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| November 29, 2013
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Video of sucker-punch: New York Jews attacked in violent ‘knockout’ attacks

The latest violent attack on a random Jew came Monday, when a 72 yr-old Russian-speaking woman was punched in her Brooklyn neighborhood.

By JTA

 

NEW YORK — Chava, a student at a Chabad seminary, has lived in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn for six years, but it’s only in the past few days that she started carrying pepper spray in her handbag.

Her younger brother gave her the deterrent after news hit of a string of recent attacks against Orthodox Jews, seven of them in Crown Heights.

The assaults, believed to be part of a national wave of so-called “knockout game” attacks in which black teens punch random white strangers for sport, are unnerving Jews in the racially mixed neighborhood still haunted by the days of rioting there in 1991. Continue Reading »

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| November 28, 2013
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In Chanukah message to Jews & Israelis Obama invokes ‘Thanksgivukkah’

Like the Pilgrims, the Maccabees ‘made tremendous sacrifices so they could practice their religion in peace’ commented President Obama.

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The spirit of “Thanksgivukkah” has become so pervasive that even U.S. President Barack Obama decided to get in on the fun in a holiday message.

Hanukkah at the White House, Obama, 2010

Barack and Michelle Obama take part in the Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony, 2010. – Photo by The White House

On the evening of the lighting of the first candle of Hanukkah Wednesday night, the U.S. leader sent “warm wishes to all those celebrating Hanukkah” in a statement from the White House, and made note of the unique convergence of the American celebration with the Jewish festival. Continue Reading »

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| November 27, 2013
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Tug-of-war over American commitment to return Jewish archives to Iraq

 

Iraqi Jews claim materials were forcibly taken from them & should be returned to owners or descendants….not Iraq.

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Jewish books and documents found by U.S. soldiers in the flooded headquarters of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and sent to the United States for restoration have touched off a dispute between Baghdad and Iraqi Jews who fled the country.

A Passover Haggadah from Vienna, 1930

A Passover Haggadah from Vienna, 1930 is pictured after treatment in this undated handout photo from the National Archives obtained by Reuters November 26, 2013.- Photo: Reuters

After a $3 million restoration, the collection has been put on display at the Washington-based National Archives. Continue Reading »

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| November 27, 2013
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Palestinian Incitement: Al Aqsa Mosque Preacher Says ‘Put the Jews to the Sword’

 

Leading Palestinian cleric uses Temple Mount for incitement in his sermon for continuous war against, and the slaughter of the Jews.

By Israel Today Staff

 

 

Unbelievably, Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, is still used today, even under Israeli control, as a platform from which to incite jihad against the Jewish state.

Kill JewsLast Friday, Palestinian Authority (PA) religious leader Sheikh Omar Abu Sara’a delivered a sermon at the Al Aqsa Mosque in which he lambasted the PA for being so weak as to actually negotiate with the Jews.

Sara’a noted that Islam’s Prophet Mohammed urged his followers to “fight” the Jews, not treat with them. Continue Reading »

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| November 26, 2013
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Jewish immigration from France to Israel up by 49%

French Jewish immigration to Israel has increased by 49% in the first 9 months of 2013 compared to last year.

By JTA

 

Through September, 2,185 French Jews have immigrated to Israel, compared to 1,469 immigrants during the same time frame in 2012, according to Jewish Agency for Israel figures. The number of immigrants who arrived from France to Israel during the whole of 2012 was 1,907.

New Immigrants – Photo courtesy: Nefesh B’Nefesh

On average, Jewish immigration to Israel from the rest of the world under the  Law of Return showed an increase of 1 percent during the first nine months of 2013.

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| November 25, 2013
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Norwegian gov’t official: Muslims and Jews circumcise out of ignorance

Norwegian gov’t’s child welfare adviser says minorities’ parents would shy away from  circumcision if they knew pain, risk & lack of health benefits involved.

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The Norwegian government’s child welfare adviser said Jews and Muslims would stop circumcising children if they learn more about the risks and pain that the ‘procedure involves.

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A Jewish circumcision ceremony. – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

“With good information about risk, pain and lack of health benefits of the intervention, I think parents from minorities would voluntarily abstain from circumcising children,” Anne Lindboe, Norway’s Children’s Ombudsmen, told the Norwegian Aftenpost daily last week.

Lindboe, who last year advised Jews and Muslims to replace circumcision with “a symbolic ritual,” also told the paper that non-medical circumcision of pre-teen boys should be outlawed and those performing it should be punished similarly to people who use violence against children. Continue Reading »

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| November 25, 2013
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Awareness campaign opens 4 investigations into Nazi war criminals in Germany

Operation Last Chance will bring aging war criminals to justice.

The response to the ad campaign — with the slogan “Late but not too late” proves that the poster struck a very strong nerve in German society.

By JTA

 

BERLIN — At least four investigations of possible Nazi-era war criminals have been turned over to German investigators in recent months.

Operation Last Chance Poster: Late, but not too late

Operation Last Chance Poster: Late, but not too late

The alleged Nazi war criminals were identified following an awareness campaign by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

“Operation Last Chance II,” launched in 2011 and expanded Monday with a new poster campaign, has yielded hundreds of calls and emails from around the world, said Efraim Zuroff, the organization’s chief Nazi
hunter.

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| November 25, 2013
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Victim of Looted Nazi Art: Authority’s Handling is ‘Scandalous’

Interview reveals Germany refuses to return all the looted works, publicize what was found or maintain transparency.

By AFP and Arutz Sheva Staff

 

A granddaughter of German painter Otto Dix, a few of whose works were discovered in the vast trove of Nazi-looted art stashed in a Munich flat, has called Germany’s approach to the Third Reich’s spoils “scandalous,” AFP reports.

Stolen artwork seized by Nazis – Photo: Reuters

“Germany, generally speaking, has never really addressed the issue of works of art seized by the Nazis. It should have done that much earlier, soon after the war,” Nana Dix told AFP in a telephone interview from her Munich home.  Continue Reading »

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| November 24, 2013
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Man charged in Brooklyn with assaulting Jew in local ‘Knockout Game’

 

Amrit Marajh, not charged with a hate crime, was released on just $750 bail.

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A man accused of participating in the “Knockout Game” was charged with assaulting an Orthodox Jewish man in Brooklyn.

NYPD police vans in New York City’s Times Square.

NYPD police vans in New York City’s Times Square. – Photo: AP

Amrit Marajh of Brooklyn was arraigned on Saturday and released on $750 bail. He is charged with misdemeanor assault and harassment. He was not charged with a hate crime, according to the New York Times.

The attack reportedly occurred early Friday morning, when the 24-year-old Orthodox man says he was boxed in by a group of men and punched out by one of them. Continue Reading »

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| November 24, 2013
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More European Jews Consider Emigrating Their Families to Israel

 

Each year, the surveys continue to show rising anti-Semitism in most of Europe, causing the local Jews to live in growing fear.

By Miriam Kuhlmann

 

Many European Jews no longer feel safe in their home countries. This is evident from a recent survey conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.

A Jewish gravestone is desecrated with Nazi symbols

A Jewish gravestone is desecrated with Nazi symbols at a cemetery in Dortmund, Germany, – Photo: AP

On average, 76 percent of Jews surveyed across the continent reported a rise in anti-Semitism in recent years, and 29 percent said they are considering emigrating to Israel as a result. Continue Reading »

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| November 23, 2013
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UN hosts 1st conference on Jewish refugees exiled from Arab countries

Israel is compiling a list of assets left behind by Jewish refugees, minister Silvan Shalom tells U.N. conference, “We hear a lot about the plight of Arab refugees, but we do not hear a word about 900,000 Jewish refugees from Arab countries,” 

By Mati Tuchfeld

After decades of discussing Arab claims for refugees from territories that are today Israel, the U.N. on Thursday held discussions on the plight of Jewish refugees from Arab countries following the inception of the State of Israel.

Israeli minister Silvan Shalom and heads of organizations in Syria, Egypt and Iran – Photo: Shahar Azran

The Justice for Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries Conference was held at the U.N.

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| November 23, 2013
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Publisher Fined $10K by French Court for 5 Anti-Semitic books

Publisher of Henry Ford’s “The International Jew” and “The Anthology of Quotes against Jews, Judaism and Zionism” by Paul-Eric Blanrue fined over $10K for “incitement to racial hatred” and “denials of genocide”.

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Citing anti-Semitic content, a French court sanctioned a publishing house for five books, including one first printed more than a century ago.

Far Right Winger Paul-Eric Blanrue

Far Right Winger Paul-Eric Blanrue – Sceenshot

The court in Bobigny, near Paris, last week handed down a blanket ban on the publication and dissemination of one book, “The Anthology of Quotes against Jews, Judaism and Zionism” by Paul-Eric Blanrue.

The court said the book contained “incitement to racial hatred” and “denials of genocide,” which are illegal in France.

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| November 21, 2013
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Germany’s Council of Jews honoring Pastor, a dedicated defender of Jewish right’s

Council of Jews in Germany is honoring the Protestant pastor for his support of Jewish life in Germany, his dedication to Israel & his “unconditional solidarity in the circumcision debate”.

 

BERLIN — The Central Council of Jews in Germany is giving its highest honor to a pastor who defended the Jewish right to ritual circumcision.

Nikolaus Schneider, president of the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany

Nikolaus Schneider, president of the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany

Nikolaus Schneider, 66, president of the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany — the country’s main Protestant body — will receive the the Leo Baeck Prize on Thursday in Berlin.

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| November 21, 2013
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Dutch Roman Catholic station pulls Jews-killed-Jesus ad off air following protests


The video, aired at the end of a children’s program on a Roman Catholic station, featured a song which accuses Jews of plotting to kill Jesus.

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A Dutch Catholic public broadcaster has apologized and pulled off the air a video clip featuring a song which accuses Jews of plotting to kill Jesus.

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The Jews’ fault? Jesus as imagined in the film Passion of the Christ (2004) – Photo: Reuters

The video, which was aired earlier this month at the end of a children’s program on the Rooms-Katholiek Kerkgenootschap (Roman Catholic Church Association) television station featured a song by Pearl Jozefzoon, about how Jews regarded Jesus. Continue Reading »

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| November 21, 2013
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Female Jewish Swede Applies for Asylum – in Sweden

Annika Hernroth-Rothstein applies for asylum in her own country in protest of overt, rampant anti-Semitism, laws banning kosher slaughter for eating meat and circumcision for newborn Jewish male infants.

By Tova Dvorin

 

Swedish Jew and outspoken opponent to anti-Semitic violence Annika Hernroth-Rothstein has filed for asylum in her own country, Elder of Ziyon reports. The move is a public statement of dissent against the Scandinavian country’s anti-Semitic policies, which include a ban on ritual slaughter (shehita) and circumcision (brit milah), two major laws central to Jewish law and life. 

A protest against anti-Semitism in Vienna – Reuters

Hernroth-Rothstein first gained attention after writing a letter to Mosaic magazine documenting her experiences this past spring. Continue Reading »

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