Word: holocaustal
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...more thoroughgoing theological initiative has been undertaken by the Catholic Church. Christianity's position on Abraham had remained depressingly consistent since Justin Martyr's condemnation of the circumcised, but theologians at the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65, shaken by the Holocaust, reread Paul's letters. They noted that at one point Paul calls the Covenant between God and the Jews irrevocable and that in one passage he compares Christians to a wild olive branch grafted onto the tree of Judaism. "If the Covenant between God and the children of Abraham dies," says Fisher, "the branch withers with the roots...
...Gaullist candidate. He was budget minister from 1978 to 1981, when wartime deportation and intelligence documents on Jews bearing his signature became public. Indicted for crimes against humanity in 1983, Papon avoided judgment until 1998 - but even then was convicted for illegal arrests and detention in connection with the Holocaust, rather than murder. Papon claimed his innocence with an open disdain for accusers and judges alike. Free on appeal in 1999, he bolted - but ventured no farther than Switzerland, where he was arrested in the exile of a Gstaad hotel. The French legal system finally put him in jail...
...herself, now 68 and living in Budapest, grew up and became a mother and schoolteacher. Yet the Kinszkis' story stands out not so much because of what they did, but where they lived - and when. They were Jews in Hungary before the outbreak of World War II. When the Holocaust engulfed Central and Eastern Europe, it erased not only millions of lives but an entire way of life. Now several new projects are under way to recover what was lost. An ambitous research effort titled "Witness to a Jewish Century," launched last week in Vienna, will exhibit on the Internet...
...relive the experience in a way that does justice to the enormity of the events. The memorial should echo the goals of the city's Museum of Jewish Heritage, which sits a stone's throw away. The purpose of that museum is to demonstrate the horror of the Holocaust as well as celebrate the survival and strength of the Jewish people. Done correctly, the memorial at ground zero will commemorate the horror and the heroism of Sept...
Taxing savings is less of a headline-grabbing issue than the money of fallen dictators or Holocaust victims, but for the E.U. it may be just as significant. The planned exchange of tax information would create the beginnings of a more unified pan-European fiscal system, and end the anomaly of tax havens within the E.U. Germany in the 1990s saw how damaging capital flight could be when it instituted a special withholding tax on savings to pay for reunification, sparking an exodus of billions of marks to neighboring Luxembourg. Tax evasion is not a criminal offense in Switzerland...