Bloghead: Roger Cohen on growing up Jewish in London

admin | November 30, 2009

In the late 1960′s, I went to Westminster, one of Britain’s top private schools, an inspiring place hard by Westminster Abbey, and was occasionally taunted as a “Yid” — not a bad way to forge a proud Jewish identity in a nonreligious …

Chelsea Clinton engaged to Jewish beau | The Jewish Chronicle

admin | November 30, 2009

Chelsea Clinton is engaged to her Jewish boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky, a spokesman for former President Bill Clinton has confirmed.

Morris Sadek: From the Holocaust to the Copts – Bikya Masr

admin | November 29, 2009

The Holocaust was the state-sponsored discrimination, harassment and eventual liquidation of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its Allies from 1933 to1945. The Nazis termed this well-organized murderous policy as ‘The Final Solution’

Review: The Invention of the Jewish People | The Jewish Chronicle

admin | November 26, 2009

By Shlomo Sand (Trans: Yael Lotan) Verso, £18.99 Because the state of Israel has always seen itself as embattled, and because Zionism is such a contentious ideology, it is often impossible to have a reasoned debate about other aspects …

Israeli settlement freeze in West Bank | PRI's The World

admin | November 25, 2009

Download MP3 Anchor Marco Werman speaks with former Middle East negotiator Aaron David Miller about the announcement today by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he will freeze Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank …

ADL Joins the Official Effort Against “Anti-Government Extremism”

admin | November 24, 2009

The Anti – Defamation League has joined MIAC and Homeland Security in attacking anti-government extremists and conspiracy theorists.

Painfully Misguided Fashion Shoot Held at Berlin Holocaust …

admin | November 23, 2009

holocaust -photo Ink Publishing just released a formal apology for their string of ads depicting models posing in front the the Field of Stelae, aka the Berlin Holocaust Memorial.

Futurity.org – West Bank map could inform peace talks

admin | November 23, 2009

The public can access the West Bank and East Jerusalem Archaeology Database at http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/wbarc/ (users should have Google Earth installed to enjoy the full power of the database).

Israel Outlaws Private Prisons | Change.org News

admin | November 23, 2009

It will be interesting to see what impact Israel’s decision to ban private prisons will have on the U.S. and the rest of the world, where the practice of outsourcing incarceration for profit has expanded enormously in recent years. …

US Holocaust Memorial Museum Kristallnacht – Synagogue, US …

admin | November 22, 2009

Wherever possible, the assailants tried to set the buildings ablaze, while firemen protected nearby “Aryan” property. Hun Posted by Second Life Resident Torley Linden.