23-01-2012 05:50 Full text on.rt.com There is no alternative to peace talks when it comes to the situation in the Middle East, says president of the Palestinian Administration Mahmoud Abbas in his interview to RT. RT on Facebook: www.facebook.com RT on Twitter: twitter.com
TU B’SHEVAT NATURE FEST Grammy-winning band Ozomatli headlines a concert during the New Year for Trees celebration at the Shalom Institute in Malibu. Folk songwriter Billy Jonas, musician Cindy Paley and the MATI Children’s Choir also perform.
A scholar on Jewish history will speak at Fairfield University on Thursday, Feb. 16, about the role peddlers played in the great Jewish migrations of the modern period.
New York, Jan 25 2012 6:10PM Widespread education through the media, special events and other initiatives that provide information on the history and lessons of the Holocaust is essential to help prevent future genocides and mass atrocities, a top …
Most of them left for Israel around 60 years ago from their Jewish settlement in Kerala for better prospects. But as this group of 21 visited the state, they expressed a desire to spend their remaining lives here if permission is given.
By Moshe Halbertal. Zalman Shazar Center (Hebrew), 320 pages, NIS 81.50 Just about everyone knows that the Rambam (Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, or Maimonides) was a key figure in the annals of the Jewish people, but not everyone knows why, or just how, this unparalleled Torah scholar was central to our history.
New Zealanders will be the first in the world to mark United Nations Holocaust Remembrance Day 2012 this Friday with a service at the Jewish Cemetery at Makara and an official parliamentary function.
17-01-2012 20:37 Holocaust denial is the act of denying the genocide of Jews during World War II, usually referred to as the Holocaust. The key claims of Holocaust denial are: the German Nazi government had no official policy or intention of exterminating Jews, Nazi authorities did not use extermination camps and gas chambers to mass murder Jews, and the actual number of Jews killed was significantly (typically an order of magnitude) lower than the historically accepted figure of 5 to 6 million. Holocaust deniers generally do not accept the term ‘denial’ as an appropriate description of their activities, and use the term ‘revisionism’ instead
20-01-2012 10:21 United Nations, New York, January 2012 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon dedicates his 27 January 2012 Holocaust Remembrance Day message to children. On this day, the world remembers the 1.5 million Jewish children, and tens of thousands of other children who were murdered by the Nazis and their supporters. The best tribute to the memory of these children is an ongoing effort to teach the universal lessons of the Holocaust, so that no such horror is visited upon future generations.
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt banned at least 10 Americans and Europeans from leaving the country, including the son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood , hiking tensions with Washington over a campaign by Egypt's military against groups promoting democracy and human rights. The United States warned Thursday that the campaign raised concerns about Egypt's transition to democracy and could jeopardize American aid that Egypt's battered economy needs badly after a year of unrest.