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We hear the phrase a lot today: “Faustian bargain.” Newspaper columnists use it, TV pundits, talk show hosts. It refers to the ancient tale of Faust whose evil covenant lends

From the blog of Steve Rodan at The Times of Israel

This week, two voices from Ukraine have been calling out to me—Chaim Nachman Bialik and Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov.

PHILIPPE SANDS: Mr Putins invasion of Ukraine, and the crimes being committed in his name, feel very personal to me. It is where many of my family once lived.

The fate of Putin’s war in Ukraine depends on how ordinary Russian soldiers react to what they find on the ground.

‘The Twisted Road to Auschwitz’ According to German historian Christian Gerlach, Hitler made the decision “in principle to murder all the Jews in Europe, either on or around December12, 1941. … At least that is when it was made public.” During a speech on December 12 to approximately 50 regional and “sectional” leaders of the Nazi Party, Joseph Goebbels, Reich minister of propaganda, reported: “Regarding the Jewish Question, the Führer has determined to clear the table.

When we remember 2002, we must keep in mind that the anti-Muslim pogrom, which was genocidal in nature, was not a work of a day or weeks. Observers were left stunned by the expanse of the violence and the sheer number of people who got actively involved in it. This, apart from those who silently watched it, lent a hand here and there without soiling their hands, and those who

Attack on city’s TV tower damages Babyn Yar, which honours 34,000 Jews killed by Nazi death squads in two days in 1941

The way Putin frames Russian state violence in Ukraine is similar to the rhetoric Israel has been using in its wars against Palestinians for decades.

After the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in Gujarat, Modi’s image builders milked the occasion to anoint him as the strongman saviour that India’s majority religion needed to put Muslims in their place.