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...clashes last weekend between the NPD and left-wingers in Schleswig-Holstein, where elections take place on Feb. 20. Moscow, too, is confronting anti-semitism. On Jan. 13, 500 prominent Russians, including 20 members of parliament, sent a letter to the state prosecutor calling for a ban on all Jewish organizations, which they labeled "extremist." It was withdrawn after government pressure, but after six decades the twisted mythologies of Nazism are still finding adherents...
...some grantees to advance anti-Israel and anti-Semitic agendas. These charges focused largely on the actions of Ford grantees at the 2001 United Nations Conference Against Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa. As a result, Ford had also faced substantial pressure from the American Jewish community to address the issue...
...Jews lived in the country and many of their communities were on the verge of dying out. Since then, nearly 200,000 Jews have arrived, most of them from the former Soviet Union. The majority do not speak German and only half have joined a local synagogue. Even the Jewish community complains of being overrun. But the idea of quotas sticks in the craw. Says Charlotte Knobloch, vice president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany: "Despite all the difficulties, it is a stroke of luck that Jews are returning to Germany." Claudia Roth, co-chairwoman of the Greens...
...unwanted," she says. "That is shameful." Germany's Jews accept that changes must be made, but insist they be consulted. For now, policymakers and the Jewish community have agreed to lower the volume and jointly honor the 6 million dead. - By William Boston Temporary Sanity SPAIN Spanish AIDS campaigners were surprised and delighted when Father Juan Antonio Martínez Camino, secretary-general of the Spanish Catholic Church's Episcopal Conference, appeared to reverse Church policy by approving the use of condoms to combat the spread of the disease. But less than 24 hours later - following reports that Camino...
...imagine what made dressing up as a Nazi seem like a good idea to PRINCE HARRY, 20, who appalled Britons by wearing a swastika armband to a party this month. Though the young royal issued a statement saying "It was a poor choice of a costume, and I apologize," Jewish groups called for him to show more contrition and attend a ceremony at Auschwitz on Jan. 27. This isn't the first time Harry's blunders have embarrassed the royal family. Last fall he socked a photographer outside a club; in 2002 he got caught smoking pot. Maybe, like...