Remembering the Holocaust in S. Ukraine

By SHELLEY NEESE— While intense anti-government rallies spread throughout Ukraine, the Jewish community of Dnepropetrovsk refused to let the country’s unrest cloud their recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On 27 January—while President Yanukovych battled with opposition leaders and protestors fortified their barricades—a group of 300 people gathered at the Memory of the Jewish People…

Apartheid Revisited

By RON JAGER-— Helen Keller is probably turning in her grave in response to the sign-language interpreter fiasco at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service. A South African man who acted as a sign-language interpreter at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service was a “fraud” who simply made “childish hand gestures” and sign language “gibberish” for hours as he…