Publisher Lord Weidenfeld, who is Jewish, is spending a fair portion of his fortune rescuing Christian refugees from ISIS. Born in Vienna, he was fed and clothed and helped to reach Britain to escape the Nazis shortly before the Second World War by Quakers and Plymouth Brethren. "I had a debt to repay," he said.
"The primary objective," he told the Times, "is to bring the Christians to safe havens. ISIS is unprecedented in its primitive savagery compared with the more sophisticated Nazis. When it comes to pure lust for horror and sadism, they are unprecedented."
A chartered plane has already flown 150 Syrian Christians to a new life in Poland. They will be supported with living costs until they are settled. With the help of other Jewish philanthropists, Lord Weidenfeld, who is 96, hopes to have up to 2,000 Christians airlifted from war zones in the next 12 to 18 months.
Lord Weidenfeld has been criticised in certain quarters for rescuing Christians and not Muslims. To ensure Britain is taking genuine refugees and not economic migrants purely seeking a better life, Prime Minister David Cameron is taking refugees direct from refugee camps, but, in common with the UN and the EU, without reference to their religion. Christians often do not go to refugee camps for fear of intimidation by the Muslim majority, but prefer to congregate in church halls, meaning they would otherwise again miss out.
Marty Goetz is an American. He's a musician: a pianist, singer and songwriter. He's also Jewish - so Jewish you would find it difficult to imagine how he could be any more Jewish.
He grew up in an area where 90 per cent of the people were Jewish. If he moved out of the area, his mother would warn him: "there are antisemites out there." He had to move out of the area, however, to complete his education.
As a young man, he formed a musical act with a Methodist called Bert. The trouble began when Bert went to another church and was born again. From then on, he preached about Jesus to Marty, which made Marty very angry and very frustrated, because Jews don't believe in Jesus.
What happened after that you can hear in Marty's own words in this video here.
If you would like to hear some of his music, try here.
Enjoy!
