By Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein.. Something unexpected happened at the execution of Julius Streicher, one of the high-ranking Nazis sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials. (more…)
A great many Jews know the story of how the Danes rescued 8,000 Jews from the Nazi’s by smuggling them to Sweden in fishing boats. Very few Jews, know the story of how all 50,000 Bulgarian Jews were saved. Not a single Bulgarian Jew was deported to the death camps, due to the heroism of many Bulgarians of every walk of life, up to and including the King and the Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. (more…)
By Robert S. Wistrich.. The Holocaust has become a weapon of choice for many of Israel’s worst enemies, for a resurgent anti-Semitism.
In recent years, the Holocaust has been subject to an increasingly sickening blend of ruthless politicization, deliberate distortion, crass commercialization and an often abject sentimentalism. (more…)
A full week of meetings commemorating the Wannsee Conference in Berlin and the victims of the Holocaust came to a climax in Brussels on Tuesday night, when the newly-elected President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, gave an official speech. In his speech, one of the first as a newly-elected president, he stated that ”his first obligation as President of the European Parliament is to defend the Jewish people and the State of Israel.” The statement came in his opening address at the 8th Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day in the European Parliament, co-organized by the European Coalition for Israel. (more…)
On January 20th, 1942, fifteen Nazi leaders came together in Wannsee, outside Berlin, to coordinate the so-called ”final solution”. This was the attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe, an estimated 11 million people. Seventy years on, Christians from Germany, Europe and other parts of the world, met in Berlin to decide how together they can step up the fight against Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism in our time. (more…)
Friday 18th November. I love the rain, it cleanses the air, the city, the soul and gives life to the earth. I imagine the tiny seeds and bulbs hiding in the cracked arid earth suddenly springing into life, preparing to burst forth in the spring. (more…)
Simon Deng, a former South Sudanese slave taken by a neighbor as a young boy to Islamist Northern Sudan, gave this impassioned speech at the Durban Watch Conference in New York, Sept 22, 2011. (more…)
By Itamar Eichner. The Israeli Ministerial Committee on Immigrant Absorption has made a decision in principle to bring to Jewish state northeastern Indian community claiming descent from one of Lost Tribes of Israel. (more…)
Rev. John Tweedie takes you deep into Israel’s desert where a revolutionary archaeological discovery was made. Here, near the ruins of the ancient Jewish community of Qumran, the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. The scrolls reveal the accuracy of the Bible we read today while bearing witness to a strong Jewish presence in the Land over 2000 years ago.
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Sixteen key European legislators, among them the current Chairman of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee, Gabriele Albertini, have written an open letter to the United Nations. In the letter they urge the UN to reject the application for recognition of a unilaterally declared Palestinian state.
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