Rafael Medoff

GOP’s Israel plank challenges the Democrats

This year’s GOP platform states, “We will stand with Israel, and seek peace in the Middle East." Can the Democrats afford not to match that? Opinion.

If only Israel would invade New Caledonia!

French settlers in New Caledonia are just white Europeans who have pushed their way into somebody else’s country without permission. But no one cares. Op-ed.

Lag Ba’Omer with the “Jewish Amazons” at the Pyramids

For Rabbi Louis Rabinowitz, it would be the most remarkable Lag Ba'Omer he would ever experience, that is Lag Ba'Omer 1942.

Has Wolf Blitzer’s father pulled the rug from under Ken Burns?

Wolf Blitzer's father and the bombing of Auschwitz. Op-ed.

Comic book features American Holocaust hero

Could the Allies Have Saved Jews From the Nazis?

A major event has been examining in depth, whether the Allies could have done more to save Jews during the Holocaust.

US Refrained from Bombing Auschwitz 'To Avoid Jewish Influx'

Historian Rafael Medoff's research shows how repeated pleas to bomb camps were ignored intentionally.