By Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski | – As Christians observe Good Friday they will remember, with devotion and prayer, the death of Jesus on the Cross. It is a day of solemnity in which Christians give thanks for their salvation made possible by the suffering of Jesus. They prepare for rejoicing on Easter Sunday, when the resurrection […]
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Jewish History
Outreach of Israel’s Netanyahu to Polish Right Roiled by Holocaust Assertion
A Polish law made it illegal to accuse the Polish nation or state of complicity in Nazi German crimes
How Will Generations that didn’t Experience the Holocaust Remember it?
Keeping the memory of the Holocaust has become increasingly important because it can bring awareness to contemporary atrocities
Quantifying the Holocaust: Measuring murder rates during the Nazi genocide
Hitler “ordered all action speeded up.”
Palestinian president widely condemned for ‘anti-Semitic’ comments
Mahmud Abbas drew widespread condemnation over alleged comments suggesting the “social function” of Jews in banking had led to past massacres
The Jewish Community in Multi-Cultural Morocco (Video)
Myriam Ait Malk | (Video Documentary) | – – Documentary on the Jewish Community in Morocco – by Myriam Ait Malk
Muslims who saved Jews from Holocaust Honored (& Case of Albania)
Interfaith Peacemakers | – – [N.B. The interfaith ‘I am your Protector” Campaign, founded by Dani Laurence, last week commemorated in several cities the Muslims who saved Jews from the Holocaust. Laurence told Alarabiya, “”The way Muslims are often portrayed in the media, public discourses can lead to fear and hatred. I Am Your Protector […]
Ashrawi: “Israel is provoking a global holy war” over Aqsa
By IMEMC News | – – PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi met with [British Consul General to Jerusalem] Dr. Alastair McPhail at the PLO Headquarters in Ramallah, September 14, 2015. Both parties discussed the latest political developments, including Israel’s persistent assaults and escalating incursions and violence on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound (Al-Haram Al-Sharif) […]
Israel: Rosh Hashanah Dancing Robots – Happy New Year with a Technion Touch
Technion | Shana Tova – Video| – – “Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has the touch to get you ready for the New Year – a robot picks a pomegranate from the tree in the Seven Species Garden outside the CEAR lab in the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering and his friends travel across campus […]