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| June 12, 2013
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Almost seven decades later, Holocaust memorials continue to proliferate.

Hardly an unusual sight in big American cities, but Holocaust museums & memorials are cropping up almost 70 years after WWII, in more out-of-the-way places like Terre Haute, Ind. or Alexandria, La.

 

 

NEW YORK (JTA) — No earth was moved last month at the groundbreaking of one of the nation’s newest Holocaust memorials.

The CANDLES Holocaust museum in Terre Haute, Ind.

The CANDLES Holocaust museum in Terre Haute, Ind.

Instead, the gatherers stood silently, symbolic shovels in hand, on the immaculate lawn where the privately funded $400,000 monument will soon rise. A succession of speakers delivered somber homilies remembering one of the darkest chapters in human history.

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| June 4, 2013
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Southwest Airlines kicks 101 yeshiva students off NY- ATL flight

 

CNN reported U.S. airline saying group was “non-compliant.”

Chaperone of the Jewish students says allegations are false, & that Southwest flight crew behavior was “nasty.”

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

A group of 101 yeshiva students and their eight accompanying chaperones were asked to remove themselves from an airplane which was scheduled to fly from New York to Atlanta Monday morning, CNN reported.

Southwest Airllines

Southwest Airlines – Photo: REUTERS/Tom Gannam

Southwest Airlines reportedly said the group of “non-compliant passengers” would not remain seated or stop using their mobile devices. According to CNN, once the students failed to comply, they were asked to leave the aircraft. Continue Reading »

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| June 1, 2013
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New French museum honors rescuers of WWII Jews

The museum will commemorate at least 35 residents who, according to Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, prevented the pro-Nazi Vichy gov’t from deporting & murdering some 5,000 Jews.

By JTA

 

PARIS — A French town where dozens of residents saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust will open a museum to commemorate the rescuers’ actions.

Chambon-sur-Lignon. (LMFL)

Chambon-sur-Lignon. (LMFL)

The Memory of Chambon museum is scheduled to open its doors on June 5 in Chambon-sur-Lignon, 70 miles south of Lyon in southern France, according to the French news agency AFP.

The new museum will commemorate the actions of at least 35 residents who, according to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, prevented French authorities under the pro-Nazi Vichy government from deporting and murdering approximately 5,000 Jews. Continue Reading »

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| May 31, 2013
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This Sunday in NYC: 1 Million to Celebrate Israel

The annual Celebrate Israel Parade will take over 5th Avenue from 57th Street to 74th Street in Manhattan this coming Sunday, June 2.

The Parade features 28 floats, 17 marching bands, and 35,000 marchers.

By Boruch Shubert

 

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In what promises to be a massive outpouring of heartfelt public affection for the Jewish state, the annual Celebrate Israel Parade will take over Fifth Avenue in Manhattan this coming Sunday, June 2. Featuring 28 floats, 17 marching bands, and 35,000 marchers, the parade will likely attract its usual crowd of hundreds of thousands of joyous spectators, representing a cross-section of the Jewish community and supporters of Israel. Continue Reading »

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| May 29, 2013
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Infamous Israeli ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ restaurant owner facing U.S. deportation

It apears Samy Bouzaglo’s worst crime wasn’t sassing Ramsey on TV, but what was discussed at the US immigration court proceedings.

 

An unsavory appearance on Gordon Ramsay’s “Kitchen Nightmares” almost forced a Scotsdale restaurant owner to close up shop. But it turns out Samy Bouzaglo’s worst crime wasn’t sassing Ramsey or becoming very entertainingly unhinged on Facebook (and then blaming the crazy posts on hackers).

Samy and Amy Bouzaglo, Amy's baking company

Samy and Amy Bouzaglo of Amy’s Baking Company. – Photo: Facebook

Bouzaglo, who runs Amy’s Baking Company Bakery Boutique & Bistro with his wife Amy, might get deported. To Israel.

His lawyer had no comment on how Bouzaglo ended up in immigration court proceedings, but it seems it has something to do with jail time the Moroccan-born Israeli did for drug distribution and extortion charges before his arrival in the US 13 years ago.

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| May 29, 2013
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World’s Oldest Complete Torah Scroll Discovered in Italy

The University of Bologna reports that an 850-year-old Jewish Scroll, written in the Babylonian tradition, had been mislabeled by a librarian in 1889.

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An Italian university has found what it claims to be the oldest complete Torah scroll known to exist, the BBC reported on Tuesday.

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A Torah scroll – Photo: Dreamstime

The scroll, which was found at the library of the University of Bologna, was believed to be no more than a few hundred years old, the report said. But recent carbon dating tests suggest it was written some 850 years ago, making it the oldest complete Torah ever found, Mauro Perani, the university’s Hebrew professor said. Continue Reading »

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| May 26, 2013
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In Senegal, a bush-tribe called ‘Sons of Israel’ claim Jewish heritage

“We are all practicing Muslims and we don’t want to become Jewish,” Fadiga says. “In fact, we don’t like to talk too much about our Jewish background, but we don’t hide it either.”

BANI ISRAEL, Senegal (JTA) — He will welcome you into his earthen-floor home, introduce you to his three wives, and let you sample their cooking. But Dougoutigo Fadiga does not want foreigners to come near the sacred tree of his village deep in the Senegalese bush.

Dougoutigo Fadiga, Senegal

Dougoutigo Fadiga outside the Bani Israel clinic near the Senegalese village’s sacred tree, May 2013. – Photo: Cnaan Liphshiz

“The tree is holy grounds,” says Fadiga, president of this remote settlement of 4,000 souls.

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| May 25, 2013
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A Jewish Family’s 21st Century Exodus from Egypt

Dina Ovadia, born in Egypt, didn’t know she was Jewish until she was 15 years old, when local Islamists forced her family to flee Egypt or die.

By Yossi Aloni

 

Dina Ovadia, today a soldier in the IDF Spokesperson Unit, was born in Egypt not knowing she was Jewish until the age of 15. In an emotional interview published on the IDF website, Ovadia spoke about her childhood in Alexandria, the earthshaking event that changed her life, the discovery of her Jewish identity, and her immigration to Israel and integration into local society.

A Jewish Family's Emotional and Harrowing Exodus from Egypt

Dina Ovadia, today a soldier in the IDF Spokesperson Unit – Photo courtesy: IDF Spokesperson Unit

 

Going by the name Roulin Abdullah throughout her childhood, Dina always felt that she belonged somewhere and to something else, but wasn’t quite sure what that was. Continue Reading »

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| May 15, 2013
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Moroccan King is preserving Cape Verde’s Jewish heritage sites.

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI is paying for the restoration of Jewish heritage sites in Cape Verde, and accordingly, his Jewish adviser says it reflects the king’s recognition of the Jewish influence on his country’s culture.

PRAIA, Cape Verde (JTA) — A Portuguese rabbi and a Moroccan diplomat stood shoulder to shoulder in a Catholic cemetery here while 200 mourners howled in grief as they buried a resident of this island off the western coast of Africa.

Moroccan diplomat Abdellah Boutadghart

Abdellah Boutadghart, right, of the Moroccan embassy in Senegal, and Rabbi Eliezer Di Martino from Lisbon on May 2 at Praia’s main cemetery.

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| May 10, 2013
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Hungarian Court convicts 3 men of anti-Semitic behavior at World Jewish Congress

Prosecution spokeswoman says all 3 men around 20 years old, shouted slogans such as “Sieg Heil” & gave the Nazi salute at WJC participants.

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Hungarian authorities say three men have been convicted of shouting anti-Semitic slogans and making Nazi salutes at Jews attending an international meeting in Budapest.

The World Jewish Congress. – Photo by ReutersHaaretz Archive

The World Jewish Congress. – Photo by Reuters/Haaretz Archive

The Budapest Chief Prosecutor’s office said Friday that two of the men were given suspended two-year prison terms. The third man, who earlier had been given a suspended sentence for a separate crime, was sentenced to three years in prison but has appealed the decision. Continue Reading »

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| May 10, 2013
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Morocco’s king helped restore Jewish burial site off African coast

The Moroccan gov’t continues to be a ‘major benefactor’ of heritage preservation efforts on the island of Cape Verde, even though the Jewish-Moroccan community has long since disappeared.

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A Jewish burial plot in the island state of Cape Verde was rededicated with help from the king of Morocco.

Jewish gravesite, Cape Verde.

Jewish gravesites during their inauguration in the municipal cemetery of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde.- Photo: AFP

 

About 100 people attended the rededication ceremony last week.

“The support of King Mohammed VI to this project is representative of Morocco’s attachment to the preservation of its patrimony – Arab, Jewish or Berber,” Andre Azoulay, the king’s Jewish advisor, said in a statement read during the ceremony by Abdellah Boutadghart, a Moroccan diplomat. Continue Reading »

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| May 3, 2013
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Church of Scotland says Jews have no rights in reclaiming Land of Israel

 

The report, titled “The inheritance of Abraham? A report on the ‘promised land’” argues that, “Christians should not be supporting any claims by Jews, or any other people, to an exclusive or even privileged divine right to possess particular territory.”

By JTA

 

Scottish Jews said they were “outraged” by a recent Church of Scotland paper which denies Jews any special claim to the land of Israel.

Church of Scotland – HAARETZ

 

The report entitled “The Inheritance of Abraham” rejects “claims that scripture offers any peoples a privileged claim for possession of a particular territory” and says that “reconciliation can only be possible if the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem and the blockade of Gaza are ended.” Continue Reading »

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| May 2, 2013
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BBC blocks documentary: Jewish exodus from Jerusalem is ‘myth’

Israeli-born filmmaker accuses BBC of bowing to ‘political naivete’ & succumbing to political pressure.

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An Israeli-born filmmaker is slamming the British Broadcasting Corp. for pulling his documentary on the Jewish exodus from Jerusalem in 70 A.D.

Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem

“Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem,” Francesco Hayez (1867).

Ilan Ziv said in a blog post on April 27 that the BBC exhibited “a mixture of incompetence, political naivete, conscious or subconscious political pressure and ultimately, I believe, a lack of courage of broadcasters when they are faced with the complexity of the Middle East issue and the intense emotions, fears and aggression it generates.” Continue Reading »

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| April 30, 2013
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Hungarian activist attacked by racist soccer fans ahead of Jewish Congress

After arguing with a group of supporters chanting a Nazi slogan, Ferenc Orosz, chairman of the Raoul Wallenberg Association, says he was assaulted at a local soccer match just days before Hungary is due to host the World Jewish Congress.

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The head of a Hungarian anti-racism group said far-right soccer fans shouted “Sieg Heil” and attacked him, breaking his nose days before the country is due to host the World Jewish Congress.

Supporters of Hungary's far right Jobbik party.

Supporters of Hungary’s far right Jobbik party march in protest of the government’s economic policies in Budapest, Hungary, May 12, 2012. Photo: AP

Ferenc Orosz, chairman of the Raoul Wallenberg Association, told Reuters he was assaulted after arguing with a group of supporters chanting the Nazi slogan at a match between the Hungarian teams Videoton and Ferencvaros in Budapest on Sunday. Continue Reading »

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| April 29, 2013
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Hundreds Participate in Annual Pilgrimage to Africa’s Oldest Synagogue

Jewish worshippers completed the annual pilgrimage to the El Ghriba Synagogue, Africa’s oldest, amid heightened security.

By Arutz Sheva staff

 

Hundreds of Jewish worshippers on Sunday completed an annual pilgrimage to Ghriba, Africa’s oldest synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba, where security was high to prevent any violence.

Jews pray inside the El Ghriba synagogue in Djerba – Reuters

Organizers expressed satisfaction at the number of pilgrims, including Israelis who flew in from Europe, who took part in the ritual which had been scrapped in 2011, when a massive uprising toppled the regime of strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the AFP news agency reported. Continue Reading »

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