Norway, Israel and the Jews
Aftenposten and NRK organized a public meeting on how to confront the new anti-Semitism in Norway. The debate was sporadically very tense and SV’s Kristin Halvorsen got a dressing down over left’s failure to confront its anti-Semitic attitudes: lifted from Aftenposten A heated debate on the new Jew hatred More than half of school...
They say a person only truly dies when nobody talks of them any more. Isaak Meyer Goldman lived in the small Arctic town of Hammerfest before WWII, possibly the only Jew there, yet that was one too many for this tiny community, who failed to protect him when an illegal arrest warrant was issued...
For many years, I thought that the Exodus took place at night. Not a big mistake, since the Haggadah relates of events that took place in the darkness of night, the Angel of Death, the doughs that were picked up before they were leavened, there was no time for preparation of provisions. So, I...
Passover. Easter. Two profoundly different celebrations, intimately entwined through traditions, persons and history. As we all approach our different Holidays from different angles, from different faiths, literally at a cross-roads. Maybe the program Beyond Belief from the BBC can shed light on the different meanings of the cross. I for one did not know...
Sara is a Norwegian writer of Syrian origin. Her journey through life is one well worth reading about, and her ideas on freedom – on personal freedom and responsibilities – are of the kind that push boundaries: Lifted from Aftenposten The Muslim Jew Hate Why is hatred of Muslims self-explanatory, while the hatred of Jews always can be explained away?...
Apart from a fairly well written and well researched article in Aftenposten on ultra orthodox Jews in Israel and how they somehow scavenge on the secular Israelis – which raises the question – why are we being told that somehow it is a dubious enterprise to be religious and to dress in a particular...
Lifted from Dagen.no, but also covered most other news outlets. For more details on the event itself, you can go to http://www.holocaustdagen.no/ Thinks Jens will apologize to the Jews Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is expected to come up with a form of apology to the Norwegian Jews during the International Holocaust Remembrance Day today....
This will make many a ham fisted bureaucrat who has googled a wee bit too much go bonkers; I can virtually hear the gnashing of teeth and furious rejections from academics with tunnel vision… But will this be enough to convince Norwegian legislators that the Jews too, now should have full religious freedom in...
Lifted from Vårt Land Jews do not dare join Jewish communities The Jewish community in Norway has shrunk by nearly a fifth in ten years. Fear of making themselves visible as a Jew, is one of the reasons, the leader of the Jewish Congregation in Oslo, Ervin Kohn believes. by: Geir Ole Bjartvik Figures from Statistics Norway show that the number of members for the two Jewish congregations in Norway...
This one will do wonders for bulging midriff – come on, lets do them abdominals, abominals! linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; backgroundcolor = "FFFFFF"; channel = "none";
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Suave Pink Martini ask us all to get up and dance! Somebody really did not understand the meaning of the song, and “decorated” it with a Christmas video?! Somewhat misplaced, but in the name of brotherly love, lets just get dancing shall we? Lets take it from the top! One, two, chachacha! linkscolor =...
Dreidel song in a new dress! I have a little dreidel I made it out of clay And when it’s dry and ready Then dreidel I shall play! Oh – dreidel, dreidel, dreidel I made it out of clay And when it’s dry and ready Then dreidel I shall play! It has a lovely...
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Still a few hours to go before nightfall, but here under the Arctic skies more light is always received with thanks. linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; backgroundcolor = "FFFFFF"; channel = "none";
Preventative measures to avoid them latkas getting inelegantly stuck around waistline… get up and dance! linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; backgroundcolor = "FFFFFF"; channel = "none";
CHRISTMAS VISIT TO JERUSALEM Dagen 2011 12 09 p 11, Kristina Furnes, Not Online Minister of Churches, Rigmor Aasrud, wishes to maintain a dialogue with both Israeli leaders as well as Palestinians. She will also open an art exhibition by controversial artist Håkon Gullvåg in Jerusalem. “I am really looking forward to his”, Aasrud...
We return to the developing saga of the Norwegian debate on circumcision, and while I take the view that in the name of preventative medicine, i.e. to keep the small, but nevertheless realistic risks of something going wrong under control, it is a good thing that the Ministry of Health has tabled a proposal...
What a glaring contrast. A professor at the University of Bergen as well the University College of Oslo (yes, that is the institution that hires bomb-master Gule), Elisabeth Eide, claims that Muslims are the new Jews, citing Sartre’s essay ” Reflections on the Jewish question”. On her homepage, she provides a greatly embellished version...