buddhist Archives – Jewish Journal

Shaming Religious Fanatics

David Suissa April 24, 2019

Bomb in Thai capital kills 16, wounds 81 in bid ‘to destroy economy’

Jewish Journal August 17, 2015

A bomb planted at one of the Thai capital\’s most renowned shrines on Monday killed 16 people, including three foreign tourists, and wounded scores in an attack the government called a bid to destroy the economy.

Are Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims the world’s ‘least wanted’ people?

Jared Sichel June 4, 2015

Abu Tahay, a Rohingya Muslim activist who lives in Myanmar, says his people face a simple calculus when deciding whether to remain in their western Myanmar homes or escape via the Andaman Sea on overcrowded, hopelessly equipped fishing boats: “Do — or die.”

Retrieving a family’s thread in Poland

Jewish Journal November 5, 2013

Louise Steinman\’s The Crooked Mirror: A Memoir of Polish- Jewish Reconciliation, interrupts the two universes of meaning hanging on the phrase: \”it\’s history.\”

Conversion: Kimia Sun

Kylie Ora Lobell September 4, 2013

Kimia Sun was born a refugee. Her parents were survivors of Cambodia’s Khmer Rogue, which claimed nearly 2 million lives in the late 1970s. The couple was among the lucky ones and escaped to a refugee camp in Thailand, where Sun was born and spent her first months. Next, the family traveled to the Philippines, where Sun’s parents learned English and purchased plane tickets for America.