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| March 8, 2013
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Can not comprehend why Pollard is still incarcerated

Former Israeli spymaster says US using Pollard to teach the Jews a lesson; Israelis see it as hypocritical that US still holding Pollard, yet sees no problem pressing Jewish state to free blood-soaked Palestinian terrorists.

By  Ryan Jones

 

It’s been 28 years, and there’s still no firm sign that the US intends to release accused Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. Even for Israeli officials intimately familiar with Washington, the situation is simply incomprehensible.

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“I know Washington, I know how it works, I know what makes it tick, and I still cannot comprehend why there is this insistence on keeping Pollard for so long,” former Israeli Ambassador to the US Danny Ayalon said on Tuesday. Continue Reading »

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| March 3, 2013
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Denmark concerned over rising anti-Semitism

Escalation in verbal & physical assaults in Denmark corresponds with claims by Jewish communities that anti-Semitism is rising throughout Europe.

Local Jews worried & petition authorities to take action.

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VIDEO – Danish officials say they’re alarmed by the frequency of anti-Semitic attacks. The rise in physical and verbal assaults in Denmark is in line with claims by Jewish communities that anti-Semitism is on the rise throughout Europe.

Copenhagen, Denmark. No longer a safe haven for Jews

At a forum staged by Copenhagen City Council, Danish Jews urged the authorities to take action.

Claus Bentow and his family only feel completely secure in their apartment in a middle class area of Copenhagen. Continue Reading »

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| March 3, 2013
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Sec of State Kerry Commended for Defending Zionism

Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center commends Sec. of State Kerry for directly confronting Turkish PM Erdogan’s slanderous accusation against the ‘Bedrock’ of the Jewish People.

By Arutz Sheva staff

 

The Simon Wiesenthal Center commended U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday for directly confronting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s slanderous accusation in which he called Zionism a “crime against humanity”.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry“Secretary Kerry is to be commended for publically objecting to Erdogan’s outrageous attack against Zionism, the bedrock of the Jewish people’s historic narrative,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the leading Jewish human rights organization. Continue Reading »

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| March 2, 2013
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Nazis Murdered FAR MORE JEWS than 6 Million

When the research began in 2000, Dr. Megargee said he expected to find perhaps 7,000 Nazi camps and ghettos, based on postwar estimates. But the numbers kept climbing — first to 11,500, then 20,000, then 30,000, and now 42,500.

 

THIRTEEN years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that the Nazis set up throughout Europe.

A group of Jewish women at the entrance to the Brody ghetto in Eastern Galicia, 1942. The sign is written in German, Ukrainian and Polish.

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| March 2, 2013
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EXPOSÉ, Italy’s New Leader: A Demagogue with a Virulent Hatred for Israel

Behind this new popularist politician’s orgy of Judeophobic vulgarities you find Europe’s old anti-Semitic hatred resurrected by a clownish trifle.

By Giulio Meotti, Italy

 

Beppe Grillo, the comedian turned politician, has just become the leader of Italy’s largest party, the “Five Star Movement” in an upset victory.

Beppe GrilloThis populist Europhobe got one fourth of the popular votes. He is the idol of Italy’s youth. He is the anti-corruption crusader. He is the guru of the Internet.

But Beppe Grillo is also a demagogue with a virulent hatred for Israel and the United States. And his popularity, despite his despicable remarks, shows that the word “Jew” has become an accepted insult once again in Europe’s public square. Continue Reading »

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| February 26, 2013
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ADL: ‘Offensive & Not Remotely Funny’, Oscars Sketch on Jews

From the Anti-Defamation League: “While we have come to expect inappropriate ‘Jews control Hollywood’ jokes…the Oscars was offensive and not remotely funny,” 

By Arutz Sheva staff

 

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a statement Monday criticizing the “offensive and not remotely funny” sketch at the Academy Awards featuring Seth MacFarlane’s character “Ted.”

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In the sketch, the animated bear tells actor Mark Wahlberg that if “you want to work in this town” you have to be Jewish.

It was “sad and disheartening” that the awards show sought to use age-old, anti-Jewish stereotypes for laughs, the ADL said in a statement.

“While we have come to expect inappropriate ‘Jews control Hollywood’ jokes from Seth MacFarlane, what he did at the Oscars was offensive and not remotely funny,” said ADL National Director Abraham H. Continue Reading »

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| February 25, 2013
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Arabs warn US President over Temple Mount visit: ‘Obama better follow the Muslims’ rules’

Obama must enter via ‘Lion’s Gate’ which has Muslim guards, rather than the Mughrabi Gate which is guarded by Israeli police. In this way “Muslim sovereignty” over the Temple Mount will be preserved. Sabri also cautioned Obama not to bring any Israeli officials with him to what is in reality Judaism’s most holy site.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Palestinian political and religious figures over the weekend warned US President Barack Obama that he should probably avoid ascending Jerusalem’s Temple Mount during his upcoming visit to Israel, but provided a list of instructions should he go ahead with a stop at the contentious holy site. Continue Reading »

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| February 24, 2013
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Purim’s atmosphere of merriment & glee spreads across Israel

View ‘Harlem Shake’ from Tel Aviv,  Purim Style

Women of the Wall to hold Megila reading at the Kotel (Western Wall)

 

Purim’s carnival atmosphere spread out across the country on Sunday, with revelers of all types and ages soaking up the holiday cheer, many bedecked in bright, loud and extravagant costumes.

Tel Aviv on Purim, 2013.

Tel Aviv on Purim, 2013. – Photo: REUTERS

As in every year, traditional ‘Adloyada’ Purim parades were held the length and breadth of Israel in cities and towns throughout the country, wending their way through town centers and major urban thoroughfares.

Holon’s Ad’deloyada, one of the most renowned, included more than 4,500 participants making merry, including dancers, artists, musicians and other performers from around the country who all marched through the streets of the city.

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| February 24, 2013
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3 Books of Esther Survived the Holocaust from Warsaw Ghetto

Just in time for Purim, Shem Olam Institute presents holy items found in Warsaw Ghetto attic decades after surviving the Holocaust

By Kobi Nahshoni

 

Three Books of Esther kept in the attic of a house in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II have been returned to Jewish hands.

Scroll survives fire inside metal cylinder Photo courtesy of Shem Olam Institute

Scroll survives fire inside metal cylinder – Photo courtesy: Shem Olam Institute

In honor of Purim, the Shem Olam Institute for Holocaust education, documentation and research unveiled the rare holy items which were in Polish possession for dozens of years and were located and brought to Israel in the past year. Continue Reading »

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| February 24, 2013
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Belgium home to a 30% rise in anti-Semitism reports

A Belgian gov’t agency reportes number of anti-Semitic complaints represent just the ‘tip of the iceberg’ of real incidents & that the true figures (58%) correspond with last year’s rise in France.

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Belgium saw a 30 percent increase in the number of anti-Semitic complaints filed in 2012, according to a government agency.

Boys with Israeli flags participate in a solidarity march for Israel in Brussels, Belgium

Boys with Israeli flags participate in a solidarity march for Israel in Brussels, Belgium, Nov. 25, 2012. – Photo by AP

Edouard Delruelle, president of the Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism, a Belgian government agency, said his organization documented 88 complaints of anti-Semitism in 2012, compared to 62 the previous year and 57 the year before that. Continue Reading »

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| February 24, 2013
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Are the Haredim to ‘face the music’?

Is the Bennett-Lapid  alliance the revenge of the ‘knitted kippot’?

The Haredim annulled their conversions, called them “gentiles & heretics” and humiliated them at every possible opportunity.

The Haredim treated the national-religious sector like hired help for years, & systematically pushed them out of almost every state-religious institution.

By Yehuda Shlezinger

 

 

Yaakov Rivlin, one of the most respected commentators of the haredi system, recently expressed an insight that some would call historic. “The national-religious are about to take the place of the haredim in the religious and political systems of life in this country, and we must resign ourselves to that,” he wrote in the haredi newspaper BaKehila [In the community].

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| February 24, 2013
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Purim Starts Tonight with the Reading of the Megillah

Few people know that Purim, the ‘Holiday of Costumes & Merriment’ is one of Judaism’s most Holy days.

By Gil Ronen and Rochel Sylvetsky

 

Purim, 5773, officially began Saturday evening as the Megillah of Esther is being read in hundreds of synagogues in Israel alone. The holiday celebrates the defeat of one of Israel’s worst enemies, Haman the Wicked, in ancient Persia.

In Jerusalem, the Purim celebration will only begin Sunday evening. This has to do with the fact that Jerusalem was surrounded by walls from the time of the conquest of the Land of Israel by Joshua. Jewish tradition has it that Jews in the walled city of Shushan – the capital of ancient Persia – fought against their enemies for an extra day before defeating them, and therefore people living in walled cities begin celebrating Purim a day later than others. Continue Reading »

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| February 22, 2013
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Foreign media workshop: ‘Don’t call it a settlement, when it’s a community’

Residents from Judea & Samaria met to receive tips on dealing with the hostile int’l press, which often depicts them as usurpers of land & religious fanatics

By Sigal Arbitman

 

 

 

The famous Chinese philosopher Confucius once said, “Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Let me do and I understand.” This quote served as the core of the message that was imparted to participants of a “foreign media workshop” held two weeks ago at the main visiting hall of the Binyamin regional council.

A community in Judea and Samaria. [Illustrative] – Photo: Yehoshua Yosef

On a cold, rainy night, 30 residents from all over Judea and Samaria, gathered in an auditorium for a three-hour learning session, during which they received tips on dealing with a hostile international press that is covering the daily events unfolding in their own backyards.

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| February 22, 2013
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Palestinian hunger striking prisoner jailed for 8 months

Wave of protests in West Bank over the arrest of Samer Issawi who broke his parole terms after his release under the ‘Shalit deal’.

Detained since July, he is expected to be released next month.

Aviel Magnezi

 

Against the backdrop of West Bank protests expressing solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian prisoners, administrative detainee Samer Issawi was sentenced Thursday to an eight month prison sentence – this for illegally entering the West Bank, thus breaking the terms of his release in the Shalit prisoner exchange.

His retroactive sentence, running from the day of his July 2012 detention, means his release is anticipated for March. Continue Reading »

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| February 20, 2013
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Jewish Agency head won’t seek solution over Women of the Wall until new gov’t is formed

The ‘Kotel is in complete captivity & in the hands of an extremist group,’ head of the Jewish Conservative movement of Israel tells the Jewish Agency board.

 

Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky said Tuesday morning that he does not intend to present recommendations on resolving the conflict over prayer regulations at the Western Wall until a new coalition has been formed.

 

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Anat Hoffman, leader of Women of the Wall, being arrested in December while praying at the Western Wall. – Photo by Michal Fattal

“I proposed that we keep the issue quiet so that it would not be influenced by the coalition negotiations,” he told participants at a session of the Jewish Agency Board of Governors, which is meeting in Jerusalem this week. Continue Reading »

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