Editorial on Eichmann
In 1960, the editors of Jewish Life weighed the meaning of the Eichmann trial: justice and its limits, the duty of memory, and the world’s reckoning with the murder of six million Jews.

In 1960, the editors of Jewish Life weighed the meaning of the Eichmann trial: justice and its limits, the duty of memory, and the world’s reckoning with the murder of six million Jews.

Writing from Israel as the case gripped the nation, Jewish Life writer I. Halevy-Levin examined what the capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann meant for the young Jewish state and for a people confronting the Holocaust in a courtroom for the first time.

Eichmann wasn’t concerned with the war. His only task was the murder of Jews.

In celebration of America’s Semiquincentennial—the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence—it is fitting to pause and reflect on the American Jewish experience, and specifically the Orthodox Jewish experience.