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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 singles are more Jewishly engaged than people think (but does the word ‘engaged’ in that sentence make any other singles nervous?).
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
- Josh Martin, an American Jew who went to help rebuild in Israel after the Lebanon war in 2006, made a second trip to help rebuild in Lebanon. He brought along a group of Christians, Jews, and Muslims to do service projects across the country, including an art project in a Palestinian refugee camp. JTA
- 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. Many of the books were being held in the Library of Congress in Washington DC, but they’ve all been returned to Israel. Jewschool
- A Orthodox Jewish man at the center of a life support controversy died this week in Winnipeg. Samuel Golubchuk, 84, had been on life support for months, but his family did not want life support to be removed despite doctor’s recommendation to the contrary. Three doctors at Grace Hospital resigned as a result of the case, saying that keeping Golubchuk alive was akin to torture. Golubchuk’s children argues that halachically they were not allowed to do anything that might hasten their father’s death. Golubchuk died while on life support. Chronicle Herald
- A Lebanese-born man being charged with supporting a terrorist group has asked that the Jewish judge assigned to his case recuse himself. Since Fawzi Mustapha Assi, 48, has already plead guilty to the charges, Judge Gerald E. Rosen refused the request, saying that Assi was “a little late.” Mercury News
- An Israeli-Arab who lectures about the Holocaust at Palestinian refugee camps teaches that instead of denying the atrocities of World War II, Palestinians should recognize the loss of millions of Jews. If the Jewish people could survive losing 6 million, he explains, it will easily survive terrorist bombings and other attacks that kill 20-25. Instead of violent attacks, Palestinians should find other tactics. Haaretz
- In Israel, an American Idol type competition is underway for the Haredi world. This one is called “Upcoming Voice,” only features men, restricts the judges from saying anything mean or embarrassing to the contestants, and is not shown on TV, since the Haredi world frowns on television. Instead, it’s distributed on CDs that members of the ultra-Orthodox world can watch on their home computers. Haaretz
- In Tajikistan, the only synagogue is being demolished against the will of the community, to make way for the new presidential residence. Officials were going to let the Jewish community dismantle the synagogue themselves so as to maintain as much dignity for the space as possible, but when they weren’t progressing quickly enough, the Chief Engineer had the remaining wall bulldozed. Religious Intelligence
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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