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| | Newsweek Polska |  Was doctor Wladislaw Dering a hero or was he a criminal? “Newsweek” got to some shocking testimonies. Some claim that the Auschwitz prisoner-doctor saved their lives, others accuse him of brutal crimes.read more » |
| The Times |  Europe has always taken upon itself the burden to “liberate” Muslim women, blind to the suffering of its own women. For Muslim women who choose to veil, being forced to strip off and pay a fine hardly seems any kind of liberation – states Libby Purves powerfully, joining in the ongoing discussion about face-veils.read more » |
| The New York Times |  My first thought, hearing of the Polish tragedy, was that history’s gyre can be of an unbearable cruelty, decapitating Poland’s elite twice in the same cursed place, Katyn.read more » |
| The Sunday Times |  Beatification of John Paul II draws closer, but the process may be by impeded by the recent allegetion of his covering up an abuse scandal. The Sunday Times reporters discuss the just revealed case of the notorious Cardinal Groer in the article below. read more » |
| YnetNews |  "Our love for Jerusalem prevents us from seeing that half of it is Arab" – writes Eyal Megged of Ynet News. But need this love be blind?read more » |
| BBC News |  They called it the "Twitter revolution". Iran’s post-election protests showed the world the power of new media to organise and publicise opposition in a controlled society – BBC’s Jon Leyne writes from Tehran. His analysis is available below.read more » |
| BBC News |  In the following article, BBC’s Tehran correspondent Jon Leyne analyses the questions raised by the death of the Iranian physics specialist Masoud Ali Mohammadi in yesterday’s bombing.read more » |
| JTA - Global News Service of the Jewish People |  Hanukkah historically commemorates the Maccabees’ victory over Greeks and the rededication of the Temple. But have they always been venerated as positive characters of the Jewish history? By no means! – Gil Shefler’s argues in the article below. read more » |
| Spiegel Online |  Reflecting upon the results of the Swiss poll which ruled in favour of minaret ban, Mathieu von Rohr of Spiegel Online notes it will have detrimental effect upon Swiss international and home relations, the country’s economy, and its reputation abroad. Read his article below.read more » |
| Ha'aretz |  In an interview for the Haaretz daily, judge Richard Goldstone, author of the Gaza report, comments the torrent of criticism he received from Israeli authorities.read more » |
| The Tablet |  The pope has described the lifting of the excommunication of rebel Lefebvrist bishops as and act of paternal mercy. While the move has been praised by arch-traditionalists, it has shocked many Catholics and members of other faiths, especially Jews. The Tablet author, based in Rome, tracks the reasons and consequences of the move, now that talks with Lefebvrists are about to begin.read more » |
| NYDaily News |  James Kirchick of NY Daily News traces the conspiracy theory behind Islamic terrorist attacks and reminds fellow Westerners that blaming terrorism on American occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan is self-deceptive. Yes, we are at war with terrorism, as terrorists are at war with us – he states strongly in the article below.read more » |
| BBC News |  Demonstrations by women students in Cairo followed the decision by Sheikh Mohamed Tantawi, dean of al-Azhar university, to back up a ban on the wearing of full women’s veils, known as the niqab, on university premises. Is the niqab a modest covering required by the Qu’ran, or is it an ominous manifestation of extremist Islam?read more » |
| The Jerusalem Post |  When asked why he never emigrated from Poland under the oppressive communist regime, even in the midst of the anti-Semitic craze, Marek Edelman said: "Someone had to stay with all those who died here." Jaroslaw Adamowski sketches a touching portrait of the man who was always there, with the people. And for the people.read more » |
| The New York Times |  The upcoming meeting in Geneva – the first direct talks of Iran and the USA in almost 30 years – invites a look at what the world’s intelligence agencies believe to know about Iranian nuclear plans. Is there any agreement as to what the „Iranian threat” actually is? The New York Times analysts report.read more » |
| The Jerusalem Post |  During the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and on the brink of the Jewish Rosh Hashanah writer Michael Melchior reflects upon the so-far unnoticed potential of shared religious values in peace-making. For Melchior, a civil society movement leader and interfaith dialogue proponent, the lack of success in Mid Eastern peace negotiations is leargely due to underestimating that conciliatory potential of religion. The text is a must read for all who share the concern...read more » |
| Ha'aretz |  Haaretz correspondents report on the "anti-assimilation campaign" launched Wednesday by the Israeli government. The aim of the campaign is to save the "lost" – Jews of the Diaspora, who are "in danger" of marrying a non-Jew – by persuading them to come to Israel. Israeli citizens are being urged to report the particulars of their single acquaintances living abroad... read more » |
| BBC News |  Eighty years ago, violent Arab riots against Jewish immigration gripped British-ruled Palestine. The worst violence occurred in the city of Hebron where, on the 23 and 24 August 1929, nearly seventy Jews were murdered. In a text reprinted below, Dina Newman reports on how memories of the bloody events still linger in Hebron today.read more » |
| |  Hungary must put an end to violent attacks against the Roma – runs the heading of a statement issued yesterday in Brussels by the European Network Against Racism (ENAR), in reaction to the recent tragic events in Hungary. The whole statement is reprinted below.read more » |
| The Washington Post |  In the wake of the crisis in Iran, discussion of the actual role of clergy in Islamic countries, such as the one conducted by Anthony Shadid of The Washington Post, may provide valuable insights. In tracing the differences in Iraqi and Iranian approaches of Shiite leaders towards state–clergy relations, the author shows how ostensible lack of political involvement may paradoxically render much stronger spiritual grip over the people. Read the article below.read more » |
| The Washington Post |  In the wake of post-electoral protests in Iran, in which women played a conspicuous role, questions arise about the possible impact their involvement might have on the lot of Mid East women. Sudarsan Raghavan believes the brave Iranian activists have mobilised their oppressed colleagues throughout the region. But whether the action will have any lasting and practical effect is another question. Read the article below for the whole discussion. read more » |
| The New York Times |  In a thorough commentary on the postelectoral urest in Iran New York Times journalists note that the vote-fixing allegations have channelled the longstanding public anger end resentment towards Iranian leadership. Threatened by vilent suppression of their protests, Ahmadinejad’s opponents have ceased demonstrations but are far from giving up. Both parties continue their war of attrition, but the ruling one clearly gets the upper hand. Read the article below.read more » |
| Spiegel Online |  In viewing the present post-electoral unrest in Iran, Spiegel’s Dieter Bednarz positions Ayatollah Khamenei as the central figure of the conflict: having lost touch with the people’s cravings, the supreme leader seems doomed to lose his authority. Bednarz claims that what the social unrest really threatens is the Iranian theocracy itself. The article is available below.read more » |
| BBC News |  President Obama’s upcoming speech in Cairo is predicted to be the high point of his Mid-East visit. Will it mark a symbolic turning point in US relations with the Muslim world? Politicians and commentators already speculate about the potential repercussions of the not yet delivered speech. Paul Reynolds of the BBC sums up the manifold predictions in an article available below. read more » |
| Ha'aretz |  Lieberman "speaks to the fundamental Israeli racism, according to which "we are the landlords, and you are short-term guests" – writes Yitzhak Laor in his commentary on the draft bill bannning the commemoration of Palestinian Nakba on what is Israel’s Independence Day. The critical Israeli voice makes it obvious that the potential "Nakba law" not only would be harmful for the Arab community, but would also be a dead end for Israeli politcs. Read the whole article below. read more » |
| BBC News |  Pope Benedict is ending an eight-day tour of the Holy Land. BBC Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen assesses from Jerusalem of what has been a highly eventful visit.read more » |
| BBC News |  As the Pope visits Jordan, Israel and the West Bank, he faces an combustible cocktail of issues combining relations between the world’s three main monotheistic religions, one of the world’s most intractable political conflicts and the legacy of the Holocaust. The BBC News Website looks at the areas of controversy he will have to navigate.
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| The Guardian |  Benjamin Pogrund of The Guardian provides an insightful reflection upon the recent racism conference in Geneva. He notes at the outset that its potential for „making a better world” was lost due to the fatal anti-Israeli bias. How come the bias was again given the upper hand, thus turning the meeting into a distasteful „Durban II”? Pogrund considers appointing Ahmadinejad as one of key speakers to be symptomatic of a certain dangerous line of thought within the UN. But – on a more optimistic note – he also remarks that the walking out of delegates in protest against hate speech is an indicator of a healthy tendency. You are welcome to read the whole text below.read more » |
| Ha'aretz |  An Israeli historian traces the role of the so-called Damascus Affair of 1840 in stirring modern anti-Semitism in the Middle East. Numerous blood libels against Jews, i.e. accusations of ritual murder, triggered anti-Jewish riots in Damascus and soon spread to other cities, resulting in the creation of a world-wide myth that Jews controlled the earth. According to author Yaron Harel emotions expressed in the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion, literary epitome of anti-Semitic mythology, are once again gaining the upper hand... The Haaretz text is available below.read more » |
| The Jerusalem Post | As a counterweight to the many critical views of the present pope we have posted here – wherein the pope was often seen as having curbed the Christian-Jewish dialogue in the context of the "Williamson case" – we hereby present a very sympathetic opinion by a Jewish author. David Rosen is a writer, former chief rabbi of Ireland, and now heads the American Jewish Committee's Department of Interreligious Affairs.read more » |
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