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• A family tradition

  Published: July 29, 2007, 3:02 pm

  Tags: Washington, Politics, Shoah, Antisemitism

  The son of a good family who stole apples from a cart did not become a thief overnight. The deed has its roots in previous generations. Perhaps his very pious grandfather hid behind the bimah of the synagogue in the name of humility, but the act contained a trace of deception (geneivas daas) because he was acting more pious than he really was. His

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• A family tradition

  Published: July 29, 2007, 3:02 pm

  Tags: Washington, Politics, Shoah, Antisemitism

  we learn the lessons of the Shoah if we cannot refer to history in order to identify consistencies between history and current events, particularly when such comparisons may serve as a warning signal that may help us evade another tragedy? And with regards to the politicization of the Shoah, why is it acceptable to make comparisons between

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• Morto Nirenstein, una vita dedicata alla Shoah

  Published: September 3, 2007, 8:25 am

  Tags: Generale, Ebrei, Fiesole, Firenze, Nazismo, Nirenstajn, Nirenstein, Shoah

  l'invasione nazista e la Shoah. Il suo paese d'origine, Baranow, tra Lublino e Varsavia, fu raso al suolo durante la guerra e mai pi rifondato. Proprio alla ricostruzione delle vicende dell'Olocausto Nirenstein (il cui cognome originario, Nirenstajn, venne poi italianizzato) aveva dedicato gran parte della vita, tornando a Varsavia nel 1950

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• Papa: Il relativismo non fa distinguere il male

  Published: September 7, 2007, 6:24 am

  Tags: Generale, Austria, Bene, Benedetto Xvi, Chiesa Cattolica, Dio, Male, Papa, Relativismo, Shoah, Vaticano

  per le vittime della Shoah, per testimoniare, ha spiegato il Papa, “tristezza, pentimento e amicizia con i fratelli ebrei”. A salutare il Pontefice c’era stamane il presidente del Consiglio Romano Prodi. Fra i due c’ stato un breve colloquio nella sala di rappresentanza del 31 Stormo. Qui si sono trattenuti a

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• Invisible Faces Haunt Artist's Work

  Published: October 23, 2007, 7:38 am

  Tags: Carbondale, Missouri, Aftermath, Artwork, Basalt, Catastrophe, Culture, Deals, Depict, Hebrew, Holocaust, Meaning, Paintings, Photographs, Pits, Prefers, Shoah, Striking, Subjects, Titles, Voices

  "Carolyn Manosevitz's art studio alongside her modernist home on Missouri Heights commands a sweeping view of Mount Sopris and the Roaring Fork V read more

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• Jewish Community Deathmatch: The rebbe, the king, and the scholar

  Published: October 26, 2007, 4:14 am

  Tags: Philanthropy, Yiddish, New York City, Identity Affiliation, Ethics, Shoah

  Guest post from ahavatcafe: On Thursday October 18, 2007, NYU's Bronfman Center hosted Orthodox Paradox: A Debate on Jewish Values, a panel presentation featuring Shmuley Boteach, Michael Steinhardt, and Noah Feldman, three controversial men with profoundly different conceptions of what Jewish values are and why they matter. Before diving

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• Can we please not make a scandal out of this .?

  Published: December 24, 2007, 7:17 pm

  Tags: Antisemitism, Hollywood, North America, People, Shoah

  OK, so everyone in the world must now know that actor Will Smith was in the Scottish press, who quoted him saying, “Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘let me do the most evil thing I can do today. I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was ‘good’.

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• Would you add Shimon Peres?

  Published: January 29, 2008, 12:03 pm

  Tags: Science Amp 038 Technology, Shoah

  It’s been reported that Shimon Peres has met with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It seems that Peres is now considering starting a Facebook profile of his own. Why? This is what he told a group representing more than 60 countries, who gathered at Yad Vashem for an international youth

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• Random Observations from Israel on Yom HaShoah

  Published: May 1, 2008, 4:23 am

  Tags: History, Holidays, In Memoriam, Politics, Religion, Shoah, Add New Tag

  Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day (or, if you’re in Israel, Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day). Israel takes the day quite seriously, at least officially. Restaurants and “places of entertainment” are supposed to be closed by law. Many Israeli TV channels are only broadcasting a still picture of a candle or an Israeli

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• Get Bent

  Published: May 29, 2008, 7:26 pm

  Tags: Queer Culture, Shoah

  Let me get this straight-ish. Israel Gutman of Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Institute is annoyed that a memorial monument to a group that suffered in the Holocaust isn’t appropriate because… it implies that they suffered as much as the Jews? I must be missing a step in his logic. The monument, unveiled earlier this week in Berlin, is

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