by Barry Shaw (February 27, 2014)

"Middle East countries do not share the European mindset, not in morality, and not in democracy. The West must understand the mindset of the Arab and Muslim world before they impose their liberal, democratic, values on a region that has zero tolerance for such niceties. Forcing Israel, the only liberal democracy in the area, to behave European, while giving a free pass to a rejectionist, rigid, and intolerant adversary, is not the path to peace.  It will be as useless and immoral as it has been with all the other genocides and massacres that have been perpetrated since the last Holocaust of the Jewish people. 

 

 

 

 

"The Independent newspaper quotes Norman Lebrecht, whose series 'Music and the Jews' begins on BBC Radio 3 next month, saying: 'There's a lot of circumstantial evidence that pop music begins in a conversation on a hot day in New York between the sons of people who fled the pogroms in Russia, and the sons of others who'd fled from the horrors of the slave field in the Deep South, and this common affinity that young Jewish people and black people find for certain rhythms and blue notes, and a legacy of oppression. And commercially, the American music business was founded by Jews, working with black musicians.'" 

 

A Pakistani Jew steps cautiously out of the shadows

by Marc Goldberg (February 26, 2014)

 

Faisal Benkhald: Courtesy of the Times of Israel

"His real name is Faisal Benkhald, though he has recently adopted the Yiddish first name 'Fishel.' He was born in Karachi in 1987, the fourth of five children born to a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. 

 

Though registered at birth as Muslim, he considers himself Jewish and is now fighting for state recognition of his chosen religion - an apostasy."  

  

 

 

 

Nuclear talks won't stop Iran's progress toward a weapon

by U.S. Congressman Doug Lamborn (February 25, 2014)  

U.S. Congressman Doug Lamborn has previously been a guest on Radio Chavura

 

"Let us be clear: The interim agreement did not suspend Iran's uranium enrichment. Its most enriched uranium is being turned into uranium oxide - a chemical process that is completely and easily reversible...

 

Significantly, the accord also does not dismantle a single one of Iran's nearly 20,000 centrifuges. And Iran's leadership says they have no intention of ever doing so.

 

'The iceberg of sanctions is melting while our centrifuges are also spinning,' Iran's nuclear chief boasts, calling it 'our country's greatest achievement.'"

 

 

by Sharona Schwartz (February 24, 2014)

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop  Courtesy of the Sydney Morning Heral

 

"Australia's foreign minister... caused quite a stir last month when she suggested that settlements may not be illegal under international law and that people should stop calling them illegal until their status is determined by Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.

 

'I would like to see which international law has declared them illegal,' Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told the Times of Israel..."

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 4 (Tuesday): The Colorado Hebrew Chorale will be performing at 7:00 pm at Anythink York Street's Rosa Auditorium (8990 York Street, Thornton), in a special Music of the Holocaust: History and Hope event.