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...comments weren't so pathetic, we should thank Mahathir for revealing precisely the mentality of the Islamic leaders he was addressing. Even if the Prime Minister's assertions were true, they largely missed the point. If so many Jews were in influential positions, it would show the ability of Jewish communities to adapt to their environment and grasp what modernity is about. Constrained by a difficult history, Jews have had little choice but to find ways to integrate into host societies. Just as anti-Semites in Europe did in the past, Mahathir is mistaking a consequence for a cause...
Shattered Prayers TURKEY Overlooking the Golden Horn, the Galata district of Istanbul has been a multicultural neighborhood for more than 600 years. Last week the Jewish communities in Galata and nearby Sisli were targeted when simultaneous car-bomb blasts destroyed two synagogues, killing at least 20 people and wounding some 250 others. Ali Ozudogru, who runs a small chandelier business, was one of the first at the scene at the Neve Shalom synagogue. "Arms and legs and bits of flesh were everywhere," he says. "I saw one person totally burnt, with just his eyes moving." A group calling itself...
...Genoese trading port in the 14th century, has long served as a sanctuary for ethnic groups from around the world. Germans, French, British, Armenians, Greeks, Hungarians and Poles once lived there; Jews first settled in the area after fleeing the Spanish Inquisition in 1492. These days Turkey's Jewish community keeps a low profile, however. Galata's Neve Shalom synagogue, the city's largest, is barely visible behind facade of corrugated iron, security cameras and private security guards. Two Turkish policeman had kept watch outside. Both were killed Saturday, along with at least 18 others, when simultaneous car bomb blasts...
...through four major stages of self-identification: anger, denial, acceptance and confession. A self-made man in every sense of the word, Silk’s success in life embodies a severely warped version of the American dream: an extremely light-skinned black man passing himself off as a Jewish intellectual. Newcomer Wentworth Miller is startlingly good as the tormented young Silk, torn between the pulls of family and future. Hopkins is almost convincing as the tragic hero Coleman Silk, Nicole Kidman less so as the battered Faunia—the cleaning woman who pulls Silk out of his shell...
There is no hope of brokering peace in the Middle East in this generation because Palestinians are not ready to accept the legitimacy of a Jewish state, prominent Israeli journalist Yossi Klein Halevi told an audience of 70 at the Harvard Hillel last night...