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http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-geopolitical-implications-of-conflict-in-ukraine-a-954724.html

20 Thursday Feb 2014

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http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-geopolitical-implications-of-conflict-in-ukraine-a-954724.html

The quote printed in SPIEGEL 33 years ago was a noteworthy one, and still sounds remarkably topical: “We have to ensure that this Soviet empire, when it breaks apart due to its internal contradictions, does so with a whimper rather than a bang.” The sentence was spoken by US Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger during an interview conducted in September of 1981.

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http://www.dw.de/women-join-the-kurdish-fight-in-syria/a-17442218

20 Thursday Feb 2014

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http://www.dw.de/women-join-the-kurdish-fight-in-syria/a-17442218

But now, for the first time, Syrian Kurds – above all the women – have the opportunity to shape their own lives. Women make up 35 percent of the 45,000 fighters. “Women used to be suppressed and exploited in our society, and regarded as inferior by the men,” Canda says. “Now we have the chance to be role models for Kurds and for other ethnicities – for instance, for Arab women.”

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http://www.jta.org/2014/02/20/news-opinion/world/hungary-postpones-controversial-monuments-unveiling

20 Thursday Feb 2014

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http://www.jta.org/2014/02/20/news-opinion/world/hungary-postpones-controversial-monuments-unveiling

But on Wednesday, a government spokesperson said the ceremony had been postponed to May 31, according to the French news agency AFP. The  monument also will be “dedicated to the memory of the victims of German occupation,” a statement by the Hungarian abinet said.

Hungary’s Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities, or Mazsihisz, said earlier this month that it would boycott the ceremony.

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http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2014/02/18/hungarian-rabbi-finds-103-torah-scrolls-stolen-during-ww2-in-russian-library/

18 Tuesday Feb 2014

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http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2014/02/18/hungarian-rabbi-finds-103-torah-scrolls-stolen-during-ww2-in-russian-library/

A Hungarian rabbi said on Tuesday he had uncovered 103 Torah scrolls stolen from Hungarian Jews during World War Two and stashed in a Russian library, adding he planned to restore and return them to the Jewish community.

Slomo Koves, chief rabbi of the Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregation, said he had found the scrolls while following up a previous recovery of Hungarian war loot in the Lenin Scientific Library in Nizhny Novgorod, 400 km (240 miles) east of Moscow.