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| November 20, 2013
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US researcher: Kosher poultry less healthy

 

Researchers find, Kosher chicken has nearly double the frequency of antibiotic-resistant E. coli than non-kosher products, suggesting result ‘belies the historical roots of kosher as a means to ensure food safety.’

By Tali Farkash

The research’s abstract, published in the British F1000Research website, notes that while retail poultry products are known sources of antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli, kosher chicken had the highest frequency of antibiotic-resistant E. coli, nearly twice that of conventional products.Is kosher also healthy? Kosher chicken contains high concentrations of antibiotic-resistant strains of the E. coli bacteria, according to a new study conducted in the United States and published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA). Continue Reading »

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| November 19, 2013
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Brandeis U cuts partnership with Palestinian university after its Nazi-style rally

 

Brandeis University found Palestinian demonstrators cheerfully waving Nazi flags & offering traditional Nazi salute as the reason for the suspension.

By JTA

 

 

Brandeis University has suspended its partnership with the Palestinian Al-Quds University.

Brandeis University - Courtesy

Brandeis University – Courtesy

Brandeis University President Frederick Lawrence made the announcement Monday, saying the university will re-evaluate the relationship in the future. The universities have been sister institutions since 1998.

The decision was made in light of recent events at the university, which has campuses in Jerusalem, Abu-Dis and Al-Bireh, including a November 5 Nazi-style demonstration at the main campus.

During the demonstration, protesters marched in black military gear with fake automatic weapons while waving flags and offering the traditional Nazi salute.

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| November 19, 2013
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UN Secretary-Genera Ban Ki-moon visits Auschwitz

UN chief pays tribute to Holocaust victims during his first visit to Polish memorial site of former Nazi death camp.

Ban vows to safeguard the testimonies of survivors.

By REUTERS, JPOST.COM STAFF

 

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the site of Nazi death camp Auschwitz on Monday to pay tribute to Holocaust victims.

UN chief Ban pays tribute to Holocaust victims at Auschwitz 17, Nov 2013

UN chief Ban Ki-moon pays tribute to Holocaust victims at Auschwitz – 17, Nov 2013 – REUTERS Screenshot

Ban Ki-moon visited Auschwitz, the first of two camps set up in neighboring towns Oswiecim and Brzezinka. He walked under the inscription “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work makes you free) above a gate which prisoners passed on their way to their barracks. Continue Reading »

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| November 17, 2013
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Simon Weisenthal Center Highlights Rampant European anti-Semitism with Church Officials

New book by Manfred Gerstenfeld documents rampant European anti-Semitism & anti-Israel sentiments.

Weisenthal Center shared the horrifying information with next Papal candidate.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, raised the findings of Manfred Gerstenfeld’s book, Demonizing Israel and the Jews with Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Archbishop of  Manila on Wednesday.

London protest

London protest

The Cardinal was an important candidate in the recent Papal election and may become the first Asian Pope.

Demonizing Israel and the Jews documents that 150 million out of 400 million adult Europeans mistakenly believe that Israel is exterminating the Palestinian Arabs, much in the same way the Nazis sought a systemic extermination of Jews. Continue Reading »

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| November 15, 2013
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Simon Cowell to visit Israel in move to embrace Judaism

 

X Factor creator, whose father was Jewish and is interested in his girlfriend’s religion talks of a visit to Israel.

By JPOST.COM STAFF
 

 

Music mogul Simon Cowell plans to embrace the Jewish faith of his girlfriend Lauren Silverman, who is pregnant with their first child, as well as make a secret trip to Israel, British tabloid The Mirror reported on Thursday, quoting sources close to Cowell.

Simon Cowell attends the premiere of X Factor in West Hollywood, California September 5, 2013.

Simon Cowell attends the premiere of X Factor in West Hollywood, California September 5, 2013.- Photo: REUTERS/Phil McCarten

The 54-year-old X Factor creator, judge and producer has Jewish roots – his father Eric was Jewish – but Cowell was raised Roman Catholic.

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| November 15, 2013
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Italian police raid homes of neo-Nazis spreding anti-Semitism online

The 35 arrested suspects, accused of spreading racial hatred & anti-Semitism, had opened a new website that replaced the Italian branch of the white supremacist website Stormfront.org.

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Italian police raided the homes of 35 suspected neo-Nazi sympathizers, accusing them of setting up an online forum to spread anti-Semitic ideology, on Thursday. The operation was conducted in 22 provinces around the country, including in Rome and Milan.

A neo-Nazi rally in Germany.


A neo-Nazi rally in Germany.- Photo: AP

The suspects were accused of spreading ideas on the Internet “based on racial and ethnic hatred and incitement to commit acts of discrimination and violence for racist and ethnic reasons.” Continue Reading »

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| November 15, 2013
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Ronny Naftaniel, pro-Israel activist honored by Dutch premier

In addition to his work for Israel & against anti-Semitism, Naftaniel also had a key role in restitution talks with the Dutch gov’t for Holocaust-era property.

 

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Ronny Naftaniel, the former leader of Holland’s main pro-Israel lobby, was feted by the Dutch prime minister and hundreds of others.

Ronny Naftaniel (CIDI) pro-Israel blog

Ronny Naftaniel (CIDI) pro-Israel blog

“I grew up observing you,” Premier Mark Rutte told Naftaniel Monday at a speech at Naftaniel’s retirement party at the Hague’s Royal Theater. “Your optimism is unparalleled and as long as you maintain that courage, so shall we.”

Naftaniel led the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, or CIDI, for approximately 40 years.

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| November 15, 2013
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American Jews Pleed with Washington not to return Jewish antiquities to Iraq

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) said, “These sacred artifacts were taken from the Iraqi Jewish community & thus do not belong to the Iraqi gov’t; rather they belong to the thousands of Iraqi Jews, an ancient & once-vibrant community, who were exiled many years ago.”

By SAM SOKOL

 

 

CHICAGO – A treasure trove of Iraqi Jewish documents on display in Washington, DC, should not leave the United States, a coalition of Jewish organizations demanded on Tuesday.

An Iraqi employee examines a document in the Jewish archives in Baghdad.- getty photos

n Iraqi employee examines a document in the Jewish archives in Baghdad.- Getty photos

The documents, which the Hussein regime confiscated from the Jewish community, were discovered by coalition forces in the basement of the headquarters of the Mukhabarat, or secret police, in 2003 and document centuries of life in Mesopotamia. Continue Reading »

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| November 15, 2013
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Conservative American synagogues wrestle with non-Jewish participation

‘Since a large percentage of our younger families include interfaith marriages, we want to keep our children as loyal & involved Conservative Jews, and we realize that in order to do so, we need to be welcoming to their partners, spouses & families’

 

 

NEW YORK (JTA) — To an outsider, the battles might seem to be over trifles — in some cases, just a few feet.

Where may a non-Jewish parent stand in the synagogue during his child’s bar mitzvah? Can a non-Jew open the holy ark? Should non-Jewish synagogue members have voting rights?

A non-Jewish woman is among those at a Torah reading at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington. Many Conservative synagogues are finding new ways for non-Jews to participate in synagogue life. (Adas Israel)

A non-Jewish woman is among those at a Torah reading at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington.

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| November 12, 2013
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Jewish leaders discuss assimilation at 2013 GA meeting in Jerusalem

 

Pew Research Center report shocked Jewish American community seeking to cope with declining endogamy.

By SAM SOKOL

 

 

The leaders of Jewish federations are fiercely debating the effectiveness of their programs for maintaining Jewish engagement, in light of a recent study detailing a severe decline in communal affiliation.

JFNA President Jerry Silverman - Screenshot

JFNA President Jerry Silverman – Screenshot

Last month’s Pew Research Center report detailing spiraling levels of assimilation and rapidly declining endogamy among American Jews is one of the primary topics of discussion at this week’s Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly in Jerusalem.

The GA, an annual event that is held in Israel every five years, brings together professional and lay leaders of community federations through the United States and Canada to discuss common interests. Continue Reading »

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| November 11, 2013
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Nazi-looted art found in Munich had Goebbels as past owner

 

Newly reported document reveals pieces from the discovered collection in Munich was sold by Hitler’s propaganda minister for a symbolic price. Goebbels reportedly received 4,000 Swiss Francs for some 200 pieces of art.

By Ynet

More details are emerging in the affair of the 1,406 pieces of stolen art found last week in a Munich apartment.

Contract for sale of Jewish-owned artwork by Joseph Goebbels from Bild's report (Photo: Bild)

Contract for sale of Jewish-owned artwork by Joseph Goebbels from Bild’s report – Photo: Bild

A document published Sunday by the German paper Bild proved that more than 200 of the pieces in the collection, that are worth nearly a billion dollars, were sold in 1940 to an art dealer named Hildebrand Gurlitt by Joseph Goebbels – Hitler‘s propaganda minister – for only 4,000 Swiss Francs. Continue Reading »

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| November 10, 2013
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Pope Francis says at Kristallnacht commemoration, Jews are ‘our big brothers’

Pope Francis, Merkel, Obama & thousands of ordinary Germans among those commemorating the 75th anniversary of the 1938 pogrom.

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Pope Francis commemorated Kristallnacht at a mass in front of thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, describing the Jewish people as the “big brothers” of his Roman Catholic flock.

Pope Francis delivers his blessing during the Angelus noon prayer he celebrated from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013 - Photo AP

Pope Francis delivers his blessing during the Angelus noon prayer he celebrated from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013 – Photo AP

Riots organized by German authorities on November 9-10, 1938 killed 91 Jews and destroyed 267 synagogues. Continue Reading »

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| November 9, 2013
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Obama: 75th Kristallnacht anniversary – what silence in face of hatred can bring

 

US president: We must denounce anti-Semitism & intolerance, stand up to indifference, and re-commit ourselves to combating prejudice & persecution wherever it exists.

By JPOST.COM STAFF
 

 

US President Barack Obama marked the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht on Friday, saying that the 1938 pogrom in which Nazis burned synagogues and murdered Jews across Germany serves as an example of what silence in the face of hatred can bring.

A sticker simulating broken glass on a shop window in Berlin to mark 'Kristallnacht' anniversary

A sticker simulating broken glass on a shop window in Berlin to mark ‘Kristallnacht’ anniversary – Photo: REUTERS

“I join millions of people in the United States and around the world in marking the 75th anniversary of the tragedy of Kristallnacht – “the Night of Broken Glass,” Obama stated. Continue Reading »

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| November 9, 2013
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Jews are fleeing Turkey to escape anti-Semitism

 

A tense, negative atmosphere with fear for personal safety are prompting many young Turkish Jews to emigrate, mainly to U.S. & European countries – but also to Israel.

‘The Muslims stopped distinguish between Israel & the local Jews. As far as they are concerned, if you’re Jewish you’re not a Turk,’ one young emigrants reports.

By Tali Farkash

Young Jews are emigrating from Turkey in masses, mainly to the United States and different European countries, due to growing anti-Semitism and the negative attitude in the country towards Israel.

Anti-Israel protest in Turkey – Photo: Reuters

Members of the local Jewish community are keeping mum over the situation, but off the record some of them describe an explosive situation which may erupt at any moment following careless statements. Continue Reading »

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| November 8, 2013
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29% of European Jews considered emigrating due to extent of antisemitism

1 in 5 of the respondents said they had personally experienced at least 1 incident of physical assault or anti-Semitic verbal abuse in the year leading up to the survey.

By JTA

 

 

 

Nearly a third of respondents to a survey on anti-Semitism in Europe said they “seriously considered emigrating” because of perceived anti-Semitism.

Jewish man in front of swastika at Shoah memorial

Jewish man in front of swastika at Shoah memorial – Photo: REUTERS

In the survey among 5,847 Jews from nine European Union member states, 29 percent of all respondents said that they considered emigrating in recent years because they did “not feel safe” living in their countries as Jews, according to Morten Kjaerum, the director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights which conducted the research among Jews from Sweden, France, Belgium, Britain, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Romania and Latvia. Continue Reading »

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