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Judaism and Islam, for starters, cannot even agree on which son he almost sacrificed. Then there is Abraham's Covenant with God. Many Jews (and some conservative Christians) believe it granted the Jewish people alone the right to the Holy Land. That belief fuels much of the Israeli settler movement and plays an ever greater role in Israel's hostility toward Palestinian nationalist claims. "Our connection to the land goes back to our first ancestor. Arabs have no right to the land of Israel," says Rabbi Haim Druckman, a settler leader and a parliamentarian with the National Religious Party. This...
...claim of anti-Semitism. I did not sign the petition that many of my friends and colleagues signed. But my absence from this list was not because I felt it was anti-Semitic. My closest friends signed the petition. They are not anti-Semitic. I am a Jew. If I had signed, I wouldn’t be anti-Semitic either. I have close friends in Israel who feel that what is going on is wrong. They are not anti-Semitic either. I would encourage President Summers to rethink his comments and apologize to both those who signed the petition...
Dershowitz said that at the time Congress added “under God” to the pledge, he was an Orthodox Jew, and decided to stop saying the pledge...
...whip up five different kinds of cakes "out of practically nothing." Judit 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...
...exposed to an excess of both joy and horror in his 41 years. Born André Friedmann in Budapest in 1913, Capa entered a world in conflict, between nations and between his parents. In his teens, André - poor, clever, bored, romantic at heart and discriminated against as a Jew - became involved with leftist revolutionaries, seeking out conflict and danger. When he was barely 18, he moved to Berlin and took up photojournalism. His first big break came in 1932, when he was assigned to photograph Trotsky as he spoke in a Copenhagen stadium on the meaning of the Russian...