Author: Jmedia Manager
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Q&A: Jason Rezaian on Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s nightmare in Iran
Jason Rezaian was correspondent for the Washington Post in Iran from 2012 to 2016 – only for more than 18 months of that time, he was unjustly held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, in the same wing where Australian-British academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert is presently locked away on accusations of espionage. A new edition of Rezaian’s book detailing…
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The Duke And Duchess Of Cambridge Made A Meaningful Appearance To Commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day
Kate Middleton and Prince William showed solace towards Holocaust survivors on Monday when they stepped out in London to attend the U.K. Holocaust Memorial Day Commemorative Ceremony. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured the millions of lives lost at an event at Central Hall in Westminster; the Duke, giving a reading of a letter sent by a friend of…
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Palace releases Duchess Kate’s portraits of Holocaust survivors
Duchess Kate of Cambridge, an ardent amateur photographer, proved her skills in Old Master-style photo portraits she took of Holocaust survivors to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis’ Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The moving and artistically impressive photos were released by Kensington Palace Sunday night in advance of the annual Holocaust Memorial…
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New technology helps archeologists identify Bible scribes
In 1910, Harvard University Egyptologist George Andrew Reisner was conducting an excavation in the palace of King Ahab in Samaria. Once the first capital of the Biblical Kingdom of Israel, the adjoining village of Sebastia had been reduced to a backwater in Ottoman Palestine. There the American stumbled on an extraordinary discovery – more than 100 pottery…
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Acclaimed choreographer holds up twisted mirror to our times
Hofesh Shechter was a shy boy. He was seven when he started folk dancing on Friday afternoons in his Jerusalem school hall, recalls the 44-year-old Israeli choreographer, who for almost two decades has lived in London, where he runs his eponymous dance company. “It was a horrific experience for me to move, together with and…
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Auschwitz survivors return to death camp, to warn of world’s rising anti-Semitism
Survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau have prayed and wept as they returned to the World War II death camp to mark the 75th anniversary of its liberation. About 200 survivors returned to the camp on Monday, many of them elderly Jews who had travelled from Australia, Israel, the US, Peru, Russia and Slovenia. “We have with us the last living…
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Auschwitz and the politicisation of history
Looming over this year’s commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, were two contradictory impulses that lay behind the creation of the Jewish state: cosmopolitanism and nationalism. A painful dialogue between these perspectives marked the event, reflected in the utterances of the officials who attended and the objections…
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Trump’s Middle East plan a ‘booster shot’ for Netanyahu
London: Less than a month after being sworn in, US President Donald Trump welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House with a bold promise: He would broker a peace accord between the Israelis and the Palestinians — the diplomatic unicorn that had eluded half-a-dozen of his predecessors. “I think we’re going to make…
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Dutch PM apologises for failing Jews
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has apologised for officials’ failure to do more to stop the deportation and murder of more than 100,000 Jews during World War II. Rutte made the historic apology at the country’s annual Holocaust commemoration in Amsterdam on Sunday, the eve of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz…
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Dutch PM makes historic apology for country’s role in Holocaust
Amsterdam: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said he was sorry for his country’s role during the Holocaust and the lack of action against the persecution of Jews, becoming the first Dutch prime minister to make such an official apology. “With the last remaining survivors among us, I apologise on behalf of the government for the…