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A call for a boycott of Israeli products sold at Trader Joe's has backfired. Organizers of the "Don't Buy into Apartheid Day," also known as "Day of Deshelving Israeli Products," sent a letter to Trader Joe's asking them not to sell Israeli products, such as hummus and couscous, in their stores on June 20. More ... New European Union rules to make slaughtering animals more humane also recognized the validity of religious slaughter methods. EU farm ministers agreed to tighten the rules on slaughter to minimize the animals' suffering. The new regulations allow kosher meat to be traded and sold freely in every EU member state. More ... Descendants of German composer Richard Wagner announced plans to have independent historians research the family archives. Katharina Wagner, a great-granddaughter of Hitler's beloved composer, and now head of the annual Bayreuth Wagner Festival together with her older sister, Eva, told the Welt Online newspaper that it was important to lay bare the family's Nazi past. More ... About 50 young Jewish and Catholic leaders gathered near Rome at a conference sponsored by Vatican and Jewish interfaith bodies. More ... Richard Nixon and the Rev. Billy Graham believed Jewish opposition to Christian evangelism efforts would foster antisemitism. "Deep down in this country there is a lot of antisemitism. All this is going to do is stir it up," said the former president in a Feb. 21, 1973 phone conversation with Graham, a leading evangelist. More ... |
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