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...time when Swiss banks and German industrial companies are making amends for their conduct during World War II, dozens of senior Israeli politicians, bureaucrats and mental health professionals acknowledge that the Jewish state must own up to its abuse of Holocaust survivors. A documentary that had its Israeli premiere at a film festival in Jerusalem last month is one of the first media examinations of Holocaust survivors' plight. The film, Last Journey Into Silence, directed by Shosh Shlam, has saddened and shocked audiences, but it is contributing to a growing debate about the problem. "It's the last chapter...
...Palestinians are being so defensive about it," says Ghassan Khatib, a leading Palestinian political analyst. "It's a war. Why is everybody entitled to defend themselves except us?" Certainly there are parallels between the arms smuggling by Palestinians today and similar efforts in the 1930s and 1940s by Jewish leaders in Palestine who were struggling against British occupiers. Those operations are regarded as heroic in Israel. The difference, Israelis argue, is that they are supposed to be in a peace agreement with the Palestinians, one that pledges both sides to resolving disputes through negotiation and limits the arms...
During the Crown Heights riot of 1991, Sharpton went to Israel to track down the Hasidic Jewish man responsible for killing a black child in an accidental car crash. The Israel trip and several alleged anti-Semitic comments strained his relationship with the Jewish community...
...This is another tragedy that has happened in this community as a result of the racism spewed by so-called black leaders from outside the community,” Rabbi Shmuel Butman, a spokesperson for the Crown Heights Jewish community, told Newsday...
...rival George M. Cohan described Berlin as "a Jew boy who named himself after an English actor [Henry Irving] and a German city." One can read as much affection as coarseness into the Irishman's epithet. Vaudeville and pop songs of the period were full of spiked ethnic jokes (Jewish, black, Irish, Italian); they were the hot bubbles from the American melting pot. To the musical brew Berlin was happy to add Hebrew, as in his 1909 song "Yiddle on Your Fiddle Play Some Ragtime." But over the years this hardscrabble Semite would endure more than his share of religious...