As a Jew, this is a time of year to enjoy the best of Christianity, its unique .. though often lost … messages of peace and love. This year, it seems to me that this message is especially relevant to me as an academic, with the intense acrimony over the recent efforts of the American [&helli[...]
Posts Tagged ‘antisemitism’
December 25th, 2013 - 1:21 pm § in Politics
Address by Beyamin Netanyahu .. Seeking Peace For All Citizens of Israel This Christmas
Anti-Semitic Carol Causes Uproar in Romania
ONLY IN THE CHIMNEY ……….. Advocacy groups are incensed after a Romanian government-owned channel broadcast a Christmas song glorifying the Holocaust and calling for Jews to be burned. The channel is blaming a local group for the performance. more… [ Comment ][...]
November 13th, 2013 - 5:16 pm § in Misc.
Anti Semitism in Europe
the The NY Times reports that Right Wing’s Surge in Europe Has the Establishment Rattled EXCERPT: Mikkel Dencker of the Danish People’s Party has found yet another cause to stir public anger: pork meatballs missing from kindergartens. <Dencker> hopes, mayor of this commuter-belt t[...]
November 12th, 2013 - 1:06 pm § in Misc.
The Friendly Atheist
Dan Barker, USA’s leading Atheist and founder of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, debates Hamza Andreas Tzortzis on which is more rational, Islam or Atheism. His lesson has meaning for folks like my own brother who somehow see Judaism and Atherism as antagonists. CLICK TO LISTEN[...]
BUCHENWALD 7: Kristallnacht when the Nazis began feeding the monstrosity at Buchenwald
From Wikipedia and USHMM 1938, in the aftermath of Kristallnacht, German SS and police sent almost 10,000 Jews to Buchenwald where the camp authorities subjected them to extraordinarily cruel treatment upon arrival. 255 of them died as a result of their initial mistreatment at the camp. This refle[...]
Reilly Plays A Jew in Malmo
Patrick Reilly of the Local Passes for a Jew Based on a report in the LOCAL. http://www.thelocal.se/50790/20131014/ The statistics show that antisemitism in Malmö is quite real. So real that ‘Kippah walks’ involving hundreds of Malmö residents and other Swedes are held on a re[...]
New Beginings .. The Jewish Year and The Miracle of Reading
Some 3000 years ago the Hebrews invented the first “phoenetic” alphabet. Technically this breakthrough was the use of characters ot represent vowels. The effcct, however, was not unlike the advent of printing or the internet … the average Jew could now read! What did they rea[...]
July 4th, 2013 - 3:37 am § in America
Happy July 4
A homeowner in Stratford, Conn., Joseph Sincavage, is flying a swastika flag outside his home. “I have no animosity toward Jewish people,” said Sincavage, a 73-year-old retired Marine. “They too are being given an unfair deal by President Obama. The founder of my religion was a Jew.” The oth[...]
Columbus Day: Slur of the Day
Did you know that there is a myth that Columbus was himself a secret Jew? I hope not, since Columbus treatment of the people he found led to their slavery and extinction. Of course if he were a Jew, undoubtably he would be called a Christ killer …. the usual allusion to Jews as guilty [...]