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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 424

Matt Lebovic

Matt Lebovic

Reporter at The Times of Israel
Inset from 'Chaim Weizmann: A Biography,' published in May 2024. (courtesy)
November 27, 2024, 8:10 am
Israel’s 1st president disdained European Jews, ‘but he was ready to die for them’
Two historians co-author intimate portrait of fallible leader, born exactly 150 years ago, with new details on Chaim Weizmann’s struggles after losing his RAF pilot son in WWII
By Matt Lebovic
Israelis from Gaza-area communities welcomed in New York on Nov. 10, 2024, for 'Thanks4Giving' mega-mission of Project 24, an Israeli NGO founded in aftermath of Oct. 7 attacks (Mid Island JCC)
November 12, 2024, 9:21 pm
Seeking deeper ties, group brings Gaza-area security squads into American homes
‘Project 24’ initiative says thanks by flying 185 members of emergency teams and their families to Jewish communities in New York area and south Florida for some R&R and more
By Matt Lebovic
H. Keith Melton points to a key on an Enigma Machine with four rotors and a some Japanese characters that was used in World War II to encode messages, September 13, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
November 10, 2024, 8:30 am
‘Holocaust Codes’ pits British codebreaker against SS leader in battle for secrecy
Author Christian Jennings delivers jarring account of Allied codebreaker who deciphered Holocaust’s evolution from open-air massacres to purpose-built death camps
By Matt Lebovic
Russian dissident Pavel Kushnir died in a hunger strike in July 2024. (YouTube capture)
November 4, 2024, 8:14 am
Jewish pianist was first political prisoner in modern Russia to die in hunger strike
For posting anti-Putin videos on YouTube, Pavel Kushnir was imprisoned in Siberia. He died of starvation in protest of the war in Ukraine while awaiting trial; 11 people came to his funeral
By Matt Lebovic
Father Patrick Desbois visits site of Hamas massacre at Kibbutz Be'eri for the one-year commemoration of the October 7, 2023, attacks, October 2024 (B'nai B'rith International)
October 26, 2024, 4:17 am
Pioneering genocide researcher Father Desbois denounces mass murder charges against Israel
French-Catholic priest behind ‘Holocaust by Bullets’ investigations visits Gaza border communities, decries anti-Israel ‘propaganda’ and pushes for trials for Hamas terrorists
By Matt Lebovic
Historian Igor Bartosik at the former Union factory adjacent to Auschwitz, from which female prisoners smuggled revolt supplies to Sonderkommando prisoners living atop Birkenau gas chambers, August 2024 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
October 8, 2024, 10:41 am
80 years ago on Oct. 7, Jewish Sonderkommando workers staged a failed revolt at Auschwitz
Decades before the Hamas atrocities, inmates took up arms against their Nazi tormentors. It didn’t succeed, but the revolt was singular, unprecedented, and facilitated by women
By Matt Lebovic
Destroyed houses from the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on southern Israel, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, September 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 7, 2024, 1:31 am
After reaching Israel days after Oct. 7, USC Shoah Foundation is now helping record it
The organization’s researchers gathered hundreds of witness testimonies after the massacre and is sharing them with Israel’s National Library while advising on forming a collection
By Matt Lebovic
Illustrative: Two men hold up a banner and signs along Market Street during a tech workers protest against Google and Amazon for their contracts with the Israeli government in San Francisco, September 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
September 10, 2024, 4:54 am
Why did Amazon blacklist – and then permit – two books based on Oct. 7 testimonies?
Citing ‘violation of company guidelines,’ online seller blocked 2 titles about the Hamas atrocities from sale this summer; company spokesperson denies anti-Israel bias at play
By Matt Lebovic
Free food pantry at JCC Krakow for Ukrainian refugees in 2022. (Courtesy)
September 8, 2024, 5:35 pm
With a world weary of war, donations dry up for Ukrainian refugees at JCC Krakow
Jewish Community Center in city adjacent to Auschwitz raised $12m for Ukrainian refugees since 2022. But as money runs out, the new residents may lose yet another port in their storm
By Matt Lebovic
Researchers prepare to scan a mass grave at Ponar, outside Vilnius, Lithuania. (Ezra Wolfinger, NOVA)
September 4, 2024, 9:30 am
New research uncovers how Lithuania’s largest Holocaust massacre was mostly forgotten
Chris Heath’s ‘No Road Leading Back’ pieces together the Ponar massacre in detective-like fashion, including a daring escape of 40 prisoners through a secret tunnel in 1944
By Matt Lebovic
Yasser Arafat claps his hands over his head as some delegates give him a standing ovation during the United Nations General Assembly in New York, November 14, 1974. The two delegates from Ireland, sitting in front row at left, remain seated. (AP Photo)
August 4, 2024, 6:23 am
Know thine enemy: When the PLO hosted 80 scholars at a Beirut Israel studies center
Historian Jonathan Marc Gribetz’s ‘Reading Herzl in Beirut’ excavates a forgotten decades-long PLO research center that helped shift some Palestinians’ thinking regarding Israel
By Matt Lebovic
Legendary Warsaw Ghetto historian Rachel Auerbach. (USHMM)
July 30, 2024, 8:26 am
Wartime memoir excavates Jewish spiritual resistance in largest Holocaust ghetto
New translation of Rachel Auerbach’s ‘Warsaw Testament’ sheds light on cultural activism of Jews imprisoned in Nazi Germany’s largest Jewish ghetto
By Matt Lebovic
Adolf Eichmann is seen standing in his bullet proof glass box as the charges against him are read during judical proceedings in the Beit Ha'Am building in Jerusalem, April 12, 1961. (AP Photo/Str)
July 23, 2024, 3:17 pm
Israel’s landmark Eichmann trial depicted in limited-run NYC production
Giving Holocaust survivors a voice, Adolf Eichmann’s 1961 trial in Jerusalem held Final Solution ‘architect’ responsible for organizing deportation of Jews across Europe
By Matt Lebovic
People gather to protest the banning of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace at Columbia University on November 20, 2023, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images via AFP)
July 19, 2024, 5:49 pm
Virginia orders SJP umbrella group to release Hamas-funding docs
American Muslims for Palestine is accused of funding Hamas in US state; relatives of Oct. 7 victims file lawsuit against organization for legitimizing and promoting the terrorists
By Matt Lebovic
The Centropa archive focuses on Holocaust survivors who remained in central and eastern Europe. (Courtesy)
June 14, 2024, 4:19 pm
Centropa archive documents Holocaust survivors’ entire lives – not just the Nazi years
US Holocaust Museum acquires trove of interviews with Jews who stayed in central and eastern Europe in hopes of fleshing out a lost 20th-century history as told by those who lived it
By Matt Lebovic
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