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| December 22, 2012
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Hundreds of fragments from pre-WWII Greek Jewish graves finally found

The remains of destroyed Jewish graves were uncovered in Thessaloniki by police after a 70-year search.

 

The 668 fragments were found buried in a plot of land in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city, following a 70-year search for the remains of graves smashed when the city’s main Jewish cemetery was destroyed.

Headstones destroyed during the Nazi occupation of Greece during World War II.

Headstones destroyed during the Nazi occupation of Greece during World War II. – Photo by AP

The head of the city’s Jewish community, David Saltiel, said most of the gravestones found dated from the mid-1800s up until World War II.

“This is our history,” Saltiel, head of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece, told The Associated Press. Continue Reading »

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| December 20, 2012
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In Jamaica, the Jewish future is in conversions & intermarriages

From 1849, there were enough Jews serving in the House of Assembly that it didn’t meet on Yom Kippur.

When Jamaica achieved independence from Britain in 1962, its 1st ambassador to the U.S. was a Jewish businessman & lawyer, Neville Ashenheim.

By Debra Rubin

 

KINGSTON, Jamaica (JTA) Marie Reynolds used the living waters of Kingston’s Rockford Mineral Baths for the ritual immersion required to complete her conversion to Judaism, formally becoming a member of one of the oldest Jewish communities in the Western Hemisphere: Jamaican Jewry.

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The tiny, racially mixed community — “200 souls,” as Jewish community leader Ainsley Henriques puts it — may well depend on Jews by choice like Reynolds. Continue Reading »

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| December 8, 2012
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Rare Holocaust images from newly found Nazi albums

Here are the pictures of daily Jewish life during the Holocaust that were hidden in private albums of the Nazi Wehrmacht soldiers for years.

Dariusz Dekiert, a devout Christian from Poland, locates and hands them over to the Jewish, Shem Olam Institute. ‘I see it as rectification,’ he tells Yedioth Ahronoth, a Hebrew language Israeli newspaper

By Yehuda Shohat

 

Like children their age all over the world in recent decades, these children too stood in front of a photographer, followed his orders and smiled. The result appeared almost routine, but there is nothing routine about this photo.

It is a picture of Jewish children during the Holocaust. Continue Reading »

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| December 3, 2012
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10 Thousand rally in Budapest after rightist demands list of Jewish ‘security risks’

On Tuesday, a Hungarian far-right politician urged the gov’t to draw up a list of Jews who pose ‘national security risk’, stirred outrage among Jewish leaders.

 

 

Thousands attended an anti-Nazi rally Sunday in Hungary organized by Jewish and civic groups to protest a far-right lawmaker’s call to screen Jews for national security risks.

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Participants wave Hungarian national flags and a flag of Romas, right, as thousands of people attend a protest called Mass Demonstration Against Nazism in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. – Photo by AP

The rally was unusual because politicians from both the government and opposition parties shared a stage outside parliament. Continue Reading »

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| November 30, 2012
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Doctor euthanizes daughter then takes his own life

Police Report: Father in Nir Yisrael a community in Southern Israel, takes own life after rendering euthanasia to daughter suffering from terminal cancer.

 

Tragedy befell the southern Israel moshav of Nir Yisrael on Friday morning, when a local doctor killed his daughter, who was suffering from terminal cancer, before taking his own life, Lachish subdistrict police reported.

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MDA Ambulance – Photo: WIkicommons

Lachish District Spokeswoman Shlomit Zachariya said that the father was a doctor in his 60s, who decided to euthanize his daughter, either with an injection or an overdose of some sort, rather than see her suffer a slow death from cancer. Continue Reading »

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| November 26, 2012
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Norway’s police chief apologizes over World War II deportations of Jews

During WWII, 772 Norwegian Jews & Jewish refugees were deported to Nazi concentration camps

A 91-year-old man charged with Nazi crimes in Germany

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Norway’s chief of police Monday expressed “regret” over the police force’s role in the arrests and deportations of Jews from the German-occupied country during World War II.

“On behalf of Norwegian police and those involved in the deportations of Norwegian Jews, I wish to express regret,” Odd Reidar Humlegard said on public broadcaster NRK.

Anti-Semitic graffit on an Olso storefont in 1941.

Anti-Semitic graffit on an Olso storefont in 1941. – Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The apology coincided with the 70th anniversary of the deportation of 532 Norwegian Jews on a vessel named Donau. Continue Reading »

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| November 9, 2012
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Harvard ‘deeply troubled’ by Arab’s criticism over Israeli buffet

Harvard Business School responds to former student’s criticism on Facebook, who’s description of Israeli dining station is an affront to Arabs.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

Harvard Business School is “deeply troubled” for having offended Arab sensibilities due to the mischaracterization of various foods appearing on the menu of the dining room’s Israeli Mezze Station, Brian Kenny, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer of the school, was quoted by Al-Arabiya as sayingFriday.

Menu of Israeli Mezze Station - Photo: Courtesy

Menu of Israeli Mezze Station – Photo: Courtesy

The controversy over the Israeli food station arose after Lebanese Harvard graduate Sara el-Yafi on October 28 posted to her Facebook page a letter of protest to the University describing the Israeli buffet’s menu as an affront to Arabs, as Hummus and Couscous, for example, are not of Israeli origin.

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| November 1, 2012
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Tunisian Law Enforcement Foil Plot to Kidnap Local Jews

4 people arrested for allegedly plotting to kidnap Jews for ransom.
With less than 2,000 Jews remaining in Tunisia, they claim they are the victims of an ‘intimidation campaign.’

By Reuters

 

Tunisian security forces arrested four people for allegedly plotting to kidnap local Jews and hold them for ransom, an Interior Ministry official said on Thursday.

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Pilgrims, most of them Jewish, walk towards the synagogue of El-Ghriba, in DJerba island, southern Tunisia – Photo by AP

There are less than 2,000 Jews in Tunisia, mostly living in Zarzis and the nearby island of Djerba in the south of the country. Continue Reading »

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| October 15, 2012
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Hebrew University: Jews are less than 0.2% of mankind

Hebrew University study reveals global Jewish population reached 13.75 million in 2012

43% of world’s Jewish population lives in Israel

Anav Silverman, Tazpit

 

The global Jewish population reached 13.75 million in the past year, with an increase of 88,000 people, a study by Hebrew University Professor Sergio Della Pergola reveals.

One out of every 514 people in the world is Jewish

One out of every 514 people in the world is Jewish

According to the study, one out of every 514 people in the world is Jewish, less than 0.2% of mankind.

About 43% of the world’s Jewish community lives in Israel, making Israel the country with the largest Jewish population. Continue Reading »

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| October 15, 2012
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Alvin Roth, an American Jewish professor, shares Nobel Prize in economics

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said: The work of Roth & Lloyd Shapley has sparked a ‘flourishing field of research’ & helped improve the performance of many markets.

Two Americans were awarded the Nobel economics prize on Monday for studies on the match-making taking place when doctors are coupled up with hospitals, students with schools and human organs with transplant recipients.

The presentation of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2012.

Per Krusell, Staffan Normark, Peter Gardenfors & Tore Ellingsen of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences present the winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in Stockholm – Photo by Reuters

The work of Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley has sparked a “flourishing field of research” and helped improve the performance of many markets, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. Continue Reading »

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| October 8, 2012
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French President to Jewish Leaders: We will fight anti-Semitism with ‘greatest firmness’

Meeting between President Hollande & community heads comes after raids on Islamist cell, shooting incident near Parisian synagogue.

France is boosting security at Jewish religious sites after blanks were fired at a synagogue west of Paris amid renewed concerns about anti-Semitism around the country.

French President Francois Hollande meeting with Jewish leaders.


France’s President Francois Hollande and French Jewish leaders following a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on October 7, 2012. Photo by AFP

French President Francois Hollande met Sunday with leaders of the country’s Jewish community and pledged to fight extremism and anti-Semitism “with the greatest firmness.”

He said that authorities “in the coming days, in the coming hours” will increase security at Jewish religious sites so they won’t be subject to the kind of attack that targeted a synagogue in the Paris suburb of Argenteuil on Saturday night. Continue Reading »

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| October 5, 2012
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Long-lost Jews are slowly returning to their roots in Southern Italy

A fervent congregation of about 35 ‘Returning Jews’ in San Nicandro have won the embrace of Italy’s Orthodox Jewish mainstream community.

By JTA

In the Christian cemetery of a sleepy farming town on the spur of Italy’s boot, Lucia Leone looks up at a row of tombs marked incongruously by Stars of David.

“That’s my mother,” she said. “And that’s my grandmother and great-grandmother. And that’s Donato Manduzio, who started everything.”

Manduzio, who died in 1948, was a self-taught local peasant, a disabled World War I veteran who in 1930 embraced Judaism on his own after having a visionary dream. A charismatic figure with a reputation as a faith healer, Manduzio attracted dozens of followers among his poverty-stricken neighbors. Continue Reading »

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| October 3, 2012
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18th Century Jewish headstones recovered from Vistula River in Poland

The 17 headstones pieces from the Jewish cemetery in Brodno were recovered from the bottom of the Vistula River.

By JTA

 

Pieces of Jewish gravestones found at the bottom of Poland’s longest river have been returned to a Jewish cemetery.

The 17 gravestone pieces from the Jewish cemetery in the Brodno district were found at the bottom of the Vistula River, which is at a record low water level due to drought.

Historians salvage 17th century marble and alabaster decorative structures in the Vistula River.

Historians salvage 17th century marble and alabaster decorative structures in the Vistula River. – Photo by AP

In addition to the gravestones, fittings of the Royal Palace in Warsaw including a fountain, vases and marble steps, which the Swedes tried to take out of the city in the seventeenth century, were also discovered. Continue Reading »

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| September 28, 2012
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Senior Jewish Figure Threatened on Streets of Berlin

A Berlin police spokesman said ‘mutual threats’ during the Yom Kippur incident were being investigated, but would not give more details.

By DPA

One of Germany’s leading Jewish figures said Thursday he had been threatened on a Berlin street because of his religion.

A Berlin street.


A Berlin street. – Photo by Wikicommons/Alexrk2

“The culprit evidently felt provoked by the sight of a Jewish prayer book,” said Stephan Kramer, general secretary of the Central Council of Jews.

A city police spokesman said “mutual threats” during the Wednesday incident were being investigated, but declined to give more details.

The President of the Central Council, Dieter Graumann, told dpa that “this had the appearance of being an act of racism.” Continue Reading »

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| September 27, 2012
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Azerbaijan Convicts 3 Over Plan to Murder Jews & Connects Plan to Iranian Official

Plot’s leader admits in interview that Iran contracted the men as ‘pay-back’ for the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists.

Three people have been convicted of plotting to kill teachers at a Jewish school in Azerbaijan.

A court in the capital Baku on Thursday found plot ringleader Rasim Aliyev and two other Azerbaijani citizens guilty of plotting the assassination of public officials and gun-smuggling. Aliyev was given a 14-year sentence while the others received 13 and eight years.

A mosque and the city waterfront are reflected in a new building in the Azeri capital Baku.

A mosque and the city waterfront are reflected in a new building in the Azeri capital Baku, September 8, 2012.

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