From Behind the Humanitarian Mask: The Nordic Countries, Israel and the Jews, 2008. In the fall of 1986, the Simon Wiesenthal Center began to intensify its efforts to help facilitate the prosecution of Nazi war criminals in various countries all … [Read More]
Category Archives: 2008
From Behind the Humanitarian Mask: The Nordic Countries, Israel and the Jews, 2008. The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) is the Swedish Foreign Ministry’s primary agency for global development and cooperation.1 It administered approximately SEK 14 billion ($1.8 billion) in … [Read More]
From Behind the Humanitarian Mask: The Nordic Countries, Israel and the Jews, 2008. In the wake of the breakdown of the Oslo process and the renewed intifada in 2000, a wave of anti-Semitic violence swept over Europe. Most attention has … [Read More]
Gerstenfeld, Manfred (2008). Behind the Humanitarian Mask: The Nordic Countries, Israel and the Jews. Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Click here for pdf of the book. … [Read More]
“Sweden claims to be a superdemocracy, an example of enlightenment and openness. People with such pretensions should be a little more knowledgeable about Israel, another democracy after all. And yet the average Swedish citizen does not know more than what … [Read More]
Interview with Steven M. Cohen Over the past several decades, Jews in the United States have been reshaping their Jewish identities in line with geographic dispersion, cultural changes, and generational shifts. Of special note is that Jews have fewer … [Read More]
European Anti-Semitism Remained after the War The Jews Are Coming Back: The Return of the Jews to Their Countries of Origin after WWII, edited by David Bankier, Yad Vashem and Berghahn Books, 2005, 319 pp. Reviewed by Manfred Gerstenfeld … [Read More]
Interview with Michael Whine There are an estimated two million Muslims in the United Kingdom. The largest communities come from the Indian subcontinent, in the following order: Pakistan, Bangladesh, India. The Jewish community numbers approximately three hundred thousand. Despite outward … [Read More]
The attitude of the Catholic Church toward the Jews has radically changed in recent decades, followed by a transformation in its position vis-à-vis Israel. Aharon Lopez, Israel’s former ambassador to the Vatican, illustrates this turnaround by citing two events. “In … [Read More]
In recent decades the national leadership structure of the American Jewish community has moved from a fairly integrated state to one characterized by fragmentation. It is hard to discern whether truly powerful national Jewish organizations still exist, let alone whether … [Read More]