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Tablet Social Justice in Detroit 2 Jan 2020
In the 1920s in Detroit, Henry Ford fueled anti-Semitic sentiment through articles in the Dearborn Independent, though he later apologized. Father Charles Co...
2 Jan 2020
Tablet Yossi and the Mossad 25 Jun 2019
Yossi, a former Mossad agent turned associate, shared details of his espionage career, including a successful mission involving the kidnapping of a journalis...
25 Jun 2019
Tablet When Jews Ruled the Fencing World 29 Jan 2019
Jewish athletes, particularly in fencing, have a rich history that dates back to before WWII. At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, three women with Jewish background...
29 Jan 2019
Tablet Anti-Semitism and the Birth of Jewish Studies 18 Oct 2018
During the 1960s, a Jewish graduate student at the University of Michigan encountered ambivalence towards Jewish identity among his peers and faculty members...
18 Oct 2018
Tablet Gangsters vs. Nazis 3 Jul 2018
In the 1930s, as anti-Semitism rose in the U.S., Jewish gangsters like Meyer Lansky took violent action against anti-Semitic groups like the Nazi Bund, disru...
3 Jul 2018
Tablet The Industrial Removal Office 16 May 2018
The Industrial Removal Office (IRO) was established in 1901 by German American Jewish leaders to relocate unemployed eastern European Jewish immigrants from ...
16 May 2018
Tablet Gangsters for Zion 19 Apr 2018
In the post-World War II era, the Jewish Agency established a covert arms procurement network in the United States under the Haganah, involving a diverse gro...
19 Apr 2018
Tablet Night Falls: German Jews React to Hitler’s Rise to Power 9 Nov 2017
When Hitler rose to power in 1933, German Jews, who numbered 535,000, faced increasing violence and discrimination as the Nazi regime implemented anti-Jewish...
9 Nov 2017