An Irrational Attack on Israel’s Free Press
When does failing to ban a publication make you less free?
April 28, 2016
The Mysterious Dutch Visas That Allowed Some Lithuanian Jews to Escape Hitler
With the help of the Japanese consul.
In 1940, Chiune Sugihara, then the Japanese consul in Kaunas, Lithuania, issued thousands of visas allowing Jews to transit through Japan to destinations elsewhere; he would eventually also grant visas to Jews without any proof of intention to proceed onward. He began by issuing visas to Lithuanian Jews who were also Dutch citizens, claiming they were en route to the Netherlands’ American colonies. Alyza Lewin explains the role her grandmother—who was born in Amsterdam but in 1940 was in Lithuania along with her mother and brother—played in this story:
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Another Anti-Semitism Scandal in Britain’s Labor Party
The case of Naz Shah.
Why Does the Bible Have No Word for “Ritual”?
It sees rituals as more than symbolic.
The Mysterious Dutch Visas That Allowed Some Lithuanian Jews to Escape Hitler
With the help of the Japanese consul.
How the Heinz Company Pioneered America’s Best-Known Kosher Symbol
And told customers not to buy its products on Passover.