Category: Judaism
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Hanukkah for Dummies, from Judah Maccabee to the days of Donald Trump (Haaretz)
http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-1.760313
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Jewish online resources
JewishEncyclopedia.com – in English judaism.wikia.com – in English; pretty, pretty limited www.jewiki.net – in German
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Wikipedia’s Jewish Problem – why won’t the online encyclopedia allow the truth about the New York Times’ Holocaust coverage?
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/65452/wikipedias-jewish-problem-karin-mcquillan
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Shlomo Sand’s Wikipedia page under Chabad attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Sand – see the history of this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Shlomo_Sand – see the history of this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Debresser – Rabbi Dovid de Bresser, a member of the Chassidic movement Chabad I assume de Bresser this way (in his thinking) is adding credit points on his way to eternal happiness – he is fighting a religious war against a scientist
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Martin Niemöller’s “First they came for the Jews. Then they came for the journalists.” – Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/jerusalem-babylon/.premium-1.636067 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Niemöller … To paraphrase Pastor Martin Niemöller — First they came for the Jews, then they came for the journalists. …
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the Ukraine and the Jewish Khazar Kingdom
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-features/.premium-1.580550 Not referring explicitly to Shlomo Sand, but I read about the Khazar Kingdom in one of his books.
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Shlomo Sand’s response to Carlo Strenger in Haaretz: on Israeli identity, Jewish democracy and oxymorons
On Israeli identity, Jewish democracy and oxymorons – A response to Carlo Strenger – Opinion – Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper Reading this article I noticed, he published another book: in English: When and How I Stopped Being Jewish (not yet available) in French: Comment j’ai cessé d’être juif : Un regard israélien [Amazon-link]…
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The Maccabiah Games are quadrennial Jewish Olympics, held in Israel the year following the Olympic Games
The Maccabiah Games history and information
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abortion politics arrive in Israel – JTA – Jewish Ideas Daily
Abortion Politics Arrive in Israel – JTA – Jewish Ideas Daily Update 2012-08-15 I received a hint with a link to a rather informative article by Rabbi Yaacov Haber at TorahLab.org/lifecycle/article/abortion . (Many thanks for that!!!) That article makes it very clear, that abortion is not a non-issue in Judaism resp. the Jewish society.