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| December 30, 2012
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Belgian Jewish girls school forced to admit sons of Holocaust denier

Rabbi Moshe Friedman, infamous for his participation with the Neturei Karta at the anti-Zionist & Holocaust-denial conference in Teheran in ’06, has again placed himself in the middle of a disgraceful controversy, but this time in Antwerp.

 

By JTA

A Belgian court ordered a Jewish school for girls to admit two boys or face heavy fines.

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The Benoth Jeruzalem school for Jewish girls

A Belgian judge ruled on Dec. 21, that because yeshivas are subsidized by the Flemish community, Benoth Jerusalem must admit the boys or face a $2,600 penalty per child for each day the boys are not permitted to attend, according to the Gazet van Anwerpen, a local paper. Continue Reading »

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| August 9, 2012
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Egypt in Political Uproar Over a 5 Minutes Interview With an Israeli

An interview with an Israeli reporter on common problems has led for calls of ministerial resignation in Egypt

By David Lev

 

Egypt was in an uproar Thursday, with Egyptians and officials demanding that the country’s communications minister resign his post, after an Israeli reporter was interviewed on Egypt’s Nile TV. The reporter, from Israel Radio’s Arabic service, was discussing the problem of Sinai terrorism, a problem common to Israel and Egypt.

According to reports in the Egyptian media Thursday, the Israeli reporter, Ayal Alima, spoke to the host of a news magazine program on Nile TV, and called on both the IDF and Egyptian army to derive lessons from the attack in Sinai earlier with week, in which 17 Egyptian soldiers were killed. Continue Reading »

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| June 14, 2012
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Ex-IDF soldier seeks Palestinian citizenship

Freshly discharged from army, 23-year-old Andre Pshenichnikov moves to West Bank refugee camp, says he wants to be part of Palestinian resistance

Associated Press

 

 

In an odd twist to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian saga, a former IDF soldier has embarked on a new fight: He wants to renounce his Israeli citizenship and move to a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank.

Andre Pshenichnikov, a 23-year-old Jewish immigrant from Tajikistan, was recently detained by Israeli police for residing illegally in the Deheishe Refugee Camp near Bethlehem. There he told police that he wants to break all ties with Israel, give up his Israeli citizenship and obtain a Palestinian one instead. Continue Reading »

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| April 3, 2012
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Neturei Karta in surprise visit to south Lebanon

Two US rabbis visit former synagogue, cemetery in Sidon donning Palestinian keffiyehs

Residents of Sidon in southern Lebanon were surprised on Monday to see two rabbis touring Jewish sites in the city’s old quarter, an AFP journalist said.

Neturei Karta members during Land Day march Photo: Reuters

Neturei Karta members during Land Day march - Photo by Reuters

The two American members of Neturei Karta – a group of anti-Zionist Jews who believe that the state of Israel should not exist – came to a former synagogue inhabited for decades by families in the “Jewish quarter” where now only the Star of David and Hebrew inscriptions are visible.

“For 40 years we have not seen a rabbi in Sidon. Continue Reading »

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