richards | July 18, 2017
PARIS The co-founder of Frances far-right National Front party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, faces trial for inciting racial hatred over a swipe at a Jewish singer that was seen as anti-Semitic, judicial sources said Tuesday. Le Pen, 89, has a long history of lashing out at minorities. He already has several convictions for inciting racial hatred and Holocaust denial.
simmons | July 18, 2017
Matisyahus spiritual journey continues on his newest album, Undercurrent.
richards | July 18, 2017
Ashkenazi Jews ( Y'hudey Ashkenaz in Ashkenazi Hebrew) Total population (10[1]11.2[2] million) Regions with significant populations United States 56 million[3] Israel 2.8 million[1][4] Russia 194,000500,000 Argentina 300,000 United Kingdom 260,000 Canada 240,000 France 200,000 Germany 200,000 Ukraine 150,000 Australia 120,000 South Africa 80,000 Belarus 80,000 Hungary 75,000 Chile 70,000 Belgium 30,000 Brazil 30,000 Netherlands 30,000 Moldova 30,000 Poland 25,000 Mexico 18,500 Sweden 18,000 Latvia 10,000 Romania 10,000 Austria 9,000 New Zealand 5,000 Azerbaijan 4,300 Lithuania 4,000 Czech Republic 3,000 Slovakia 3,000 Estonia 1,000 Languages Yiddish[5] Modern: Local languages, primarily:English, Hebrew, Russian Religion Judaism, some secular, irreligious Related ethnic groups Sephardi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, Samaritans,[6][6][7][8]Kurds,[8] other Levantines (Druze, Assyrians,[6][7]Arabs[6][7][9][10]), Mediterranean groups[11][12][13][14][15] Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or simply Ashkenazim (Hebrew: , Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: [aknazim], singular: [aknazi], Modern Hebrew: [akenazim, akenazi]; also Y'hudey Ashkenaz),[16] are a Jewish diaspora population who coalesced as a distinct community in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium.[17] The traditional diaspora language of Ashkenazi Jews is Yiddish (which incorporates several dialects), with Hebrew used only as a sacred language until relatively recently. Throughout their time in Europe, Ashkenazim have made many important contributions to philosophy, scholarship, literature, art, music, and science.[18][19][20][21] Ashkenazim originate from the Jews who settled along the Rhine River, in Western Germany and Northern France.[22] There they became a distinct diaspora community with a unique way of life that adapted traditions from Babylon, The Land of Israel, and the Western Mediterranean to their new environment.[23] The Ashkenazi religious rite developed in cities such as Mainz, Worms, and Troyes. The eminent French Rishon Rabbi Shlomo Itzhaki (Rashi) would have a significant impact on the Jewish religion.
admin | July 18, 2017
The Hindu South Asians more prone to genetic diseases: study The Hindu We found that 81 out of 263 unique South Asian groups, including 14 groups with estimated census sizes of over a million, have a genetic mutation base with recessive diseases much more than the one that occurred in both Finns and Ashkenazi Jews in the ... South Asian genomes could be boon for disease research, scientists ... Medical Xpress 'Most South Asian groups vulnerable for population-specific Outlook India Why South Asia is a 'living laboratory' to study population genetics ...
richards | July 18, 2017
HYDERABAD: Marrying within the same caste is harmful for health of the offspring of such couple, points out a study conducted by Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad. The study busts commonly held assumption that only marrying within close relatives can cause genetic problems
richards | July 18, 2017
During a joint appearance Tuesday in Budapest, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban reassured Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he stands with the Jewish state against anti-Semitism. The meeting took place amid concerns that Orban's right-wing government was stoking anti-Semitism. While standing next to Netanyahu on Tuesday, Orban sought to distance himself from comments he made last month in praise of Miklos Horthy, the Hungarian wartime leader and Hitler ally.
admin | July 18, 2017
WASHINGTON Highlighting the growing influence of the alt-right movement, the Anti-Defamation League on Tuesday released a roster of its major players people ranging from neo-Nazis to conservative politicians to internet trolls. The storied anti-Semitism watchdog published a new guide a Whos Who? of 36 activists and leaders of the alt-right and alt-lite, saying they personify these movements at a time of increased public activity
admin | July 18, 2017
Patch.com Marblehead Graffiti: Reward Offered For Information Leading To Arrest Patch.com MARBLEHEAD, MA Following the discover of "disturbing" graffiti on the Causeway wall earlier this month, the Anti-Defamation League's New England branch is offering a $3,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the ...
richards | July 18, 2017
Revisionist Zionism (Union of Zionists-Revisionists; abbr. Hebrew name, Ha-ohar; later New Zionist Organization) was the movement of maximalist political Zionists founded and led by Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky. In the later 1920s and in the 1930s, the Revisionists became the principal Zionist opposition party to Chaim Weizmann's leadership and to the methods and policy of the World Zionist Organization and the elected Jewish leadership in Ere Israel.
admin | July 18, 2017
President Franois Mitterrand, who worked as a low-level Vichy administrator before joining the Resistance, declared in 1992 that the French state was the Vichy regime, it was not the Republic. He argued, as his predecessors had, that the only legitimate representatives of France were in exile with Gen. Charles de Gaulle, who ran the wartime Resistance from London.
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