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Posted By richards on April 6, 2013
President Obama Proclaims April The Month To Teach Young People How To Budget Responsibly!
"Agree To Disagree" host Brian Engelman once again welcomes special guest co-host Blake "The Eccentric" Walley to the program where they discuss President Ob...
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Posted By simmons on April 5, 2013
Detroit Resident Chronicles City #39;s Desolation Tony Detroit has a real eye for his topic: neglected Detroit. Whereas most Instagram users have dozens or maybe hundreds of followers, Tony Detroit has nearl...
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Posted By richards on April 5, 2013
The Department of Defense recognizes nine special observances to commemorate significant people or moments in history, including Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Womens Equality Day and Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month. These commemorations impact many people on personal levels, and are a way to honor those who came before us.
One of these observances is the upcoming Days of Remembrance, established by Congress to commemorate the Holocaust. This observance in particular holds a special significance for me, as it allows me to reflect on memories of my grandmother, or Oma.
Although I do not have family members who were directly targeted during the Holocaust, my Oma was born in Germany and grew up during this hostile era, witnessing its tragedies.
My Oma rarely talked about her past and what she had seen, but I knew that it had affected her deeply. From a very young age, I was always curious about her experiences, but she remained closed-off, wishing to keep her memories private. With my constant inquires to her yielding no result, I searched for answers elsewhere. Being so young, I did not fully comprehend the scope of what she went through.
I began watching movies and reading books about the Holocaust and became engrossed with the history behind it. This newfound captivation also led me to take three years of German language classes, in hopes to one day travel to Europe and also see Auschwitz.
Growing up and learning about World War II and the Holocaust in school, my peers knew of my German descent and sometimes had the misconception that my family members were part of the Nazi regime. What I kept to myself, however, was that my Omas family was actually part of the initiative to conceal and protect the Jewish community during that era.
When my mother first told me this, I was amazed to think my Omas family would risk their lives to save people they may have hardly known. Instead of turning these people over to the Nazis as they were ordered, my family chose to stand up for what they believed in; a risk they were willing to die for.
Unfortunately my Oma passed away as I was reaching my teenage years, taking away any chance of having a mature conversation as to why she refrained from discussing her past. Through the years, my mother would share what little she knew, and gradually I began to appreciate why my Oma withheld her stories.
One of the most important things I discovered in my journey to learning my Omas past is to stand up for what you believe is right. I now respect my Omas decision, and realize how difficult it must have been for her to reflect upon. Even though she is gone, I feel our relationship is much stronger, and I appreciate the inspiration she gave me.
While I was fortunate to be born in the United States and raised during a time when the horrors of Holocaust had already passed, learning of the suffering experienced in that era allows me the opportunity to appreciate the life I have, and further solidifies why I choose to defend my freedom.
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Taking the risk: A Holocaust Remembrance story
Posted By admin on April 4, 2013
Rioting Arabs Attack Israel Security Forces in Hevron, Elsewhere Hundreds of Palestinian Authority Arabs rioted in Hevron and elsewhere around the country as the shrouded body of a dead Hamas terrorist was carried through ... By: elimand1
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Posted By simmons on April 4, 2013
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Posted By richards on April 4, 2013
Why having babies is the key to acceptance in a country waging a demographic war.
Participants hold flags during a gay pride parade in Jerusalem on July 29, 2010. (Ronen Zvulun/Reuters)
A refugee lawyer, a transgender specialist, and six other people sit in a circle in an empty classroom on the second floor of Tel Aviv's Gay Center. They are here for the inauguration of Israel's first-ever LGBT legal clinic. The evening's keynote speaker is Frederick Hertz, an American legal expert who specializes in gay marriage. He describes a recent case he handled, in which a gay couple, one of them transgender, got married in Las Vegas as a man and a woman. Then they moved to California and wanted their respective healthcare benefits. "So the question," Hertz says, "was how to register that same-sex couple when they had been married as an opposite-sex couple."
The crowd stares blankly, some playing with their telephones. One attendee, wearing skinny jeans and Converse sneakers, breaks the collective yawn by quoting a New Yorker cartoon, republished in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, to convey how Israelis feel about the American debate over gay marriage: "Gays and lesbians getting married -- haven't they suffered enough?"
But down two flights of stairs, past a photo exhibition of Israeli drag queens and a poster for a Hebrew version of "Angels in America," a much livelier conversation is taking place in the Center's bar. Through a cloud of cigarette smoke and techno music, a group of activists is talking about what really matters to Israeli gays today: surrogacy.
Holding court at a wicker table is Michal Eden, who became Israel's first openly gay elected official when she won a seat on Tel Aviv's city council in 1998. She marvels at the fact that, while surrogacy is illegal for gay couples in Israel, an increasing number of them are paying foreign women to have their babies overseas.
"I'll tell you, I see it as a revolution," she says. "The fact that gay men from Israel can have a kid from India or from the United States and can raise it as part of a family, as a Jewish Israeli gay family."
Yuval Eggert, the Gay Center's executive director, drops by to join in the conversation. He can't stay long, since he is still on paternity leave (having just had a baby via a surrogate in India) and can barely keep his eyes open. "Ah, mazal tov!" Eden calls out.
Also shmoozing with the crowd is Itai Pinkas, a former Tel Aviv city councilman who had a child with his partner Yoav in 2010 via a surrogate from Mumbai. "A gay thirty-something man with a partner and a baby or two can definitely be considered a typical Tel Aviv specimen," he recently declared in a column for the Israeli daily Maariv.
But as gay men of means are increasingly willing to pay the hefty price of traveling abroad to find a surrogate, less well-off gays in Israel wonder why they are still denied the procedure at home -- which has been legal for straight couples in Israel since 1996. The problem is particularly striking in a country that touts its strong record on gay rights. Israel offers broad legal protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation, and allowed gays to serve in the military decades before the U.S. Out Magazine describes Tel Aviv as "the gay capital of the Middle East," and an American Airlines poll recently dubbed it the world's top gay travel destination. Indeed, Israel is so proud of its accomplishments on gay rights that it has even been accused of exploiting them internationally in order to "pinkwash" its treatment of the Palestinians.
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Forget Marriage Equality; Israeli Gays Want Surrogacy Rights
Posted By simmons on April 4, 2013
Palestinian Psychologist Laila Atshan on Palestine, Syria, and US Policy Laila Atshan, a Palestinian psychologist, discusses with Tunisia Live her background in Palestine and her studies at Harvard. While the Arab presence at the ...
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Israel under attack: Gaza rockets hit southern Israel for third consecutive day Gaza militants have fired rockets toward Israel for a third straight day, with at least one striking Israeli territory while two others failed to make it out... By: JewishNewsOne
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Israel says it will not let Gaza rockets continue after new attacks. Israel says it will not let Gaza rockets continue after new attacks.
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