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| | |  Pesach (Passover) commemorates the departure of Israelites from Egypt, symbolically marking the birth of the Jewish people as a nation led by Moses. The week-long holiday is a joyful celebration of spiritual freedom as well as physical liberation from slavery.read more » |
| Associated Press |  "We want to keep the memories of the Holocaust alive, but at the same time look into the future." Esther Bejarano says music helped keep her alive as a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz and in the years that followed.read more » |
| |  Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem in the 2nd century BC. The festival always starts on the 25th day of Kislev (which is 11 Dec. this year). read more » |
| Arne Orgassa |  Arne Orgassa reports on a Berlin woman, who has for two decades been waging a lone campaign against neo-Nazi graffiti. Irmela Mensah-Schramm keeps removing swastikas and racist stickers from lampposts and walls across the city, in an endless battle against neo-Nazi youths, passersby who file legal complaints, and against social indifference.
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| Ynet News |  Teens from Jewish and Bedouin schools work together helping restore Avdat National Park. The site – declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO – was severely damaged by vandalism early this month. Ynet journalists report:read more » |
| |  Birobidzhan, administrative center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, situated close to the Chinese border, celebrates its 75th anniversary. Grant Slater of JTA traces the story of the city and its Jewish inhabitants.read more » |
| BBC News Natalia Antelava |  In the midst of Mid-Eastern turmoil and Muslim radicalism, an unusual teaching enterprise makes the youth enjoy spiritual freedom and teaches them to transcend cultural differences through music and chivalric etiquette. Natalia Antelava’s vivid report from Baghdad is included below.read more » |
| |  Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, the month of day-long strict fasting, has begun. Starting form August 31 this year, for 30 days all adults are supposed to abstain from food, drink, and any kind of excess, from dawn until dusk.read more » |
| Karin Kloosterman |  If there is one thing that religious girls in Israel like to do on holidays and celebrations, it’s dance. But Orthodox prohibitions prevent them from forming their frenetic dancing circles in front of men. Considered immodest, the religious Jewish girls put up a curtain in front of the men – who are usually the ones playing the dance music – instead. read more » |
| Malgorzata Pasicka |  On April 30 Al Jazeera online posted a text about a newly opened private Holocaust museum in the West Bank village of Ni’lin. Its founder, Palestinian Hassan Musa, stresses that for many of his compatriots the museum provides the first opportunity to learn about the recent tragic history of Jewish people. But infused with ideology as it is, is the message still true?read more » |
| dr Joanna Bocheńska |  Honour killing is nowadays one of the most disputed and difficult problems connected with the situation of many societies, especially in the Middle East and among immigrant communities in Western Europe.From the European point of view there is no doubt that honour killing is a terrible and unacceptable practice, but do we ever try to think why the attitude of people involved in it is so different? Why do they seem to accept the murder of their children and sisters in the name of honour?read more » |
| | Pesach (Passover) commemorates the departure of Israelites from Egypt, symbolically marking the birth of the Jewish people as a nation led by Moses. The week-long holiday is a joyful celebration of spiritual freedom as well as physical liberation from slavery.read more » |
| | Purim is one of the most joyous holidays on the Jewish calendar. It commemorates a time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination. In line with the biblical command, the happy event is celebrated annually starting at sunset on the 13th day of Adar, the festival continuing throughout the following night and day (9/10 March this year) read more » |
| www.krg.org | Religious leaders of many faiths gathered in mid-February at the Martyr Saad Convention Centre in Erbil, capital of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq, to discuss the importance of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence.read more » |
| Rebecca Spence | With "The Reader" garnering five Oscar nominations, and just as many Holocaust-related films playing this winter, Hollywood's long-simmering romance with one of the greatest tragedies in human history is reaching a fever pitch. Even a former official of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has a certain fatigue. read more » |
| Sonja Nahrstedt | Despite the mostly segregated environment where Israeli Jews and Arabs live in, an alternative school model for both Jews and Arabs shows that peaceful coexistence in everyday life is indeed possible and offers an enriching and lasting experience for both sides.
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| | Superman may be the most recognizable fictional character, but his creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster – American Jews who proved the power of imagination amid the Great Depression – are not that well known. This may change, however, thanks to the two exhibitions displayed last fall and winter at Brown University, Providence R.I. read more » |
| Agnieszka Sieradzka (Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau) | A work by Auschwitz prisoner Tadeusz Myszkowski is the latest addition to the Museum art collection. It is a caricature of another prisoner, Jan Kowalski, camp number 99. Like Myszkowski, Kowalski came from Zakopane, and the two were related. read more » |
| Stephen Tomkins, BBC News | Most people think of the Bible as a densely printed book with no pictures, but a version of the scripture that resembles a glossy coffee table magazine aims to change that. It's part of a wave of radical presentations of the Bible, including a manga version and a Lego gospel. But how do Christians feel about these attempts to spread the word? read more » |
| | The new Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum website has gone online at www.auschwitz.org.pl. Professor Władysław Bartoszewski performed the ceremonial opening during a meeting of the International Auschwitz Council at the Chancellery of the President of the Council of Ministers in Warsaw. read more » |
| The Pontifical Council For Interreligious Dialogue | We present message of The Pontifical Council For Interreligious Dialogue to the Hindus on the feast of Diwali 2008: "Christians and Hindus: Together in favour of Non-violence".read more » |
| Isabel Kershner, NYT | They came in waves, ardent Jewish settlers, religious women from central Israel, black-clad followers of Hasidic courts and groups of teenage boys and girls, almost a thousand of them in all.read more » |
| | Protective work at the ruins of gas chambers 2 and 3 at the Auschwitz-Birkenau site starts on September 17. Today, the ruins of the gas chambers and crematoria constitute some of the most important material evidence of the crime of the Holocaust.read more » |
| | Music, which has always played an important part in Jewish culture, will be the subject matter of the 9th edition of the European Day of Jewish Culture on September 7.read more » |
| | Educational projects is an important part of the activity of the Auschwitz Museum at the site of the former Nazi German concentration camp. They are addressed mainly to Polish schools but some are organized jointly with the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem and are for Israeli teachers and educators.read more » |
| John Beauchamp | An exhibition of drawings by a former inmate of the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz is on at the State Museum of Auschwitz. The works on display are part of a collection which is the museum’s latest acquisition. read more » |
| | To collect music written in internment camps before and during World War II has been Frencesco Lotoro’s quest since 1991. read more » |
| Waldemar Piasecki | The Council will have a lot to do also in Poland. It is obvious that racism or anti-Semitism are phenomena present in the Polish society, it is enough to visit Polish stadiums or go for a walk to see the inscription on the walls…read more » |
| Tim Whewell, BBC News | A judicial inquiry into the wartime activities of Jewish anti-Nazi resistance fighters in Lithuania has led to accusations that the small Baltic state is trying to distort the history of World War II.
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