All Entries Tagged With: "holocaust"
Hungarian Jews Don’t “Count”
By Rea Bochner, WrittenByRea.com I guess the Hungarian parliament hasn’t heard that it’s against halacha to count Jews. This past Monday, they called for every Jew in the country to register on lists as “threats to national security”. The demand was eerily similar to those made by the Nazis in the early stages of the [...]
Twitter to Remove Anti-Semitic Posts
After French twitter users began insulting Jews with messages using the hashtag, #unbonjuif (which translates to #agoodJew), many other twitter users voiced outrage. According to The Associated Press, The Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF) said that the hashtag had“spawned more than a week of racist and anti-Semitic posts.” The posts, said AP, “included [...]
Amazon Stops Selling Concentration Camp Puzzle
This morning, Jewish News One reported that online retailer Amazon.com had taken down a listing advertising a jigsaw puzzle with a death camp theme. According to JN1 reporters, “The 252 piece puzzle for kids 8 and over featured a picture from camp Dachau, the first concentration camp to open in Germany.” According to JN1, Amazon [...]
Letters of Nazi Propagandist to be Auctioned
The personal letters of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels will go on sale at what Tony Paterson of The Independent calls a “controversial” auction today. The collection, says Paterson, includes letters written from the time of Goebbels’s boyhood until 1924 – just before he joined the Nazi party. John Christofferson of Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports that the [...]
Estonian Newspaper Condemned for Holocaust Weight Loss Pill Advertisement
On Sunday, Efriam Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal center harshly condemned Estonian Newspaper Eesti Ekspress for running a fake ad featuring Holocaust survivors as users of a weight loss pill. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reports that the ad appeared in the humor section. A picture of the advertisement shows the words, “Eins, Zwei, Drei… [...]
Anti-Terrorism Officials Investigating Letter Sent to Chief Rabbi of Lyon
Rabbi Richard Wertenschlag, Chief Rabbi of Lyon, filed a complaint with local authorities on Wednesday, after he received a threatening letter rife with anti-Semitic language. According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), Wertenschlag said, “This written communication had Holocaust-denying and anti-Semitic undertones, accompanied by threats and photos, was sent August 10 and arrived the following day at [...]
Democrats, Republicans Accuse Each Other of Insults Toward Jews
Yesterday, National Jewish Democratic Coalition President and CEO David Harris blasted conservative Talk Show Host Rush Limbaugh for allegedly comparing the campaign efforts of President Obama and Former President Clinton to Nazi propaganda. In a press release on the NJDC’s web site, Harris said, “Once again, a prominent voice in the Republican Party has disrespectfully [...]
The Knit Dress
By Abie, mgisoaps.com I just heard a story from a friend of mine that I think is worth sharing. He told me that many years ago, his wife was teaching at a school in Brooklyn. One of her students, a little girl, would sometimes come to school in a beautiful knit dress. My friend’s wife [...]
The “Bris Ban”: German Court Calls Circumcision a “Criminal Act”
By Rea Bochner, WrittenByRea.com The district court in Cologne, Germany passed legislation this week that has deemed circumcision a “criminal act”. The ruling follows a trend toward anti-circumcision (also known as “intactivism”), which has made headlines all over the globe. Needless to say, Jewish leaders are not so thrilled about it, as our baby boys [...]
Words of Wisdom: “Joe the Plumber” Uses Holocaust for Political Gain
By Rea Bochner, WrittenByRea.com I don’t follow politics much – American politics, anyway. It’s not that I don’t care how our country is run; I just consider most of the people who are running it to be, intelligence-wise, a step or two behind Cro-Magnon Man. Take Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher, for example. Just today, [...]
