“We can either live in a paranoid politically correct world frantically trying not to offend the Hitlers and Mohammeds, and blaming their victims when they kill, or we can be free men and women who have chosen to take the power to defend our rights into our own hands.

While a thousand organizations use the Holocaust as a platform for speeches about tolerance, Children Of Jewish Holocaust Survivors [Jews Can Shoot] is conducting firearms training… Freedom is not defended with empty idealism easily perverted into appeasement of evil, but with the force of arms.”

All too many of the other great tragedies of history - Stalin's atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few - were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece... If a few hundred Jewish fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars.

Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Silveira v. Lockyer, 2003

Habah l'hargecha hashkem l'hargo -- "If someone is coming to kill you, rise against him and kill him first."

Day: November 7, 2025

Commentary

Kristallnacht Commemorations in the United States

by Doris Wise Montrose on November 7, 2025

Kristallnacht Commemorations in the United States, November 2025Kristallnacht, known as the “Night of Broken Glass,” occurred on November 9-10, 1938, marking a pivotal escalation in Nazi violence against Jews with widespread pogroms across Germany and Austria. In 2025, communities across the US are holding events to honor survivors, victims, and the enduring lessons against antisemitism.

Commentary

November 7 in Jewish History: Kristalnacht

by Doris Wise Montrose on November 7, 2025

November 7 in Jewish History: The Assassination of Ernst vom Rath – Prelude to the “Night of Broken Glass” On November 7, 1938, a pivotal and consequential event occurred that would serve as a catalyst for one of the darkest chapters in Jewish history. On this day, Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Polish-Jewish youth living in

"All too many of the other great tragedies of history—Stalin’s atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few—were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided or mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece, as the Militia Act required here. ... If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars." — Silveira v Lockyer, (9th Cir. 2003) (Kozinski, J. dissenting.)