http://www.jewpi.com Jewish Press International Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:06:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.jewpi.com/uproar-over-rightist-leaders-comments-about-jews-1327947614/ http://www.jewpi.com/uproar-over-rightist-leaders-comments-about-jews-1327947614/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:20:14 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/uproar-over-rightist-leaders-comments-about-jews-1327947614/ Vienna’s Jewish community demanded an investigation into the remarks but the Freedom Pary insisted no harm was meant. The comments by Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache and an associate were first reported Sunday on the website of the daily … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/iranian-film-in-running-for-foreign-language-oscar-1327420809/ http://www.jewpi.com/iranian-film-in-running-for-foreign-language-oscar-1327420809/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:00:09 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/iranian-film-in-running-for-foreign-language-oscar-1327420809/ LONDON (AP) — A taut domestic drama from Iran is competing against a Belgian thriller, a true Polish tale from the Holocaust and dramas from Canada and Israel in the Academy Awards race for best foreign-language film. Nominees announced Tuesday in Los … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/hungary-launches-wallenberg-memorial-year-1326828606/ http://www.jewpi.com/hungary-launches-wallenberg-memorial-year-1326828606/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:30:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/hungary-launches-wallenberg-memorial-year-1326828606/ Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi, Swedish counterpart, Carl Bildt and Israeli Cabinet member Yossi Peled were joined at the inaugural event at the National Museum in Budapest on Tuesday by members of Wallenberg’s family and Holocaust survivors … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/yaffa-yarkoni-israeli-wartime-singer-dies-at-86/ http://www.jewpi.com/yaffa-yarkoni-israeli-wartime-singer-dies-at-86/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:22:08 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/yaffa-yarkoni-israeli-wartime-singer-dies-at-86/ The furor arose when she made comparisons between an Israeli military operation in the West Bank and the Holocaust . “We are a nation that went through the Holocaust . How can we do things like this to another nation?” she told Israel’s Army Radio. … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/israel-officials-slam-holocaust-symbols-at-protest/ http://www.jewpi.com/israel-officials-slam-holocaust-symbols-at-protest/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:02:13 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/israel-officials-slam-holocaust-symbols-at-protest/ “It’s shocking and terrifying,” Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak told public radio on Sunday, a day after hundreds gathered to protest “incitement against the ultra-Orthodox public” in Israel’s media. “The leadership of the Orthodox Jewish community … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/ultra-orthodox-jews-wear-holocaust-garb-at-religious-protest/ http://www.jewpi.com/ultra-orthodox-jews-wear-holocaust-garb-at-religious-protest/#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:48:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/ultra-orthodox-jews-wear-holocaust-garb-at-religious-protest/ “The phenomenon of the exclusion of women from ultra-Orthodox streets is an act of intolerable barbarism,” Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said in an interview published on Friday by Israel’s top-selling Yediot Aharonot newspaper. … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/turkish-passport-untold-tale-of-holocaust-survivors/ http://www.jewpi.com/turkish-passport-untold-tale-of-holocaust-survivors/#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:54:07 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/turkish-passport-untold-tale-of-holocaust-survivors/ In a recent article reprinted in several Turkish newspapers and websites, Hoffman said the movie was “rewriting history” with one of its “central messages — that the Turkish government was actively involved in saving Jewish lives in Europe. … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/unesco-cuts-funds-for-palestinian-magazine/ http://www.jewpi.com/unesco-cuts-funds-for-palestinian-magazine/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:00:38 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/unesco-cuts-funds-for-palestinian-magazine/ A US group, the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants, released a statement praising UNESCO’s decision. “As victims of the horrors of Nazi brutality, we learned with deep shock that a Palestinian children’s magazine … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/south-sudan-leader-makes-first-visit-to-israel/ http://www.jewpi.com/south-sudan-leader-makes-first-visit-to-israel/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:58:15 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/south-sudan-leader-makes-first-visit-to-israel/ The South Sudanese leader arrived late on Monday, press reports said, and was due to visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem on Tuesday morning. Israel recognised South Sudan and established full diplomatic relations with Kiir’s government … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/us-backs-envoy-after-israel-remarks/ http://www.jewpi.com/us-backs-envoy-after-israel-remarks/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:18:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/us-backs-envoy-after-israel-remarks/ Ambassador Howard Gutman, who is Jewish and the son of a Holocaust survivor, said in a speech that a new type of anti-Semitism has emerged in Europe that is not “classic bigotry” but instead linked to the conflict and hence resolvable. … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/israel-to-show-secret-items-from-eichmann-capture-3/ http://www.jewpi.com/israel-to-show-secret-items-from-eichmann-capture-3/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:30:19 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/israel-to-show-secret-items-from-eichmann-capture-3/ Eichmann, known as the “architect of the Holocaust ” for his role in coordinating the Nazi genocide policy, fled Germany after WWII and was captured in Argentina by Mossad agents. His 1961 trial captured world attention. An exhibit this year at Israel’s … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/jewish-cemetery-in-kosovo-capital-desecrated-2/ http://www.jewpi.com/jewish-cemetery-in-kosovo-capital-desecrated-2/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:20:35 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/jewish-cemetery-in-kosovo-capital-desecrated-2/ The few that remained left for Israel and Serbia during and after the 1998-99 Kosovo war. In a statement sent to The Associated Press an American Jewish group branded the desecration of the cemetery as “a heinous act.” ” Holocaust survivors are shocked … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/warsaw-chamber-opera-revives-work-of-holocaust-victims/ http://www.jewpi.com/warsaw-chamber-opera-revives-work-of-holocaust-victims/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:50:20 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/warsaw-chamber-opera-revives-work-of-holocaust-victims/ Among them is “Der Kaiser von Atlantis, oder Die Tod-Verweigerung” (The Emperor of Atlantis, or Death’s Refusal) by the German-speaking Czech Jew Viktor Ullman. Ullman, who studied under Austrian master Arnold Schoenberg before World War I, … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/anne-franks-apartment-open-to-public-for-1-day/ http://www.jewpi.com/anne-franks-apartment-open-to-public-for-1-day/#comments Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:30:14 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/anne-franks-apartment-open-to-public-for-1-day/ On leaving the apartment, the family moved to a small hidden apartment behind a canal house where Anne wrote most of the diary that turned her into a symbol of Jewish suffering during the Holocaust after it was posthumously published. … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/face-lifting-party/ http://www.jewpi.com/face-lifting-party/#comments Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:00:25 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/face-lifting-party/ Bearded Chasidim danced joyfully with recent Israeli army graduates, as Ofri Meir sang nostalgic mizrachi melodies and crowds of local Jews noshed on kosher sushi, grilled salmon, roasted vegetables and tasty Middle Eastern desserts.. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/poll-shows-strong-israeli-support-for-iran-attack-associated-press-usa/ http://www.jewpi.com/poll-shows-strong-israeli-support-for-iran-attack-associated-press-usa/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:26:20 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/poll-shows-strong-israeli-support-for-iran-attack-associated-press-usa/ The Israeli government would have significant support at home for an Israeli military strike against Iran’s nuclear program, according to a poll published Thursday. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/poland-has-largest-gathering-of-rabbis-since-wwii/ http://www.jewpi.com/poland-has-largest-gathering-of-rabbis-since-wwii/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:08:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/poland-has-largest-gathering-of-rabbis-since-wwii/ This has become an issue in countries like Poland, where many people with Jewish ancestry were so traumatized by the Holocaust and postwar anti-Semitism that they lived secular or Christian lives for decades and are only now again embracing a Jewish … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/hungarians-rally-against-far-right-theatre-director-agence-france-presse-france/ http://www.jewpi.com/hungarians-rally-against-far-right-theatre-director-agence-france-presse-france/#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:10:19 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/hungarians-rally-against-far-right-theatre-director-agence-france-presse-france/ Hungarians rallied on Saturday against the appointment of far-rightists to direct a Budapest theatre, a move which has triggered international protests. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/iraqi-jews-yearn-for-lost-homeland-2/ http://www.jewpi.com/iraqi-jews-yearn-for-lost-homeland-2/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:32:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/iraqi-jews-yearn-for-lost-homeland-2/ But between 1948 and 1951, nearly all of the country’s 2500-year-old Jewish community fled amid a region-wide outbreak of nationalist violence. “The issue of Jews in Iraq dates back to 1948 and the organised work of Zionism to relocate them to a … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/pioneer-of-israels-settler-movement-dies/ http://www.jewpi.com/pioneer-of-israels-settler-movement-dies/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:10:28 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/pioneer-of-israels-settler-movement-dies/ Born in 1943 in British Mandate Palestine, he was raised on a kibbutz built by Holocaust survivors near the West Bank town of Bethlehem which was later destroyed during the war that accompanied Israel’s establishment in 1948. After the 1967 Six Day War … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/iran-nuclear-drive-heightens-risk-of-strike-france-agence-france-presse/ http://www.jewpi.com/iran-nuclear-drive-heightens-risk-of-strike-france-agence-france-presse/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:52:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/iran-nuclear-drive-heightens-risk-of-strike-france-agence-france-presse/ France’s UN envoy warned that Iran faces the risk of a military strike if it pursues its nuclear drive because certain countries would not accept it having an atomic weapon. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/netanyahu-slams-outrageous-erdogan-remarks-agence-france-presse/ http://www.jewpi.com/netanyahu-slams-outrageous-erdogan-remarks-agence-france-presse/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:04:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/netanyahu-slams-outrageous-erdogan-remarks-agence-france-presse/ Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu has described as “outrageous” remarks by Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan in which he claimed Israel had killed “hundreds of thousands” of Palestinians. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/wwii-jewish-ghetto-victims-in-lithuania-remembered/ http://www.jewpi.com/wwii-jewish-ghetto-victims-in-lithuania-remembered/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:54:24 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/wwii-jewish-ghetto-victims-in-lithuania-remembered/ VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — A memorial ceremony for thousands of Jewish victims of the Holocaust is under way in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. Volunteers are reading the names of thousands of Jews who were forced to live in the ghetto and … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/iran-publicly-executes-17-year-old-agence-france-presse-france/ http://www.jewpi.com/iran-publicly-executes-17-year-old-agence-france-presse-france/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:34:40 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/iran-publicly-executes-17-year-old-agence-france-presse-france/ Iran on Wednesday publicly hanged a teenage boy convicted of killing an athlete billed as “Iran’s strongest man,” local media reported. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/as-un-revisits-an-painful-chapter-some-wonder-why/ http://www.jewpi.com/as-un-revisits-an-painful-chapter-some-wonder-why/#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:12:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/as-un-revisits-an-painful-chapter-some-wonder-why/ UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The UN’s first conference on racism ended up in fierce acrimony, with accusations that it was hijacked to bash Israel , Zionism and Jews. Ten years after that event in Durban, South Africa, member states are meeting again on the … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/obama-palestinian-un-bid-a-distraction-agence-france-presse/ http://www.jewpi.com/obama-palestinian-un-bid-a-distraction-agence-france-presse/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:14:03 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/obama-palestinian-un-bid-a-distraction-agence-france-presse/ US President Barack Obama said on Monday that a Palestinian bid for recognition next week at the United Nations was a “distraction” and would not result in viable statehood. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/mel-gibson-plans-to-produce-film-on-jewish-hero/ http://www.jewpi.com/mel-gibson-plans-to-produce-film-on-jewish-hero/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:20:28 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/mel-gibson-plans-to-produce-film-on-jewish-hero/ The American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants said: ” Holocaust survivors are aghast that a major Hollywood studio would join with Mel Gibson in this venture and view it as an affront to all victims of anti-Semitism, intolerance, … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/palestine-statehood-step-forward-iran/ http://www.jewpi.com/palestine-statehood-step-forward-iran/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:58:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/palestine-statehood-step-forward-iran/ Ahmadinejad reiterated that the Holocaust was a “lie” which he said was used as an excuse for Israel’s creation. The hardline president, whose vitriolic attacks on the Jewish state and his dismissal of the Holocaust as a “myth” have drawn international … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/jerusalems-walls-restored-idiosyncracies-and-all-associated-press-usa/ http://www.jewpi.com/jerusalems-walls-restored-idiosyncracies-and-all-associated-press-usa/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:22:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/jerusalems-walls-restored-idiosyncracies-and-all-associated-press-usa/ Israeli experts are nearing completion of an ambitious restoration of the five-century-old walls of Jerusalem, the holy city’s dominant architectural feature and a unique record of its eventful and troubled history. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/three-attacks-target-israelis-near-egypt-six-people-dead-associated-press-usa/ http://www.jewpi.com/three-attacks-target-israelis-near-egypt-six-people-dead-associated-press-usa/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:14:09 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/three-attacks-target-israelis-near-egypt-six-people-dead-associated-press-usa/ Assailants armed with heavy weapons, guns and explosives launched three attacks in quick succession in southern Israel near the border with Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding about a dozen more, officials said. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/in-a-jerusalem-tunnel-a-glimpse-of-an-ancient-war-associated-press-usa/ http://www.jewpi.com/in-a-jerusalem-tunnel-a-glimpse-of-an-ancient-war-associated-press-usa/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:30:18 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/in-a-jerusalem-tunnel-a-glimpse-of-an-ancient-war-associated-press-usa/ The excavation of an ancient drainage tunnel beneath Jerusalem has yielded a sword, oil lamps, pots and coins abandoned during a war here 2,000 years ago, archaeologists said, suggesting the finds were debris from a pivotal episode in the city’s history when rebels hid from Roman soldiers crushing a Jewish revolt. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/new-report-on-swedish-queens-fathers-nazi-ties/ http://www.jewpi.com/new-report-on-swedish-queens-fathers-nazi-ties/#comments Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:12:36 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/new-report-on-swedish-queens-fathers-nazi-ties/ The report — published Tuesday — said although Walther Sommerlath belonged to the NSDAP Nazi party, he appeared to have been an inactive member and had helped a Jewish businessman escape the Holocaust . Swedish media reported in 2002 that Sommerlath … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/jewish-group-romanian-word-is-anti-semitic-2/ http://www.jewpi.com/jewish-group-romanian-word-is-anti-semitic-2/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:32:45 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/jewish-group-romanian-word-is-anti-semitic-2/ The word is the most offensive that exists in the Romanian language for a Jew , but it is also mainly used colloquially by elderly Romanians who would not consider themselves anti-Semitic. ” Holocaust survivors are aghast at the casual reference to this … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/us-jews-urge-castro-to-free-contractor-2/ http://www.jewpi.com/us-jews-urge-castro-to-free-contractor-2/#comments Sat, 06 Aug 2011 23:44:07 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/us-jews-urge-castro-to-free-contractor-2/ In his appeal, Elan Steinberg, vice president of The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors & Their Descendants, noted that Alan Gross has lost 90 pounds (40 kilograms) and “is suffering from serious physical ailments as well as from extreme … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/search-for-displaced-holocaust-kids-seen-in-photos/ http://www.jewpi.com/search-for-displaced-holocaust-kids-seen-in-photos/#comments Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:00:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/search-for-displaced-holocaust-kids-seen-in-photos/ In the decades that followed, Meicler built a life, first in Israel , then in America. He married twice, had three children, bought an upholstery company in Texas and is now retired. He was surprised to receive an email from the Holocaust museum this … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/holocaust-survivor-treasures-mothers-last-letters/ http://www.jewpi.com/holocaust-survivor-treasures-mothers-last-letters/#comments Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:50:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/holocaust-survivor-treasures-mothers-last-letters/ He told his story for the Holocaust museum’s photo project on displaced Jewish children but insists he fared better than many others. “Some of these children went through hell,” he says. “Not having a mother — it was difficult for me. … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/holy-land-clerics-launch-interfaith-earth-forum-agence-france-presse/ http://www.jewpi.com/holy-land-clerics-launch-interfaith-earth-forum-agence-france-presse/#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:50:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/holy-land-clerics-launch-interfaith-earth-forum-agence-france-presse/ Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders in the Holy Land have joined forces to launch a multi-faith environmental campaign, citing religious injunctions to protect the Earth across their three faiths. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/israel-fire-near-holocaust-museum-was-accident/ http://www.jewpi.com/israel-fire-near-holocaust-museum-was-accident/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:24:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/israel-fire-near-holocaust-museum-was-accident/ JERUSALEM — A forest fire that prompted the evacuation of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum was likely started accidentally by a man burning rubbish in his backyard, Jerusalem police said on Monday. The fire spread rapidly on Sunday afternoon in … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/malaysia-media-claims-jewish-plot-after-rally-associated-press-usa/ http://www.jewpi.com/malaysia-media-claims-jewish-plot-after-rally-associated-press-usa/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:52:08 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/malaysia-media-claims-jewish-plot-after-rally-associated-press-usa/ alaysia’s government-linked media claimed Monday that foreign Jewish groups might try to use an opposition-backed push to reform electoral laws to interfere in this Muslim-majority country. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/ceremony-honors-jews-killed-by-polish-neighbors-2/ http://www.jewpi.com/ceremony-honors-jews-killed-by-polish-neighbors-2/#comments Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:58:19 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/ceremony-honors-jews-killed-by-polish-neighbors-2/ … in the Jedwabne massacre, saying they assisted German forces in the killings, which took place after German troops occupied Poland at the start of the war. Some 3 million of Poland’s prewar Jewish population of 3.5 million were killed in the Holocaust . Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/gaza-flotilla-activists-detained-in-greece-associated-press-usa/ http://www.jewpi.com/gaza-flotilla-activists-detained-in-greece-associated-press-usa/#comments Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:02:04 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/gaza-flotilla-activists-detained-in-greece-associated-press-usa/ Greek authorities have detained three activists attempting to breach Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, after a boat set sail in defiance of a Greek ban, officials and pro-Palestinian activists said Tuesday. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/abbas-might-delay-palestinian-unity-government-associated-press-usa/ http://www.jewpi.com/abbas-might-delay-palestinian-unity-government-associated-press-usa/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:50:25 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/abbas-might-delay-palestinian-unity-government-associated-press-usa/ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas might put off the formation of a unity government with the Islamic militant group Hamas to avoid alienating his Western allies ahead of a UN vote on statehood, a senior PLO official has said. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/lawmakers-work-out-ritual-slaughter-ban-compromise-associated-press-usa/ http://www.jewpi.com/lawmakers-work-out-ritual-slaughter-ban-compromise-associated-press-usa/#comments Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:10:16 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/lawmakers-work-out-ritual-slaughter-ban-compromise-associated-press-usa/ Dutch lawmakers are set to ban centuries-old Jewish and Muslim traditions of slaughtering animals, but agreed Wednesday to a last-minute compromise offering religious groups exemptions, if they can prove their method of killing livestock does not cause additional suffering. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/spain-jews-rail-against-court-decision-to-overturn-convictions-in-pro-nazi/ http://www.jewpi.com/spain-jews-rail-against-court-decision-to-overturn-convictions-in-pro-nazi/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:58:14 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/spain-jews-rail-against-court-decision-to-overturn-convictions-in-pro-nazi/ MADRID — The Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain has slammed a Supreme Court decision to overturn the convictions of four people accused of distributing pro-Nazi publications. The federation said Monday it noted “with extreme concern” that … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/european-neo-nazi-websites-find-home-in-us/ http://www.jewpi.com/european-neo-nazi-websites-find-home-in-us/#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 11:56:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/european-neo-nazi-websites-find-home-in-us/ Raimund Fastenbauer, a senior Jewish Community official, said American authorities have legal grounds to cooperate in taking down the site. “In part, there have been some concrete threats we believe would be punishable under American law,” Fastenbauer … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/turkey-warns-israel-over-new-gaza-flotilla-agence-france-presse/ http://www.jewpi.com/turkey-warns-israel-over-new-gaza-flotilla-agence-france-presse/#comments Mon, 23 May 2011 14:20:40 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/turkey-warns-israel-over-new-gaza-flotilla-agence-france-presse/ Turkey has warned Israel against another act of bloodshed in international waters after activists announced plans to send a new aid flotilla to the blockaded Gaza Strip. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/justice-breyer-leads-annual-holocaust-ceremony/ http://www.jewpi.com/justice-breyer-leads-annual-holocaust-ceremony/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 18:12:22 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/justice-breyer-leads-annual-holocaust-ceremony/ He made the comments Tuesday as he led annual ceremonies in the Capitol to remember the Holocaust . Breyer told those in attendance that he was there “as a judge and a Jew .” The several hundred people on hand included members of Congress and Holocaust … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/7-decades-after-hitlers-fall-german-grandchildren-of-nazis-delve-into-family/ http://www.jewpi.com/7-decades-after-hitlers-fall-german-grandchildren-of-nazis-delve-into-family/#comments Fri, 13 May 2011 20:50:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/7-decades-after-hitlers-fall-german-grandchildren-of-nazis-delve-into-family/ The gardener at his boarding school, an Auschwitz survivor, beat him black and blue after hearing he was the grandson of Rudolf Hoess, commandant of the death camp synonymous with the Holocaust . “He beat me, because he projected on me all the horror he … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/trove-of-historic-records-of-holocaust-goes-online/ http://www.jewpi.com/trove-of-historic-records-of-holocaust-goes-online/#comments Mon, 02 May 2011 09:20:27 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/trove-of-historic-records-of-holocaust-goes-online/ NEW YORK (AP) — A trove of records documenting the lives of thousands of Holocaust victims and survivors is going online for the first time. One of the world’s leading Jewish humanitarian aid agencies, the New York-based American Jewish Joint … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/bitter-herbs-of-passover-sweet-for-polands-jews/ http://www.jewpi.com/bitter-herbs-of-passover-sweet-for-polands-jews/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:20:35 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/bitter-herbs-of-passover-sweet-for-polands-jews/ The community also wants other Jews — notably from the United States and Israel who visit Holocaust sites — to wake up to its revival and even very existence and stop seeing Poland simply as a place of death. That was echoed by Polish-born Irith … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/uae-calls-for-iran-to-respect-gulf-neighbours-afp-france/ http://www.jewpi.com/uae-calls-for-iran-to-respect-gulf-neighbours-afp-france/#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:12:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/uae-calls-for-iran-to-respect-gulf-neighbours-afp-france/ Iran should respect the unity of its Arab neighbors in the Gulf, the United Arab Emirates foreign minister said on Wednesday. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/survivors-officials-lay-wreaths-to-mark-68-years-since-warsaw-ghetto-uprising/ http://www.jewpi.com/survivors-officials-lay-wreaths-to-mark-68-years-since-warsaw-ghetto-uprising/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:46:07 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/survivors-officials-lay-wreaths-to-mark-68-years-since-warsaw-ghetto-uprising/ WARSAW, Poland — Holocaust survivors and city officials have laid wreaths in ceremonies marking 68 years since Jewish insurgents in the Warsaw Ghetto began an armed resistance against the Nazis. Flowers were laid Tuesday at the monument to Ghetto … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/police-watch-la-synagogues-seek-suspect-after-blast-agence-france-presse/ http://www.jewpi.com/police-watch-la-synagogues-seek-suspect-after-blast-agence-france-presse/#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:16:09 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/police-watch-la-synagogues-seek-suspect-after-blast-agence-france-presse/ Police have stepped up patrols around synagogues and Jewish centers in the west Los Angeles area after a homemade bomb blast triggered a hunt for a suspect described as “extremely dangerous. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/israel-us-germany-mark-50-years-since-nazi-trial/ http://www.jewpi.com/israel-us-germany-mark-50-years-since-nazi-trial/#comments Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:10:15 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/israel-us-germany-mark-50-years-since-nazi-trial/ “Regrettably, our enemies and those who seek Jewish lives have not gone from the world, but the State of Israel exists and it knows how to defend itself.” Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum on Friday said it had uploaded footage of the entire … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/new-berlin-exhibition-on-nazi-eichmann/ http://www.jewpi.com/new-berlin-exhibition-on-nazi-eichmann/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:22:16 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/new-berlin-exhibition-on-nazi-eichmann/ BERLIN — A new exhibition opens in Berlin Tuesday marking 50 years since Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann went on trial in Israel after being kidnapped in Argentina by Mossad agents. The temporary exhibition in the Topography of Terror museum explores … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/polands-jews-celebrate-reopening-of-renaissance-synagogue-after-restoration/ http://www.jewpi.com/polands-jews-celebrate-reopening-of-renaissance-synagogue-after-restoration/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:18:20 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/polands-jews-celebrate-reopening-of-renaissance-synagogue-after-restoration/ The synagogue is a jewel of Renaissance architecture located in the eastern Polish town of Zamosc. It is considered one of the most important surviving synagogues in a country that was home to Europe’s largest Jewish community before the Holocaust . … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/austria-presents-plans-to-restore-revamp-wwii-mauthausen-concentration-camp/ http://www.jewpi.com/austria-presents-plans-to-restore-revamp-wwii-mauthausen-concentration-camp/#comments Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:50:44 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/austria-presents-plans-to-restore-revamp-wwii-mauthausen-concentration-camp/ It is now a site for commemorating Holocaust victims and learning about the horrors of history. About 200000 people — including many students — visit Mauthausen each year. Projects include an exhibit about mass extermination, expanding educational … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/kiss-bassist-gene-simmons-undeterred-by-jerusalem-bombing-says-jews-arabs/ http://www.jewpi.com/kiss-bassist-gene-simmons-undeterred-by-jerusalem-bombing-says-jews-arabs/#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:18:18 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/kiss-bassist-gene-simmons-undeterred-by-jerusalem-bombing-says-jews-arabs/ Simmons said that he has already begun arrangements for multiple Kiss concerts in Israel , and that the band would also love to perform in the Arab world as well. But he said the band, known for its makeup, flamboyant outfits and pyrotechnics, … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/world-powers-press-iran-to-cooperate-with-iaea-agence-france-presse/ http://www.jewpi.com/world-powers-press-iran-to-cooperate-with-iaea-agence-france-presse/#comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:02:16 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/world-powers-press-iran-to-cooperate-with-iaea-agence-france-presse/ The P5+1 group of Western powers has urged Iran to cooperate with the UN atomic watchdog, otherwise it could soon face further censure for blocking the investigation into its controversial nuclear drive. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/french-documentary-about-holocaust-to-be-shown-in-farsi-on-iranian-satellite-tv/ http://www.jewpi.com/french-documentary-about-holocaust-to-be-shown-in-farsi-on-iranian-satellite-tv/#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:08:14 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/french-documentary-about-holocaust-to-be-shown-in-farsi-on-iranian-satellite-tv/ Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has questioned historical accounts of the Holocaust , and called for Israel’s destruction. The Aladdin Project tried twice to get a green light from Iranian authorities to hold a press conference in Tehran about the … Read More »]]> 0