Word: holocaustal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hold the truth as sacred but instead choose to sacrifice it for ends we believe to be essential, then two inevitable questions arise: which ends and who decides? It is a disregard for the inviolability of truth that allows certain individuals to claim that the Holocaust never occurred. It is a disregard for the inviolability of truth that enables many of the same people to assume that Blacks are inherently laid-back, rhythmic and athletic. Yet in spite of these inescapable dangers, Muhammad does not even recognize the possibility of reaching for such truth. Instead he condemns the presence...
...book calls himself Philip Roth. This second Roth is in Jerusalem, where the first Roth plans to visit early in the novel. He is giving interviews and drumming up support for the movement he calls Diasporism: a plan, in the hope of averting a second, Arab-engineered Holocaust, to move all the Jews of European descent out of Israel and back to the countries of their ancestors...
...possible canonization of POPE PIUS XII, which the Vatican has been investigating for over 25 years, is drawing fire from a Jewish leader. Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, says Pius XII (who reigned from 1939 to '58) was publicly silent during the Holocaust. Hier also says a letter he obtained from a Vatican official indicates that the nomination is moving forward. Father John Pawlikowski of the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago says outrage is premature: "The process is a long one, and any major decisions could be years away." Look for the issue to spark discussions...
...brings a passion for accuracy and considerable creativity to his personal and professional life. He has built two homes from the ground up, including his present one. A lecturer and the creator of maps for hundreds of books, Paul designed the wall-size maps for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, scheduled to open in Washington this spring. All that is not to mention the more than 1,000 maps he has done for TIME. Small wonder that his car sports customized license plates that read MAP ONE. "When I give lectures," Paul says, "people often ask, 'Aren't you afraid...
...Along with admirers, the Beit Hashoah already has critics. Muslim organizations charge that the museum ignores the plight of Palestinians. New York Times senior writer Judith Miller, author of One, by One, by One: Facing the Holocaust, accuses the museum of "vulgarization," noting that some Jewish scholars consider the "sound and light" approach disrespectful...