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  Famous Jews. Famous Jewish Socialists
This page gives a list of Jewish people who are at least a bit famous and who are at least a bit politically Leftist.
In his youth he was a leader in the legendary radical movement in May 1968 which brought down the collapse of the De Gaulle government and was the most powerful radical movement in the post-1945 western history.
He is a member of the Communist Party of Israel and via the Hadash list was elected to the Knesset in 2006.
www.left-wing.net /famousjews.htm   (1585 words)

  
  Jews
The Jews are a people who trace their descent from the biblical Israelites and who are united by the religion called Judaism.
Jews had long been accustomed to living in neighborhoods of their own, for security and for ready access to a synagogue.
The French National Assembly granted (1791) Jews citizenship, and Napoleon I, although not free from prejudice, extended these rights to Jews in the countries he conquered, and the ghettos were abolished.
mb-soft.com /believe/txo/jews.htm   (4553 words)

  
 A Dialog about Anti-Semitism
Jews are not even allowed to partake the food and wine of gentiles and have kept their distance from the communities which they inhabited - maintaining tenaciously, through countless generations, their language, habits, creed, dress, and national ethos.
Jews are not so much a race as a community, united in age-old traditions and beliefs, lore and myths, history and language.
The Jews' ability and readiness to mobilize and act to further their plans is a matter of record and the source of the inordinate influence of their lobby organizations in Washington, for instance.
samvak.tripod.com /jews.html   (3568 words)

  
 Jews, Jewish, The Jewish People - The Peace Encyclopedia
Jew: this is a term derived from a geo-political designation; Jews are identified with the country of Judea and its nation; this indicates ethnic and national identity rather than just belief or practice.
A sample of Jews subdivided according to the birth-place of their parents or grand-parents have been examined for a large number of genetic markers in the course of a long-term project on the genetics of Jews.
The Jew saw them all beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind.
peace.heebz.com /jews.html   (4562 words)

  
 List of French Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jews have lived in France since Roman times, and since the French Revolution (and Emancipation) have contributed to all aspects of French culture and society.
A significant number perished in the Holocaust, deported to Nazi death camps by the French Vichy government.
The following is a list of some prominent Jews and people of Jewish origins (not all of them practice, or practiced, the Jewish religion) who were born in, or are very strongly associated with, France.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_French_Jews   (981 words)

  
 A French lesson for Tom Harkin - article by Daniel Pipes
In the real world, Jews tended to sympathize for a while with the Muslims as fellow immigrants, and Muslims tended to reject Jews as Jews and Zionists.
And French Jews, he reports, have indeed seen the writing on the wall: "Six months ago, one third of the Jewish population was reported to be considering emigration.
There is no certainty that the French pattern (or, for a yet more extreme example, the Danish one) will recur in the United States, and I certainly hope it will not.
www.danielpipes.org /article/1414   (1150 words)

  
 Saving Jews: Polish Righteous
Rescuers of Jews in Poland were alone, often deprived of their pre-war means of livelihood, expelled from their farms, factories, businesses, offices and even homes, most of them living in dire poverty.
Wartime Rescue of Jews by the Polish Catholic Clergy.
List of approximately 5,400 Poles recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations" title bestowed by Yad Vashem of the State of Israel (as of Dec. 31, 1999).
www.savingjews.org /index.htm   (1605 words)

  
 A History of the Jews, a list of expulsions for 2000 years
This notorious allegation that Jews murder non-Jews, especially Christians, in order to obtain blood for the Passover or other rituals is a complex of deliberate lies, trumped up accusations, and popular beliefs about the murder-lust of the Jews and their blood-thirstiness, based on the conception that Jews hate Christianity and mankind in general.
Thus the Jews dispensed with the reincarnation rites of the pagans.
With the shouts of "death" to the Jews still ringing in his ears from the Dreyfus Trial, Herzl became convinced that the only solution was the mass exodus of the Jews from their present places of residence to a territory of their own...
www.eretzyisroel.org /~jkatz/expulsions.html   (4920 words)

  
 Gene Expression: Jews Archives
The wealth of Jews has meant that anti-Semitism has always lurked as a motivation for the far left, and was in fact historically called the socialism of fools.
An emerging wave of criticism of mass immigration in the mainstream media is in part due to 9/11 and in part due to the relaxation of Jews on the issue, as described by Steinlight.
As for antiracism, if Jews are pursuing a "group selection strategy" by promoting antiracist ideology (as Kevin MacDonald believes), it is backfiring on them when more than 88% of Jewish parents are ok with their children intermarrying, and "when not a word can be uttered about endogamy".
www.gnxp.com /MT2/archives/cat_jews.html   (9371 words)

  
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We do not share our mailing list (see our privacy policy) and you can easily unsubscribe at any time.
You will need to respond to the instructions in the email to verify your registration and be added to our mailing list.
www.jewsagainstzionism.com /forms/register.cfm   (180 words)

  
 Genetic Health - Breast and Ovarian Cancer: Genetic Diseases in Ashkenazi Jews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This theory is supported by the fact that today people of Ashkenazi Jewish descent have a higher incidence of a number of specific mutations, for example mutations in the genes that increase the risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer, and mutations that cause the childhood neurological disease Tay-Sachs disease.
Ashkenazi Jews are at greater risk of developing several genetic diseases rarely found in the population as a whole.
An estimated one in ten Ashkenazi Jews is a carrier for Gaucher disease.
www.genetichealth.com /BROV_Gen_Dis_in_Ashk_Jews.shtml   (1372 words)

  
 Exodus of French Jews expected (Jewish Agency to assist in the rescue of thousands of French Jews)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Jews living in France say that they are victims of a growing tide of anti-Semitic crime.
The French Jews are not only leaving, but the ones I have spoken to have some very strong feelings about the Arab-muslim population here in America.
Yup, the French should pay their Jewish citizens to stay after all they are the last buffer between the Moslimes and the non Jewish, non Moslime citizenry.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1152813/posts   (2429 words)

  
 Charge of “Anti-Semitism” Used to Provoke Immigration of French Jews to Israel
A recent survey of French Jews conducted by The Israel Project found that 26 percent are considering emigration due to rising anti-Semitism in France.
In another incident, after alarming the French public and alerting the world to the dangers of Arab/North African-looking men and their propensity to “violent and irrational” acts, the alleged July attack on a “Jewish-looking” woman and her baby on a commuter train near Paris turned out to be sheer fabrication.
The French Ministry of Interior, moreover, which compiles statistics on reports of discrimination against Jews, does not categorize other acts of discrimination by the ethnicity or religion of its victims.
www.wrmea.com /archives/Oct_2004/0410008.html   (1144 words)

  
 Israel Encourages French Jews to Emigrate - 2002-01-13
But the recent Israeli charges of anti-Semitism have been adamantly denied by the French government, which claims the number of recent attacks against Jews is declining.
Some prominent Jews like Emmanuel Weintraub, a member of an umbrella group of French Jewish institutions (CRIF), also disagree that France is anti-Semitic.
French police believe anti-Jewish feelings also sparked the attack on the Trappes synagogue in October 2000.
www.voanews.com /english/archive/2002-01/a-2002-01-13-13-Israel.cfm   (765 words)

  
 Medieval Naming Guides: Frankish and French
Lists of masculine and feminine given names suitable for early Germanic personae, taken from Gregory of Tours' History of the Franks and from Two Lives of Charlemagne, published by Penguin Classics.
At the end of the article, the editor has provided a separate list of the names of Parisian Jews, which are distinguished in the original source.
Lists of masculine given names, feminine given names, and surnames collected from a history of 16th century Normandy.
www.s-gabriel.org /names/french.shtml   (819 words)

  
 Modern Languages: French Division Graduate Courses Fall 2004
The core reading list (in English) is complemented by a reading list in French which students with a reading knowledge of that language are encouraged to use
In this course we will explore the vicissitudes of French Jewish identity in the 18th, 19th and 20th century, and explore France's unique history of democratic inclusion on the one hand and antisemitic incident on the other.
The course is taught by Professor Jean-Marc Moura, Visiting Professor in the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, from August 23 to October 22.
www.fsu.edu /~modlang/divisions/french/grad_fall_2004.html   (814 words)

  
 Iran - Sardari and the Jews of Paris during World War II
As a result, the Iranian Jews of Paris were not subjected to the special nazi measures against the Jews.
When in 1942 round ups of Jews started, and news regarding the "final solution" began to spread, the head of the Iranian Jewish community, contacted my uncle about his french co-religionists who were in danger of being sent to concentration camps.
Referring to the humanitarian attitude of Cyrus the Great who had freed in 500 BC the Jews held captive in Babylon, Sardari had no doubt that the Shah and the Iranian government would confirm his decision after the war.
users.sedona.net /~sepa/sardarij.html   (481 words)

  
 Catholic Answers: How Pius XII Protected Jews
Pius XII also took a public stance concerning the Jews of Italy: "The Pope spoke out strongly in their defense with the first mass arrests of Jews in 1943, and L’Osservatore Romano carried an article protesting the internment of Jews and the confiscation of their property.
Lapide writes: "When Zolli accepted baptism in 1945 and adopted Pius’s Christian name of Eugene, most Roman Jews were convinced that his conversion was an act of gratitude for wartime succor to Jewish refugees and, repeated denials not withstanding, many are still of his opinion.
In Three Popes and the Jews Lapide estimated the total number of Jews that had been spared as a result of Pius XII’s throwing the Church’s weight into the clandestine struggle to save them.
www.catholic.com /library/HOW_Pius_XII_PROTECTED_JEWS.asp   (2725 words)

  
 The Movies and Ethnic Representation: Jews: Videotapes in the Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley
A French actor is taken prisoner by the Gestapo and sentenced to perform in the "model city" of Terezin, a concentration camp filled with artists and children to prove to the world how well the Nazis treat the imprisoned Jews.
But the actor discovers the horrifying truth and as he rehearses with a group of children in what is to be the last performance of their lives, he refuses to play a role in the Nazi's charade.
After his new painting, The Eternal Wanderer, is rejected by the academy and he is fired from his position the figure of his father, the model for the Wanderer, steps from the painting and relates the history of Jewish perseverance in the face of such horrors as the Spanish Inquisition and the Russian Pogroms.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/imagesjews.html   (12024 words)

  
 Review of The Holocaust, the French and the Jews
In the last year before liberation, even Jewish French nationals were in jeopardy, as the French, who had previously prepared census data on the Jews, sought to fulfill deportation quotas established by the Germans.
And yet, to many Eastern European Jews in the first decades of this century, the eventual rehabilitation of Capt. Dreyfus was evidence of French tolerance and equality--a sure sign that France was a suitable country for emigration.
The majority of Jews saved in France owed their rescue not to Jewish organizations, but to the assistance and benevolence of the French population, increasingly aware of the inevitability of an Allied victory and the folly of collaborationist behavior.
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /genocide/reviewsh13.htm   (772 words)

  
 Ashkenazi Jews | www.somethingjewish.co.uk
Ashkenazi Jews, also called Ashkenazim are Jews who are descendants of Jews from Germany, Poland, Austria and Eastern Europe.
It may correspond to a Greek word that may have existed in the Greek dialect of the Palestinian Jews, or the text is corrupted from "Germanica." This view of Berechiah is based on the Talmud (Yoma 10a; Yer.
This phrase is often used in contrast with Sephardic Jews, also called Sephardim, who are descendants of Jews from Spain, Portugal and North Africa.
www.somethingjewish.co.uk /judaism_guide/ashkenazi_jews   (642 words)

  
 Pope Pius XII and the Jews - Sacred Heart University
Rabbi Dalin concludes his article affirming that "Pius XII was not Hitler's Pope, but the closest Jews had come to having a papal supporter, and at the moment when it mattered most." His article is reprinted with permission here.
But Jews, whatever their feelings about the Catholic Church, have a duty to reject any attempt to usurp the Holocaust and use it for partisan purposes in such a debate—particularly when the attempt disparages the testimony of Holocaust survivors and spreads to inappropriate figures the condemnation that belongs to Hitler and the Nazis.
The fate of Italian Jews has become a major topic of Pius's critics, the failure of Catholicism at its home supposedly demonstrating the hypocrisy of any modern papal claim to moral authority.
www.sacredheart.edu /pages/3541_pope_pius_xii_and_the_jews.cfm   (3929 words)

  
 Israel Sees a Surge in Immigration by French Jews, but Why?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
ERUSALEM, July 1 - More French Jews have been immigrating to Israel or buying properties here as potential havens, and the Israelis and the French are debating whether the trend is the result of a surge in anti-Semitic attacks in France or just a cyclical oddity.
Michael Jankelowitz, a spokesman for the Jewish Agency, said that as a result of attacks against Jews in France in the past three years, many Jews, particularly those whose religion is evident from their clothes, were feeling increasingly uneasy.
Gérard Araud, the French ambassador to Israel, played down the influx, suggesting in an interview that emigration is cyclical.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1164942/posts   (1387 words)

  
 Jew and Non-Jews: Reaching Out to the Non-Jew
The Torah testifies that these commandments were indeed those God gave man from the outset of creation, and is therefore the ultimate source of their authority.
he Torah further obligates Jews to teach and encourage all the nations of the earth to accept these commandments.
A non-Jew who accepts the seven Noahide commandments recognizes that the ultimate purpose of his life is to serve God and establish peace on earth.
www.inner.org /nonjews/intro.htm   (303 words)

  
 ICQ List - Jews Everywhere
I am very interest in Torah and would appreciate a listing of times when Torah chat is available.
Our goal is to reach out to every single Jew and to bring out the amazing potential that you have with your Jewish soul.
I think Torah is made for human beings, unfortunetelytoday lots of people have lost their humanity.
members.tripod.com /~torahc/tc/icqlist.html   (725 words)

  
 Free Musician List
Current choices of talents are: Talents Banjo Bassist Bassoon Bongo Cello Clarinet Dobro Drummer Fiddle Flutist French Horn Guitarist Harmonica Harpist Keyboardist khomus (Jews Harp) Oboe Organist Percussionist Saxophonist Sitar Sitarist Steel Guitar Suzaphone Trombonist Trumpeter Tuba Upright Bass Various Brass Various Woodwinds Viola Violinist Vocalist.
This was a service that we felt was needed on the internet, at least in our area, and we decided to include the rest of the country as well.
It provides a gig list for bands that you can search by location, style, influences, etc. There's even a weekly CD review page so you can get an opinion before you go out and buy the CD.
www.freemusicianlist.com   (1223 words)

  
 The Simpsons Archive: Web Links
This page serves as a nice starting point to several of the major Simpsons sites available on the internet, including a healthy assortment of web sites created by fans of the series, fan clubs and chat rooms, official program resources, the creative staff's personal home pages, licensed merchandise retailers, and lots more.
Please let us know if you would like your page added to this list, or if you spot any dead links within the page that are in need of an update.
A list of scholarship about The Simpsons found in academic journals, collections of scholarly essays and magazines.
www.snpp.com /contacts.html   (1242 words)

  
 Jews in France during World War II
Jews in France during World War II Jews in France during World War II Renée Poznanski • Nathan Bracher, translator
Her book provides a detailed and nuanced account of Jews in both occupied and Vichy France as well as of Jewish Life in France camps.
In addition to standard French and German documentation, Poznanski relies on non-published sources (diaries, reports by various organizations, personal correspondence) to build riveting collective portraits of Jewish suffering and survival.
www.brandeis.edu /institutes/tauber/jews_france.html   (143 words)

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