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...Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel honored Holocaust Memorial Day yesterday on the steps of Widener Library by having students, faculty, and religious officials read names of some of the millions of Jews who were killed by the Nazis in World...
...changed his name legally to Koresh, Hebrew for Cyrus, the Persian king who allowed the Jews to return to Israel after their captivity in Babylon. His apocalyptic theology converged with secular survivalism, with its programs for hunkering down amid stockpiles of food and ammo to endure a nuclear holocaust or social collapse...
...hold the truth as sacred but instead choose to sacrifice it for ends we believe to be essential, then two inevitable questions arise: which ends and who decides? It is a disregard for the inviolability of truth that allows certain individuals to claim that the Holocaust never occurred. It is a disregard for the inviolability of truth that enables many of the same people to assume that Blacks are inherently laid-back, rhythmic and athletic. Yet in spite of these inescapable dangers, Muhammad does not even recognize the possibility of reaching for such truth. Instead he condemns the presence...
...book calls himself Philip Roth. This second Roth is in Jerusalem, where the first Roth plans to visit early in the novel. He is giving interviews and drumming up support for the movement he calls Diasporism: a plan, in the hope of averting a second, Arab-engineered Holocaust, to move all the Jews of European descent out of Israel and back to the countries of their ancestors...
...possible canonization of POPE PIUS XII, which the Vatican has been investigating for over 25 years, is drawing fire from a Jewish leader. Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, says Pius XII (who reigned from 1939 to '58) was publicly silent during the Holocaust. Hier also says a letter he obtained from a Vatican official indicates that the nomination is moving forward. Father John Pawlikowski of the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago says outrage is premature: "The process is a long one, and any major decisions could be years away." Look for the issue to spark discussions...