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Commented Dr. Gary Tobin, President of the Institute for Jewish & Community Research (IJCR): "While the film may have a different impact elsewhere in the world, so far The Passion of the Christ is not producing any significant anti-Jewish backlash. The film and perhaps even more, the discussions about the film, are having something of a positive effect, which is good news. Some Jewish and Christian leaders have been understandably worried that the film might unleash a wave of hostility toward Jews and even erode the constructive effects of Vatican II. But this does not appear to be happening. Their concern... was not unfounded given the rise of anti- Semitism around the world, and the central theme of Christ killing in anti- Jewish prejudice."
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In these two op-ed articles, David Klinghoffer, a right-wing columnist for Jewish publications, accuses Anti-Defamation League Director Abraham Foxman of raising the threat of Christianization to enhance the ADL's appeals for funds. Klinghoffer disparages Foxman's analysis of the menace of the Christian right, and at one point argues that Islam is a greater threat. Foxman responds that "Klinghoffer is engaging in demagoguery when he suggests we're ignoring the threats from the Islamic world." Click here to read the op-ed's.
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Chabad has worked for decades to regain the Collection, a group of unique Jewish books and manuscripts seized during the Soviet era and never returned. Over the years, the group's quest to have Moscow return the texts to their rightful owners in the United States has gained strong bipartisan support in Washington and around the world. Last April, Rabbi Kogan came to Capitol Hill to testify before the U.S. Helsinki Commission about this continuing injustice.
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The traveling exhibition from the Jewish Museum of Greece features 16 stories of children who survived the Nazi occupation of Greece during World War II. One of the children hid near the hometown of Giannouliasʼ mother, Anna, who immigrated to the United States in 1962.
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The head of the French luxury jewelry firm, Cartier, is ... Jewish: Alain Dominique Perrin. In 1996, during a visit to Israel, he announced "plans to donate an unspecified percentage of the revenue from the sale of $10 million worth of jewelry to WIZO [the World International Zionist Organization]." [CASHMAN, 1996, p. 14] Kenneth Jay Lane, "the fake jewelry king," [HORYN, C., 12-12-99, sec. 9, p. 1] is also Jewish. Nudie Cohen, head of Nudie's, was the "costume designer who pasted Nashville in rhinestones in the 1940s and '50s." [LONGINO, M., 9-8-2000] He supplied the Hollywood/Las Vegas cowboy image to people like Roy Rogers and Gene Autry. Others fitting such stars were "Nathan Turk and his East coast counterpart Rodeo Ben (Bernard Lichtenstein), both Eastern European immigrants" whose "clothes brought western wear into its heyday."
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Before World War II, Poland had a thriving Jewish population of 3.5 million, compared to the estimated 20,000 Jews in Poland today. Some marchers wondered why Poles didn't do more to save their Jewish compatriots.
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