NYJW Opinion

In August 1974, on assuming the presidency less than an hour after Richard Nixon’s resignation in the face of impeachment, Gerald Ford announced, “My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.” In the wake of Donald Trump’s shocking upset Tuesday night, the majority of American Jews, who voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton, may well […]

We woke up this morning to a Kristallnacht anniversary unlike any other.  Many historians believe that the pogrom of November 9, 1938, the night when Jewish businesses and houses of worship all over Germany were shattered by Nazi hooligans, paved the way for the Holocaust that followed.   Some say it gave license to the overt […]