Largest Luxembourg supermarket chain stops selling Israeli produce
Cactus, the largest supermarket chain in Luxembourg, has stopped selling produce from Israel until its suppliers verify that it does not originate in the West Bank.
Cactus, the largest supermarket chain in Luxembourg, has stopped selling produce from Israel until its suppliers verify that it does not originate in the West Bank.
Felix Weis has gotten used to blank stares anytime he tries to pay for something. Since January, the 28-year-old freelance computer programmer from Luxembourg has been on a trip around the world using only bitcoin.
Volker Schlaandorff, born in Germany in the fateful year 1939, has explored his country\’s dark history in such films as \”The Tin Drum,\” \”The Ogre\” and \”The Legend of Rita.\”\n\nNow he returns to the Nazi era in the intense \”The Ninth Day,\” a film mature enough to view the Shoah from a different perspective and to confront the viewer with complex questions of morality, religion and character.\n\nBased broadly on the wartime diary of a Luxembourg priest, the Rev. Jean Bernard, the films opens in a wintry Dachau, where three special barracks have been set aside for clergymen. The vast majority of the occupants are Catholic, but there also are some Protestant and Greek Orthodox ministers who have refused to toe the Nazi line.