February 1, 2010

The Scales of Justice and the Angel of Death

Michael Berenbaum February 1, 2010

“Operation Last Chance: One Man’s Quest to Bring Nazi Criminals to Justice,” Efraim Zuroff (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) pp. 238.

Steven Spielberg to team with ‘Star Trek’ star for Gershwin biopic

Danielle Berrin February 1, 2010

Seven take Wolf Prizes for math, science

Jewish Journal February 1, 2010

Seven renowned scientists are the winners of the prestigious Wolf Prizes.\n

Mengele diary to be auctioned

Jewish Journal February 1, 2010

The diary of the notorious Josef Mengele is set to be auctioned off in the United States.

Vancouver Jews gearing up for the Games

Jewish Journal February 1, 2010

Shmuel Birnham\’s road from Vancouver rabbi to official Jewish clergyman of the 2010 Winter Olympics began, in all places, at an interfaith service with the Dalai Lama.\n\nDuring the Tibetan leader\’s 2004 visit to Vancouver, Hong Chian, a local Buddhist doctor, invited Birnham to be one of the Jewish representatives at the service. When the Olympics rolled around, Chian, who serves on the multifaith committee for the Olympics, called on Birnham again — this time to head up the team of Jewish clergy providing spiritual support services to visiting athletes.\n\nIt has made Birnham the semi-official rabbinic leader of the 2010 Winter Games.

Israel in Olympics to win, or not at all

Jewish Journal February 1, 2010

Two weeks before the European Figure Skating Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, in mid-January, Israeli skater Tamar Katz was sick in bed and going crazy.\n\nThough she had qualified already in international competition for the 2010 Winter Olympics, the tougher standards of Israel’s Olympic Committee required that Katz finish in the top 14 in Europe to punch her ticket to the Winter Games in Vancouver. Katz said that while she felt weak before leaving for Estonia, she felt good when she took the ice.\n