I read about a woman in Bangladesh. The only thing she owns is the sari she is wearing. She has a son who is a drug addict and because the aid agencies classify her as having an able bodied family member—his addiction and his absence are not factored in in the way they evaluate the…

A short while ago, in an attempt to fight anti-Semitism and be a cultural bridge, a delegation of some 150 Muslim dignitaries went to Auschwitz to pay tribute to the millions of Jews and others who were killed there. The delegation which included people from Morocco, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq also had rabbis, Holocaust survivors,…

Jamel in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is a rural village in northeastern Germany, once part of Eastern Germany where being right-wing is the norm. A neo-Nazi leader, Sven Kruger, has become a de-facto village elder. Anyone who doesn’t share the right’s view is shunned, criticized or harassed in a number of ways. Horst and Birgit Lohmeyer bought…