Canada takes first step toward Holocaust memorial
admin | August 31, 2011
Canada has taken a first step toward building a Holocaust Memorial near the federal capital, Ottawa, officials said Wednesday.
ADL Demands Calif. Councilwoman Quit Over Hitler Remarks
admin | August 31, 2011
A councilwoman in Santa Ana, Calif., should resign after she made a “half-hearted” apology to a Jewish businessman that she had compared to Hitler, the Anti-Defamation League said.
ADL calls on Santa Ana councilwoman to resign
admin | August 31, 2011
A councilwoman in Santa Ana, Calif., should resign after she made a “half-hearted” apology to a Jewish businessman that she had compared to Hitler, the Anti-Defamation League said.
ADL calls on Calif. councilwoman to resign
admin | August 31, 2011
A councilwoman in Santa Ana, Calif., should resign after she made a “half-hearted” apology to a Jewish businessman that she had compared to Hitler, the Anti-Defamation League said.
Israel braces for Palestinian statehood bid at United Nations
admin | August 31, 2011
JERUSALEM — Israel is preparing security forces as well as diplomatic and legal responses for a planned Palestinian bid this month for admission as a state to the United Nations, but officials say they do not expect a major eruption of unrest as a result of the move. Despite intensive Israeli diplomatic efforts to head off U.N.
Gaza: New weapons being used – what are they?.wmv
admin | August 31, 2011
Victims of israel’s recent attacks on Gaza are arriving at Al Shifa Hospital with extensive burns, severe deep tissue injuries, and severed limbs and extremeties – mutilation injuries unlike any the medical staff encountered even duirng Operation Cast Lead. What is this new weapon, and what is the international community going to do about its use on civilians, especially children – the majority of the victims to date.
Digital Humanities Sampler, Part 3 (R)
admin | August 31, 2011
Part 3 of four videos showing pilot projects at the cutting edge of research in digital humanities. Recorded at the National Endowment for the Humanities in September 2010, at a meeting of project managers who received start-up grants from NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities
Israel, Iran deploy warships in Red Sea
admin | August 31, 2011
TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 31 (UPI) — Israel’s dispatch of two corvettes to bolster its naval forces in the Red Sea and Iran’s deployment of a submarine and a warship in the same waters have heightened the tensions pervading the Middle East amid political upheaval and rivalries.
Bachmann meets with Jewish leaders in New York | MinnPOTUS
admin | August 31, 2011
Michele Bachmann met with ultra-Orthodox Jewish leaders in New York Tuesday, the same day that a New York newspaper noted that some Jewish political donors seem to think that the congresswoman is herself Jewish. She’s an evangelical Christian. The Star Tribune notes this morning that a blog covering the Orthodox Jewish community in New York reported that Bachmann we privately with Orthodox …
Mentally ill sisters freed from chains in West Bank
admin | August 31, 2011
We first met Mohedeye and Nedaa Dawabsha sitting quietly on the floor of a small room in their family’s modest house in the dusty West Bank village of Duma.
