It can be supposed that Shimon Peres was trying his hand at nice guy politics, but still, there is a reality gap of credulity at some point here. The Russians have been trying to make nice lately, but unfortunately there is too much water under the bridge, or too many jews under the buses. However, it also implies that the world has evolved enormously that a state like Russia would endeavor to seek closer ties with Israel, something that would have been science fiction only a short time ago,a time that could be characterized as long periods of boredom and trepidation punctuated by brief flashes of terror and death.Turn the page time? …
(see link at end)…Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky on Tuesday criticized President Shimon Peres for thanking the Russian people for “a thousand years of hospitality.” Centuries of discriminatory laws and pogroms clearly showed that the country was not always the most welcoming place for Jews, Sharansky noted.
—Móyshe Shagáll, Chagall was born on July 7, 1887 in Liozno, near Vitebsk, Russia (now Belarus). As a child, he showed promise as an artist and in 1907, after moving to St. Petersburg, he studied at the Imperial School of Fine Arts, and privately under Russian artist Léon Bakst at the Zvantseva School of Drawing and Painting.
After gaining some success in St. Petersburg, Chagall moved to Paris in 1910 and would spend most of his life there.—Read More:http://www.dailyartfixx.com/tag/marc-chagall/
“I really don’t understand what this means,” said Sharansky — who was born in the former USSR and spent years in a Soviet prison fighting for his right to immigrate to Israel — in response to Peres’s comments, which were made during a visit to Moscow last week. “For several hundred years, the Jews weren’t allowed to enter Russia, and after that there were 300 years during which a thousand anti-Jews laws were published. I have a book of a thousand laws against the Jews that were passed in Russia. And I am not even talking about pogroms,” he told Israel Radio.
“Why did world Jewry have to fight to liberate the Jews from the Soviet Union, if there was such great hospitality?” Sharansky added.
—Times may change, but no one likes change. This story of a Jewish family in a tiny Russian village in 1905 trying to remain true to their traditions while coping with an ever changing world offers something for everyone. Many of the Jewish customs and traditions they hold true may be foreign to non-Jewish audiences. But everyone can relate to the frustration and resistance they experience as the world evolves around them.—Read More:http://notesfromhollywood.com/profiles/blogs/fiddling-up-a-delight-fiddler
On Thursday, Peres attended the inauguration of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow and spoke very warmly about Russia’s treatment of the Jews. Read More:http://www.timesofisrael.com/sharansky-rails-against-peres-for-thanking-russia-for-thousand-years-of-hospitality/
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