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In October 2020, the New York Times ran an op-ed glorifying Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March and failing to provide... In any case, using the Holocaust to “sensitize students to the evils of bigotry, intolerance, and oppression” doesn’t seem like an unreasonable idea. How can anyone be against a universal message that fights hate and intolerance? The problem is that when you get too general and universal, it’s hard to remember anything. Everything becomes hazy. The teaching and the moralizing can easily get lost in a sea of clichés. Since Holocaust Remembrance Day falls this wee...

Holocaust Education Won’t Succeed Without Storytelling Since Holocaust Remembrance Day falls this week, it’s a good time to remember a timeless truth: Nothing sticks to the memory like human stories. David Suissa is President of Tribe Media/Jewish Journal, where he has been writing a weekly column on the Jewish world since 2006. In 2015, he was awarded first prize for "Editorial Excellence" by the American Jewish Press Association. Prior to Tribe Media, David was founder and CEO of Suissa Miller Advertising, a marketing firm named “Agency of the Year” by USA Today. He sold...

Historic Figures Who Recognized That Speech Is Freedom’s First Line of Defense “To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. It is just as criminal to rob a man of his right to speak and hear as it would be to rob him of his money.” It’s a sad, tragic, and shocking commentary on what some parents and many schools are teaching these days that Douglass’s statement might not meet with majority approval in America. Recent polls indicate that more than half of the American public believe that the First Amendment (which...

INA'S INSIGHTS: A look at the United States election of 1876 Ina Michele Resnikoff / Columnist The Boston Globe’s columnist, Jeff Jacoby, is an excellent writer but generally much too conservative for me.  On Valentine’s Day, he published a heartwarming article about our 19th president , Rutherford Hayes. I like to think that as a student of American history, I know enough about the past to inform my current analyses of the events and ideas that shape our todays. But ….  Jacoby really got me thinking.  The basic decency and quiet courage of President Hayes in his stands on h...

This has become the norm in American politics, and it should disturb anyone who values representative government and constitutional order.