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	Prominent US Jews, Israel Blamed For Statrt Of Iraq War
		In his article, Hollings mentions the names of three prominent Jews, from the neoconservative stream in the administration, as those responsible for pushing for the decision to go to war in Iraq.
		Two weeks later, Hollings stepped up to the podium in the Senate and delivered an emotional address in which he defended his statements, attacking the Jewish establishment and repeating the main thrust of his claims.
		Despite the significant difference between the statements of Zinni and those of Hollings, certain members of the U.S. Jewish community are beginning to feel a little uncomfortable.
	www.rense.com /general53/strt.htm (633 words)

	the eXile - Feature Story
		The few prominent Jews who are willing to discuss the matter generally agree that Jews have risen to the top in the new Russia precisely because communist anti-Semitism for so long prevented them from advancing their careers within the Soviet system.
		Jews had such a difficult time getting ahead in the Soviet Union that they eventually came to be known as "Invalids of the 5th group," a reference to the number 5, which signified Judaism in the nationality column in Soviet passports.
		Jews were briefly a very influential group around the time of the Russian revolution; the "Jewish Bund" political party even played a significant role in agitating against the Tsar in the years leading up to his abduction.
	www.exile.ru /feature/feature10.html (2171 words)

	Anti-semitism increasing in England : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ironically, a prominent Jew was under so many attacks that he surrounded his home with a wall, only to be told it violated local ordinances.
		Prominent Jews in Britain are being targeted in a wave of anti-Semitic harassment by far-Right and Islamic fundamentalist organisations.
		Although he is not a practising Jew, police fear that his race was the reason for being targeted by Combat 18.
	sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=1678642 (842 words)

	Kesher Talk
		If Jews really run the Left to such an extent that our "defection" is noticed, and even if we don't, we get accused of keeping various disadvantaged groups from the halls of power by "dominating" the movement (probably secretly), and turning it to our own nefarious purposes.
		Jews represent the embodiment of modernity in supreme adaptability, tolerance, pluralism, and mobility.
		It was right for Jews as Jews to march with the fls during the Civil Rights movement," she explains.
	www.hfienberg.com /kesher/2003/03/jews-blamed-for-war-part-2.html (991 words)

	Mideast Dispatch Archive: Sweden 4: “The Crucifixion of Arafat”; Jews afraid to be Jews
		One prominent example is the headline "The Crucifixion of Arafat" given to an editorial that appeared in Aftonbladet, the most widely circulated newspaper in Sweden, on the eve of Easter 2003, while Operation Defensive Shield was underway.
		Nevertheless, Jews living in Sweden says that they, their friends and a majority of the Jews that they know are taking extra precautions when they step out into the street.
		One prominent example of this second type is the headline "The Crucifixion of Arafat" given to an editorial that appeared in Aftonbladet, the most widely circulated newspaper in Sweden, on the eve of Easter 2003, while Operation Defensive Shield was underway.
	www.tomgrossmedia.com /mideastdispatches/archives/000179.html (4376 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Rabbis thank pope for what they call a lifetime in defense of Jews
		VATICAN CITY – A delegation of prominent rabbis and Jewish leaders from around the world met with Pope John Paul II on Tuesday to thank him for what they called a lifelong commitment to the defense of Jews.
		Jews were a vibrant part of the community in southern Poland, where John Paul grew up in the 1920s and 1930s, before being persecuted under German occupiers.
		The pontiff has made better relations with Jews a hallmark of his papacy and has met large gatherings of Jews on several occasions, including his groundbreaking 1986 visit to Rome's main synagogue and his 2000 trip to Israel.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20050118-1558-vatican-jews.html (606 words)

	Jews and Communism
		Many Jews are still soft on Communism, which is one of the reasons why a vigorous and objective examination of the history of Jews and Communism remains taboo.
		Prominent Jewish Communists would be at the forefront of some of the worst aspects of those bloody revolutions.
		Because of the prominence of a few Jews, many Europeans wrongfully took to blaming all Jews for the disaster and suffering that communism caused in their lives as well as the real threat communism posed to the nations that remained free.
	www.ukemonde.com /zhydy/jewsandcommunism.html (797 words)

	Benjamin Ginsberg on the role of Jews in Capitalism & Communism
		Jews have maintained a sense of distinctiveness from surrounding societies and have, as a result, continued to experience a measure of suspicion, hostility, and discrimination.
		The historical dependence of Jews upon the state also gave rise to a Jewish philosophical tradition, beginning in the seventeenth century with Spinoza and continuing through the maskilim of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in which the state is glorified and venerated and seen, essentially, as a kind parent worthy of total obedience.
		Jews played a particularly important role in the efforts of Alfonso X (1252-1284), Pedro the Cruel (1350-1369), Juan II (1406- 1454), and Henry IV (1454-1474) to centralize royal authority at the expense of the nobility as well as in the efforts of these monarchs to expand the boundaries of the Castilian state.
	users.cyberone.com.au /myers/ginsberg.html (16251 words)

	Condoleezza Rice Gave Secret Speech To Prominent Jews : SF Bay Area Indymedia
		Jews have morphed into a caricature of their imagined solar opposites, complete with goose-stepping brown shirts and house to house seizures.
		American Jews can now either scamper back into the woodwork called White America - disavowing the acts of their more rabid membership, and thus save their fannies within the power elite – OR – they can endure the ride on the downward spiral of ethnic comeuppance in a world of strict proportionalism.
		In that world, it is the Jew with the most to lose, for he has gained the most at the expense of everyone else.
	www.indybay.org /news/2003/04/1593734.php?theme=1 (1165 words)

	Nation without a state: The Balkan Jews
		Jews were seen by Romanians as an alien element that could not be assimilated, and this prejudice was exploited by ethnic nationalist leaders.
		Jews lived there since medieval times and were not treated badly: one of the tsars of the Second Bulgarian Empire in the 1300s married a Jewish woman.
		Jews were not active among Bulgarian nationalists in the 1800s because of their relatively favorable situation under Ottoman rule: there was fear that their position would worsen in a state that was Bulgarian in ethnicity and Orthodox in faith.
	www.lib.msu.edu /sowards/balkan/lect17.htm (4128 words)

	News \| Telegraph
		Prominent Jews in Britain are being targeted in a wave of anti-Semitic harassment by far-Right and Islamic fundamentalist organisations.
		Mike Whine, the security spokesman for the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said that the problem of prejudice directed towards Jews on the European mainland was spreading to Britain.
		Although he is not a practising Jew, police fear that his race was the reason for being targeted by Combat 18.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/15/njew15.xml&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=30978 (874 words)

	German boys clothes -- fashion industry Jewish role (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Romans destroyed Jerusalem and put the Jews in the city to the sword, annexed Judaea as a Roman province, and systematically drove the Jews from Palestine.
		Jews in Prussia and other German states are from an early point associated with clothing and the clothes trade.
		Berlin Jews are by the 1920s highly influential in the fashion industry as well as the arts and music.
	histclo.hispeed.com /country/ger/fi/ger-fijr.html (781 words)

	University of Minnesota TC: Kiosk:
		Intellectuals in one community sometimes emulated accomplishments of those in the other, and instances of prominent Jews serving as advisers to prominent Muslim leaders are part of the history.
		Rina Rasin, a Jew born in Ottoman Palestine who married in British Palestine and raised her family in Israel, once commented that she favored a two-state solution—one state for the extremists no matter who they are and one state for everyone else, Israeli and Palestinian, so they could live in peace.
		Fawaz Turki, a Palestinian, once wrote that Palestinians are "the Jews of the Arab world." Often discriminated against in the Arab world, many have dealt with this discrimination by pushing their children to excel in school and become professionals.
	www1.umn.edu /urelate/kiosk/1101kiosk/shorthistory.html (3429 words)

	The Rosenberger Collection
		However, disturbed by anti-Semitic attacks which held the Jews to be an alien race, he responded in Le judaisme that although the Jews had once formed a distinct racial group, in modern times they encompassed a multiplicity of races and constituted a valuable part of the population in modern European states.
		Ernst maintained that since the Jews were an integral part of Europe, their primary duty was to unite and fight for their rights and for universal justice, rather than to abandon the struggle and concentrate their efforts in the Zionist cause.
		He depicts the Jews as a corrupt race and the mortal enemy of the superior Aryans, and he conceives of them with a pathological fear and hatred as infectious organisms which should be quarantined from German society.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/spcl/excat/rosenberger/Modern.html (4445 words)

	The Barneveld Jews
		The seven hundred selected ones were interned in a castle near the town of Barneveld in the province of Gelderland from the end of 1942 toward the beginning of 1943.
		These afore- mentioned prominent Dutch Jews included for the most part scientists, artists, physicians and industrialists, but also others were added to the list of the prominent.
		In Theresienstadt, most received the status of prominence once again and a few even were released into the hands of the Red Cross to be transferred to Switzerland.
	www.cympm.com /barnveld.html (771 words)

	Medieval Spain: Arabs & Jews in Cultural Embrace
		In this venomous age of Arab-Jewish hatred, it is easy to forget that there once was another age in which Jews and Arabs lived shoulder to shoulder in cultural, political and social harmony.
		, Jews played prominent roles in politics, art, commerce and all major areas of social discourse side by side with their Muslim brethren.
		In addition to his contribution to Jewish thought, he was an eminent physician, whose practice treated both Jews and Arabs patients without regard to religion.
	richards1052.tripod.com /richardshomepage/id29.html (1124 words)

	News, Statements and Events from the JPF
		Jews may believe in God or not, eat pork or not, live in Israel or not, but they are all united by their unlimited belief in anti-semitism.
		A Jew can be the mayor of Amsterdam in "anti-semitic" Holland, a minister in "anti-semitic" Britain, a leading intellectual in "anti-semitic" France, a president of "anti-semitic" Switzerland, editor-in-chief of a major daily in "anti-semitic" Denmark, or an industrial tycoon in "anti-semitic" Russia.
		Jews have free and unlimited access to every institution in every country they live in; Ironically, a converted Jew is even mentioned as a possible successor to the Holy See.
	www.jewishpeacefellowship.org /News1.htm (15513 words)

	The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
		In 1979 the overall number of Jews in Dagestan was 19,000 and 35,000 in Azerbaijan, the percentage of Mountain Jews is unknown.
		Having become largely assimilated, the predecessors of the Mountain Jews settled on the west coast of the Caspian Sea in the 5th--6th century and from that time on their history has been related to the mountains and the people of Dagestan.
		The Jews and their Armenian neighbours were the main producers of wine, an activity banned for Muslims by religion.
	www.eki.ee /books/redbook/mountain_jews.shtml (684 words)

	Print Article: Jewish project to use Nazi-link firm
		Nazi-era crimes by a German chemical company that once conspired to exterminate millions of Jews were revisited and to some extent forgiven this week when the firm was kept on as a subcontractor for a sprawling Holocaust memorial.
		The decision on Thursday by the Memorial Foundation for the Murdered Jews of Europe to allow Degussa to supply anti-graffiti coating to the project came after days of national debate over how to respect the dead while not stifling Germany from moving beyond past atrocities.
		Many Germans said if the foundation had voted against Degussa, which had the support of several prominent Jews, it would have incited right-wing nationalists and sent a troubling symbolic message about how long a nation must work to overcome its past brutalities.
	www.theage.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/11/14/1068674382319.html (548 words)

	Zionist Organization of America - February 1, 2000 - Prominent Jews From All Sides Unite To Condemn Syria's Denial Of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Prominent Jews From all sides unite to condemn Syria's denial of Holocaust
		NEW YORK- Prominent Jewish leaders and distinguished Holocaust scholars have united to issue a statement strongly condemning an editorial denying the Holocaust, which was published in the official Syrian government newspaper Tishrin on January 31, 2000.
		The statement of protest was organized by the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) and its National President, Morton A. Klein, who is a child of Holocaust survivors, was born in a Displaced Persons camp in Gunzberg, Germany, and lost most of his family in the Holocaust.
	www.zoa.org /pressrel/20000201a.htm (578 words)

	Kesher Talk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The prominent New York Jewish newsweekly asked some prominent Jews - from Rabbi Eric Yoffie to musician Basya Schechter to feminist author Letty Cottin Pogrebin - if they were planning to see "The Passion." Reactions varied widely.
		Jews in odd places: France: On Tuesday Feb. 19, th...
		Are you a Republican Jew in the Washington, D.C. a...
	www.hfienberg.com /kesher/2004/02/passion-of-jewish-week.html (519 words)

	ABC News: Excerpt: 'Stars of David : Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish' by Abigail Pogrebin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		I realize that choosing to talk to prominent Jews instead of regular folks is slicing off a narrow population, but that was the point.
		Jews feel a particular ownership of public figures who are members of the so-called tribe.
		I wouldn't call myself a famous Jew, but my experience over the years has been that if someone wants me to talk at length about being Jewish in a Jewish paper or publication, I feel I couldn't be further from an authority and I don't want to say things that are uneducated.
	abcnews.go.com /GMA/Books/story?id=1429337 (5968 words)

	German boys clothes -- fashion industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Jews also owned some of the most prominent department stores.
		Jews who fled Germany had rgeir property confiscated.
		The exclussion of the Jews had the impact of ending the the fashion prominence of Berlin and Vienna, a prominence that has still not been recovered.
	histclo.hispeed.com /country/ger/fi/ger-fi.html (824 words)

	steelheadsite.com Books : Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish
		All those interviews proved is that the diversity among "prominent" Jews is the same as that among the general Jewish population.
		It may make observant Jews angry and non-observant Jews feel good but doesn't contribute to anyone else's well-being or beliefs in any shape or form.All one has to do is pick one interview and say that's why 1.
		These people are prominent, but not for their connection to Judaism.
	www.steelheadsite.com /amz/amazon.pl?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0767916123&templates=default&max_results=9 (1063 words)

	Catholic Answers: How Pius XII Protected Jews
		"In one tragic instance, the Archbishop of Utrecht was warned by the Nazis not to protest the deportation of Dutch 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.
		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)

	Information Clearing House Blog - Prominent Jews call for open debate on Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Whether the Jews be regarded as a "race" or as a "religion," it is contrary to the democratic principles for which the world war was waged to found a nation on either or both of these bases.
		British Jews are truly showing compassion and great courage to stand up to the loudmouthed Zionist media blitz that has called Jimmy Carter and countless others anti-semitic, knowing, for sure, that this is a lie.
		The Jews were given the right to freely settle "wastelands" and "state lands" and to purchase privately owned lands for the purpose of establishing a Jewish majority which in time would lead to a predominantly Jewish autononous entity.
	www.ichblog.eu /content/view/371/2 (4147 words)

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