Jewish History

A Polish law made it illegal to accuse the Polish nation or state of complicity in Nazi German crimes

How Will Generations that didn’t Experience the Holocaust Remember it?

Keeping the memory of the Holocaust has become increasingly important because it can bring awareness to contemporary atrocities

Holocaust

Quantifying the Holocaust: Measuring murder rates during the Nazi genocide

The Conversation

Hitler “ordered all action speeded up.”

Antisemitism

Palestinian president widely condemned for ‘anti-Semitic’ comments

AFP

Mahmud Abbas drew widespread condemnation over alleged comments suggesting the “social function” of Jews in banking had led to past massacres

Jewish History

The Jewish Community in Multi-Cultural Morocco (Video)

Juan Cole

Myriam Ait Malk | (Video Documentary) | – – Documentary on the Jewish Community in Morocco – by Myriam Ait Malk

Holocaust

Muslims who saved Jews from Holocaust Honored (& Case of Albania)

contributors

Interfaith Peacemakers | – – [N.B. The interfaith ‘I am your Protector” Campaign, founded by Dani Laurence, last week commemorated in several cities the Muslims who saved Jews from the Holocaust. Laurence told Alarabiya, “”The way Muslims are often portrayed in the media, public discourses can lead to fear and hatred. I Am Your Protector […]

Islam

Ashrawi: “Israel is provoking a global holy war” over Aqsa

contributors

By IMEMC News | – – PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi met with [British Consul General to Jerusalem] Dr. Alastair McPhail at the PLO Headquarters in Ramallah, September 14, 2015. Both parties discussed the latest political developments, including Israel’s persistent assaults and escalating incursions and violence on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound (Al-Haram Al-Sharif) […]

Jewish History

Israel: Rosh Hashanah Dancing Robots – Happy New Year with a Technion Touch

contributors

Technion | Shana Tova – Video| – – “Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has the touch to get you ready for the New Year – a robot picks a pomegranate from the tree in the Seven Species Garden outside the CEAR lab in the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering and his friends travel across campus […]

Haredim

‘Bibi in Bible Land’: The Likud Party Miscalculates and loses on Iran Deal

contributors

By Shalom L. Goldman | (Informed Comment) | – – Now that the Democratic senators have blocked a challenge to the Iran deal, pundits are looking at what the most persuasive arguments in the presentations to Democratic members of Congress were. What persuaded most Democrats to back the Iran deal, despite the well-funded campaigns against […]