http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/ en webmaster@jewishjournal.com Copyright 2012 Fri, 25 May 2012 09:32:00 +0000 http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/european_jewish_revival_in_the_face_of_pessimism_the_paideia_alumni_confere/ http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/european_jewish_revival_in_the_face_of_pessimism_the_paideia_alumni_confere/#When:09:32:00Z Fri, 25 May 2012 09:32:00 +0000 http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/a_wake-up_call_20120523/ http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/a_wake-up_call_20120523/#When:14:00:09Z
It was after lunch several Fridays ago that I politely declined an offer to have a beer with a friend and told him I had to go elsewhere instead – a counter-demonstration organized by British Israel Coalition outside the Israeli Embassy in High St. Kensington.
]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 14:00:09 +0000 http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/eu_sanctions_are_key_in_preventing_a_nuclear_iran_20120523/ http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/eu_sanctions_are_key_in_preventing_a_nuclear_iran_20120523/#When:13:53:13Z This Saturday in Istanbul, Catherine Ashton, the EU Foreign Policy chief, will lead the P5+1 talks with Iran over its nuclear program – more than a year after the last negotiated attempt failed because Iran wasn’t prepared to discuss its nuclear program unless the P5+1 removed all sanctions and recognized its right to enrich uranium.]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 13:53:13 +0000 http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/what_must_be_said_about_gunter_grass/ http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/what_must_be_said_about_gunter_grass/#When:13:37:33Z Wed, 23 May 2012 13:37:33 +0000 http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/antisemitism_still_alive_in_europe_20120523/ http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/antisemitism_still_alive_in_europe_20120523/#When:13:33:28Z 1 March 2012
Like many others, I was appalled when I heard about the disgraceful comments Baroness Tonge made during an event at Middlesex University last week, which was part of the ‘Israeli Apartheid Week’ held on different campuses. ]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 13:33:28 +0000 http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/bel_kaufman-_only_one_in_the_whole_world_alive_who_knew_him/ http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/bel_kaufman-_only_one_in_the_whole_world_alive_who_knew_him/#When:13:13:24Z Bel Kaufman is more than just another example of a writer who's success did not depend on a legendary relative. While her grandfather Sholem Aleichem dedicated his work to the life of poor Russian shtetl Jews at the turn of the twentieth century, Bel’s main concern was the social situation in the American high schools of the 1960s. Still, family ties are not the only thing that unite a 101-year old best-selling author with classic Yiddish literature. We got a chance to talk with Bel Kaufman about Jewish humour, literary inheritance, Tevye the Milkman and many things more.]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 13:13:24 +0000 http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/the_quest_for_jewish_literacy/ http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/the_quest_for_jewish_literacy/#When:11:01:37Z ]]> Sat, 19 May 2012 11:01:37 +0000 http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/viennese_cowboy_in_the_middle_east/ http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/viennese_cowboy_in_the_middle_east/#When:19:21:28Z Mon, 14 May 2012 19:21:28 +0000 http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/pale-green_crystals_of_gas_majdanek_-_the_cemetery_of_europe_dir_a_ford/ http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/pale-green_crystals_of_gas_majdanek_-_the_cemetery_of_europe_dir_a_ford/#When:19:18:51Z Mon, 14 May 2012 19:18:51 +0000 http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/israel_role_as_environmental_leader/ http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/israel_role_as_environmental_leader/#When:19:14:07Z Mon, 14 May 2012 19:14:07 +0000 http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/intermarriage_holocaust_remembrance_and_the_victory_over_hitler/ http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/intermarriage_holocaust_remembrance_and_the_victory_over_hitler/#When:19:06:10Z Interestingly, many decent people told me in private that those issues should be silenced because they could cause bad PR for Israel in these harsh times. The thing is just that as most Jews in the post-holocaust era, I have a good nose for Antisemitism, but additionally, as a German Jew I smell Nazism like a police dog smells drug particles.
And Nazism doesn´t start at the entrance door of Auschwitz, Nazism starts when someone like Hitler writes in 1923 about his anger of seeing blond German girls date Jewish men. It may be news to some people, but yes, „getting drunk“ and „being drunk“ are interrelated.]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 19:06:10 +0000 http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/israels_independence_day_or_why_the_true_liberal_left_should_20120429/ http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/israels_independence_day_or_why_the_true_liberal_left_should_20120429/#When:20:16:11Z
Not that it has ever been easy. But recently expressing sympathies for Israel among European leftwing liberals receives the same reaction as if you´d say: I like fake boobs. People have a hard time imagining that there could be any other reason for saying something like this than having been completely brainwashed.
]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:16:11 +0000 http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/hidden_jews_closer_than_i_thought/ http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/hidden_jews_closer_than_i_thought/#When:20:12:35Z Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:12:35 +0000 http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/a_weekend_with_israeli_dance_in_poland_-_inbal_20120429/ http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/a_weekend_with_israeli_dance_in_poland_-_inbal_20120429/#When:20:08:54Z Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:08:54 +0000 http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/dress_british_think_yiddish_-newest_exhibition_of_the_vienna_jewish_museum_/ http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/dress_british_think_yiddish_-newest_exhibition_of_the_vienna_jewish_museum_/#When:20:04:35Z Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:04:35 +0000 http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/report_from_the_exhibition_is_war_mens_business_poland_20120429/ http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/report_from_the_exhibition_is_war_mens_business_poland_20120429/#When:20:00:54Z Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:00:54 +0000 http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/yom_hazikaron_2012_20120425/ http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/yom_hazikaron_2012_20120425/#When:08:45:36Z Mobile, newspulse, Israel Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:45:36 +0000 http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/janusz_korczak_year_there_are_no_children_just_people_20120420/ http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/janusz_korczak_year_there_are_no_children_just_people_20120420/#When:19:58:53Z Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:58:53 +0000 http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/chosen_to_live_and_carry_help_to_others_the_story_of_jerzy_einhorn_2012042/ http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/chosen_to_live_and_carry_help_to_others_the_story_of_jerzy_einhorn_2012042/#When:19:50:30Z Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:50:30 +0000 http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/my_last_station_20120420/ http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/my_last_station_20120420/#When:19:37:25Z Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:37:25 +0000