April 23, 2012

Danish fashion company apologizes for T-shirt with six-pointed star

A Danish fashion company has apologized for a T-shirt featuring a six-pointed star after critics complained it evoked the Star of David that the Nazis forced Jews to wear.

By Alexandra Halpern April 23, 2012 9:56 pm

At Yom Ha’atzmaut, school shows it’s OK for Jewish, Arab students to have differences

A handful of bilingual schools in Israel are seeking to foster coexistence through cross-cultural learning.

April 23, 2012 9:11 pm

Before Shakespeare, Shylock was not Jewish

According to one scholar in 1927, Shakespeare’s Shylock character in “The Merchant of Venice,” widely read as an anti-Semitic caricature of a moneylender, was not originally Jewish, but originally appeared in an anti-Semitic poem from 1291: [[READMORE]] The original Shylock was not a Jew but an Englishman, and Shakespeare borrowed his character from an anti-Jewish […]

April 23, 2012 8:56 pm