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Matt Lebovic
During World War II, Italian Jews at forced labor in the Italian camp at Gorizia (public domain)
August 13, 2018, 4:04 am
Italy’s Holocaust executioners revealed in ‘historiographical counterblast’
After decades of silence about Italian citizens’ role in the Holocaust, author Simon Levis Sullam restores the record in a book to be published in English on August 28
By Matt Lebovic
Former 'American Idol' star Brett Loewenstern (courtesy)
August 8, 2018, 6:10 am
‘American Idol’ star who left IDF speaks up about secret mental health battle
After being advised to hide his diagnosis of Bipolar II disorder from army psychiatrists, singer Brett Loewenstern was forced to make a hasty retreat from basic training
By Matt Lebovic
In Burlington Massachusetts, a gathering on Tisha B'Av is held outside the government's ICE offices, July 22, 2018 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
July 23, 2018, 2:48 pm
US Jews rally for immigrants to mark Tisha B’Av day of mourning
In a dozen cities, Jews lament the Trump Administration's immigration policies, demand their cancellation, and are sorrowful at this new 'national tragedy'
By Matt Lebovic
Illustrative: Demonstrators at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport protest US President Donald Trump’s executive order imposing a freeze on admitting refugees from certain countries into the United States, January 29, 2017. (Scott Olson/Getty Images via JTA)
July 13, 2018, 1:08 am
An author predicts Diaspora Jewry’s death, at the hands of Tikkun Olam liberals
Lambasting progressive Jewry as inauthentic at best, Jonathan Neumann writes that ‘American Judaism is broken because the Jewish Left broke it’
By Matt Lebovic
The Ohabei Shalom Cemetery with its burial chapel in East Boston, Massachusetts, on June 10, 2018 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
June 20, 2018, 10:55 pm
Immigrant center planned in the grounds of Boston’s oldest Jewish cemetery
Inside a converted burial chapel, the city's newest and most vulnerable residents will access citizenship resources alongside content on East Boston's Jewish past
By Matt Lebovic
SS chief Heinrich Himmler (center) shakes hands with Hitler's photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann, around 1941 (public domain)
June 20, 2018, 1:57 pm
New book claims a ‘secret deal’ between Nazis and Allies cut the Holocaust short
Journalist Max Wallace writes that a hushed-up pact between Heinrich Himmler and his sworn enemies prompted the SS chief to destroy the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Experts disagree
By Matt Lebovic
Leni Riefenstahl directs 'Olympia,' based on the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany (public domain)
June 14, 2018, 9:03 pm
The quiet absolution of pro-Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl
As the Berlin Museum of Photography prepares an installation about the life of the 'Triumph of the Will' propagandist, scholars worry it validates her distorted take on history
By Matt Lebovic
Anna 'Ans' van Dijk on trial in Amsterdam for collaborating with the Nazis (left) and diarist Anne Frank (public domain)
June 1, 2018, 4:20 pm
Was Anne Frank betrayed by a Jewish collaborator?
With her 'satanic hunting instinct,' the notorious Anna 'Ans' van Dijk is fingered to have tipped off Nazis about the Jews hidden in the 'Secret Annex,' leading to their murders
By Matt Lebovic
A Holocaust memorial created in the 'sauna' facility of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland, with photographs of people deported there, October 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
May 31, 2018, 3:58 am
Defending Auschwitz selfies, a new book unpacks Holocaust tourism
While commemorating the genocide perpetuated by the Nazis, visitors to memorial sites are increasingly placing themselves in the frame
By Matt Lebovic
From left: Judith Resnick, Moses Ezekiel, Orde Charles Wingate, and Rae Landy, each of whose final resting places is at Arlington National Cemetery, outside Washington, DC
May 28, 2018, 4:24 pm
For the Jews of Arlington National Cemetery, American dreams were writ large
The first Jewish woman in space and a CIA agent called 'Super Jew' are among more than 5,000 Jews buried in the hilly shrine outside Washington
By Matt Lebovic
During an outing in 1922, Walter Hollander (third from left) with friends (public domain)
May 23, 2018, 3:49 am
Who was Anne Frank’s gay Uncle Walter?
After being imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Walter Hollander fled Germany. Once settled in Massachusetts, he attempted to help the Frank family flee Europe
By Matt Lebovic
Founder of Israeli Stage Guy Ben-Aharon, who has produced more than 30 staged readings and full productions of Israeli plays since 2010 (courtesy)
May 18, 2018, 6:14 pm
Boston theater producer happy to air Israel’s ‘dirty laundry’ on stage
After several major Israeli theaters passed on Joshua Sobol's 'The Last Act,' a small American troupe took on staging the 'politically potent' play's world premiere on May 18
By Matt Lebovic
Copies of "The Diary of Anne Frank" are displayed at the exhibition 'Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away' on November 28, 2017 at the Arte Canal Exhibition Centre in Madrid. (AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS
May 16, 2018, 12:11 pm
Anne Frank’s gay uncle, sex jokes found ‘hidden’ in her diary
Just-released 'uncovered' writings in Frank's original diary show she enjoyed the occasional off-color joke -- just like any teen
By Matt Lebovic
Carrie Bornstein of Boston prepares for an injection during her surrogate pregnancy for a British-Jewish couple living in London, 2017 (courtesy)
April 28, 2018, 5:17 am
A surrogate mother’s ‘logical decision’ to help a couple living 3,269 miles away
By completing a nine-month 'extreme babysitting’ gig, a Jewish mother aids a childless British couple -- and removes stigma surrounding surrogacy in her own community
By Matt Lebovic
Diarist Renia Spiegel, who was murdered by the Nazis at the age of 18 in Przemysl, Poland (courtesy: Renia Spiegel Foundation)
April 12, 2018, 7:33 pm
The lost diary of Poland’s ‘Anne Frank’: An untold testament of a truncated life
For decades, few people knew of Renia Spiegel or her journal. The Holocaust victim's sister and a determined filmmaker are working to change that
By Matt Lebovic
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