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EBay Listen Up: Who Do You Stand With: The Victims of Genocide or Those Who Celebrate Its Perpetrators?

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 12.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Iran, Ahmadinejad, Jew, Internet, Arbeit Macht Frei, Christmas, Holocaust, Hitler, Ebay, Auschwitz, Nazi, Catholic, Religion, Living News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Without a doubt, eBay occupies prime virtual real estate in our digital malls. Out in the real world, malls do not allow the KKK and neo-Nazis to rent space and pedal hate.

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Auschwitz Sign Stolen To Fund 'Terror Attacks'

London Times | Marcus Oscarsson and Jenny Booth | Posted 12.24.2009 | World

Read More: Auschwitz Sign Theft, Auschwitz Sign Thieves, Auschwitz, Auschwitz Sign, World News

The Nazi gang that ordered the theft of the infamous 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign from the gates of Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland planned to sell...

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Pre-Genocidal Hate: How the Internet Supersized a Medieval Big Lie

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 12.21.2009 | World

Read More: Sweden, President Obama, Pakistan, Holocaust, Simon Wiesenthal, Auschwitz, England, France, Iran, Inquisition, Israel, Nazi, Spain, Mengele, World News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Today, old hatreds are being repackaged and supersized in a way that would have made Josef Goebbels, Hitler's Minister of Hate, drool with envy.

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Auschwitz Sign Stolen: The Historical Implications are Disturbing

Daniel Levin | Posted 12.18.2009 | World

Read More: Auschwitz Sign Theft, Auschwitz Holocaust, Auschwitz, Auschwitz Sign Stolen, Arbeit Macht Freit Sign, Work Makes You Free Sign, Auschwitz Sign, World News
Daniel Levin

Yesterday's theft of the iron "arbeit macht freit" ("work makes you free") sign at the Auschwitz memorial, may signal more than disrespect for the Holocaust. It may be yet another attempt to erase it.

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Holocausts, Miracles And Mysticism

Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books

Read More: Elie Wiesel, Hanukkah, Night, Holocaust, Primo Levi, Holiday News, Anne Frank, Auschwitz, Miracles, Books News
Rabbi David Wolpe

Are books that influential? Well remember, if someone had not written the story in the book of Maccabees, you wouldn't be lighting those candles.

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"Radical Evil"

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 11.25.2009 | Books

Read More: Theodicy, Collective Trauma, 9/11, Atrocities, Morality, Auschwitz, Eichmann, Evil, Destructiveness, Totalitarianism, Nihilism, Books, Books News
Robert D. Stolorow

Richard Bernstein has written an important philosophical inquiry into the phenomenon of evil (Bernstein 2002), an inquiry that will be of great value to psychoanalysts.

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3 Short Books To Live By (And They're Not On Any Bestseller List)

Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books

Read More: Great Books, Rilke, Meaning of Life, The Sabbath, Viktor Frankl, Life Changing Books, Books, Man's Search for Meaning, Heschel, Holocaust, Concentration Camp, Bestsellers, Auschwitz, Frankl, Books News
Rabbi David Wolpe

There are some books that really can change your life. They are not written to the demands of the bestseller list. They are short, borne out of deep experience, and filled with wisdom.

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Auschwitz Memorial Launches Facebook Page To Reach Young People

AP | MONIKA SCISLOWSKA | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

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WARSAW, Poland — To try to reach young people around the world, the memorial museum at Auschwitz has launched a page on Facebook, the social net...

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Auschwitz Blueprints Discovered In Berlin Given To Netanyahu

AP | DAVID RISING and MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 09.27.2009 | World

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BERLIN — Sketched on yellowing parchment, the 29 blueprints presented to Israel's prime minister Thursday lay out the Nazi death camp at Auschwi...

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Ron Reagan: My Dad Showed Me What the Real Nazis Did

Bill Mann | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Rush Limbaugh Obama, Air America, Nazis, Auschwitz, Ronald Reagan, Ron Reagan, Media News
Bill Mann

Reagan is among those disgusted and appalled with Limbaugh and other poisonous talk-show ideologues referring to President Obama as a "modern-day Hitler."

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"Ryan Seacrest Superhero" Newswitness News (Video)

Marc Singer | Posted 10.21.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Video, Newswitness News, Michael Jackson, Ebay, Ryan Seacrest, Superheroes, Monkey Cartoon, Anderson Cooper, Superman, Michael-Jackson-Diprivan, Spiderman, Barack Obama, Text Messaging, Texting, Animation, Gay Rights, Michael Jackson Death, Cnn, Auschwitz, Monkey, Monkeys, Gay Marriage, Gay Issues, Aquaman, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, John Stewart, David Letterman, Comedy News
Marc Singer

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Remembering Anne Frank, Who Would Have Been 80 This Week

Lea Lane | Posted 07.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Miami Beach, The Anne Frank House, Diary of a Young Girl, The Diary of Anne Frank, Nazi Death Camps, The Holocaust, Anne Frank, Auschwitz, South Beach, Bergen-Belsen, Religion, Living News
Lea Lane

Anne Frank was a brilliant, budding writer. We can only imagine what this perceptive, creative girl would have accomplished had she lived to celebrate her 80th birthday, on June 12.

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Friday Talking Points [79] -- Judicial Activism And Bias

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Nickolas, Supreme Court, White House, Autoworkers, Burris, Constitutional Crisis, Power Struggle, Founding Fathers, Detainee Deaths, Gingrich, President, War Crimes, Rnc, Courts, Princeton, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Sotomayor, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Pussy Galore, Un, Ralph Nader, Judicial Activism, Republican National Committee, Court, Twitter, Terry McAuliffe, Congress, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, Constitution, Mddotw, Rod Blagojevich, Sonia Sotomayor, Truth Commission, Youtube, Banks, Hillary Clinton, Uaw, Bonuses, Up or Down Vote, Michael Guest, Same Sex, Nader, President Obama, Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, United Nations, Blaggy, Filibuster, Bankers, Obama, Scotus, Prejudice, Auschwitz, Blago, Republican, Government, Blagojevich, Lionel Sosa, Pelosi, Clinton, Activism, Federal Government, Bias, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Defense of Marriage Act, Legislating From the Bench, Benefits, Gm, Pyne Prize, Roland Burris, Philip Alston, Gay, State Department, Checks and Balances, Mcauliffe, Chris Kelly, Secretary of State, Wall Street, Chris Weigant, Spousal Benefits, Nominee, Doma, Torture, Alston, Politics News
Chris Weigant

"Judicial activism" (or, alternatively, "legislating from the bench") is defined -- no matter what your political beliefs -- as "judges not ruling the...

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But is it Anti-Semitic?

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 06.05.2009 | World

Read More: Elie Wiesel, Iran, Natan Sharansky, Ahmadinejad, Middle East, Genocide, Israel, Auschwitz, Death Camp, Nazi, Warsaw, World News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

There is nothing wrong with criticizing Israeli policies. But those who choose to mis-characterize Israel's self-defense as "Nazi" are factually and historically wrong and morally repugnant.

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Auschwitz Message In A Bottle Found

BBC | Posted 05.29.2009 | World

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Builders working near the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp have found a message in a bottle written by prisoners, museum officials say....

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Auschwitz Tattoos Reunite Lost Inmates

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 05.20.2009 | World

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Genocide, Jews, Holocaust, Holocaust Tattoos, Auschwitz, Auschwitz Tattoos, Yad Vashem, World News

JERUSALEM — As terrified teenagers 65 years ago, Menachem Sholowicz and Anshel Sieradzki stood in line together in Auschwitz, having serial numb...

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Radical Evil, Torture, Auschwitz, Guantanamo

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 05.11.2009 | World

Read More: Nazis, Torture, Evil, Cheney, Guantanamo, Auschwitz, Bush, Eichmann, Arendt, World News
Robert D. Stolorow

Even more chillingly relevant is Arendt's controversial phrase, "the banality of evil," with which she characterized the actions of the Nazi "desk murderers" like Eichmann.

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Auschwitz Plans Put On Display In Berlin

AP | Posted 03.19.2009 | World

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BERLIN — Architectural plans for the Nazi death camp Auschwitz that were discovered in Berlin last year go on public display in the German capit...

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No Sympathy for Bishop Williamson

Roman R. Kent | Posted 03.15.2009 | World

Read More: La Reja Seminary, Holocaust Deniers, Auschwitz, Bishop Williamson, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Holocaust Bishop, Bishop Richard Williamson, World News
Roman R. Kent

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called upon the Pope to denounce Holocaust denying Bishop Williamson, but the papers and airwaves were devoid of any statements from any other world leaders.

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The Vatican's Response to Holocaust Denial Must Be Holocaust Education

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 03.15.2009 | World

Read More: Holocaust Education, Society of St. Pius X, The Vatican, Holocaust Deniers, Floriano Abrahamowicz, Auschwitz, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican II, Bishop Richard Williamson, Jewish-Catholic Relations, World News
Menachem Rosensaft

It is outrageous that Pope Benedict did not immediately respond to Bishop Williamson's stalling tactics by reinstating the renegade bishop's excommunication.

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Israel's "Auschwitz Borders" Revisited

Ali Abunimah | Posted 01.09.2009 | World

Read More: Middle East, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, Auschwitz, Abba Eban, Nonviolence, Lessons of the Holocaust, Gaza, Bbc, Shoah, World News
Ali Abunimah

Gazans are resisting, and not primarily through armed struggle. The campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions is underway.

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Reading Between the Lines in The Reader: When is Abuse Not Abuse?

Thelma Adams | Posted 01.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Miley Cyrus, Germany, Kate Winslet, Holocaust, Academy Award Nominees, Stephen Daldry, The Reader, Hugh Jackman, Film, Auschwitz, Sexual Abuse, Ralph Fiennes, Movies, David Hare, Oscar Nominees, Child Abuse, Statutory Rape, Harvey Weinstein, Nazis, Sexual Double Standard, Gender Issues, Literary Adaptation, Annie Liebowitz, Cougar Women, Bernard Schlink, Entertainment News
Thelma Adams

The Reader? It's goodish. And Kate Winslet is, as ever, brilliant. And it has Nazis, which elevates it on the Oscar nom scale. But it doesn't fully address the fact that Michael is a victim of abuse.

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Kristallnacht 2008

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Auschwitz, Holocaust, Nazis, Hitler, Holocaust Remembrance, Germany, Kristallnacht, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

Kristallnacht marked the beginning of what we now know as the Holocaust.

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