Pope Benedict's speech in Auschwitz

Auschwitz speech seen as moving but incomplete

By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor
Reuters
Monday, May 29, 2006; 12:36 PM



WARSAW (Reuters) - Pope Benedict's speech in Auschwitz was the most introspective and moving address of his papacy, but some who heard it still thought he did not go far enough.

Ending a four-day pilgrimage to Poland on Sunday, the 79-year-old Pontiff reflected on how hard it was for a German to visit the former Nazi death camp and how challenging the evil committed there was for anyone who believed in a loving God.

His bold decision to ask at the infamous death camp the question that made millions lose their faith after the Holocaust won headlines in many newspapers around Europe on Monday.

"God, why did you remain silent?" Rome's La Repubblica quoted him as asking in reference to the killing there of about 1.5 million people, mostly Jews. Germany's Berliner Zeitung chose another of his blunt questions: "Where was God?"

But just as many commentators focused on what he did not say, especially about Catholic anti-Semitism and the role the Vatican played while the Holocaust was raging.

Some faulted him for not clearly mentioning anti-Semitism, others for saying Germany was taken over by criminals in the 1930s, as if Adolf Hitler had not had any popular support.

John Wilkins, former editor of the British Catholic weekly The Tablet, gave Benedict high marks for the speech but said he felt sensitive issues such as the long history of Catholic anti-Semitism were left out.

MISSED OPPORTUNITIES

"It was a wonderful speech, but I think some opportunities were missed," he told Reuters. "Something could have been said about how many Christians did not act very well back then."

"It's symbolically important that Pope Benedict went to Auschwitz, but I was expecting a different speech," Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League told La Stampa in Turin, noting that the Pope did not expressly condemn anti-Semitism.

Commentators also asked about the Vatican's role during the Holocaust, when Pope Pius XII did not speak out against Nazi oppression of the Jews.

One sore point is that the Vatican has not opened all its wartime files to historians, who want to know what Pius knew, when he knew it and what he discussed with his aides about it.

"While the Pope made clear in Auschwitz that he did not want to close the book on the past, the Vatican is not ready to open its archives from the war years," wrote the Rotterdam daily Algemeen Dagblad.

VERY JEWISH SPEECH

The Paris Catholic daily La Croix said dwelling on what was not in the speech "risks missing the great profundity of what he said" about God's absence or silence in the face of such evil.

"Loyal to his calling as a teacher, Benedict asked the question everyone -- believer or not -- asks."

In Poland, where the media mixed some criticism with mostly positive coverage of the visit, several commentators noted subtler tones than those highlighted abroad.

"The Pope's speech and visit were very Jewish to me," said Stanislaw Krajewski of the Polish Council of Christians and Jews. "The Pope quoted the psalms, which are also part of the Jewish tradition, and that creates a link.

"It was moving when he said clearly that the Nazis, by killing the Jewish nation, aimed to kill God," he said.

"Linking Christianity's roots with Judaism is a strong argument against anti-Semitism," said sociologist Jadwiga Staniszkis. "I think this speech should be read."

נחצה היימן בבית הנשיא

Noah said I will have to manage with the Money, What Money?

Nokia to cooperate with Israeli companies, ynet

Nokia to cooperate with Israeli companies

Representatives of Finnish cell phone giant scheduled to arrive in country; 13 Israeli companies began operating in Finland last year
Navit Zomer



Nokia is interested in cooperating with Israeli companies in fields of data and wireless communications, Israel’s leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported.




Nokia representatives are scheduled to arrive in Israel on Tuesday as part of an official delegation of 19 leading Finnish businessmen. This is the first such visit from Finland in 10 years.



The visit is sponsored by the Israeli embassy and the Israeli financial delegate in Finland, Moti Ish-Shalom.



Nokia is the largest company in Finland, producing 30-40 percent of all cellular phones in the world. It employs 60,000 people and sales last year totaled 34 million euros.



Boaz Hirsh, director of economic affairs at the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, said that the arrival of a top-level delegation from Finland indicates relations with the Scandinavian country may be warming up.



Israel's export to Finland totaled last year USD 121 million, and according the data 13 Israeli companies began operating in Finland last year.

Fishing

David sent me a book on Phishing

Won Chance today 2nd time in a week

# תאריך הגרלה tiltan diamond Heart Leaf סה"כ
1 17/05/2006 14446 9 K 10 7 209,183
2 17/05/2006 14445 Q 8 Q 7 274,425
3 17/05/2006 14444 9 Q K 10 223,335
4 17/05/2006 14443 J 7 10 10 326,947
5 17/05/2006 14442 A Q 7 9 344,533
6 17/05/2006 14441 9 J 9 A 343,320

Startup Replacing Linux Desktop With The Web

Startup Replacing Linux Desktop With The Web
By Antone Gonsalves, TechWeb News
May 12, 2006 (8:02 PM EDT)
URL: http://www.techweb.com/wire/187202837


Startup Ajax13 Inc. is looking to do to Linux what Microsoft Corp. is doing to Windows -- dissolve the operating system into the Web.

Under the shadow of Microsoft's enormous task of making all of its desktop products available as Web services, the small San Diego company is getting ready to launch in a few weeks what it calls AjaxOS, a desktop application that would link a Linux-based computer to Web applications that mimic some of the most popular desktop software used today.

To date, Ajax13 has launched as services word processing and spreadsheet programs, an application for building graphs and charts, a music player and an editor for mixing video, music and photos. More Web services are coming, but the company won't say what they are or when. The technological backbone of the company's products is Ajax, a methodology in Web development that fuses JavaScript and XML to make highly functional Web services. Using this technology, Ajax13, like many other companies, including Microsoft, Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., can offer Web services that have the look and feel of desktop applications.

AjaxOS runs on Linspire, a desktop version of open source Linux developed by Linspire Inc. of San Diego. Entrepreneur Michael Robertson is chairman of Linspire and chief executive of Ajax13.

In a few weeks, Linspire users, which make up a sliver of the home computer market, would be able to either download AjaxOS from the Web or get it on CD. Once installed, the application makes all of Ajax13's Web services accessible as if they are running on the desktop, Jan Schwarz, president of the company said. Data could be stored locally on the computer or remotely over the Web. The company is negotiating with several potential storage providers, Schwarz said, but he refused to name them.

Ajax13's strategy follows what many in the industry see as an unstoppable trend -- the movement toward software as a service. Even Microsoft expects many of its own bulky applications that today sit on a home computer and have to be upgraded on a regular basis to eventually be replaced with Web services.

"We are very much focused on the push to the Internet-enabled PC," Schwarz said.

The current batch of Ajax13 services are only the beginning, and aren't expected to become major revenue generators, particularly since they're offered by far bigger players. Google, for example, recently bought Web word processor Writely.

Even AjaxOS is not seen as anything more than a product meant to serve a very small portion of the desktop computer market.

"We absolutely still have to push toward a very solid revenue model," Schwarz said.

For now, the company hopes to generate interest and notice with the services currently available. More are planned, and Schwarz promises the future products will be more unique and hold more revenue-generating potential. The company has yet to decide how it would charge for its applications. Possibilities include licensing the underlying technologies or offering subscriptions. Each of the company's individual services today is available at no charge to anyone with a Firefox Web browser, version 1.5 or higher.

Ajax13's funding primarily comes from Robertson. The company launched this year, but its technology was developed over the last three years by Chief Technology Officer Hisham El-Emam.




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Capitalism of Swines

Shimon Peres labeled Netanyahu's policies 'swinish capitalism'
I add "Capitalism of SWINES"!
http://blog.tapuz.co.il/mysam in Hebrew

Rosh Echad

Sam's Experiences on the Net - by Samuel Cohen

Rosh Hanikra

Rosh Hanikra

We were there wednesday with Moadon Lev Echad, Rina, Harel and
Shmulik the Driver
Look at Pictures on Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosh_Hanikra Wikipedia

Samuel Cohen Died...

Grandfather Samuel Cohen died according to Haaretz Today.
I bought Spalding Shoes Thursday and the were not the same size.
Replaced them Friday.
They had a deal, Second pair for 40 NIS.
Another couple took the second pair so I payed 130 NIS instead of 199.

Wine Dalton, Barbera, 2004 , Rogov

BARBERA:

Barbera is an Italian varietal which is very popular in the Piemonte region of North West Italy. The wines made from barbera usually have a deep red colour are medium bodied and have a refreshing level of acidity.
THE VINEYARDS:
The grapes for this wine come from our Safsufa vineyard, in the Upper Galilee which is located in the foot hills of Mount Meron, at an altitude of about 620 meters.
WINEMAKING:
Close proximity of the vineyards to the winery allow the grapes to be processed as soon after picking as possible. Initial fermentation took place in stainless steel tanks, and the wines were pumped over every day in order to ensure maximum colour extraction. After pressing and malolactic fermentation the wine was racked into year old French oak barrels for just under a year, before bottling.
TASTING NOTES:
Barbera is a deep purple colour, the nose is intense with raspberries, rose petals and sweet confectionary
SERVING SUGGESTIONS:
Barbera is one of the most food friendly wines. Low tannins in the wine will not overpower food. The acidity in this wine complements many foods. Any meal with a tomato sauce is a perfect match with Barbera.

Wine Dalton, Barbera, 2004
Region/Variety Israel
Tasting Note Dalton, Barbera, 2004: A very nice first Barbera release from this winery. Developed in oak casks for 9 months, dark cherry red in color, showing medium-bodied, soft and round with good balancing acidity and tempting aromas and flavors of ripe berries, cherries and minerals, ending on a lightly spicy finish. Drink now or in the next year or so. Score 87. K (Tasted 16 Feb 2006)
Score 87
Tasting Date 2006-02-16
Author Daniel Rogov (

"Woodstock Shoah" and AB Yehosua...

AB Yehoshua annoyed US jews and there is an article today about "Woodstock Shoah"
critising youth visits to Aushwits and Poland

Last update - 19:49 02/05/2006 w w w . h a a r e t z . c o m
How A.B. Yehoshua lost his crowd
The Israeli author chose to be annoying, thus disserving his cause, and failing to achieve a goal every Israeli should seek: connecting to Jewish Diaspora on a whole new level of dialog.

The title was promising and so were the panelists. "The Future of the Past: What will become of the Jewish people?" moderated by Ted Koppel and with the participation of the Cynthia Ozick, Rabbi Adin Steinzaltz, Leon Wieseltier, and Israeli author A.B. Yehoshua. It was the first session of the American Jewish Committee's Centennial symposium, and what a disastrous evening it was.

The blame goes first and foremost to the annoyingly impolite Yehoshua. Taking over the dialog with a simplistic (and quite old-fashioned) message of ultra-Zionism - he was such a disruptive participant as to dismantle the whole discussion. For a while, I thought the angry Wieseltier was going to punch him - but he chose a different path of protestation and just stopped talking altogether.

The crowed got angry, too. In the busses heading back to their hotels, participants were talking about Yehoshua in words unfit to print. So much so that this morning, AJC's Executive Director David Harris felt a need to comment on the evening's events. Yehoshua, he said, was "passionate" and was a "expressing classic Zionist" point of view. However, Harris added, he "didn't win many friends to his cause" - and believe me, this is the understatement of the year.

So what was Yehoshua saying that got everybody so annoyed? He said that the only way to be a Jew is to live in Israel - well, not a very original thought, nor a new one. So it was not exactly what he said, but more the way he chose to do it - the arrogant, dismissive, way in which he framed his arguments, and even more so, the fact that he didn't let the discussion to move forward.

Koppel looked simply stunned.

Late at night, when I got home, I went over my notes to find something worth writing about - some conclusions one can make of such an evening - and here is what I came up with. More fragments than real conclusion:

Loyalty

The most astonishing thing that was said in this evening was a statement by Ozick, who dared to utter the D word: "I have a dual loyalty," she said, to the U.S. and to Israel. Later, she tried to clarify. I wish I could have had a thousand loyalties, she said, but one can only find within himself enough passion as to have one or two - in her case two. To the inquisitorial Koppel, trying to understand what she will do if the two countries will some day have a difference of interests she had a vague - though interesting - answer. She just thinks ? and I'm paraphrasing here - that it can't happen. That her two beloved countries will not go in a direction that will force her to choose.

Anti-Semitism

The best one-liner of the evening belongs to Wieseltier (when he was still participating). Ozick - as to make a point about the possibility of anti-Semitism in the U.S. ? was bringing up the Walt-Mersheimer study, a topic without which no real discussion of the Jewish people can take place these days. The study, said Ozick, frightens me. And Wieseltier gave her an answer to be remembered: "I will take Walt-Mersheimer over the Kishinev pogroms any day."

Judaism

A couple of weeks ago I attended the Jewish Funders Network conference in Denver, and wrote about it extensively. The conference's title, "Plug and Play Judaism," referred to the way in which young Generation Y Jews deal with their Jewish identity. (Read "The Jews of Generation Y here). It was meant in a positive way - as a new means via which to connect to these youngsters. (Read "I met happy Jews" here).

But yesterday, plug and play Judaism was used in a derogatory way by Yehoshua. What kind of Judaism is it, he asked. "You're just playing - plug and play." He argued that the only way to be a "real" Jew is by exercising power, making decisions, in a complete manner - that is, in Israel, where every decision you make is necessarily, to some extent "Jewish." And if you try to pinpoint the ongoing argument of the evening, this is what it was all about.

Yehoshua was willing to talk only about Judaism in Israel - Wieseltier tried to offer the "portability of Judaism." An idea that is not only about place and state ? but bigger (one can't suspect that Wieseltier is not supportive enough of Israel - he just wanted to emphasize the other alternatives). Yehoshua can think whatever he wants about his own idea of Judaism, but the one Wieseltier was trying to talk about is the one the crowd wanted to discuss, as it is the one most relevant to them.

Israel

More than anything else, this evening was somewhat sad, as it showed the huge gap between Israel and the Jewish Diaspora. The problem, I must admit, rests mostly with Israelis, who do not understand (well, I'm generalizing here, many Israelis do understand) the extent to which the North American Jewish world is now a world to itself. They don't comprehend the possibility of a "Jewish Renaissance" here that is mostly not about Israel - and that it is in Israel's interest to be a part of, and not the other way around.

Yesterday, I wrote a piece about the Fifth Jew, for which I got plenty of attention from (mostly angry) readers. (Read the article, the blog that followed, and some reactions here). They weren't satisfied with the comment I made at the end of it: "Because the fifth Jew, to put it rather bluntly, is not only less 'Israeli,' but also less Jewish."

Today, let me make a complementary point that might be as inflammatory to my Israeli readers, but in which I believe as much: If the Israeli Jew does not find a way to better connect with Diaspora Jewry, it will not only make him less of a "Jew" - but also a lesser "Israeli."

Si Himan Hofaot

זמן: 02/05/2006 12:00:00
מאת: actress


נושא: עידכוניםחדשותהופעותמאי 06


תוכן: אנשושים יקרים,
חודש אפריל הסתיים , וכעת לחודש מיוחד, חודש מאי (שבוע שיר ישראלי ועוד....)

ממממ....... מה היה לנו החודש , הרבה דברים

מבחינת מופעים פתוחים שהמלצנו להם היה לנו את:

14.4 מופע זמר משולב בריקודים במועדון ננסי בר דנס בת"א – היה כיף לראות את מי שהגיע!!!

היו לנו כל מיני נושאים מיוחדים בפורום :

האהבה הישנה דיווח על הסינגל שלו ברדיו ירושלים

amir018 העלה לנו תמונות מאוסף התצלומים הלאומיים ובינהם סי

חגגנו 4 שנים לפורום שלנו בדרכנו הצנועה והמיוחדת במועדון של ננסי בר דנס בת"א

המכרזים על התקליטים הישנים של סי עדיין מעלים הדים

שרליאור סרק מהאוסף הפרטי שלו תמונות נוספות של סי מהעיתונות הכללית....

ועוד נושאים רבים וטובים .......

החודש יש לנו מס' אירועים ושמחות.
6.5 נחצ'ה (אבא של סי) ותכף תראו עידכון מיוחד במינו
9.4 אמא של אור

(ידוע לכם על עוד אירועים שונים וחשובים, קדימה זה הזמן לבשר)
כמו כן אני עדיין מנסה לייצר לוח קליט ונוח לכולם, ועובדת על זה


וכעת למופעים הקרבים
2.5 טקס זיכרון לחללי צהל בשעות הבוקר בבית ליד (אירוע פרטי ליחידה)

מופעי יום העצמאות
2.5 עצמאות במושב מצפה עדי סי בליווי להקת "אחיות הנשמה"

2.5 עצמאות בחולון "קפה עצמאות" בימית

2.5 עצמאות ברשפונשים "feeling" צומת ירקונים סי היימן ואחיות הנשמה להזמנת כרטיסים 052-2592876 עלות כרטיס: 85 ₪ כולל כיבוד ואלכוהול

4.5 לשיר עם סי בשיא הכיף מופע מסיבה לחברת ספקטרוניק (הפ' ישרוטל)

5.5 מסיבת יומולדת הפתעה בירושלים (אירוע פרטי)

8.5 מופע למכבי שירותי בריאות מחזור ראשון ביד השמונה (הפ' סטארטורס)

9.5 במסגרת חגיגות היובל לתאטרון "צוותא" סי בהופעת אורח לרגל חגיגות יום הולדתה של "אמא של צוותא" לולה

10.5 מופע למכבי שירותי בריאות מחזור שני ביד השמונה (הפ' סטארטורס)

11.5 מופע בבריכת חורשים (הפ' ארנון פז)

12.5 לשיר עם סי בשיא הכיף במועדון ננסי בר דנס להזמנת כרטיסים 03-6397799

13.5 "לשיר עם סי בשיא הכיף" סי היימן ואחיות הנשמה במועדון גזוז אשדוד להזמנת כרטיסים: 0526-995533

14.5 מופע התנדבותי בבית נגלר חיפה

16.5 לשיר עם סי בשיא הכיף מופע לל"ג בעומר במוזיאון הפרדס רחובות לעמותת מודיעין 10

17.5 מופע בבר מצווה באולם "פריים סגול" בת"א (אירוע פרטי)

18.5 – 20.5 מופע בטורקיה קמר למנהלי חברת השמירה (הפ' עידן חדש)

22.5 מופע למכבי שירותי בריאות סוף המחזורים ביד השמונה (הפ' סטארטורס)

22.5 מרתון אומנים לקניינים במועדון של ננסי בר דנס בת"א

25.5 ערב אומנים לכבוד המלחין נחום היימן לרגל פתיחת שבוע "שיר ישראלי" במעמד נשיא המדינה בירושלים (המופע מצולם לטלוויזיה ערוץ 10)

26.5 "לשיר עם סי בשיא הכיף" ערב יקב במועצה אזורית בני שמעון

27.5 "שבת תרבות" במוזיאון א"י במסגרת שבוע שיר ישראלי בשיתוף עיתון מעריב

27.5 חתונה בסטוקו ת"א (אירוע פרטי)

28.5 חתונה במערת בית ג'וברין (אירוע פרטי)

29.5 ניחוחי חציר במעיין חרוד לרגל חגיגות 70 שנה לקול ישראל

30.5 חתונה בחורשה ביגור


מופעי יוני – לוח התחלתי

1.6 לשיר עם סי בשיא הכיף ערב חג שבועות בקיבוץ יפתח

6.6 בר מצווה במבצר אנטיפטרוס (אירוע פרטי)

7.6 מופע למכבי שירותי בריאות סוף המחזורים ביד השמונה (הפ' סטארטורס)

8.6 לשיר עם סי בשיא הכיף מופע (מחזור 1) לחברת ubank באור הנקרות (הפ' עידן חדש)

9.6 לשיר עם סי בשיא הכיף מופע לאסטרונאטים מתחום המדע במלון דן פנורמה חיפה (הפ' פלטינום ארנון פז)

11.6 "ליידי שרה בלוז ורוק" – סי היימן ואחיות הנשמה במסגרת פסטיבל ישראל בתאטרון ירושלים להזמנת כרטיסים בקופות: 02-5605755

13.6 בת מצווה בפריים בת"א (אירוע פרטי)

15.6 בר מצווה בפריים הכחול (אירוע פרטי)

16.6 חגיגת יום הולדת לסי במועדון ננסי בר דנס להזמנת כרטיסים 03-6397799

22.6 לשיר עם סי בשיא הכיף מופע (מחזור 2) לחברת ubank באור הנקרות (הפ' עידן חדש)

29.6 בר מצווה בפריים הכחול (אירוע פרטי)

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