisoners, gypsies, the mentally ill. The Jews were the only ones set out for total annihilation. The Holocaust was a world-changing event that has had a far-reaching impact and affects America’s lives today. The Holocaust was not another massacre. It was an event where people got…

ideology, majorities of the Palestine people were kicked out of their homes and relocated in order to make room for a Jewish State. In Nur Masalha’s book, “The Palestine Nakba,” she discusses the methods that were used to try to cover up this wound in Israeli history, and refers to it as, “memoricide.” She also goes over how we can keep the memory of the tragic events alive. The events of the Nakba can be closely related to the war in Palestine, which occurred at the tail end of the 1940’s.…

to make me into a doctor of philosophy; I should be both a Ph.D. and a rabbi." [7] And his father made him learn modern Hebrew, a skill with which he was later able to make his livelihood as a journalist for an Israeli newspaper. Wiesel remembers his father, an "emancipated," if religious Jew, saying to him, "Listen, if you want to study Talmud, if you want to study Kabbalah, whatever you want to study is all right with me and I'll help you. But you must give me one hour a day for modern study."…

It was the year 2058 and there were no more religious distinctions in Israel. After centuries of religious war, including the crusades, the Israeli-Arab conflict and the Intifada there was an even worse religious uprising. On April 13th in 2028, Pope John Francis visited Bethlehem for Easter. He was assassinated by Hamas terrorists, Mahmoud El Axan and Muhammed Bin Raji. The five year war that ensued resulted in the deaths of 2,000,000 people and destroyed most of the religious sites in…

Through the Zionist movement, the Jewish people transformed themselves from a passive, marginalized people into a collective unit that was able to fight for a homeland and create the modern life possible in Jerusalem and Israel. When thinking about the Jewish people and their history, the roots of their religion, the destruction of the epicenter of their very religion, and the Temple Mount, it is imperative that we recognize the multiple forced removals from their homeland and city of Jerusalem,…

The motif of orphanhood is central to the Israeli Cultural Identity. Orphan’s usage in this context, however, is the deprivation of some protection or advantage. The Jews of Israel were deprived of adequate protection and a fair advantage and because of that the creation of a Jewish homeland was even more important. While many Jews in Israel, were traditional orphans who had lost their parents, all Jews in Israel were orphans in the way that they were deprived of some protection or advantage in…

Eichmann, the SS-Obersturmbannführer who was responsible for the mass deportation of Jews in Eastern Europe to the death camps, was put on trial by the Israeli government for crimes against humanity, he constantly justified that he was acting upon that which was ordered upon him as well as going with the tide of the powers that be. This remorseless defense was famously chronicled and evaluated upon by the German Jew, Hannah Arendt, who had released a book about it, “A Report on the Banality of…