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Follow Dec. 20, 2020 Earlier this month, for the first time in three years, the Knesset held a "Diaspora Day," under the direction of Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevitch (Kahol Lavan). It was a joke, of course. A sad joke. There’s nothing personal here. I don’t know Minister Yankelevitch, and it may be that she is a sincere person with the best of intentions. According to press reports, her agenda was to give world Jewry a voice in the deliberations of Israel’s government. To accomplish this, discussions were held, in person and virtually, with representatives of Jewish communit...

Yad Vashem's Hall of Names The head of Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum has become the latest prominent figure to speak out amid the proposed appointment of a controversial former general as the new leader of Yad Vashem. Historians and survivors have condemned Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to appoint Effi Eitam, a hawkish retired general and politician, to the helm of Israel’s national Holocaust museum. A growing number of critics say he has used racist rhetoric against Arab Israelis and Palestinians. “I am concerned about the future of this institution,” Cywiński told t...

December 18, 2020 11:37 am Piotr Cywinski, the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, at a press conference in Oswiecim, Poland, Jan. 26, 2020. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Advertisement (JTA) — As the head of Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, Piotr Cywiński and his staff rarely intervene in matters that don’t concern their imposing institution. They even sit out debates that do concern them, such as Poland’s controversial outlawing in 2018 of rhetoric that blames the country for Nazi crimes. “I am concerned about the...

Effi Eitam (Photo: Juda S. Engelmayer/Wikimedia) For nearly 70 years Yad Vashem, the world-renowned Holocaust museum established in Jerusalem, has bolstered Israel’s claim to act as guardian and interpreter of the lessons of the Nazi genocide that destroyed much of European Jewry during the Second World War. Before the pandemic, more than a million visitors passed annually through its doors, and the museum was considered an all but mandatory stop for world leaders visiting Israel.  Research by Yad Vashem’s distinguished historians has guided other museums and research institutes a...

Outgoing Yad Vashem chair ‘ready to work with any successor’ Outgoing Yad Vashem chair ‘ready to work with any successor’ Avner Shalev says he’s less worried about a “revolt” by researchers over a controversial appointment for his successor than he is about donations drying up due to the COVID-19 pandemic. By Omer Lachmanovitch Yad Vashem chair Avner Shalev at the museum's exhibition “Flashes of Memory” in Jerusalem on Jan. 24, 2018. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90. Spread the word. (December 17, 2020 / Israel Hayom) This past summer, Yad Vashem chairman Avner Shalev announce...