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| January 29, 2013
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FBI: Jews are the Victims of Nearly 2/3 of all Religious Hate Crimes in U.S.

Jews & Jewish institutions continued to be principal targets, accounting for 63% of all religion-based hate crimes, attesting that anti-Semitism is still a serious & deeply entrenched problem in America.

By JNS.org

 

The release of the FBI’s annual Hate Crime Statistics Act (HCSA) report indicated a promising new trend in America, with overall hate crimes overall falling by 6 percent in 2011. However, despite the improvement, anti-Jewish hate crimes still remain disproportionately high, the report found.

According to the report, there were 6,222 hate crimes in the U.S. in 2011 with 1,480 religious hate crimes, down 3.4 percent from 2010. Continue Reading »

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| January 29, 2013
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Murdoch personally apologizes for offensive Sunday Times’ Netanyahu cartoon

Murdoch said ‘grotesque and offensive’ cartoon portraying Palestinians bricked alive into wall being built by Israeli PM did not reflect his paper’s editorial line

By the Associated Press

 

Media baron Rupert Murdoch has apologized for a Sunday Times cartoon depicting Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall using blood-red mortar, an image Jewish leaders said was reminiscent of anti-Semitic propaganda.

Rupert Murdoch Photo by GettyimagesThe political cartoon, which was published on Holocaust Memorial Day, shows Netanyahu wielding a long, sharp trowel and depicts agonized Palestinians bricked into the wall’s structure. It was meant as a comment on recent elections in which Netanyahu’s ticket narrowly won the most seats in the Israeli parliament. Continue Reading »

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| January 28, 2013
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Bureaucracy delays construction of Italy’s 1st Holocaust Museum

Rome’s City Council approved final plans for the museum a year ago, but city funding was later blocked by government-imposed financial restrictions on municipal spending.

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

 

ROME (JTA) — If all goes according to plan, a starkly modern, $30 million Holocaust museum will soon rise on the site of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini’s Rome residence.

The design of Italy's Holocaust museum in RomeThe site, also the location of ancient Jewish catacombs and now a city park, will be home to a museum first proposed in 2005 but held up repeatedly by financial and bureaucratic problems.

“I hope construction begins this summer,” Leone Paserman, the president of the Museum of the Shoah Foundation, told JTA. Continue Reading »

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| January 27, 2013
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On Int’l Holocaust Memorial Day, EU’s Aston says “never forget”

EU’s foreign policy chief Ashton paid tribute to Holocaust survivors.

Germany’s Chancellor Merkel reiterated, responsibility for Nazi crimes is eternal.

By JPOST.COM STAFF, BLOOMBERG

 

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton paid a special tribute to Holocaust survivors, in a statement released on International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday.

Greeks wave swastikas to greet Merkel - Photo by REUTERS-Yannis Behrakis

Ashton said that the survivors of the Holocaust “remind us of this tragedy that we must never forget.”

“Today we remember the victims of the Holocaust. We honor every one of the six million who were brutally murdered in this darkest period of European history,” Ashton stated.

She stressed the importance of remembering that the crime was not perpetrated by a few individuals, but that many were involved directly and indirectly.

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| January 27, 2013
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Report: Alarming Rise Worldwide in Anti-Semitic Incidents

A report on global anti-Semitic trends during 2012 indicates “an alarming rise in the number of attacks against Jewish targets”.

By Elad Benari

 

A report on anti-Semitic trends in 2012 that was prepared by the Ministry of Information and Diaspora indicates that in the past year there has been “an alarming rise in the number of terrorist attacks and attempted attacks against Jewish targets and an escalation in violent incidents against Jews throughout the world.”

 

The report will be presented by Information and Diaspora Minister Yuli Edelstein during Sunday’s weekly cabinet meeting.

The report finds that in the past year there has been a rise in the number of terrorist acts and attempted attacks against Jewish targets, primarily by groups which identify with radical Islam and the extreme right. Continue Reading »

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| January 25, 2013
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Dutch city workers brave thin ice to remove Nazi symbols

Traversing dangerously thin ice, the lightest worker from the municipal cleaning team ventured onto the ice attached to a rope held by his colleagues on the bank.

By JTA

 

THE HAGUE, the Netherlands (JTA) — Workers in a Dutch town braved thin ice to remove Nazi symbols etched into the surface of a frozen lake.

Frozen Lake (illustration)The workers first attempted to walk to the area where unidentified persons had carved the Nazi salutation “Sieg Heil!” and swastika into the ice, according to a Jan. 23 report in the AD/Rotterdams Dagblad, a local daily.

The workers quickly left the ice when it began to crack under their weight. Continue Reading »

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| January 25, 2013
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Star Wars Lego provokes Muslim outrage in Austria

Turkish Muslim community in Austria insulted & outraged by Lego toy model which it says bears similarity to important Muslim symbol (Conquered Christian Basilica).

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Can Lego offend the world’s Muslim community? Definitely, according to the heads of the Turkish community in Austria.

The Hagia Sophia Photo: Shutterstock

The Hagia Sophia – Photo: Shutterstock

A statement was posted on the community’s website that the Star Wars themed Lego model of “Jabba’s Palace” bares insulting similarities to the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

The British Telegraph reported the Turkish community publicly demanded that the company apologize for its offense against Islam.

Jabba the Hutt was an arch-villain in the successful Star Wars movie franchise. Continue Reading »

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| January 25, 2013
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Orthodox Jewish ex-champ makes inspiring comeback

Fighter Yuri Foreman credits fellow Jews for reviving his passion for the ring after demoralizing loss.

 

Yuri Foreman, the Orthodox rabbi-in-training and former boxing champ, is on the comeback trail ? and he thanks his fellow Jews for giving him the inspiration to make it happen.

Yuri Foreman

The one-time WBA world light middleweight champion returns to the ring in a non-title bout against Brandon Baue in New York on Wednesday, January 23. It will be Foreman’s first fight in New York since his devastating loss to Miguel Cotto at Yankee Stadium in June 2010.

“Jewish people are happy that I am coming back, they had been waiting, so it’s kind of inspiring, because it’s not just me,” he said. Continue Reading »

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| January 24, 2013
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Remembered: Chiune Sugihara, Japanese Diplomat Who Saved 6,000 Jews During Holocaust

Even though the Japanese gov’t closed the consulate, and Sugihara’s train was about to leave the city, he kept writing visas from his carriage window. When the train began moving, he gave the visa stamp to a refugee to continue the job.

By Jaweed Kaleem

 

Most Americans know of Oskar Schindler, the German businessman who saved more than 1,200 lives during the Holocaust by hiring Jews to work in his factories and fought Nazi efforts to remove them.

Chiune Sugihara

But fewer know about Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese diplomat who disobeyed his government’s orders and issued visas that allowed 6,000 Jews to escape from Nazi-occupied territories via Japan. Continue Reading »

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| January 23, 2013
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Ukrainian Jewish Congress: Gov’t Grabbing TV Station

Vadim Rabinovich, President of Ukrainian Jewish Congress says authorities attempting to take away Jewish News 1 TV channel.

By NISSAN TZUR JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT

 

KRAKOW – President of the All- Ukrainian Jewish Congress Vadim Rabinovich claimed last week that Ukrainian authorities were attempting to take away his Jewish News One TV channel.

Kiev Photo REUTERSIn a statement posted on the website of the United Jewish Community of Ukraine, Rabinovich – who is also vice president of the European Jewish Union – accused Ukrainian authorities of threatening him, including with physical violence, to force him to transfer ownership of his TV channel to them within a week. Continue Reading »

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| January 23, 2013
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Jewish-Arab American woman suing airline for racial profiling

A SWAT team forcibly removed an American citizen, Hebshi, 36. The innocent mother of two was held for hours, questioned, arrested and strip searched.

By JTA

 

A Jewish-Arab American woman is suing a U.S. airline and the federal Transportation Security Administration for removing her from an airplane and strip-searching her.

Frontier Airlines - Photo Courtesy by Facebook

Shoshana Hebshi, whose mother is Jewish and father is Saudi Arabian, is suing Frontier Airlines and law enforcement for ethnically targeting her.

A SWAT team forcibly removed Hebshi, 36, an American citizen who lives in Ohio, and two Indian men in handcuffs from Frontier Airline flight 623 after it landed on Sept. Continue Reading »

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| January 23, 2013
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‘Jews live in fear in Europe’ says President of European Parliament

European Union was established ‘on the lessons of Auschwitz’ as a framework, but, what of the 50% rise in anti-Semitic incidents in France & in Austria in 2012?
There were also political gains by 2 virulently anti-Semitic parties: Golden Dawn in Greece & Jobbik in Hungary.

By JTA

 

BRUSSELS – Jewish people are living in fear in Europe but the European Union will make sure they are not harmed, the president of the European Parliament said.

Holocaust Remembrance

“Yes, Jewish people are living in fear in Europe but this is not 1929, this is 2012,” European Parliament President Martin Schultz has said Jan. Continue Reading »

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| January 23, 2013
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NYPD Recover Stolen Brooklyn Torah Valued at $30,000

A Brooklyn Torah that was reported to be in the trunk of a stolen car, and is estimated to be worth around $30,000 was found, according to NYPD officials.

By Rachel Hirshfeld

 

A Torah that was reported to be stolen and estimated to be worth around $30,000 was found, according to officials.

The Brooklyn Torah, belonging to Rabbi Binyamin Tamaiev of Congregation Agudath Sholom of Flatbush, was reportedly found inside the rabbi’s stolen car.

His gray 2007 Toyota Corolla was stolen from the 3700 block of 18th Avenue on Saturday evening with the rabbi’s personal belongings as well as the $30,000 Torah, police said. Continue Reading »

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| January 23, 2013
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Much of What You Think You Know about Islam Isn’t So

Here in is A Response to an Antisemitic Video (below) of Egyptian Cleric Mahmoud Al-Masri.

By: Sinem Tezyapar

 

It is important for people to understand the context of the verses and hadiths regarding the Jews, and it is particularly important for Muslims to understand them properly. Taking verses or hadiths out of context leads not only to poor understanding, it leads to prejudicial attitudes and outright hatred of people who have done nothing wrong. Perhaps even worse is the hypocrisy of those who wish to impose their extremist views by selecting particular verses and hadiths and deliberately distorting the meaning. Continue Reading »

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| January 23, 2013
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Op-Ed: He Who Lives in the Stolen Homes of European Jews

Like Hitler, the Arabs have learned how to exploit the much-admired European notion of national self determination as a means of extending hegemony over all of Israel.

If Hitler’s club was the threat of war, the Arabs’ weapon is terrorism.

By Giulio Meotti

 

Why do the worst anti-Semites come from Europe?

All the recent surveys and reports are telling it: the world’s worst anti-Semites come from Europe. 6 of the 10 entries in the new Simon Wiesenthal anti-Semitism black list are based in Europe. The first two countries where monitor groups found the highest number of anti-Semite attacks in 2012 were France and the UK. Continue Reading »

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