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Obama blazing the Antichrist’s trail
Third of British Muslim students support killing for Islam’s sake
Americans (allegedly) don’t do atheism
The heart and the drive
He was famous for being the first man in Hungary to own a car, and my grandmother kept a clipping from the Royal Hungarian Automobile Society with a picture of him seated at the controls of his Benz with a little girl on the rear rumble seat. Beneath the photo was the caption in Hungarian, German and French, proclaiming "Hatsek Bela le premier automobiliste Hongrois sur son voiture Benz en 1895."
Hagee: anti-Christ will be gay and Jewish
The ‘sexy’ jihadist
How to answer the most common anti-Israel charges
Some charges criticizing Israel are distortions and slanted, based on faulty information and half-truths, animus, and even classic anti-Semitism.
However, the situation and history are complex, and unfortunately, Israel is not perfect.
Jew hatred grows as Jewish life does, too
Volunteer network aids Holocaust funds program
A network of volunteers from many of the nation's leading law firms, recruited through a Los Angeles initiative, is helping to write what appears to be the last chapter in the long and contentious history of reparations to Holocaust victims.
Books: Leaving Russia behind—somewhat
When Perestroika came in 1985, anti-Jewish feeling in Russia became even more overt than it had been during the Soviet era.
Vandals attack Muslim graves in France
Cartoonist a catalyst for ‘adaptation of Islam’
‘Why Shariah?’
Turkey moves to modernize Islam
For sale: ‘Sketch that roiled the Muslim world’
Free speech and radical Islam
Sadly, the plot to kill cartoonist Kurt Westergaard is not an isolated story, but part of a broader trend that risks undermining free speech in Europe and around the world.
‘Pornographic’ Jesus sculpture protested at London Shabbat service
A Muslim at Hebrew College
The religious impetus for a sovereign Kosovo
French dislike president’s Holocaust curriculum
Video from Vilna
Scary costumes: Jews on parade
Anglican leader suggests Sharia for England?
Germany celebrates Hitler’s rise—sort of
Return of the Jedi religion
‘Hitler Suite’ a popular pick in Belgrade
Conference tackles thorny Jewish-Polish relationship
In a groundbreaking collegial but hard-hitting conference sponsored by the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, a slate of top scholars, public officials, diplomats and Polish Jewish community leaders met to discuss the controversial and complicated relationship of Poles and Jews.
Not everyone forgot Jews in Shoah, Polish official says
"During the Holocaust, not everyone abandoned the Jews. Not everyone forgot about you."
So spoke Poland's Undersecretary of State Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka, and her words were backed by the photos and stories of 21 surviving non-Jews from Poland recognized as Righteous Among the Nations that lined the hallway at the UCLA Hillel Center.
Film would make Muhammad cartoon controversy look like ‘a picnic’
Rev. Fuhrer a foe of injustice
Latkes and vodkas with Germany’s Jews
Gay Muslims: From Baghdad to Berlin
Yes, Virginia, there is an obese Santa Claus
Anti-Semitism on rise in Europe
Germany moves to ban Scientology
Borat does Poland
Wycliffe Hall under attack
‘War on terror’ needs Muslims to be part of solution
How do you prevent that young Muslim from being lured by radical ideas? That was the question at the heart of a conference organized at The Hague recently by the Dutch national coordinator for counterterrorism. As Tariq Ramadan reminded the conference, preventative methods are bound to fail unless they include Muslims as part of the solution. To only view Muslims as potential radicals is the quickest way to alienate the very people needed to solve the problems.
The soccer player’s Israel boycott
French priest uncovers the horrors of the Holocaust in Ukraine
‘Europa’ docupic tracks Nazi looting and the fate of art masterworks
The Nazi regime was not only the world's greatest murderer, but the biggest thief as well. High on the list of loot were Europe's master paintings and sculptures
European anti-Semitism
Another Muhammad cartoon controversy
Britons aren’t Islamophobic but Semitophobic
Bishop: Christians should call God ‘Allah’
Why are terrorists so dumb?
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Briefs
Can man sue God for his sins?
Anti-Semitism in a familiar place: Poland
Malibu conference on Europe sees threats in ‘multiculturalism’
The scholars, journalists and concerned citizens were there for a conference whose title could hardly be weightier or more ominous: "The Collapse of Europe, the Rise of Islam, and the Consequences for the United States."
New reports expose rampant anti-Semitic attacks in Western Europe
Anti-Semitism in Western Europe apparently is out of control.
Jews too powerful, talk too much about Holocaust
What’s behind the Euro division on Palestinians’ Mecca pact?
Even Europe had to admit that the Mecca agreement fell short on all three counts.
That left European officials with a dilemma: Should they continue to boycott the P.A. government or fudge Europe's conditions enough so it can argue that the new P.A. government has met them?
Olmert goes to China; Hezbollah is back; Euro righties caucus; Jews get blamed again
World News Briefs
European anti-Semitism spurs controversial comparison
In "Ever Again," the Simon Wiesenthal Center, having documented the Holocaust and its aftermath in earlier films, presents a frightening picture of a rising wave of European anti-Semitism, fueled by Islamic fanatics and neo-Nazis.
European anti-Semitism up since Hezbollah war
Israel's recent war with Hezbollah resulted in a new wave of anti-Semitic incidents in Europe -- almost all in Western Europe, a new report finds.
Jewish Woman Is European Beauty Queen; Katsav Urged to Temporarily Quit
Briefs
Mideast Solution: A Confederation
An Israeli-Palestinian Confederation is an idea whose time has come.
Museum-hopping in Madrid, sans ham
What is the best museum town in the world?
Paris comes to mind, as does New York.
But as a certified art museum lover, I put my money on Madrid.
War enhances intensity of Israel trip
The Eastern Europe-Israel Pilgrimage, sponsored by the Conservative movement's United Synagogue Youth.
Happy Birthday from Berlin
One speaker characterized the Berlin Jewish community as "a piece of the mosaic that makes up our history" and emphasized the importance to the city of today's Jewish community, which numbers approximately 30,000.
Europe Displaying Disproportionate Pacifism
One casualty of the current crisis is the myth that if Israel were to be attacked from territory it does not occupy, the world would support its response. "The world" mostly meant the United States and Western Europe.
We Will Not Capitulate or Be Trampled Upon
Ben Caspit proposes the text for a speech by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that would explain to the world exactly what Israel is fighting for.
Overcoming Germanophobia During the World Cup
I must admit that in countless trips to Europe, I had carefully avoided visiting Germany, having no desire whatsoever to see the Fatherland that had left me with such dark memories. But then came the summer of 2006, and as a football (soccer to you) devotee, I headed to Germany to cover the World Cup for a Southern California radio station.
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Will new ‘Cold War’ play out in Middle East?
With talk of a new Cold War in the offing following Russia's recent military successes in Georgia, Israel is worried Russia might reassess this policy and use the sale of new weaponry to Syria -- or the threat of it -- to strengthen Russia's hand vis-à-vis Israel's primary
Kids & Teens
Cambodia’s killing fields revisited
I can vividly remember the first time I visited the Museum of Tolerance, in seventh grade. Not personally knowing anyone who had survived the Holocaust, I had been shielded from the grisly details of World War II.
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Calendar Girls picks and clicks for Sept. 6–12: Hip hop art, veggie Jews, string theory & laughs
Torah Portion
Moving beyond charity
Parshat Shoftim (Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9) One of the biggest misnomers in the Jewish vocabulary is the translation of tzedakah as "charity." This mistranslation has gone on for so long in the American Jewish community that it's a hard habit to break.
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Joon
Since 1978, Iranian Jews have injected into a stable, maybe even staid Jewish community talent, industry, a profound connection to their Jewish roots and a desire to have a positive political and social impact on the city. They have energized a Jewish community that could always
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