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.

Jewish life is a rich tapestry of sound, sight and communal gathering. But what does inclusion mean for Jews who can neither see nor hear?

Rabbi Etshalom explores the different ways in which Amos’s “rhetorical sleight-of-hand” may be interpreted or experienced . . .