On July 25 afternoon 11 tourists were crossing the Baaspa river in a rather remote part of Kinnaur region in Himachal Pradesh, on Saangla Chhitkul route, when warning shouts were heard from people from a distance. However the driver of the tempo traveler was busy negotiating the river bridge and did not hear the warning […]
Posts Tagged ‘tragedy’
The Horrific Tragedy of Ethnic Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia
SUDETEN GERMAN INFERNO THE HUSHED-UP TRAGEDY OF THE ETHNIC GERMANS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA Ingomar Pust Original edition: Schreie aus der Hölle ungehört. Das totgeschwiegene Drama der Sudetendeutschen. Sersheim: Hartmann-Verlag, 1998. Translated by Victor Diodon Note: The following synopsis contains graphic accounts of sadistic torture and murder of innocent German civilians and military personnel which resulted from […]
B’nai B’rith ‘Outraged’ IDF Called Out For Cynically Exploiting Surfside Tragedy To Whitewash Gaza Slaughter
B’nai B’rith International — one of the most powerful Jewish supremacist, pro-Zionist groups in the world — has expressed disingenuous “outrage” after some public figures openly questioned the sincerity of the help provided by the Israeli Defense Force rescue squads during the disaster in Surfside, Florida: Anti-Israel activists took to social media to accuse the […]
The Tragedy of the US Army
The current state of the US Armed Forces is raising sincere concern among numerous American experts. And it is not because the US military lacks arms, money, or the opportunity to “practice” during the numerous military conflicts unleashed by the US around the world or provocative “exercises” staged in close proximity to the borders of […]
Cable car tragedy in Italy, Belarus activist arrest, this year’s biggest supermoon| In pictures
This week, police in northern Italy arrested three people over the cable car disaster that killed 14 people. Some EU leaders accused Minsk of hijacking a European flight to arrest Belarus opposition activist and journalist Roman Protasevich. The full moon on Wednesday was this year’s biggest “supermoon” and featured the first total lunar eclipse in […]
Covid tragedy unfolds in Jharkhand
Photo: PTI Dumka, Jharkhand: ‘I am completely alone’, says Asha worker Jayshree Marandi sadly. ‘He would have helped me in the care and education of the children, but Covid-19 snatched him from me.’ Jayshree Marandi is talking about her husband, whom the pandemic swallowed. Jayshree remembers how he used to take her from village-to-village while […]
Meron tragedy impacts world’s Jewish communities’ mental health
The global impact of the tragedy in Meron, the most devastating civilian disaster in Israel’s modern history, is like few tragedies in recent memory – and Jewish communities around the world are requesting increased mental health support to overcome the trauma. “In today’s interconnected world, where the images, videos and stories are broadcast around the […]
Note to Benny Morris: The Armenian ‘tragedy’ was a genocide
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New Legislation Needed to Prevent Another Meron Tragedy, Experts Say
(The Media Line) New legislation requiring crowd management at mass gatherings could prevent a tragedy similar to the one at Mount Meron from recurring, crowd control experts say. Some 45 people were killed and an additional 150 injured during a crowd crush at the annual Lag b’Omer celebrations at Mount Meron in northern Israel. More […]
Jewish principals struggle to celebrate Lag Ba’omer amid Meron tragedy
After months of distanced learning, Sharon Levin was excited for her school to celebrate Lag b’Omer together on Friday with a day of outdoor activities. The spring holiday, which is popular among students at Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy near Philadelphia, was to include a picnic, a bonfire and a mini-color war, or tournament where […]
Statement on tragedy at Meron
The Executive and staff of the Zionist Federation of Australia are deeply affected by the tragic events in Mount Meron. ZFA President Jeremy Leibler said, “This news is simply terrible. Our hearts go out to the dozens of family who will spend this Shabbat in deepest mourning. May the Almighty comfort them among the mourners […]
The Tragedy of Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on as he arrives to a hearing in his corruption trial at Jerusalem’s District Court February 8, 2021. Photo: Reuben Castro/Pool via REUTERS The ancient Greeks who invented the tragedy based it, in many ways, on an idea first articulated by the philosopher Heraclitus: ethos anthropo daimon — character […]
Scotland’s Great Tragedy: The Bloody Battle of Flodden
Throughout history, grand battles were often deemed necessary when ambitious nations were forming. They served as a crucible on which an identity of a people was forged and preserved. The history of both England and Scotland is filled with countless battles, standing as a testament to their tenacity and will for independence. The grandiose Battle of Flodden, […]
RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR: TRAGEDY FOR PEOPLE, CHANCE FOR ELITES
10.04.2021 South Front Illustrative Image Against the backdrop of ongoing political provocations and bellicose rhetoric from all parties involved in the conflict in Eastern Ukraine, military escalation is constantly growing. Local forces, as well as the OSCE observers, report about more and more ceasefire violations in the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics. There are daily […]
Train crash kills 48 in Taiwan’s deadliest rail tragedy in decades
A Taiwan express train with almost 500 aboard derailed in a tunnel on Friday, killing at least 48 passengers and injuring 66 on the island’s worst rail disaster in almost four decades.Images from the scene showed carriages in the tunnel ripped apart by the impact, with others crumpled, hindering rescuers in their efforts to reach […]
If Tragedy Had A Face – Lest we forget
Karl Marx had once remarked, “Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways. But the point however is to change it.” Although, the following narrative which I am going to pen has only one interpretation. The triumph of human will in extreme moments of crisis and the immense possibility that one is capable of churning […]
Amos Oz: A Posthumous Tragedy
Long before I became a rabbi and a scholar, my first encounter with mystical texts was through the early prose of Amos Oz. It included seminal and soul-stirring stories such as “Unto Death,” a mystical story about the Crusades; “Late Love,” a riveting tale about cosmic longings and universal solitude; and “Touch the Water, Touch […]
Did Climate Change Cause The Uttarakhand Tragedy?
The rescue operations for the tragic glacier burst which killed 11 and triggered massive flooding in Dhauliganga and Alaknanda Rivers in Uttarakhand causing grave damage to houses and the nearby Rishiganga power project is still underway. Reportedly, over 203 people went missing after the tragedy. As per the latest reports, the rescue teams have been […]
Yiddish performance tragedy: Why it’s illegal to yell ‘fire!’ in theater
Former President Trump’s impeachment defense team intends to argue that his infamous Jan. 6 speech, in which he exhorted his followers to “fight like hell” and march “to the Capitol,” was permitted by his First Amendment rights to free speech. Political opponents are already calling reference to the well-known Supreme Court decision (Schenck v. United States, […]
The tragedy for haredim from COVID has created a crisis for Judaism itself
Browse > Home / Featured Articles / The tragedy for haredim from COVID has created a crisis for Judaism itself January 29, 2021 by Melanie Phillips – JNS.org Read on for article The mayor of Antwerp, the Belgian city that is home to about 15,000 ultra-Orthodox haredi Jews, has warned that their failure to comply […]