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Jews Rebuilding Lebanon and Arabs Teaching Holocaust History in Palestinian Refugee Camps |
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by Tamar Fox, June 27, 2008 |
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Jewish single: plenty Jew-y A new report by sociologists Steven Cohen and Ari Kelman has found that unmarried Jews in their twenties and thirties are plenty involved in Jewish life, with 42% of singles saying more than half of their friends are Jewish, and 51% saying they talk to their friends about “Jewish matters.” JTA
Dov Friedman
Maybe this is because of the plethora of new Jewish expressions that have popped up. At least this is what I'd like to think, and from a "market" perspective it makes sense. If the market of Jewish expressions has become more intricate, people who used to not "purchase" any of the "products" may have found ones specified enough to entice them to buy.
We've had a lot of discussions on Jewcy about valid forms of Jewish expression. It has been posited by some of the more closed-minded people who comment on Jewcy that there is one valid form or (group of forms) of expression and that everything else is not "true Torah Judaism." I'm not here to debate that point, but I am here to contend that the breaking open of traditional, calcified movements has brought more people into the fold. So much for the theory that leaving "halachic Judaism" serves as a slippery slope to no identification at all.
Strength thru weakness
Josh, when you are in Lebanon, give our regards to Ron Arad, Eldav Regev, and Ehud Goldwasser
RandallJones
Regarding the "Israeli-Arab who lectures about the Holocaust at Palestinian refugee camps," I wonder if he lectures about how the Jews got revenge on the Germans? John Sack has written about this. See http://www.johnsack.com/an_eye_for_an_eye.htm
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DestinysAngel
I'm curious as to whether or not the lecturer at those Palestinian refugee camps mentioned that Israel's Zionist are the world's latest version of Germany's Nazis. The apartheid has already begun, and it's worse than little stars. I could always say, "But there's worse going on. Look at Darfur. Look at the Falun Dafa," but is that really who Israel wishes to be compared to. There were bad things going on in other parts of the world during WWII, too but it doesn't discount anything. Wrong is wrong. Everyone needs a real home. Everyone deserves a safe place. Jews for a just peace. Jews for justice.
Zeevico
I would like to point out, partly in response to DestinysAngel's remarks, that whether a country is an 'Apartheid' State or a 'Nazi-like' State is a matter of comparison to the characteristics of each, and the fact is that a reasonable definition of either of their characteristics shows that a State cannot be both Apartheid and Nazi at the same time.
Apartheid is a system in which an ethnic group is relegated to the status of second class citizenship.It is a system based, among other things, on the assertion of (a) ethnic superiority on the part of one group over the other, depriving the other of political rights (such as the right to vote, freely assemble and express one's opinions) and civil/social rights (such as the right to move where one wants to, get the job one wants, go to public restrooms, receive education and social standing of the same quality to everyone else, etc).
Nazism is (among many other things), a system which supports systematically exterminating 'alien' ethnic/religious groups. It justifies this because it asserts (a) its own inherent superiority to those groups (b) the inherently subhuman nature of those groups, i.e. via comparisons to rats, or other animals and (c) the claim that these supposedly 'sub human' groups are attacking the group in question, so that genocide becomes perfectly legitimate (seeing as these groups are not 'human' in the sense we understand it, and are regarded by the superior group as akin to infestations, cancers, etc). Of course, Nazis may incorporate forms of Apartheid in society as against some members of an ethnic grouping as a prelude to their slaughter.
See how the two are mutually exclusive? If you are in a death camp, you are not just a second class citizen. You are, for all intents and purposes, a dead man walking.
It would be better for you to frame Israel's alleged iniquities in your own words and then compare them to the characteristics of those systems to see whether those comparisons pan out, and if so, to what extent.
Flintoff
A small library of rare and valuable Jewish books and manuscripts has
been smuggled out of Iraq and into Israel. Some of the books are more
than 600 years old, and had to be spirited out of Baghdad by Iraqi-born
book dealer Mordechai Ben-Porat and his emissaries. Must University