Paris Hilton has been receiving death threats from a crazed anti-Semite who apparently thinks she is Jewish, according to TMZ.
Paris Hilton’s father, Rick Hilton, has apparently also been allegedly named in the man’s Facebook posts. In fact, he seems to be trying to communicate with Rick Hilton, sending threats against Paris.
While the man’s name has not yet been released, TMZ reports that police know who he is and will make an arrest once they have confirmation from Facebook and Twitter of account ownership.
Some of the guy’s posts include things like:
“one month and she’s dead, she’s never coming home.”
“Invite [Paris] to the match so we can gang raper her ass hahahahahaha.”
“I’ll beat u and that bitch to unconscious.”
“KILL JEWS FOR FUN,”
“I know ur Jew family gives nothing”
Of course, the joke of all this — if it can be laughed about — is that the Hilton’s are not Jews. Conrad Hilton, founder of the Hilton Hotel empire, was born in the United States to a father from Norway and a mother of German Catholic descent. He grew up Catholic, and autobiography, Be My Guest, credits his Catholic faith with giving him his philanthropic outlook on life and wealth.
The Hilton Foundation alone gives millions every year. According to the Foundation website:
“In 2013, the Hilton Foundation awarded $92 million to organizations working to improve the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people throughout the world.”
This stands in sharp contrast with the threats against the Hiltons as ‘Jews who give nothing.’
Phil Robertson, the patriarch of A&E’s Duck Dynasty program, is very open and vocal about his beliefs. He famously caused a public stink when he told GQ magazine his views on gay people.
Now Phil Robertson and his son Alan are embarking on a real mission from God. They are out to convert the Jews to Jesus.
The Robertson’s are part of an event for the Messianic Jewish Bible Institute (MJBI), a group that works to bring Jews into a personal relationship with Jesus.
“Spend a fun filled evening with the Duck Commander himself, Phil Robertson, and other stars from the mega hit show, A&E’s Duck Dynasty. They’ll share heartwarming and hysterical stories about filming the show, what goes on behind the scenes, their lives, their faith, their family, and ducks. The event will be unscripted and unrehearsed, so who knows what tales of trials, tribulations and triumphs will be told! They’ll be joined by special musical guests who’ll provide their own special brand of toe tapping fun. Celebrate the simple. Laugh with us. Smile with us. Tap your toes with us. And as Phil says, get ‘HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY.’ ”
The event is slated for the Fort Worth Convention Center on November 1, 2014. The packages that can be purchased to attend the event range in prices from $100 to $10,000.
* One Premium banquet dinner table (table seats 10)
* Two individual passes for “10 minutes with Phil Robertson”
* Five photo passes with Phil Robertson (Limit 2 people per photo)
* Ten VIP seats to the arena event
* Five autographed copies of Phil Robertson’s book Happy, Happy, Happy
* One Duck Commander Duck Call
So what is this group about? Their website lists their vision and mission as follows:
“The vision of the MJBI is to bring Jewish people into a personal relationship of faith with Yeshua the Messiah, knowing their acceptance will eventually mean life from the dead (Romans 11:15).”
“The MJBI equips leaders who will establish Messianic Jewish congregations and ministries in Jewish communities worldwide. Additionally, the MJBI seeks to equip the Church in its responsibility to take the Good News to the Jew first (Romans 1:16). Like Paul, the MJBI helps educate Christians in their role to provoke the Jewish people to jealousy and thus save some of them (Romans 11:11-14).”
German Nazi investigators have identified 20 guards that served at the Majdanek death camp. They could face charges in Germany for being accessories to murder at the death camp.
Thomas Will, who is the lead investigator, said that 30 suspects were identified, but out of those 30, 10 had already died. The remaining 20 men and women all reside in Germany. More than 200 others are still under investigation, but their whereabouts have not yet been located.
Kurt Schrimm, the federal prosecutor, said that he will be turning the case over to state investigators in the coming weeks, so that they can pursue charges.
In 2011, John Demjanjuk became the first person to be convicted in Germany for being a death camp guard. There was no evidence that showed he was involved in the killing of people at the death camp. His case sparked the Majdanek investigation.
Demjanjuk died before his appeal, but his case caused the prosecutors to pursue charges against 30 other guards who served in Auschwitz.
Majdanek concentration camp was located near Lublin, and was established during the German occupation in Poland. Reports say that around 360,000 Jews were killed in the camp. Not all the guards who served at the camp are being investigated, since Majdanek was also a labor camp and some of the guards were not involved in genocide.
Prosecutors are now concentrating on the investigation of guards who were present at the time of the killings.
Schrimm stated that they will be announcing more suspects within the coming months. Head Nazi-hunter Efraim Zuroff is urging state prosecutors to give importance to new cases, since the suspects are old, and they want to move on with the case before they pass away. “We are very hopeful that the work will be expedited so as many people as possible can be brought to justice,” said Zuroff.
Israeli police mobilized at a sensitive holy site in Jerusalem Wednesday, employing tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse a riotous protest formed by Palestinian Muslims, who were attempting to block Jews from entering the compound.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said that the unruly mob threw stones and firecrackers from atop the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. To Muslims, The Temple Mount is known as the “Noble Sanctuary” and is regarded as Islam’s third-holiest site. Israel captured the compound along with the rest of east Jerusalem from Jordan during a 1967 war, and skirmishes still occur at the site.
Jews typically worship at the Western Wall, and while Israel allows them to climb the Temple Mount for visits, they aren’t permitted to pray at the site. The riot started when some Islamic worshippers barricaded themselves inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque to “defend” the site from Jewish groups, according to Sheikh Azzam Tamimi, head of the Waqf, the Islamic authority that manages the Temple Mount. Jewish pilgrimages at times foster rumors that Israel is planning to take over the site.
Here is some raw footage of the situation in Jerusalem as it escalated:
Tamimi commented that roughly 30 people suffered from tear gas inhalation or had been hit by rubber-coated bullets, though none of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening.
Jews historically gather at the Western Wall during the Passover holiday, and police restricted access to the adjacent Temple Mount after Wednesday’s clash. Jews see the compound as the site where the two biblical Jewish Temples stood, and believe that one day a third Temple will be constructed. Muslims on the other hand believe that the golden dome of the shrine, called Dome of the Rock, holds the rock where the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven. The site has been the center of religious and territorial conflict between Israel and its surrounding Arab neighbors.
Tensions in the area had already been rising due to the recent shooting of an Israeli police officer who was en route to celebrate the Passover holiday with his family in the West Bank.
Since January, a vandal has been making the rounds, ripping pages out of Anne Frank books in libraries across Tokyo, Japan.
Police investigators have counted a total of 265 damaged books.
One of the most renowned, historical books of the Holocaust victim includes The Diary of a Young Girl, which details a firsthand account of Anne Frank’s experience.
Evidence has shown that dozen of pages were ripped out of the book. Investigators believe that the books may have been searched in the librarian database.
One library has now relocated their copies in a safe area behind the counter of the checkout area.
There is reportedly no motive behind the vandalism, or is there?(image)
The Associated Press implied that the former relationship between Germany and Japan could be the reason why the “paper-reaper” is targeting Anne Frank literature.
Japan and Nazi Germany were allies in World War II, and though Holocaust denial has occurred in Japan at times, the motive for damaging the Anne Frank books is unclear.
According to BBC News, Japan has no history of anti-Semitism. Associate Dean Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which is a Jewish rights organization, believes otherwise.
“The geographic scope of these incidents strongly suggest an organized effort to denigrate the memory of the most famous of the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis in the World War Two Holocaust,” he told BBC.
Literature about Anne Frank has been popular among the Japanese community for years. Historians from Israel have confirmed that young adults in Japan are more receptive towards the Anne Frank story than any other age group.
The The Diary of a Young Girl was first translated in 1952 and became a bestseller in Japan a year later. The country reportedly ranks second to the United States the number of copies sold.
On June 14, 1940, the first Jewish prisoners were transported to Auschwitz, a concentration camp constructed by the Nazis. As these 20 Jews, along with 708 other prisoners, walked through the entrance gates of the facility, they were greeted by the sign, “Work brings freedom.” Little did they know that such an expression would come to fruition some 5 years later as the prisoners were liberated by the Allied forces on January 27, 1945.
To commemorate the 69th anniversary of this momentous occasion, 55 members of Israel’s Knesset (parliament) visited Auschwitz yesterday, a day marked as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. While Auschwitz was not the only Nazi concentration camp, some 1.5 million people died at the camp, 90% of those being Jews; in all, approximately 1 in 6 Jews who died during the Holocaust met their fate at Auschwitz.
The trip by the Knesset was the largest trip ever made outside of the country by the Israeli legislature. The government officials were joined on their trip by 20 survivors of the camp, each of whom laid a wreath by the execution wall as they toured the facility.
For the survivors, the trip was a chance to remember those who were not fortunate enough to escape the confines. Jacek Zieliniewicz, an 87 year old survivor of Auschwitz, stated that he visits the site every year and “remembers those one lost here: friends, acquaintances and strangers too.” Another survivor, Noah Klieger, visits Auschwitz to remind himself of a bigger message: “Today, 69 years after we left this hell called Auschwitz, we are here again as proud people, as proud citizens of the new Jewish state that rose out of the ruins of European Jewry.”
For politicians, the trip was a chance to remind themselves and others of the dangers presented by mankind: “Walking here, on this soil soaked with blood of our brothers and sisters, we must assure our children and future generations that a different world, full of hope and free of fear can be built,” stated Israeli coalition leader Yariv Levin. Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog would add that future generations of Jews must create “a different world, a hopeful future, a world without fear where a Jew will be safe in any and every place… If we lose the hope to build a new world, then we give in to Auschwitz.”
When politicians attended a remembrance session in Krakow Monday afternoon, they were left with words of wisdom from Polish author Zofia Nalkowska’s book Medallions, written in 1946: “Man has condemned men to this fate. This is true. And therefore only a man can save other men from such fate. This is the ultimate lesson of Auschwitz.”
For most Americans, Hanukkah is the Jewish equivalent of the Christian Christmas. It makes sense, right? Hanukkah usually falls around the same time as Christmas, presents are exchanged during each, there are certain dietary requirements/needs/wants…
What most Americans don’t realize, though, is that Hanukkah has no associations with Christmas. Hanukkah is a celebration of the Maccabees revolt against the Greeks in the 2nd century B.C., an event which liberated the Jews from oppression for the first time in many years. In fact, Boston marketing specialist, Dana Gitell, believes that there are great parallels between the story of the Jews and the Pilgrims: “There are amazing similarities between the Pilgrims’ quest for religious freedom and what the Maccabees were fighting for. This a great opportunity for Jewish Americans to celebrate this country and for everyone to acknowledge the greatness of our shared religious freedoms.”
This is the first time the two holidays have fallen on the same date since 1888 (at least since Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday), and it may be the last time this mash-up happens until the year 79,043, according to astrophysics researchers.
The reason for the discrepancy in the date of Hanukkah has to do with the fact that the Hebrew calendar is different than the Gregorian calendar. The Gregorian calendar is solar-based, and so we add one day every 4 years to make up with the revolutionary discrepancies. The Hebrew calendar, however, is lunar-based. As such, every calendar year has 12 months of 29 or 30 days. This results in an extra month being added to the calendar in 7 of every 19 years. Jews follow a lunar calendar to ensure that their seasonal feasts are always seasonally appropriate.
Thanksgivukkah has shown much promise thus far. The unique collision of cultures has brought the creative spirit back to the holidays, and many people are taking advantage of the once in a lifetime business and culinary opportunities.
A 9 year old boy in New York has invented the Menurkey, a turkey-shaped Menorah. T-shirts in a mock-Woodstock fashion have been crafted which feature a turkey on a guitar-menorah and the phrase “8 Days of Light, Liberty, and Latkes.” There has even been a song produced entitled “The Ballad of Thanksgivukkah.”
Thanksgivukkah also presents opportunities for all the foodies here in the United States. BuzzFeed pulled its staff together to create their own version of a Thanksgivukkah feast, the most appealing item perhaps being the sweet potato bourbon noodle kugel (it’s even fun to say, dammit).
Kutsher’s Tribeca, a modern Jewish-American bistro, is taking full-advantage of an opportunity which seems to be created just for them. The restaurant has created a full three-course Thanksgiving dinner, which includes such items as sweet potato latkes topped with melted marshmallows, a Jewish donut filled with Cranberry sauce, and a turkey with a chocolate mole sauce created from Hanukkah gelt.
All of these amazingly ingenious cultural mash-ups makes one wonder what other holiday combinations could create such magical results: Chrisdepedence Day, where we light fireworks instead of stringing Christmas lights? Or perhaps Hallotine’s Day, where people in relationships give candy to those lonely souls in the world? Let us know your thoughts in the Comment section below.
A seminal Pink Floyd album, The Wall, was released in late 1979 – almost 34 years ago. Since then, maybe long before then, Floyd fans have laughed at all the straights and their misunderstanding of the contents of the album, as well as their completely missing the point of the band in the first place.
As if it still needed to be said, Pink Floyd is not a person. It is a band. The guys poked fun at that misunderstanding in their song “Have a Cigar”, in which a record executive asks, “Oh, by the way, which one’s Pink?” But they took it even further by naming the protagonist of The Wall concept album “Pink”, further confusing parents.
And it is Pink as a character, and all his stressed and drugged-out foibles, that is confusing people once again, 34 years later.
At a recent concert by Roger Waters, the former bassist/vocalist for Pink Floyd, and the man who wrote most of The Wall material, a huge prop pig was flown over the audience. The flying pig has been a staple of Pink Floyd and Waters shows ever since the Animals album, which predates The Wall. Waters occasionally has other symbols and messages put on the pig, including anti-consumerism and anti-corporatism messages.
At this particular show in Belgium, one Jewish man saw the pig, and noticed on it, among other symbols, a Star of David, the long-held symbol of Judaism. He was quite offended, as one blogger relayed.
“I came to the concert because I really like his music, without any connection to his political stance toward Israel,” says Alon Onfus Asif, an Israeli living in Belgium. “And I had a lot of fun, until I noticed the Star of David, on the inflatable pig. That was the only religious-national symbol which appeared among other symbols for fascism, dictatorships and oppression of people. Waters crossed the line and gave expression to an anti-Semitic message, beyond all his messages of anti-militancy.”
Since Asif’s statement, one rabbi has come out accusing Waters of anti-Semitism, saying, “With this disgusting display Roger Waters has made it crystal clear. Forget Israel, never mind ‘limited boycotts promoting Middle East Peace.’ Waters is an open hater of Jews.”
If Asif had been listening, he would have heard Waters singing about a man, Pink, who was in the throes of a breakdown that made him hallucinate that he was a militant leader, akin to a Hitler character. He would have heard quotes attributed to this unstable man, such as:
“Are there any queers in the theater tonight?
Get ’em up against The Wall
There’s one in the spotlight he don’t look right to me
Get him up against The Wall
That one looks Jewish
And that one’s a coon
Who let all this riffraff into the room?”
Roger Waters himself is avowedly anti-militant. The album that immediately followed The Wall, called The Final Cut, was about his disgust with Margaret Thatcher’s military moves in the Falklands. Parts of both albums are about Waters’ father, who had been killed in World War II fighting Nazis.
In short, all these people offended by a pig with a Star of David on it have missed the point. It’s about a character, a man no one would consider stable. He is not a hero. And he falls in the end. If Mr. Asif and the rest of the Anti-defamation folk really did “like his music”, or could even use Google, they would know better.
Holocaust victims around the globe will be receiving funds from Germany after an agreement was reached between Germany’s Ministry of Finance and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims.
While the money won’t erase the horror of what was done to the Jewish people during the Holocaust, it will certainly help those who survived usher in their later years a little more comfortably. Over the next four years, an estimated $1 billion will be spent giving the victims home nursing and social services, medication, clothing, and food.
“We are seeing Germany’s continued commitment to fulfill its historic obligation to Nazi victims,” Stuart Eizenstat, a former United States ambassador and Claims Conference negotiator said. “This ensures that Holocaust survivors, now in their final years, can be confident that we are endeavoring to help them live in dignity, after their early life was filled with indescribable tragedy and trauma. This is all the more impressive since it comes at a time of budget austerity in Germany.”
The ministry said it would also pay a monthly stipend to Jews who survived concentration camps or who lived in hiding under the Nazi regime. As of now, over one third of those receiving restitution are living in Israel.
Over 6 million Jews were murdered under Hitler’s orders.
