Guided by the firm hand of an American president keen to achieve Middle East peace, Israel and the Palestinian Authority are getting back on the diplomatic track, though the scope of contacts remains limited.
The saga of Maria Altmann and her family has been splashed on the front pages now that they have been awarded $21.8 million – the largest payout from a fund set up by Swiss banks – for Holocaust-era losses.
The child of Holocaust survivors says that Jews do not have the right to focus only on the agony and suffering of the past, but must rather be at the forefront of the struggle against every form of racial, religious or ethnic hatred.
