“Since we are now in my office following the official reception — and since there is no one here who could relate what I would like to convey to you here and, neither consciously nor unconsciously, take it out of context and blow it up into a crisis in our relations — allow me to […]
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“In August 2008, Benedict XVI declared Pope Pius XII a “saint.” Pius XII served as pope throughout World War II. The most positive thing one can say about him is that he was completely indifferent to the fate of the Jews. Others, such as author John Cornell in his book Hitler’s Pope, describe his […]
“A monument for Jewish children evacuated from Nazi-held lands to Britain on the eve of the Holocaust, is unveiled in Gdansk, Poland, Wednesday, May 6, 2009. About 10,000 Jewish children were saved, thanks to the program known as Kindertransport, but most never saw their parents again. Many left from Gdansk, a city on the Baltic […]
“Chabad organizers of the annual ‘Lag B’Omer Parade’ in Jerusalem were asked by the city’s police to relocate the Jewish march. The Pope has plans to spend the day nearby, police officials said, and asked to move the event from the central Kikar Hashabbat to Chana Street in the Chabad neighborhood. Organized by Lubavitch Youth […]
We will do our 109th rally to Keep Jerusalem United, on May 11, 2009, in Zion Sq., 4-6 P.M., (Mincha at 4 P.M.), when Pope is at Yad Vashem. 500 Shofar Blowers asked to be part of this statement to the Pope:”Hands off Jerusalem”, ours and G-d’s for 3000 yrs. and forever. Pope has Vatican, […]
“They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust” May 10, 2009 - October 01, 2009 Jewish Museum, NY more@TheJewishMuseum.org
“An Israeli worker tends to graves near where the Papal Mass will be held in the Kidron Valley, outside Jerusalem’s Old City, Tuesday, May 5, 2009. “DayLife.com
“The Holy See and the State of Israel say they have made significant progress on a long-awaited economic and tax agreement between the Catholic Church and the Jewish State, but it will not be signed before the visit of Benedict XVI to the Holy Land. After a half day of talks the two delegations released […]
“He has used almost every legal means to try to avoid being deported to Germany. Now alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk is filing suit against the German government in his bid to stay in the US. The alleged war criminal John Demjanjuk has used almost every legal means to avoid being deported from […]
“A likeness in wax of Jewish teenager Anne Frank gets some media attention as it was inaugurated at Berlin’s Madame Tussaud’s wax museum on December 19, 2008. The wax figure, originally produced for the Amsterdam Tussaud’s in 1981, will be on display in the German capital for a two-month period. ” photo: DayLife.com
The New York-based architect Daniel Libeskind will take over a Berlin flower market to extend the Jewish Museum, his first major building, creating new space for a library, archives and education projects. The Jewish Museum, the German government and the state of Berlin today agreed on the financing of the […]
“Between 1941 and 1945, some 550 Jews arrived in Palestine under similar circumstances, having been trapped in occupied Europe and then released as part of the same deal, for Germans detained in Palestine. Some of them have remained in touch with each other to this day. The German women and children who were deported from […]
