The Scourge of Eugenics
Eugenics is defined as “the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable. Developed largely by Sir Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, eugenics was increasingly discredited as unscientific and racially biased during the 20th century, especially after the […]
Anti-Semitism in America
Prejudice against Jews has always existed in the United States, but American anti-Semitism differs from its European precursor in fundamental ways. By Jonathan Sarna – My Jewish Learning, July 17, 2025 Antagonism toward Jews in America has been evident almost as long as Jews have lived there. In 1654, the Dutch governor, Peter Stuyvesant, singled out […]
The ‘Palestinian’ Jesus and the new deicide
The same impulse that transforms the most iconic Jew in history into a “Palestinian” also seeks to sever Jews from their ancestral homeland. Pope Francis surveys the Nativity scene at the Vatican featuring a baby Jesus displayed on a keffiyeh, gifted by the Palestinian Higher Committee of Churches Affairs, as part of the “Nativity of […]
Who’s afraid of the big bad Jew? Exploring the root of antisemitism.
Alan Rosenbaum November 17, 2024 Rabbi Raphael Shore’s new book and film address the root causes of antisemitism. RAPHAEL SHORE (photo credit: Sharon Gabay) For 17-year-old Raphael Shore, the “No Jews Allowed” sign that his friends hung on the door one Friday evening in 1978 at his high school hangout was a wake-up call that antisemitism was alive […]
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
The lie that would not die. Brigitte Sion circa 1935: The title pages of ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’, a Nazi anti-Semitic text. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is an anti-Semitic pamphlet published in Russia at the end of the 19th century. It purports to be the minutes […]
Comparing Christianity & Judaism
PETER KREEFT Kreeft outlines the main theological and practical differences, as well as the important common elements, between Christianity and Judaism. If Jesus returned to earth today, which church would He go to? A Catholic church, of course, replies the Catholic. No, a Protestant church, argues the Protestant. I think both are wrong. I think […]
Jew-hatred has ‘surged’ on Columbia campus, acting president admits
“I’ve seen too many students, faculty members and staff in absolute anguish,” Claire Shipman said. Aaron Bandler A pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protest next to the Columbia University Bookstore in New York City, April 22, 2024. Credit: SWinxy via Wikimedia Commons. (June 13, 2025 / JNS) Claire Shipman, acting president of Columbia University, stated on Thursday that “it is simply […]
Pius XII and the Jewish Holocaust
George Sim Johnston Catholic apologetics must address the subject of Pope Pius XII and the Jewish Holocaust. Since 1963, when Rolf Hochhuth’s play THE DEPUTY indicted Pius XII for complicity in the Nazi genocide, it has been a commonplace of editorial writers that the Vatican was a silent, and therefore guilty, bystander to the murder […]
PIUS XII AND THE JEWS: The War Years, as reported by the New York Times
Stephen M. DiGiovanni, H.E.D. Introduction In 1998, the Vatican issued a document entitled, “We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah.” The result was a flurry of interest in the Church during the Holocaust. I decided to do a brief research project, employing readily available historical sources that would reveal the contemporary scene during the War. […]
Nazi Policy and the Catholic Church
KAROL JOZEF GAJEWSKI Though Hitler felt a particular urgency — and hatred — when dealing with Jews and Communists, he viewed the Catholic Church as a pernicious opponent, a deeply-entrenched threat that must be controlled and eventually uprooted from German life in order to establish his promised Thousand-Year-Reich. From his early years of political dreaming, […]