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A Flight Is Diverted by a Prayer Seen as Ominous Last week a flight attendant on a US Airways Express Flight traveling from La Guardia to Kentucky alerted the cockpit of a suspicious passenger. |
Facing Today | January 25, 2010 |
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A Jew is Not One Thing 28 minutes This short film explores the nature of Jewish identity in contemporary society and raises questions about the personal nature of identity. Profiled are religious and secular Jews, ardent Zionists, and Jews committed to life in the Diaspora. This pluralistic view embraces the complexity and contradiction inherent in a diverse community. |
Library Resource | December 15, 2009 |
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A Life Apart: Hasidism in America 113 minutes Source: First Run Features |
Library Resource | December 15, 2009 |
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Abercrombie & Fitch Faces Lawsuit Over Muslim Headscarf Abercrombie & Fitch refused to hire Samantha Elauf because she wears a headscarf. Nineteen-year-old Elauf is a community college student from Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is Muslim, and covers her head for religious reasons. When Elauf applied for a position at a Tulsa Abercrombie Kids store in June of 2008, she was turned down, and later found out from a friend who works at the store that “the headscarf cost her the job.” The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed suit against Abercrombie on Elauf’s behalf. |
Facing Today | October 13, 2009 |
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Anti-Islamic Party Is Playing With Fear (Spiegel Online International, January 3, 2008) The article, "Anti-Islamic Party Is Playing With Fear,"
explains why the German intelligence agency is concerned about the
increasing popularity of a far-right political party. |
Facing Today | April 7, 2008 |
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Anti-Islamic Party Is Playing With Fear (Spiegel Online International, January 3, 2008) The article, "Anti-Islamic Party Is Playing With Fear,"
explains why the German intelligence agency is concerned about the
increasing popularity of a far-right political party. |
Facing Today | April 7, 2008 |
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Antisemitism: The Power of Myth - Confronting Antisemitism
What
responsibilities does a society have to protect everyone in the
community or nation? To what extent is a crime against one group in a
community a crime against the community as a whole? In the foreword to
a report on antisemitism in Europe published by the Lawyers Committee
for Human Rights, Executive Director Michael Posner reflected on those
questions:
A year ago the United
Nations convened the third World Conference on Racism, Racial
Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance in Durban, South
Africa. |
Facing Today | February 24, 2008 |
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Antisemitism: The Power of Myth - Defining Antisemitism
Although we see ourselves as unique
individuals, we tend to see others as representatives of groups. It's a
natural tendency, psychologists tell us. Although it is natural to
generalize, stereotypes are offensive. |
Facing Today | February 24, 2008 |
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Antisemitism: The Power of Myth - More than a Lie
The Introduction
described some slanders as not merely lies but "malignant new myths"
that link "classic anti-Jewish slanders with contemporary anti-Israel
politics." How do such myths become weapons in a war of words? What
power do words have to turn neighbor against neighbor? Nowhere have
these questions been more heatedly debated than on college campuses,
places where young people traditionally encounter new ideas and are
encouraged to challenge old truths. |
Facing Today | February 24, 2008 |
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Antisemitism: The Power of Myth - Rumors, Lies, and the Media
When Adolf Hitler came to power in the 1930s,
he used "the blood libel" and other myths to justify the Holocaust.
Julius Streicher, a staunch member of the Nazi party and the publisher
of the magazine Der Stürmer, gave life to those charges. |
Facing Today | February 24, 2008 |
