Összesen 1,863 találat (1801 - 1820) : Szombat, Time of Israel .
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Péter Szegő’s editorial deals with the danger the Iranian president’s public statement means: he denied the Holocaust and called for the destruction of Israel. Szegő believes that “if Iran should become a nuclear power, it will be unpredictable whether they will attack Israel. ”
Pál … Tovább »
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Attila Novák’s editorial was inspired by a short trip to Tunisia: he comments on the relationship between the West and Islam: “The words of Memmi become too quiet next to the multicultural battle cries which only take what it finds pleasant in different civilizations and cultures, and only … Tovább »
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A selection of articles discusses the Gaza pullout. Zsuzsa Shiri’s report is followed by János Gadó’s analysis of the situation, then an Israeli author writes about the crisis of religious Zionism. Zsuzsa Shiri writes about the settlers’ putting on the yellow star as a sign of protest: … Tovább »
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“Hungarian Jewish historiography has since long become extinct. We have talented historians, excellent books and articles are published from time to time, but – owing to subjective and objective causes – we can hardly speak of directions or schools or of concepts”, is the claim made … Tovább »
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“It is the hope of the Hungarian government that President Arafat’s historic ambitions will be fulfilled in the not too distant future” said Ferenc Gyurcsány, Hungary’s Prime Minister after Arafat’s death. “What kind of ambitions? More dead Jews in Israeli cafes and shopping centres? … Tovább »
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In his editorial János Gadó writes about a conference on anti-Semitism held in Berlin. “The majority of European politicians do not really want to hear the message conveyed by the Jewish participants in this conference on anti-Semitism, and that is: Today’s anti-Semitism is disguised … Tovább »
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This month’s issue of Szombat focuses on the Budapest Holocaust Museum scheduled to open in April. The Mazsihisz (Alliance of Jewish Communities in Hungary) offered an out of use synagogue for this purpose, but later the building was renovated in it’s original form which made it not suitable … Tovább »
ALVIN H. ROSENFELD
Antiszemitizmus és Amerika-ellenesség
A régi gyűlölet, vagy valami újdonság?
Bush és Sharon Hitler gyermekei” – olvasható a szlogen az európai háborúellenes nagygyűlések „békét hirdető” transzparensein. Ez és az ehhez hasonló durva kijelentések … Tovább »
Gantner Brigitta Eszter
„Ősök keresése”1Martin Buber és a közép-európai zsidó értelmiség a századfordulón2
„Gyűlöltük a családot, a szülői házat. Egyedül álltunk és magányosak voltunk. Zsidó számlázásunk nyomásként, teherként, kötelezettségként nehezedett … Tovább »
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This month we publish a selection of writings on neo-conservatism, which has become influential in the United States while in Hungary so far it has only been discussed in a leftist (and in an extreme right wing) interpretation. In his introduction László Seres puts it this way: “it has … Tovább »
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In November the Budapest Court of Appeal announced its binding sentence acquitting Lóránt Hegedűs protestant parson who, in a right-wing paper had openly called for the exclusion of Jews. The case was followed by a heated public debate about the necessity of bringing a stricter law on … Tovább »
Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
A negyedik megaláztatás*
„Aber wir vergessen zu leicht, dass wir kein Recht haben, die Neurose dort in Der Vordergrund zu stellen, wo es Sich um eine bedeutende Leistung Handel.” „De túl gyorsan megfeledkezünk arról, hogy nincs jogunk a neurózist a középpontba … Tovább »
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“New anti-Semitism” is in the focus of this month’s issue. This is a politically correct ideology, only critical towards Zionism and Israel. In the introduction Martin Luther King is quoted: “When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews – this is God’s own truth”. We publish the translation … Tovább »
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This month’s editorial by Dan Ofry Israeli author offers an assessment of the situation in the Middle East. Pondering over Israel’s possible reaction to current events he sums up the words of the Israeli minister of defense:
The American military campaign in Iraq is not going to be our … Tovább »
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The Official Jewish Community in Hungary has been stressing the need for classifying the negation of the Holocaust and other anti-Semitic discourse inciting hatred, as criminal offense, László Seres believes this is unnecessary claiming that the neo-nazi threat is not significant in today’s … Tovább »
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In the last decade of the communist regime Hungary’s present Prime Minister, Péter Medgyessy, a high-ranking financial official at the time, signed a document about becoming a deep cover officer of the country’s counter-intelligence agency. This fact triggered the so called “Agent Scandal” … Tovább »
A cionista nagypolitika hajnala*
II. rész – Herzl Konstantinápolyban
1896 júniusában Herzl Konstantinápolyba indult, és közben megállt Budapesten. 1895-től gyakran fordult meg szülővárosában, hiszen Törökország felé a magyar fővároson keresztül vezetett az útja. Heltai … Tovább »
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In our previous issue we wrote about the demonstration organized on the anniversary of the liberation of the ghetto in Budapest. This month we publish five speeches made outside Parliament by Péter Kardos chief rabbi, by Ferenc Mádl President of the Hungarian Republic, by János Martonyi … Tovább »
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The September issue of Szombat begins with an excerpt from Franz Rosenzweig’s The Star of Redemption in which he speaks about the importance of Yom Kippur and the Day of Atonement.
The purchase of a football club has created a furor in Hungarian media: the highly popular Ferencváros team … Tovább »
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In “A Requiem for my Childhood” Pál Várnai remembers Kiskunhalas, a small town in the Hungarian Great Plain, where in his childhood between the two World Wars, Jews and non-Jews lived next to each other in harmony.
We report on the assembly of the Budapest Jewish Community and that of the … Tovább »