Select a Language:  All Languages English Ladino (Transliterated) Español French English General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 66 - July 1, 2010 • Al Qaeda's First English Language Magazine Is Here By Marc Ambinder . As the U.S. struggles to manage its efforts to influence opinion about Al Qaeda abroad, Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula has produced its first English-language propaganda magazine. It's called "Insp... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 65 - April 13, 2010 • The Survivor Mitzvah Project By Zane Buzby and Chic Wolk. The Survivor Mitzvah Project considers all Jewish Men, Women and Children who experienced the Holocaust "Survivors," whether they were in ghettos, concentration camps, partisan groups, the Russian arm... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 64 - April 13, 2010 • Survivor Mitzvah Project Finds Angels in America Several years ago, during a trip into the former Soviet Union, actress-director Zane Buzby discovered that there were thousands of elderly Holocaust survivors there in desperate need of help. "Many ar... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 63 - April 6, 2010 • Fish and Chips: A Sephardic Delicacy By Nathan Burstein. Forward - Forget the bagels and lox: The most popular Jewish contribution to world cuisine may be, in fact, fish and chips. The quintessentially British meal is celebrating a major birthday this year,... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 62 - April 6, 2010 • The Center for Community Action program, Project H.O.P.E. , provides the vehicle to help us help others fulfill the commandment to observe Passover. In communities across the Northeast, B’nai B’rith volunteers have brought Project H.O.P.E (Helping Our People Everywhere), a community action project whose major goal is the collection and distributio... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 61 - March 26, 2010 • Ethiopian Jewry gets its first Haggada: Historic saga will be incorporated into mainstream Pessah story for first time By Ruth Eglash. Immigration & AbsorptionThe historic saga of Ethiopian Jewry, with its unique traditions and customs, will be incorporated into the mainstream Pessah story for the first time in a new Haggada writ... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 60 - March 8, 2010 • The New Faces Of Leadership By Jane Eisner. The Forward 50 began 15 years ago, the brain-child of Seth Lipsky, founding editor of the English Forward, who went in search “of the men and women who are leading the American Jewish community into t... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 59 - March 5, 2010 • Costa Rica elects Jewish VP By JTA Staff. A Jewish former banker was elected the vice president of Costa Rica. Luis Lieberman will become vice president after Costa Rican voters on Sunday elected Laura Chinchilla as the Central American count... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 58 - March 5, 2010 • Moysés Fuks, o criador da expressão Bossa Nova é homenageado na Calçada da Fama de Ipanema Para os aficcionados, todo dia é dia de Bossa, mas, no último 25 de janeiro, quando Tom Jobim estaria completando 83 anos, a música que ele ajudou a arquitetar festejou, pela primeira vez, oficialment... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 57 - February 6, 2010 • Preserving the unique heritage of Jamaica’s Jews By Gil Shefler . KINGSTON, Jamaica (JTA) -- Abraham Cohen Henriques, a Jewish merchant from Amsterdam, arrived in Jamaica in 1670 on a mission to find the hidden treasure of Christopher Columbus. Acting on a tip hande... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 56 - February 4, 2010 • Nancy Pelosi's father and the holocaust When Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, stepped to the podium at a Knesset dinner during her visit earlier this month, she made history in more ways than one. Not only was s... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 45 - January 29, 2010 • Brooklyn Family Keeps Latino-Jewish Traditions Alive By Dana Rosenblatt, CNN.com. Every Friday evening, the Nunez family sits down to a traditional religious dinner. Like most families in their Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, their Jewish Sabbath meal includes ble... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 44 - January 29, 2010 • Brazil sets day to honor Jewish immigrants Brazilhas set aside a day to honor Jewish immigrants to the country. Brazilian Vice President Jose Alencar signed a measure setting March 18 as Jewish Immigration Day. The date coincides with the re-i... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 55 - January 29, 2010 • These are difficult times for David Beckham and his family. These are difficult times for David Beckham and his family. Joseph, his maternal grandfather, 83 years, died on Wednesday in London .. The star had just arrived in South Africa when he heard the sad n... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 54 - January 29, 2010 • A Shofar For The King Of Spain Several years ago [2004], King Juan Carlos of Spain had invited Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger to a commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the passing of the illustrious codifier, philosopher a... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 53 - January 19, 2010 • The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Haiti By Ariel Scheib. The first Jew to settle in Haiti, Luis de Torres, arrived in 1492 as Christopher Columbus’s Converso interpreter. After Haiti was conquered by the French in 1633, many Dutch Jews emigrated from Brazil... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 52 - January 5, 2010 • Canary Islands: Crypto-Jewish history Thanks to Harry Stein's Sephardim.com, Tracing the Tribe learned about a century-old paper on Crypto-Jews in the Canary Islands, delivered by Lucien Wolf to the Jewish Historical Society of England in... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 51 - January 5, 2010 • After 500 Years, A Return To Judaism By Sandee Brawarsky. After emerging from the warm waters of the West Side Mikvah last week, Miquel Seguara, above, said, “I feel a relief, like I’m free, clean, purified.” More than five centuries after his ancestors were... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 43 - December 16, 2009 • Ancient Venezuelan cemetery being restored Venezuelan Jewish groups partnered with a leading developer to restore the oldest existing Jewish cemetery in South America. The Venezuelan Israelite Association and the Center for Sephardic Studies a... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 50 - December 2, 2009 • Emergency Humanitarian Mission to Ukraine By Jane Ulman. Survivor Mitzvah Project co-founder Zane Buzby, right, and Luidmila Petrovna, her guide and translator, on a trip to assist survivors in Belarus in 2007.Zane Buzby, co-founder of The Survivor Mitzvah ... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 49 - October 23, 2009 • Were you on the train? By RALPH BLUMENTHAL. Hedy Mayer, Devora Spira, Peska Friedman and Berta Rubinsztejn felt no need to ask: which train? Only one train was on everyone’s lips on Tuesday night at a Manhattan gathering of Hungarian Jews who h... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 48 - October 13, 2009 • Una nueva exposición en Yad Vashem: Una nueva exposición en Yad Vashem Museo Yad Vashem JerusalemLa exhibición cuenta, con fotografías y testimonios, la hazaña de decenas de musulmanes albaneses que, regidos por la ética del Islam, arriesgaron su vida para salvar a cient... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 46 - October 8, 2009 • The last of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, Marek Edelman, died this weekend By Guysen.International.News. The last of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto revolt in 1943 during World War II, Marek Edelman, died this weekend at the age of 90. Edelman and Mordechai Anielewicz fought against the Nazi storm troop... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 45 - September 24, 2009 • KOL NIDREI E MARRANISMO By Jane Bichmacher de Glasman*. Errar é humano, perdoar é divino”, “Perdão foi feito pra dar”, “Errar é humano, insistir no erro é burrice”... Ditados e canções populares, versões satíricas dos mesmos... Enfim, a constância dos mesm... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 44 - September 10, 2009 • Oy! Google Translate now speaks Yiddish Google on Monday announced that it had added nine new languages to its Translate service . Included in the update (which actually went live early last week ) are Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Iris... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 43 - July 20, 2009 • Countries with Largest Jewish Populations By JewishVirtualLibrary.org. Countries with Largest Jewish Populations RankCountryJews% of World Jewish Population 1Israel 5,313,80040.6%2United States 5,275,00040.3%3France 491,5003.8%4Canada 373,5002.9%5United Kingdom 297,0002.... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 42 - July 16, 2009 • West Palm Jews visit to aid brethren in Cuba By JOHN LANTIGUA . Entrance to Havana's Jewish cemetery in Guanabacoa. FILE PHOTO The Miami Herald - When Franklin Silbey and other members of Temple Israel in West Palm Beach recently visited Jewish synagogues and ceme... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 41 - June 25, 2009 • The secret Jews of the Southwest By Amy Klein. EL PASO — Three strange things happened to Rabbi Stephen Leon the first week he moved here in 1986 to lead Congregation B’nai Zion, the Conservative synagogue in this Texas border city. “Rabino,” said... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 40 - June 25, 2009 • The Last Jews of Essaouira By BRETT KLINE . ESSAOUIRA, Morocco - Josef Sebag says he has a fine life in his native Essaouira, though he has no friends here. This retail-artisan heaven for tourists on Morocco's southern Atlantic coast is a town ... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 39 - June 10, 2009 • Bulgaria's Jews A great many Jews know the story of how the Danes rescued 8,000 Jews from the Nazis by smuggling them to Sweden in fishing boats.Very few Jews, know the story of how all 50,000 Bulgarian Jews were sav... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 38 - May 28, 2009 • Sonia Sotomayor NOT the first Hispanic for US Supreme Court By saudades-sefarad@yahoogroups.com. His name was Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, and I think that he would have thought of himself as Sephardic, Hispanic as well as Judeo Portuguese. Look, Judge Cardozo was born in New York City, the son of Re... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 40 - May 18, 2009 • The secret Jews of the Southwest By Amy Klein . EL PASO, Texas (JTA) -- Three strange things happened to Rabbi Stephen Leon the first week he moved here in 1986 to lead Congregation B'nai Zion, the Conservative synagogue in this border city. “Rabin... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 35 - May 11, 2009 • Hard Times Give New Life to Prague's Golem By DAN BILEFSKY . Milan Jaros for The New York Times NY Times - They say the Golem, a Jewish giant with glowing eyes and supernatural powers, is lurking once again in the attic of the Old-New Synagogue here. The Golem,... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 36 - May 10, 2009 • Jewish by candlelight - from Spanish converso to modern mixed marriage By Miriam Shaviv, The Forward . Diego Arias was born a Jew in 15th-century Spain, but his parents converted him to Catholicism following a wave of anti-Jewish persecution. Later in life, as royal chief financier of Castile, and one ... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 39 - April 19, 2009 • JUDEUS EM CUBA By José H. Felzenswalb. Havana- Exclusivo para a Rua Judaica (Apoio: José H. Felzenswalb) A comunidade judaica de Cuba é pequena, porém, muito ativa. Todas as festas judaicas são celebradas pelos cerca de 1.500 judeus-cubano... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 34 - April 17, 2009 • It's time they knew our names By STACEY MENCHEL . Stella Levi and friends at the Jewish Museum of Rhodes. Photo: CourtesyStanding side by side the women looked identical: malnourished, skeletons - a mere shadow of the vibrant mothers, daughters, and ... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 37 - April 16, 2009 • Ladino lingers on in Brooklyn By BENJAMIN PEIM . From left are Lucy Eisner, Jackie Calderon Green and Sophie Russo. Photo: Benjamin PeimIn a remote corner of Brooklyn untouched by gentrification, in the shadow of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, a dyin... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 33 - January 24, 2009 • Argentina: Ashkenazi Jewish history function floatContent(){var paraNum = "3"paraNum = paraNum - 1;var tb = document.getElementById('floating-con');var nl = document.getElementById('floating-target');if(tb.getElementsByTagName("div").le... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 36 - January 8, 2009 • Courage to Care: An ADL award honoring rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust On April 23, 1987, the Anti-Defamation League initiated a unique award to honor rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust era. The award, called Courage to Care,is a plaque with miniature bas-reliefs depi... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 33 - December 1, 2008 • Las raíces judías de Diego Rivera Inauguran una exposición de la Inquisición en el Nuevo Mundo Una exposición en Ciudad de México centrada en la actividad de la Inquisición en el Nuevo Mundo sirve de excusa para profundizar en las raí... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 34 - November 18, 2008 • 'The Mexican Schindler' For Heroic Rescue Of Jews During The Holocaust Los Angeles, CA, November 13, 2008 & Gilberto Bosques Saldívar, a diplomat known as "the Mexican Schindler" for his efforts to house and protect refugees during the Holocaust, was posthumously hon... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 32 - May 9, 2007 • Mazel Tov: Mass Jewish Wedding in Havana By Anthony Boadle. January 22, 2007 Salomon Mitrani sat through his wedding ceremony. After all, at 84 years old he finds it hard to stand. By Cuban law, he has been married to his wife, Pilar, for 55 years, and they ha... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 31 - May 9, 2007 • THE CATALONIA DISPUTATION The story is told about a disputation which took place in a Catalonia in the fifteenth century. The lord and the archbishop of the province challenged the local Jews to an unusual debate. If the Jews ... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 22 - May 9, 2007 • IRON-WORKING: A JUDAIC HERITAGE By Samuel Kurinsky. In the 12th Century BCE, hundreds of Israelite villages proliferated in the hills of Canaan. The Iron Age likewise appeared, coinciding with Israelite settlement. A vivid picture of the agronomic and ... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 21 - May 9, 2007 • Inside Nicolas Sarkozy In an interview Nicolas Sarkozy gave in 2004, he expressed an extraordinary understanding of the plight of the Jewish people for a home: “Should I remind you the visceral attachment of every Jew to Is... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 20 - April 19, 2007 • From Auschwitz to Virginia Tech, He survived the camps to save his students lives As Jews worldwide honored on Monday the memory of those who were murdered in the Holocaust, a 76-year-old survivor sacrificed his life to save his students in Monday's shooting at Virginia Tech Colleg... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 29 - May 18, 2005 • Texas Mexican Secret Jews Today By Anne deSola Cardoza. Jewish food, oral traditions, culture, and secret, religious customs are showing up today in the folklore, habits and practices of the descendants of early settlers in southern Texas and the surroundi... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 27 - September 24, 2004 • A History of the Adrianople Jewish Community - From Antiquity till 1900 - EARLY HISTORY Around 1900, Adrianople was city in European Turkey with a population of 70,000, of whom about 8,000 were Jews. The first trace of a Jewish settlement in this city - according to a somew... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 26 - March 10, 2004 • Jews In Italy The Jews in Italy have strong bi-cultural roots which go back even before the birth of Christ, when the Jews already had an alliance with the Roman Empire. Under the leadership of Judah Maccabeus, man... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 25 - December 16, 2003 • Some remarkable Jews in Southern Africa ... and other stories By Ivan Elion*. Preamble: Browsing through my copy of Eric Rosenthal's "Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa" fifth edition, I was struck by the many entries of Jewish interest in the affairs of our country that had warr... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 18 - December 16, 2003 • A True Story Never Told A great many Jew knows 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, including me, until yesterday, know the story of how a... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 24 - November 19, 2003 • CAMPAIGN for the 'Portuguese Dreyfus' Please join (in helping Michael Freund who initiated this through Amishav) to persuade the Portuguese government to clear Capt. Barros Basto's name. We need to get our voice heard.! Let's write and co... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 17 - November 19, 2003 • Astrophysics: Ari Sternfeld, genius unknown in the West By Danielle Wolfowitz*. In 1957, the successful launching of Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, by the Soviet Union, astonished the world. This victory of science was based on the research of a genius little know in the ... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 22 - September 15, 2003 • Exodus from the Amazon By Michael Freund. Hundreds of descendants of Moroccan Jews living along the Amazon are returning to Judaism and making aliyah. Michael Freund traveled to the tropical forests of Peru to find out why. It is a sweltering... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 21 - September 15, 2003 • Berbers and the Jews, a Unique Relationship; The Historical Background By Samuel Kurinsky. JEWS MOVE WEST Blocked from escape to the east, many Jews found refuge to the west. The westward movement of the Jews from Egypt and Cyrenaica to the Barbary states was once again swelled by the expul... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 14 - September 3, 2003 • When Missionaries Wrote in Yiddish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Yiddish in America By Yaakov Ariel. Residents of and visitors to Jewish immigrant neighborhoods in America at the turn of the twentieth century noticed a phenomenon that at first glance seemed like an oxymoron -- Christian missionaries ... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 20 - August 27, 2003 • The Jews of South Carolina Exhibit Highlights 300 Years of Tradition, Assimilation and Conflict Like much of the southern United States, South Carolina has a long and complex Jewish history -- in fact, at one point, there were ... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 9 - August 26, 2003 • Toledo: Capital of Sepharad By Samuel Toledano*. When a title for these remarks was suggested to me some time ago in Madrid, I purposely refrained from asking whether the theme centered on the recent designation of Toledo as the capital of "Sefarad ... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 8 - August 26, 2003 • A Brief History of the Sephardim of Curaçao By Charles Gomes Casseres. The island of Curaçao is situated in the southern Caribbean about 40 miles north of the coast of Venezuela. It was discovered in 1499 by Alonso de Ojeda, one of the captains of Christopher, soo... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 7 - August 26, 2003 • The Silk Route: A Judaic Odyssey By Samuel Kurinsky. One thousand seven hundred years before Marco Polo set out on his journey from Venice to China, Persian/Jewish traders pioneered the route from the Near East to Kaifeng, then the Capitol of Imperial C... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 6 - August 26, 2003 • The Last of the Jews in Trinidad and Tobago: Hans Stecher tells the story of arrival and departure of Jews By Tim McDonald. The Jewish section tucked away in the corner of Mucurapo Cemetery is normally neat and clean. But weeds and flowers spring up wildly aroud the stone markers when Hans Stecher is off the island. Steche... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 5 - August 26, 2003 • Cuba's Jews Take Heart From First New Synagogue Since Revolution CAMAGUEY, Cuba -- Thirty-six years ago, Alberto Roffe's grandfather dug a hole in this city's only Jewish cemetery, lowered his community's prayer books into it and covered the crypt with concrete. Cu... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 4 - August 26, 2003 • The Jews of St. Eustatius By Samuel Kurinsky. St Eustatius [In Dutch: Sint Eustatius, and now named simply Statia] is one of the Netherlands Antilles islands, along with St Maarten, Saba, Curaçao, and Bonaire. The island earned a unique pl... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 19 - August 26, 2003 • Samuel Ha-Nagid, Vizier of Granada, 993-d after 1056 By Abraham Ibd Daud. One of the most famous of the Jewish notables of Moslem Spain was Samuel Ha­Levi, who is also known as Samuel Ha­Nagid. Beginning life as a shopkeeper, Samuel Ha­Levi ultimately became the... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 18 - August 26, 2003 • Jews in Cape Verde and on the Guinea Coast By Professor Richard Lobban. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND IN PORTUGAL In Iberia the Reconquista movement was growing in its mission to recover their lands from the Muslim Moors who had first arrived in the 8th century. Jews may have fir... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 17 - August 26, 2003 • Portuguese Crypto Jews By Yitzchak Kerem. Portugal and Madeira On August 19 1994, Haim Shapiro described in the "Jerusalem Post", an ancient and secret Yom Kippur ritual still practised by Marrano families in northern Portugal. Women gather t... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 16 - August 26, 2003 • The Jews of the Canary Islands - Calendar of calumny By Benny Landau. Lucien Wolf was depicted in the history pages of the Zionist movement as one of those stumbling blocks that Chaim Weizmann had to bypass on his way to reaching the Balfour Declaration. During the earl... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 15 - August 26, 2003 • The Marranos Celebrate Yom Kippur in Amsterdam Two ships were drifting helplessly in the North Sea. High winds and stormy seas damaged the rudders, and the ships were at the mercy of the storm. Fortunately, the ships were driven towards the shores... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 14 - August 26, 2003 • The Sephardic Jews By the end of the first century A. D. there were Jews all around the Mediterranean Sea and with the Christianization of the Roman Empire, the persecution of the Jews began. In the Iberian peninsula th... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 13 - August 26, 2003 • Tomás de Torquemada By Beth Randall . At his birth (1420, Torquemada, Castile, Spain) Tomás already had something to hide: his grandmother was a converso; a converted Jew; a New Christian. Spain had more converted Jews than any oth... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 12 - August 26, 2003 • A Portuguese citizen above corruption Portugal, a country often criticised by other equally culpable nations for its propensity to corruption in public life, can at least claim a daughter whose body has remained incorrupt for nearly 700 y... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 11 - August 26, 2003 • The association with Queen Esther In all the region of Coimbra, Santa Isabel, or, as the people call her, the Holy Queen, is the object of the most successful Marrano Jewish or crypto-Jewish cult in Portugal. She is mainly venerated i... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 13 - August 26, 2003 • Marrano The term marrano refers to the Crypto-Jews from the Iberian peninsula, i.e. descendants of Jews who were forced to adopt the identity of Christians. The term marrano denotes in Spanish "damned," "accu... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 3 - April 25, 2003 • The Jewish history of Sao Thome e Principe The Jewish history of Sao Thome e Principe, two small islands off the west coast of Africa, close to Guinea, includes a tragic era. In 1493, one year after the Jews were expelled from Spain, a large... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 1 - April 25, 2003 • Strengths, challenges of tiny community like those of U.S. Jewry By Debra Rubin - Washington Jewish Week. Anete Hulak is believed to be the oldest Jew in Brazil´s Recife. She arrived in the small northeastern city in 1927 from Bessarabia (now Moldova), and remembers the Recife Jewish community´s heyday... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 11 - April 25, 2003 • The Psychological Wisdom of the High Holy Days It is no wonder that so many Jews associate Judaism with pain, suffering, and guilt. Quite apart from the history of oppression that shapes many Jews' perception of the world, the fact is that most Am... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 9 - April 18, 2003 • Last Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Surviving Commander Calls on Arabs To Cease Fire By Marek Edelman. Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, has issued a public call from his home in Poland for Palestinian fighters to lay down their arms and make peace with Israel. E... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 8 - April 18, 2003 • The Vatican and the Holocaust: A Preliminary Report: Part III. By The International Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission. Concluding Observations Our preliminary investigation of the eleven volumes has generated many significant questions. Those listed in this document are only a selection of those that could be asked.... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 7 - April 18, 2003 • The Vatican and the Holocaust: A Preliminary Report. Part II. By The International Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission.. Questions What follows are some examples of questions that arose in our examination of the documents. For convenience we have grouped these questions into three categories: the first, of a very spec... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 6 - April 18, 2003 • The Vatican and the Holocaust: A Preliminary Report. Part I. By The International Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission. Submitted to The Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews and the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations Preface The International Catholic-Jewish Histori... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 4 - April 18, 2003 • Address at Morning Prayers I speak with you today not as President of the University but as a concerned member of our community about something that I never thought I would become seriously worried about -- the issue of anti-s... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 2 - April 18, 2003 • Oriana Fallaci on Antisemitism Today By Oriana Fallaci. I find it shameful that in Italy there should be a procession of individuals dressed as suicide bombers who spew vile abuse at Israel, hold up photographs of Israeli leaders on whose foreheads they... Read More... General Topics Series- Articles in English - No. 1 - April 17, 2003 • Gene helps Jews resist Alcoholism Genes may help explain why Jewish people typically have fewer drink problems than non-Jews, researchers said last month. A study has shown that a genetic mutation carried by at least a fifth of Jews a... Read More... Jewish World Series- Articles in English - No. 38 - September 23, 2000 • For Cuban Jews, endless deprivation By Steve Fainaru, Globe Staff. HAVANA - Birds enter through the synagogue's broken windows and leave their droppings on the faded velvet seats. During religious services, most of the sparse crowd sits in the first two rows to be ne... Read More...

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