Lupu’s Lens
His leather jacket underscoring a full-growth white beard and tzitzit, 75-year-old Lupu Gutman is much like his films, where tradition is refracted through the modernity of the camera lens.
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Impartiality in Holocaust study is too dangerous to Jewish interests
PARIS, Dec. 26 (JTA) — French Jews have won an important victory in their struggle against Holocaust deniers.
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Man Who Warned of Holocaust Dies
GENEVA (AP) — Gerhart Riegner, who tried to alert the world about the planned Nazi Holocaust and later led the World Jewish Congress, died Monday. He was 90. Riegner died of pneumonia in a Geneva hospital, according to his spokeswoman Edda Bournot.
Continue readingEurope moving toward ban on Internet hate speech
BRUSSELS, Nov. 9 — The 43-nation Council of Europe is trying to ban racist and hate speech from the Internet by adding a protocol, or side agreement, to its cybercrime convention, which was stamped for ratification on Thursday. The convention is scheduled to be formally ratified at a meeting in Budapest Nov. 23.
Continue readingIncredible journey
From Misha Defonseca’s flight from the Nazis to publication of her memoir, life has been a battle against the odds
Continue readingSwiss bank accounts for Jews a myth
- Swiss Holocaust cash revealed to be myth
MOST dormant Swiss bank accounts thought to have belonged to Holocaust survivors were opened by wealthy, non-Jewish people who then forgot about their money.
Continue readingNow geese were complicit in the alleged killing of Jews
The October issue of the French-language movie magazine Cahiers du Cinéma features a very long interview with documentary film-maker Claude “Shoah” Lanzmann to mark the October 17 release of his new film, “Sobibor, 14 octobre 1943, 16h.” […]
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Ashes Adrift in a Gentle Wind
Thousands of men and women slaughtered, many of them incinerated, their bodies never to be found. Ashes, the remains of loved ones, friends and neighbors, drifting in a gentle wind for miles. Auschwitz, 1944, or New York City, September 2001? The stench of death making it impossible for anyone in the vicinity ever to claim that he or she was unaware of the carnage. Bergen-Belsen, 1945, or New York City, September 2001? No, there is no comparison. But there are echoes.
Continue readingObservant Jews struggle with WTC victims ID issue
The effort to identify the thousands of people buried under the rubble of the World Trade Center has raised difficult questions for the guardians of ancient Jewish traditions.
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Too close to Israel
I used to live two blocks from the World Trade Center, and saw this tragedy coming years ago. Each year that passed, I was thankful and amazed it hadn’t happened yet.
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