Look at the bright side… Muslims here are hated even more than Jews! That’s the line Spanish government officials are using to mitigate the damage from a new survey suggesting one-third of Spaniards harbor anti-Semitic sentiments. According to AFP, The “Study on anti-Semitism in Spain” revealed 34.6 percent of Spaniards had an “unfavourable opinion” of…
In her light, lilting accent, Flory Jagoda is happy to tell the story of her life, with one caveat: although she did live through it, hers is not a tale of the Holocaust. “This one is an accordion story,” she laughed. “We have so many Holocaust stories.” For all intents and purposes, Jagoda’s accordion saved…
Aharon Lapid has penned a strange article on the Spanish Civil War and fascist leader Francisco Franco for the right-wing Orthodox weekly The Jewish Press. I’ll readily agree to the following points: The Spanish Civil War was not an entirely black-and-white affair. The Republican cause was sullied by violence and hijacked by Stalinists. The oft-romanticized…
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