Bringing new meaning to the expression “A day late and a dollar short”:
Hitler may be stripped of German citizenship, reports Spiegel International Online. However:
Lawyers have their doubts as to whether a dead man can be stripped of his citizenship at all… “Dead is dead,” commented an official from Lower Saxony’s Ministry of Justice. “There’s nothing more you can take away from them.”
How an ancient ritual has been reimagined for a variety of new purposes.
The site where hundreds of Jews held out against a Roman siege has become a modern symbol of Jewish heroism.
The grave of this second century rabbi is the site of a large annual pilgrimage.