China's outrageous comparison of the Dalai Lama to Nazis

Published on March 28, 2012

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish Human Rights NGO, denounced China's state-run media for equating Nobel Prize-winner the Dalai Lama to the Nazi perpetrator of the World War II Holocaust during which 6 million Jews were systematically murdered.

Krista Tippett teeters with religion and politics

By Book Buzz
Published on October 22, 2008

Amy Klein’s bibliographical guide for the perplexed

Published on September 21, 2006

Bibliographical guide for the perplexed compiled by Amy Klein.

Dalai Lama Concepts Inspire Works of 3 Jewish Artists

By Morris Newman
Published on August 10, 2006

To paraphrase an old rye bread ad, you don't have to be Buddhist to admire his holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, or at least that's so in the case of at least three Jewish artists, who lend their artistic voices to "The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama," an exhibition currently at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

Arts

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on August 27, 1998

Documentary focuses on spiritual transformation of Rodger Kamenetz

Torah Portion

By Rabbi Elazar Muskin
Published on April 9, 1998

An unusual Buddhist-Jewish dialogue took place inSeptember 1989, when the Tibetan Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, metwith a group of six Jewish leaders. The Dalai Lama requested themeeting, not because of an academic interest but, rather, because ofa practical need. He wanted to learn the Jewish "secret technique"for survival. "We always talk of Jewish people scattered in so manycountries, speaking so many languages, yet the Jews keep theirtraditions. It's something remarkable," he said.

Redemption, Hollywood Style

By Sally Ogle Davis
Published on October 9, 1997

Let me be direct and come to the point right off the mark:
"Seven Years in Tibet," appropriately filmed in Argentina -- whereold Nazis go to be rehabilitated or to die, whichever comes first --is a turgid piece of filmmaking and as dishonest as, well, "TheDevil's Own," Brad Pitt's last outing on film.