"Lily's Room"

This is an article collection between June 2007 and December 2018. Sometimes I add some recent articles too.

Entries from 2014-04-01 to 1 month

Britain as a Christian nation

I personally think it a favourable tendency, given the fact that Great Britain has produced so many excellent Christian literatures and a prominent tradition in the 19th and 20th centuries. (Lily) 1. Telegraph(http://www.telegraph.co.uk)…

Anti-Semitism and Italian Jews

Tablet (http://www.tabletmag.com) Amid Rising Anti-Semitism in Western Europe, Italian Jews Are Staging a Surprising Revival, 25 April 2014 A strong communal response to a terrorist attack in the 1980s seeded a new generation of dynamic le…

Was Eva Braun Jewish?

Tablet(http://www.tabletmag.com) Was Eva Braun Jewish? A new documentary says Hitler’s wife may have had Jewish ancestry, 7 April 2014 by Stephanie Butnick The ultimate irony, as far as Hitler and Jews go, would probably be if his longti…

Anti-Semitism news

Algemeiner (http://www.algemeiner.com) (1) Passover, Anti-Semitism, and Rising Above Hate , 11 April 2014 In 419 BCE, the Persian king Darius issued a decree concerning the Jewish garrison at Elephantine on the Nile Delta (near the catarac…

Taking up citizenship

Tablet (http://www.tabletmag.com) How It Feels For a Jew To Become German, 23 April 2014 The granddaughter of Holocaust survivors reflects on taking up citizenship by Naomi LaChance My mother was teary-eyed when the woman at the consulate …

Noah film was banned in M’sia

“Times of India”(http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com) Malaysia bans Noah film as ‘un-Islamic’, 5 April 2014 KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has joined other Islamic countries in banning the Hollywood biblical epic "Noah" starring Russell Crowe, de…

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Female First (http://www.femalefirst.co.uk) Exclusive interview with Simon Sebag Montefiore, 1 April 2014 by Lucy Walton One Night in Winter above all is a love story but it’s also a thriller and is set in Moscow in 1945 capturing what it …

Book lists by Dr. Martin Kramer

Martin Kramer (1)(http://www.martinkramer.org) Six greatest stories ever told about the Middle East by Martin Kramer in Sandbox on 31 March 2014 1. Arabia of Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence (1926). I rather like Charle…

The President of the BSM

Mr. Lee Min Choon is a laywer and has been working for the issue below for a long time. I was taught his name for the first time by Rev. Dr. Hermen Shastri when I visited the former office of the Council of Churches of Malaysia in Petaling…

Today is not April Fool’s Day

Malaysia MSN(http://news.malaysia.msn.com) The Malaysian Insider Probe into Bible seizure to be completed soon, says Selangor MB, 31 March 2014 The investigation into the seizure early this year of copies of the Bible from the offices of t…