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Auschwitz museum creates online Holocaust course

Museum authorities at the site of the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau on Wednesday said they were launching an online study programme to teach people about the Holocaust.Museum spokesman Pawel Sawicki told AFP that the pilot project would begin Thursday, and would be divided into two parts.One will examine the broad history of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany’s programme of ...

Attitute Of Gratitude, The Virtue Of Light Is In Contrast To The Dark

Charles Plumb was a US Naval Academy graduate, who flew jets in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, he was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. He ejected and parachuted into the jungle. The Viet Cong captured him and held him prisoner for six years in North Vietnam. After the Vietnam war concluded, Charles Plumb lectured on lessons learned from that ...

Attacked Muslim Cab Driver Meets The Mayor, Speaks Out At City Hall

A Muslim cab driver who was the victim of an alleged bias attack this week met Thursday with Mayor Michael Bloomberg at City Hall, where he said his religion played a role in his brutal stabbing.Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he personally supported Ahmed Sharif, nearly two days after the 43-year-old Queens cab driver was attacked after he picked up 21-year-old ...

Atlantis Docks At Space Station For Last Time

“Contact, capture confirmed,” Nasa mission control in Houston said as Atlantis and its crew of US four astronauts latched on to the orbiting research outpost.Ahead of approach, the spacecraft performed its habitual slow somersault, also known as the rendezvous pitch manoeuvre.The one-degree-per-second backflip allows ISS crew members already at the station to take photos of its heat shield and check ...

Atheists Buy Billboards near Hassidic, Muslim Areas

An atheist organization says it will unveil a Hebrew-language billboard calling God a “myth” near a Brooklyn hassidic enclave, and a similar billboard in Arabic in heavily Muslim Paterson, NJ.The group American Atheists says it will unveil a billboard Monday in hassidic-dominated South Williamsburg. The billboard writes out the name of God in Hebrew, and then features in English and ...

Ateret Cohanim Hosts Lone Soldiers in Jerusalem, Media Condemns

A group of 90 lone soldiers, who arrived at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem for their swearing-in ceremony last week, was hosted by the Ateret Cohanim organization.Ateret Cohanim is an organization which works to strengthen Jewish roots in and around the Old City, and wished to salute these lone soldiers and try to be their “home ...

At least 400 dead as heavy quake rocks southern China

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake on Wednesday killed at least 400 people and trapped many others in collapsed houses in the mountainous Tibetan plateau in southwestern China.A series of quakes and aftershocks caused low, brick buildings in Qinghai province’s Yushu region to collapse, residents and state media said. Troops have been dispatched to the area.Read More: @ haaretz.comTags: 6.9 china earthquake, China, china earthquake, earthquake, quake rocks

Assemblyman Defends Wearing Blackface to Party

A prominent state assemblyman from Brooklyn defended himself on Monday after wearing blackface to a party he hosted to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim, saying he did not mean to offend anyone.The assemblyman, Dov Hikind, a Democrat and a longtime power broker in the Orthodox Jewish community, wore an Afro wig, brown makeup, an orange jersey and sunglasses as ...

Ask the Rabbi: May Jews Save All Lives on Shabbat?

From the outset, let me state very clearly: Jewish law obligates Jews to save the lives of all humans, Jews and gentiles alike, even if it entails violating Shabbat. This is the universal conclusion of all contemporary decisors, despite confusing media reports of a recent public lecture by a senior Israeli scholar.While this ruling is not disputed, scholars do disagree regarding the legal argumentation that ...

As the cloud thickens, some pilots are asking… Why can’t we just fly beneath it?

Few could have guessed the impact of eruptions from a volcano 1,000 miles away under the Eyjafjallajoekull glacier in Iceland.Last Wednesday, we found out. At mid-morning, the high-level cloud of volcanic ash had spread across the Atlantic and was approaching Scotland. Flight operations in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow were suspended.Read more: @ dailymail.comTags: cloud, fly, pilots, volcano erruptions

As ‘Srugim’ Ends, Yarmulkes Disappear from Prime-Time TV

No more Amir and Yifat, and what about Hodaya, Reut and Nati? The television drama “Srugim” is not being renewed for a fourth season.The Yes satellite TV company has confirmed that “series creators (Chava Divon and Laizy Shapira) decided not to continue the series for a fourth season. We respect their decision to end the series on a high note.”Divon ...

As Jewish Agency Contracts, its Executive Paychecks Swell

On February 26, the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI ) will gather, as it does three times a year, at the Inbal Hotel in Jerusalem for three days of meetings.On the agenda will be the strategic and budgetary plans for the upcoming years; euphemisms for another round of cutbacks and layoffs as the cash-strapped agency ...