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| November 8, 2013
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Pro-Palestinian Students Deal Blow to UK Campus Harmony

10 months ago a Free Palestine Society debate at the university was deemed “one of the worst examples of hate speech in recent years”. Little has changed.

By Charlotte Oliver

 

A university campus known as a hotbed of anti-Israel activity is once more in the spotlight after students condemned what they termed Israeli attacks on Palestinians’ right to education.

Middlesex University

Middlesex University

The students’ union at Middlesex University in north London has put up a plaque claiming that: “Checkpoints, attacks on universities and limitations on movement seriously hinder the ability of students in Palestine to learn.”

The plaque marks the twinning of the union with Al Quds University students’ union, which it describes as being located in “Jerusalem, Palestine”. Continue Reading »

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| November 5, 2013
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Jewish group: German officials guilty in concealing Holocaust art for 2 years

 

German gov’t says it was only informed “several months ago” about the private art collection estimated at over 1 billion euros that was seized in early 2011.

Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany: “We demand the paintings be returned to their original owners,”

By News Agencies & Israel Hayom Staff

German authorities are investigating a huge art find reported to include hundreds of works seized by the Nazis and considered missing for decades, officials said Monday, but a Jewish group accused the German government of moral complicity in the concealment of the stolen paintings following the revelation that authorities failed for two years to report their discovery.

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| November 4, 2013
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Was Paul McCartney the Jewish Beatle?

 

Sir Paul’s life has been very interwoven with Jewish friends and loved ones throughout his career.

By Seth Rogovoy

 

Sir Paul McCartney recently released “New,” his first album of original rock songs since 2007’s “Memory Almost Full.” Given the 71-year-old McCartney’s love affair with all things Jewish for the past half-century — including collaborators, business associates, girlfriends and wives — the title could well be meant as a transliteration of the all-purpose Jewish word nu.

Lovely Linda With the Lovely Flowers in Her Hair” Sir Paul McCartney’s first wife, born Linda Eastman, grew up in Scarsdale and came from a prominent Jewish family. - Getty Images

“Lovely Linda With the Lovely Flowers in Her Hair” Sir Paul McCartney’s first wife, born Linda Eastman, grew up in Scarsdale and came from a prominent Jewish family.

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| November 4, 2013
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Which studio gets Hollywood stars to work for free?

Kevin Costner, Elizabeth Taylor, Sandra Bullock to Whoopi Goldberg, Moria Films enlists stars for a Jewish cause.

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One Hollywood film studio has commanded only A-list talent since its inception — Elizabeth Taylor, Morgan Freeman, Sandra Bullock, Michael Douglas, Nicole Kidman — and they all worked for free. What kind of studio head has such pull? It’s Rabbi Marvin Hier, the mini-mogul of Moriah Films, the movie division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Actress Sandra Bullock, Oct. 10, 2013.

Actress Sandra Bullock, Oct. 10, 2013.- Photo: Reuters

Founded by Hier in 1981, Moriah Films has won two Academy Awards for its historical documentaries. Continue Reading »

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| November 4, 2013
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German Police Recover 1500 Paintings Stolen by Nazis

Nearly 1,500 priceless works of art that were stolen by the Nazis have been discovered by German Police in a flat in Munich.

By Elad Benari

 

Nearly 1,500 priceless paintings, including works by Picasso and Matisse, that were stolen by the Nazis have been discovered in a flat in Munich, a news report said Sunday, according to AFP.

The German weekly Focus reported that police came upon the paintings during a 2011 search in an apartment belonging to the octogenarian son of art collector Hildebrand Gurlitt, who had bought them during the 1930s and 1940s.

The search was carried out because the son, Cornelius Gurlitt, was under suspicion for tax evasion, Focus said. Continue Reading »

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| November 3, 2013
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eBay removes Holocaust memorabilia found listed on its site

 

Britain’s Mail reports: Internet auction site eBay, removes 30 items, then offers to donate 25,000 pounds to charity over the inappropriate listing.

By Reuters

 

 

EBay has removed from its listings around 30 items of memorabilia purportedly from the Nazi Holocaust, including what was described as clothes worn by concentration camp victims, after a newspaper investigation discovered they were on sale on the e-commerce website, Britain’s Mail reported on Sunday.

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Nazi-era Jewish identification badge. – Photo: AP

The newspaper said its reporters found a range of items on the site over the past week, including what was presented by the vendor as a complete Auschwitz uniform worn by a Polish baker who perished in the Nazi death camp. Continue Reading »

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| November 2, 2013
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American Jewish women giving birth later than others

Modern advances in reproductive medicine allows a viable pregnancy up to age 55 — which is good news for many American Jewish women, who generally have children later than other American women.

 

NEW YORK (JTA) — American Jewish women are giving birth later than other women, sometimes delaying childbearing into their late 30s or even 40s.

(Shutterstock)

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The much-discussed Pew Research Center survey of American Jews released this month found that Jews aged 40 to 59 have an average of 1.9 children, compared to 2.2 children per adult among the same-age cohort of the general public.

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| November 1, 2013
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Neo-Nazi’s appeal awards him extra year in French jail

The Colmar court of appeals sentenced Nicolas Lecureur, 24, to an additional year in prison Wednesday for desecrating Jewish graves.

By JTA

 

A Frenchman who helped desecrate 90 Jewish and Muslim graves had his jail term extended by one year following his failed appeal for a lighter sentence.

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The Colmar Court of Appeal – Photo courtesy: Flickr

The Colmar court of appeals sentenced Nicolas Lecureur, 24, to a year in prison Wednesday for his actions, which he committed in eastern France in 2010 with two accomplices, Jonathan Husser and Matthias Leyer, according to L’Alsace daily.

All three men began serving an 18-month jail term in June 2012, but Lecureur appealed the sentence, claiming to have new evidence that prove his innocence.

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| October 31, 2013
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Polish prosecutor rules: Nude photo shoot in Jewish cemetery not illegal

 

 

Lukasz Szczygielski, a Polish photographer conducted a controversial photo shoot with a half-naked model which he explained, before apologizing, was meant to draw attention to a neglected Jewish cemetery.

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A Polish photographer did not break the law by conducting a photo shoot with a half-naked model at the Jewish cemetery in Checiny, Polish lawmakers held this week after a complaint was filed.

The city prosecutor in the Polish city of Kielce decided this week that Polish photographer Lukasz Szczygielski did not intend to insult the religious sensibilities of the cemetery of the Jewish community and that his main objective was art when he photographed a topless model at the Jewish cemetery in Checiny in August, TVN 24 reported. Continue Reading »

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| October 31, 2013
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Sergio Bergman is Argentina’s history-making Rabbi-lawmaker

“If the society knows us better, the level of anti-Semitism will become lower…If I am attacked for being a rabbi, the first to come out to defend me are the non-Jews.” – Rabbi Sergio Bergman

 

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — When he takes the oath of office in December as a new member of Argentina’s lower house of parliament, Rabbi Sergio Bergman will eschew the Christian Bible used by other legislators in favor of the Five Books of Moses.

Sergio Bergman, shown in Jerusalem in May 2013, will be the first rabbi serving to serve in Argentina's parliament when he takes office in December.

Sergio Bergman, shown in Jerusalem in May 2013, will be the first rabbi serving to serve in Argentina’s parliament when he takes office in December.

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| October 29, 2013
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NY court awarded $900k to delivery man for supervisors’ gas chamber gags

Adam Wiercinski’s managers were heard to say ‘you smell like Jew’.

The New York Post reported Monday that the jurors decided it was time for payback.

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A New York jury has awarded a Jewish deliveryman $900,000 in damages for the anti-Semitic harassment he endured at the restaurant where he worked, The New York Post reported Monday.

Mangia, the Manhattan restaurant where Adam Wiercinski worked.

Mangia, the Manhattan restaurant where Adam Wiercinski worked. – HAARETZ

According to the report, Adam Wiercinski was subjected to highly offensive gestures and remarks made by the supervisors at the Manhattan eatery, Mangia.

One night shift manager, Artur Zbozien, would often pass gas and then joke about Zyklon B, the cyanide-based pesticide used in Nazi gas chambers during the Holocaust. Continue Reading »

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| October 29, 2013
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Racist American Attacker Assaults Israelis – For Speaking Spanish

Not the brightest guy in the room: Racist attacker from the U.S. takes ignorance to a whole new level when he mistakenly thought the Hebrew he heard spoken, was Spanish.

By Ari Soffer

 

A 23 year-old man has been arrested over a racially-motivated assault in which he punched two Israeli men – because he thought they were speaking Spanish.

(Illustrative) Not too bright… Photo: Reuters

Dylan T. Grall of Janesville, Wisconsin attacked the two men, who were conversing in Hebrew, on Madison street on Saturday morning.

The police report of the incident describes how, upon hearing the two men speak, Grall approached them, swore at them “and demanded they speak English.” Continue Reading »

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| October 27, 2013
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Chilean Senator says covert Israeli soldiers are ‘mapping out’ southern Chile

A Senator of Palestinian descent who chairs Chile’s Foreign Affairs Committee reported during a televised interview that the Chilean gov’t has ‘decided to do nothing given the power exerted by the U.S. & Israel.’

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A Chilean lawmaker of Palestinian descent said in a televised interview, undercover Israeli soldiers are “mapping out” his country.

Chilean Senator Eugenio Tuma

Chilean Senator Eugenio Tuma – Photo by Parte del Grupo Parlamentario Pro Transparencia en ex Congreso / Wikipedia Commons

Eugenio Tuma, a Chilean senator who has been accused before of anti-Semitic speech, said during the interview that the soldiers were “dressed as civilians” and “mapping out the southern Chile region.” Continue Reading »

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| October 26, 2013
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Jewish Family of 5 Attacked Viciously on Sydney Street

Police have charged 3 people over an anti-Semitic attack in the Sydney’s eastern suburbs. A man in his 60’s was seriously injured.

By Arutz Sheva

 

 

Police charged three people Saturday over an anti-Semitic attack in Sydney’s eastern suburbs that left one man seriously injured.

Beach line at Bondi- Photo: Reuters

Four men and a woman were walking on Blair Street, Bondi, at about 12:30 AM Saturday,  on their way home from a Sabbath eve meal, when a group of about eight young men began yelling anti-Semitic insults at them, and then attacked them.

The five suffered injuries including a fractured cheekbone, broken nose, concussion, lacerations and bruising. Continue Reading »

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| October 26, 2013
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Hungary launches N.Y. style PR blitz to combat antisemitic image

Deputy PM Tibor Navracsics told a conference on Jewish life & antisemitism in Budapest this month that it was time for Hungarians to accept their responsibility for their role in the Holocaust.

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Armed with a powerful New York public relations outfit and a pledge to commemorate the mass deportation of Hungarian Jewry, the Hungarian government is preparing to challenge what it says is an inaccurate image of a country lax in confronting home-grown extremism.

Hungary's deputy prime minister, Tibor Navracsics, speaking at a conference in Budapest in early October, acknowledged his country's responsibility for the Holocaust in Hungary. (Babette Rittmeyer/Lantos Foundation)

Hungary’s deputy prime minister, Tibor Navracsics, speaking at a conference in Budapest in early October, acknowledged his country’s responsibility for the Holocaust in Hungary.

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