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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 531

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt, flanked by Winston Churchill, right, and Joseph Stalin, sit on chairs outside the Russian embassy during their conference between November 28 and December 1, 1943, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo)
February 4, 2023, 10:59 am
The (probable) Nazi plot to kill Churchill, FDR and Stalin all at once in Tehran
In their new book ‘The Nazi Conspiracy,’ political thriller writing duo Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch dig into a mysterious assassination attempt that some scholars deny to this day
By Rich Tenorio
President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with the National Jewish Welfare Board (left to right) Walter Rothschild, Chaplain Aryeh Lev, Barnett Brickner and Louis Kraft, at the White House on Nov. 8, 1943 (AP photo)
September 18, 2022, 10:11 pm
PBS Holocaust documentary perpetuates well-worn myths to glorify FDR, says historian
Streaming this week, historian Rafael Medoff says ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’ misrepresents President Roosevelt’s actions leading up to and during the genocide
By Matt Lebovic
US President Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up as he leaves the White House to go to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after he tested positive for COVID-19, in Washington, October 2, 2020. (Alex Brandon/AP)
October 4, 2020, 9:21 am
Of presidents and health, history is replete with secrecy and lies
It has sometimes taken decades for the public to find out just how unwell a US leader was
By Deb Riechmann
President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers a 'fireside chat' from the White House. (public domain)
November 4, 2019, 4:52 pm
Historian: New evidence shows FDR’s bigotry derailed many Holocaust rescue plans
In his book about Franklin Roosevelt and the Holocaust, Rafael Medoff finds links between the US president’s anti-Japanese stances and his policies against Jews fleeing Hitler
By Matt Lebovic
European refugees, denied entry to the United States in New York and Mexico at Veracruz, line the rail of the Portuguese steamer Quanza and talk to relatives on the pier when the ship stopped to refuel at Norfolk, Virginia, September 11, 1940. One passenger, a German, was captured by an army guard after diving overboard in Hampton Roads. (AP Photo)
August 15, 2019, 2:59 am
Nearly turned back, a ship of Holocaust refugees got help from Eleanor Roosevelt
At NYC premiere of documentary ‘Nobody Wants Us,’ filmmaker Laura Seltzer-Duny says US first lady’s efforts to save Jews aboard the SS Quanza should be emulated today
By Cathryn J. Prince
Synagogue in Hanover, Germany, set ablaze during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938 (public domain)
November 10, 2018, 4:35 pm
How to explain the ‘timid’ reaction of American Jewish leaders to Kristallnacht?
Amid the worst pogrom to take place in Germany since the Middle Ages, most US Jewish communal leaders told their constituents to keep quiet
By Matt Lebovic
Jews in Los Angeles protest the Nazis and demand more be done to aid European Jewry in the wake of Kristallnacht, 1938. (Library of Congress)
April 14, 2018, 1:54 pm
As Hungarian Jewry perished in the Holocaust, was the US really so indifferent?
Belying accusations that FDR’s government didn’t do enough, a new book highlights an American wartime committee and its daring plan to rescue Hungary’s Jews
By JP O’ Malley
David S. Wyman, a Holocaust scholar, dies at age 89. (Courtesy)
March 15, 2018, 8:38 pm
David S. Wyman, Holocaust scholar, dead at 89
Best known for his book ‘Abandonment of the Jews,’ the historian was a fierce critic of American inaction during the systemic murder of millions of Jews by the Nazis
By Hillel Italie
Jewish refugees aboard the German liner St. Louis, June 29, 1939. (Planet News Archive/SSPL/Getty Images/via JTA)
November 18, 2016, 2:52 pm
In Israel, famed pre-WWII ship survivors relate to Mideast refugees
Survivors of the SS St. Louis, the rejected trans-Atlantic liner carrying nearly 1,000 Jewish refugees from Germany in 1939, urge world to treat immigrants ‘as family’
By Aron Heller
Jeffrey Salkin
October 10, 2016, 3:52 pm
Jeffrey Salkin
How FDR broke my grandfather’s faith
A previous refugee crisis carried immeasurable losses for his family — which he mourns with the Yom Kippur yizkor
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (left) on April 4, 2016 and Republican challenger Donald Trump on February 16, 2016. (AFP Photo)
June 12, 2016, 7:06 pm
Clinton vs. Trump: Battle of the New Yorkers
In a first since WWII, either a twice ex-state senator or a Manhattan billionaire will be sworn in as next US president
By Jennie Matthew
Jewish refugees aboard the German liner St. Louis, June 29, 1939. (Planet News Archive/SSPL/Getty Images/via JTA)
December 6, 2015, 5:26 am
What Americans had to say about Jewish war refugees
WWII-era Jewish migrants part of an ‘invisible government,’ warned a Montana congressman amid widespread opposition to taking in fleeing Jews
By Uriel Heilman
Chairman Samuel Dickstein, left, of the House Immigration Committee, discussing the bill of Rep. William Schulte, D-Ind., to restrict immigration into the United States from Mexico, March 7, 1934. (AP Images, via JTA)
November 28, 2015, 7:09 pm
Some Jewish refugees really were Nazis, and other illuminating facts
Then, as now, the world looked to the US for leadership; then, as now, American popular opinion opposed allowing them in
By Ron Kampeas
President Barack Obama listened as Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi speaks during their news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 17, 2015. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
May 14, 2015, 7:26 pm
Wooing Saudis, Obama makes royal mistake
President off by 20 years as he hails ‘relationship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt and King Faisal’
By AFP
US President Barack Obama (right) meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on May 13, 2015. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM)
May 13, 2015, 11:44 pm
Saudi king stays away as Obama seeks to reassure Gulf allies on Iran
President hosts 2 Saudi princes at White House; Sunni states suspect nuclear deal a precursor to wider Shiite regional influence
By AFP
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