Friday, January 18, 2008

January-February 2008




News on Ethics, The Shoah, Church and Synagogue Continues in the new year.





EUROPE AND THE SHOAH


French President Sarkozy Proposes Holocaust Education Emphasizing Empathy: Criticized

By Roger Kaplan

Published 2/19/2008 12:08:02 AM
The American Spectator




THIS MONTH's SHOAH IN THE NEWS-January-February 2008


SPECIAL NOTICE:USHMM FOUNDER, JEWISH RESCUER, DIES



Nazi Camp Survivor Miles Lerman; Helped Found Holocaust Museum Dies at 88



By Joe Holley

Washington Post Staff Writer

Thursday, January 24, 2008;


Vatican and Shoah


Vatican Allows Jewish Historian to Cover Bush at Yad Vashem

January 13, 2008
Reuters


Only the Church...

LaSalette Journey-Blog
January 13, 2008
Paul Melanson


Discussion focuses from Catholic viewpoint on LaPide's 1967 assessment of Pius XII, in Three Popes and the Jews: another consideration of Pius' role.


US and the Shoah



Bush Visit to Yad Vashem---On Auschwitz: Says We Should Have Bombed


January 11, 2008
Google News: Associated Press


A "teary eyed" Bush questions Rice at Yad Vashem on why more was not done.


HOLOCAUST EDUCATION


French President proposes curricula



Catholic Curriculum proposed on Shoah to meet 'We Remember' standards

By Secretariat for Ecumenical and Inter-religious Affairs
National Council of Bishops
In Catholic Teaching on the Shoah
Implementing 'We Remember'



Holocaust and Restitution, Court Records


Memorials, Museums, and Speeches


Northern
Belfast Teens Travel to Nazi Concentration Camp


January 12, 2008
Newsletter.co.uk
Staff Reporter


Teens travel to Berlin and Poland.


Increased Visitors at Auschwitz-Birkenau


Israel Hasbara

January 2008
infoisrael.net



2008 Elections: Ask Candidates About the Shoah

Elizabeth Kirkley Best
January 2008
The Sedition Act-seditionact.blogspot.com


One never hears the Candidates questioned about the Shoah, but the effects of a Revisionist President could carry far.



Nazis, Neo-Nazis, Former Nazis


Ex Nazi Guard Geiser Seeks Relief from Extradition Order

January 11.2008
Raeesh Santanam
Pennlive.com



Aging Nazi Guard Seeks exception, pending on definition of word 'persecution'.



Israel & the Shoah



The Law of Return and 37 Year Old Raised in Gentile Family Seeking Aliyah


Jerusalem Post
jpost.com
January 10,2008
Ruth Eglash



37 Year Old Raised in Gentile Family with Nazi Leanings learns of Jewish Father and seeks aliyah under the Law of Return.



Book, Film Reviews




They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons

By Jacob Heilmann,
Doubleday
Reviewed in New York Times
January 13, 2008



Book Examines the Hitlerian archetype and questions whether Imperialism belonged only to the Axis powers.


Genocide and Torture


Considerations of 'Waterboarding' as torture


January 13, 2008
Vox-Nova.com


The practice of Water boarding in use by CIA, Military and others which runs drowning risks is questioned as to its history and effectiveness as a merciless technique.



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