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Thank goodness Confederate History Month is over! Maybe Civil Rights organizations, black politicians and journalists will stop whining for awhile. They must pay the Sons of Confederate Veterans on the side. Fat, middle-aged suburbanites waving Confederate flags create excuses for hysterical screaming. Ironically, the volume and shrillness of attacking Confederate heritage is inversely proportional to the actual racism and threat to personal safety. But, it’s profitable if you’re a race pimp. When your skin color is your day job, you need something to cry ‘wolf’ about. The professionally-black Blacks, whose jobs are based on ‘African-American’ in their titles, are working...

Architects arrive for Jewish Museum competition 19.04.2005 Poland intends to commemorate the uprising with the construction of Museum of History of Polish Jews. Twenty architects from all over the world have just visited Warsaw to see the place where the new museum will be located. Among those invited for the competition there are such internationally famous architects as Daniel Libeskind, Peter Eisenman from the United States and Kengo Kuma from Japan. The designs should be submitted by the end of June. The construction works should begin in the spring of 2006 and should be completed by April 2008 to commemorate...

Poland Marks Ghetto Uprising Anniversary By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press Writer A leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising warned the world Tuesday not to forget Polish Jews' historic resistance to their Nazi conquerors on the 62nd anniversary of the fight. Jewish community leaders and state officials laid wreaths at a monument in Warsaw honoring the hundreds of young Jews who took up arms on April 19, 1943, in the first major act of civilian resistance against the Nazis. Marek Edelman, 84, who helped lead the uprising and was one of only a dozen to survive, attended the ceremonies to pay...

TENS of thousands of white families are pouring out of UK cities as immigrants move in, a controversial new report claims. The exodus is creating an increasingly divided society, says the study for independent think-tank Migrationwatch UK. It found that 600,000 more people left London for the regions between 1993-2002 than arrived in the capital from elsewhere in Britain. Those moving out were believed to be mainly white. In the same decade, the number of immigrants arriving in London went up by 726,000. Migrationwatch said there were similar changes in Manchester and Birmingham. Chairman Sir Andrew Green said: “The development...

CAMDEN, N.J., Dec. 23 - If anybody was surprised that Camden was recently ranked America's most dangerous city, it wasn't the people who live here. In the past 12 months, there have been 53 homicides, including a 12-year-old shot to death on his porch for his radio, more than 800 aggravated assaults, including a toddler shot in the back of the head, at least 750 robberies and 150 acts of arson, more than 10,000 arrests and one glaring nonarrest - a serial rapist on the loose downtown. All in a city of 79,000, nine square miles small. For decades, Camden...

A recent visit to Venice tells me that, for many Jews, ritual and a sense of connection to Jewish civilization override theology. I had heard that Venice was a place of romance; a magical city built on canals. But once there, we also discovered Venice's "Jewish problem." Two factions – one foreign, small and missionizing, the other indigenous, threatened and struggling – are engaged in a love-hate relationship. Jews began to settle in the area in the 13th century. Venice's economic elite needed them; the Church despised them. Which is how it came to be that on March 29, 1516...

At the beginning of the Second World War, on June 22, 1941, I was 15 years old. I was a high school student in one of the four Hebrew high schools in Kovno, the capital of Lithuania. Our community also had a Jewish theater, a Jewish hospital, a Jewish orphanage, two daily Jewish newspapers, numerous synagogues, a Jewish technical college, one of the most well known yeshivas in the world (Slobodka), and many other community organizations, such as Jewish burial services, Jewish fellowships for assisting the poor, kosher restaurants, etc.The Jewish community in Kovno had about 40,000 members and constituted...

Katsav skips Lodz ceremony By ETGAR LEFKOVITS In a diplomatic snub, President Moshe Katsav decided to skip the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto held on Sunday in the central Polish city, without informing city officials he was not coming. The city-sponsored commemorations, which drew 5,000 Holocaust survivors and visitors from around the world, included the inauguration of a monument in memory of the Jews of Lodz at the site of a former freight train station from which the Germans sent nearly 150,000 Jews to their deaths. Katsav had been invited to attend the...

Commemoration of Lodz Ghetto Sunday By JPOST.COM STAFF AND ASSOCIATED PRESS Science and Technology Minister Ilan Shalgi will attend a ceremony commemorating the destruction of the Lodz ghetto Sunday. Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka and Lodz Mayor Jerzy Kropiwnicki will also attend the ceremony, which will be followed by a march from the Lodz cemetery to the train station from which Jews were sent to concentration camps during World War II. The Lodz Ghetto was established on February 8, 1940 to house the city's 230,000 Jews. On June 10, 1944 SS leader Heinrich Himmler ordered the liquidation of the ghetto....

Survivors recall Lodz ghetto horror The Polish city of Lodz is to hold a major Holocaust memorial ceremony on Sunday dedicated to the thousands of Jews and Roma persecuted by the Nazis in the ghetto there during World War II. BBC News Online's Sarah Shenker spoke to some of the survivors. Lodz ghetto inmates were tormented by hunger, exhaustion and fear every day. As the Nazi extermination programme accelerated, ghetto inmates were deported to death camps en masse and slaughtered, the last train leaving on 29 August 1944. Mass starvation gripped the ghetto's inmates (pic: Simon Wiesenthal Center) Renee Salt...

Holocaust survivors remember Poland's last ghetto By DPA WARSAW/LODZ - The history of the Polish city of Lodz would be incomplete without names like Rubinstein, Poznanski or Singer. Such 19th-century Jewish industrialists were among those who turned the small central Polish town into a booming city with a flourishing textile industry. No European city other than Warsaw had as many Jewish inhabitants as Lodz, Poland's second largest city. Before World War II the 223,000 Jews of Lodz - who often called themselves Lodzermensh - formed one-third of the city's population, living alongside Poles and Germans. Today, the Jewish cemetery in...

THE Democratic National Convention is over, and nearly a week of often-inspiring oratory still rings in my ears. But my friends -- mostly urban youth -- simply don't talk that way. So, as Kerry and Edwards barnstorm 21 states, here's an imaginary hip-hop speech they could use -- in ghetto grammar, with translation provided -- to inspire a certain kind of youth vote. "Wassup, homies, I'm here down for the cause, G.O.D. And G.W.B and the GOP is hating on the Iraqi. But we be all that and a bag chips and Bush can't see the NAACP. I'm like what...

Lodz Ghetto, 60 years later By ETGAR LEFKOVITS Nearly 150,000 Jews were transported to Nazi death camps during World War II from the Radegast train station in Lodz, where a Holocaust memorial is under construction. The central Polish city of Lodz will at the end of the month mark 60 years since the liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto. The series of commemorations will climax with the inauguration of a major monument in memory of the Jews of Lodz at the site of a former freight train station from which the Germans sent nearly 150,000 Jews to death in the concentration...

Lil' Kim was indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice Wednesday by a grand jury in a New York federal courtroom. The charge stems from the rapper's alleged involvement in a three-year-old shootout that occurred outside the offices of New York radio station Hot 97. The 28-year-old MC, whose real name is Kimberly Jones, is charged with conspiracy to commit perjury, make false statements and obstruct justice; perjury before the grand jury; the making of false statements; and obstruction of justice, according to court documents. Indictments occur when a grand jury decides that there is sufficient evidence for a case...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Today's hip-hop constituency possesses even greater media access and financial clout than when Public Enemy first exhorted the hip-hop generation to "Fight the Power" in 1989. Rap artists have since tackled gang violence, South African apartheid, drugs, police abuse and more. Now they want to play an instrumental role in this year's presidential election. Political groups are tapping hip-hop to engage not just young people but all disenfranchised people of color, hoping their votes will unseat President Bush. "Most hip-hop followers come from struggle. There's a common agenda for all of those who are locked out,"...

A half century after Partition, Muslim Indians are coming into their own. They are no more the psychologically orphaned and beleaguered community they were in the earlier years of Independence. Confident new generations have begun to break out of that mould to find a place in the sun. The decade 1992-2002 witnessed the demolition of the Babri masjid, the war in Afghanistan and the Gujarat pogrom, bringing renewed trauma and uncertainty. Yet, sullen despair among some was matched by determination among others to assert their civic rights. The message that went out with the Talibanisation of Afghanistan and international terror...

With their bling-bling glittering through the plastic of their stylish boxes, they dish out attitude on the Barbie aisle. Happy D., Kiyoni Brown, Liam, P. Bo, Tika and Tre. Hip-hop culture in a box. Setting out to give older girls a reality check, this month Mattel introduced Flavas, its first doll designed to catch the eye of a modern tween (8- to 12-year-olds). Wendy Wedemier-Hinds, 33, of Miramar, says when she looks at the dolls, "I automatically think of hip-hop." Even the name Flava (hip-hop slang for personal style) is trendy. "It's Barbie with a twist," says Robert Rosenberg, manager...

(A gentle warning, this is a humble attempt at satire.) My uninformed guess is that supporters of "smart growth" and other environmentalists wouldn't be so enthusiastic if the end result of their activism was that their neighborhoods would not be kept free of lower-income residents. I know that I'm tired of seeing the Endangered Species Act abused to limit development of affordable housing for lower-middle class people by rich do-gooders. It always seems that when the neighboring platt is zoned for single family homes some endangered toad or bird becomes Priority Number One. The end result of this is that...

(A gentle warning, this is a humble attempt at satire.) My uninformed guess is that supporters of "smart growth" and other environmentalists wouldn't be so enthusiastic if the end result of their activism was that their neighborhoods would not be kept free of lower-income residents. I know that I'm tired of seeing the Endangered Species Act abused to limit development of affordable housing for lower-middle class people by rich do-gooders. It always seems that when the neighboring platt is zoned for single family homes some endangered toad or bird becomes Priority Number One. The end result of this is that...

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