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| November 26, 2013
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Jewish immigration from France to Israel up by 49%

French Jewish immigration to Israel has increased by 49% in the first 9 months of 2013 compared to last year.

By JTA

 

Through September, 2,185 French Jews have immigrated to Israel, compared to 1,469 immigrants during the same time frame in 2012, according to Jewish Agency for Israel figures. The number of immigrants who arrived from France to Israel during the whole of 2012 was 1,907.

New Immigrants – Photo courtesy: Nefesh B’Nefesh

On average, Jewish immigration to Israel from the rest of the world under the  Law of Return showed an increase of 1 percent during the first nine months of 2013.

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| November 25, 2013
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Norwegian gov’t official: Muslims and Jews circumcise out of ignorance

Norwegian gov’t’s child welfare adviser says minorities’ parents would shy away from  circumcision if they knew pain, risk & lack of health benefits involved.

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The Norwegian government’s child welfare adviser said Jews and Muslims would stop circumcising children if they learn more about the risks and pain that the ‘procedure involves.

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A Jewish circumcision ceremony. – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

“With good information about risk, pain and lack of health benefits of the intervention, I think parents from minorities would voluntarily abstain from circumcising children,” Anne Lindboe, Norway’s Children’s Ombudsmen, told the Norwegian Aftenpost daily last week.

Lindboe, who last year advised Jews and Muslims to replace circumcision with “a symbolic ritual,” also told the paper that non-medical circumcision of pre-teen boys should be outlawed and those performing it should be punished similarly to people who use violence against children. Continue Reading »

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| November 25, 2013
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Victim of Looted Nazi Art: Authority’s Handling is ‘Scandalous’

Interview reveals Germany refuses to return all the looted works, publicize what was found or maintain transparency.

By AFP and Arutz Sheva Staff

 

A granddaughter of German painter Otto Dix, a few of whose works were discovered in the vast trove of Nazi-looted art stashed in a Munich flat, has called Germany’s approach to the Third Reich’s spoils “scandalous,” AFP reports.

Stolen artwork seized by Nazis – Photo: Reuters

“Germany, generally speaking, has never really addressed the issue of works of art seized by the Nazis. It should have done that much earlier, soon after the war,” Nana Dix told AFP in a telephone interview from her Munich home.  Continue Reading »

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| November 24, 2013
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Man charged in Brooklyn with assaulting Jew in local ‘Knockout Game’

 

Amrit Marajh, not charged with a hate crime, was released on just $750 bail.

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A man accused of participating in the “Knockout Game” was charged with assaulting an Orthodox Jewish man in Brooklyn.

NYPD police vans in New York City’s Times Square.

NYPD police vans in New York City’s Times Square. – Photo: AP

Amrit Marajh of Brooklyn was arraigned on Saturday and released on $750 bail. He is charged with misdemeanor assault and harassment. He was not charged with a hate crime, according to the New York Times.

The attack reportedly occurred early Friday morning, when the 24-year-old Orthodox man says he was boxed in by a group of men and punched out by one of them. Continue Reading »

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| November 21, 2013
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Dutch Roman Catholic station pulls Jews-killed-Jesus ad off air following protests


The video, aired at the end of a children’s program on a Roman Catholic station, featured a song which accuses Jews of plotting to kill Jesus.

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A Dutch Catholic public broadcaster has apologized and pulled off the air a video clip featuring a song which accuses Jews of plotting to kill Jesus.

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The Jews’ fault? Jesus as imagined in the film Passion of the Christ (2004) – Photo: Reuters

The video, which was aired earlier this month at the end of a children’s program on the Rooms-Katholiek Kerkgenootschap (Roman Catholic Church Association) television station featured a song by Pearl Jozefzoon, about how Jews regarded Jesus. Continue Reading »

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| November 15, 2013
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Simon Cowell to visit Israel in move to embrace Judaism

 

X Factor creator, whose father was Jewish and is interested in his girlfriend’s religion talks of a visit to Israel.

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Music mogul Simon Cowell plans to embrace the Jewish faith of his girlfriend Lauren Silverman, who is pregnant with their first child, as well as make a secret trip to Israel, British tabloid The Mirror reported on Thursday, quoting sources close to Cowell.

Simon Cowell attends the premiere of X Factor in West Hollywood, California September 5, 2013.

Simon Cowell attends the premiere of X Factor in West Hollywood, California September 5, 2013.- Photo: REUTERS/Phil McCarten

The 54-year-old X Factor creator, judge and producer has Jewish roots – his father Eric was Jewish – but Cowell was raised Roman Catholic.

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| November 15, 2013
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Italian police raid homes of neo-Nazis spreding anti-Semitism online

The 35 arrested suspects, accused of spreading racial hatred & anti-Semitism, had opened a new website that replaced the Italian branch of the white supremacist website Stormfront.org.

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Italian police raided the homes of 35 suspected neo-Nazi sympathizers, accusing them of setting up an online forum to spread anti-Semitic ideology, on Thursday. The operation was conducted in 22 provinces around the country, including in Rome and Milan.

A neo-Nazi rally in Germany.


A neo-Nazi rally in Germany.- Photo: AP

The suspects were accused of spreading ideas on the Internet “based on racial and ethnic hatred and incitement to commit acts of discrimination and violence for racist and ethnic reasons.” Continue Reading »

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| November 15, 2013
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American Jews Pleed with Washington not to return Jewish antiquities to Iraq

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) said, “These sacred artifacts were taken from the Iraqi Jewish community & thus do not belong to the Iraqi gov’t; rather they belong to the thousands of Iraqi Jews, an ancient & once-vibrant community, who were exiled many years ago.”

By SAM SOKOL

 

 

CHICAGO – A treasure trove of Iraqi Jewish documents on display in Washington, DC, should not leave the United States, a coalition of Jewish organizations demanded on Tuesday.

An Iraqi employee examines a document in the Jewish archives in Baghdad.- getty photos

n Iraqi employee examines a document in the Jewish archives in Baghdad.- Getty photos

The documents, which the Hussein regime confiscated from the Jewish community, were discovered by coalition forces in the basement of the headquarters of the Mukhabarat, or secret police, in 2003 and document centuries of life in Mesopotamia. Continue Reading »

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| November 15, 2013
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Conservative American synagogues wrestle with non-Jewish participation

‘Since a large percentage of our younger families include interfaith marriages, we want to keep our children as loyal & involved Conservative Jews, and we realize that in order to do so, we need to be welcoming to their partners, spouses & families’

 

 

NEW YORK (JTA) — To an outsider, the battles might seem to be over trifles — in some cases, just a few feet.

Where may a non-Jewish parent stand in the synagogue during his child’s bar mitzvah? Can a non-Jew open the holy ark? Should non-Jewish synagogue members have voting rights?

A non-Jewish woman is among those at a Torah reading at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington. Many Conservative synagogues are finding new ways for non-Jews to participate in synagogue life. (Adas Israel)

A non-Jewish woman is among those at a Torah reading at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington.

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| November 12, 2013
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Jewish leaders discuss assimilation at 2013 GA meeting in Jerusalem

 

Pew Research Center report shocked Jewish American community seeking to cope with declining endogamy.

By SAM SOKOL

 

 

The leaders of Jewish federations are fiercely debating the effectiveness of their programs for maintaining Jewish engagement, in light of a recent study detailing a severe decline in communal affiliation.

JFNA President Jerry Silverman - Screenshot

JFNA President Jerry Silverman – Screenshot

Last month’s Pew Research Center report detailing spiraling levels of assimilation and rapidly declining endogamy among American Jews is one of the primary topics of discussion at this week’s Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly in Jerusalem.

The GA, an annual event that is held in Israel every five years, brings together professional and lay leaders of community federations through the United States and Canada to discuss common interests. Continue Reading »

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| November 12, 2013
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Jews worldwide unit in providing aid for Philippine relief

U.S. & U.K. Jewish groups raise donations for relief assistance.

Israel sends IsraAID, medical experts to Typhoon Haiyan disaster zone to evaluate how to best deploy search & rescue, and deployment of field medical teams.

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The Israeli military dispatched a small team of rescue experts on Sunday night to the storm-stricken Philippines to “determine the best rapid response the IDF can provide.”

Typhoon Haiyan

Residents clear the road of a fallen electric post after Typhoon Haiyan hit Daanbantayan town in Cebu Province, central Philippines November 11, 2013. – Photo: Reuters

The team will prepare the ground for the possible arrival of a larger contingency of emergency responders in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms in recorded history. Continue Reading »

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| November 11, 2013
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Nazi-looted art found in Munich had Goebbels as past owner

 

Newly reported document reveals pieces from the discovered collection in Munich was sold by Hitler’s propaganda minister for a symbolic price. Goebbels reportedly received 4,000 Swiss Francs for some 200 pieces of art.

By Ynet

More details are emerging in the affair of the 1,406 pieces of stolen art found last week in a Munich apartment.

Contract for sale of Jewish-owned artwork by Joseph Goebbels from Bild's report (Photo: Bild)

Contract for sale of Jewish-owned artwork by Joseph Goebbels from Bild’s report – Photo: Bild

A document published Sunday by the German paper Bild proved that more than 200 of the pieces in the collection, that are worth nearly a billion dollars, were sold in 1940 to an art dealer named Hildebrand Gurlitt by Joseph Goebbels – Hitler‘s propaganda minister – for only 4,000 Swiss Francs. Continue Reading »

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| November 8, 2013
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29% of European Jews considered emigrating due to extent of antisemitism

1 in 5 of the respondents said they had personally experienced at least 1 incident of physical assault or anti-Semitic verbal abuse in the year leading up to the survey.

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Nearly a third of respondents to a survey on anti-Semitism in Europe said they “seriously considered emigrating” because of perceived anti-Semitism.

Jewish man in front of swastika at Shoah memorial

Jewish man in front of swastika at Shoah memorial – Photo: REUTERS

In the survey among 5,847 Jews from nine European Union member states, 29 percent of all respondents said that they considered emigrating in recent years because they did “not feel safe” living in their countries as Jews, according to Morten Kjaerum, the director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights which conducted the research among Jews from Sweden, France, Belgium, Britain, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Romania and Latvia. Continue Reading »

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| November 4, 2013
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Was Paul McCartney the Jewish Beatle?

 

Sir Paul’s life has been very interwoven with Jewish friends and loved ones throughout his career.

By Seth Rogovoy

 

Sir Paul McCartney recently released “New,” his first album of original rock songs since 2007’s “Memory Almost Full.” Given the 71-year-old McCartney’s love affair with all things Jewish for the past half-century — including collaborators, business associates, girlfriends and wives — the title could well be meant as a transliteration of the all-purpose Jewish word nu.

Lovely Linda With the Lovely Flowers in Her Hair” Sir Paul McCartney’s first wife, born Linda Eastman, grew up in Scarsdale and came from a prominent Jewish family. - Getty Images

“Lovely Linda With the Lovely Flowers in Her Hair” Sir Paul McCartney’s first wife, born Linda Eastman, grew up in Scarsdale and came from a prominent Jewish family.

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| November 4, 2013
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Which studio gets Hollywood stars to work for free?

Kevin Costner, Elizabeth Taylor, Sandra Bullock to Whoopi Goldberg, Moria Films enlists stars for a Jewish cause.

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One Hollywood film studio has commanded only A-list talent since its inception — Elizabeth Taylor, Morgan Freeman, Sandra Bullock, Michael Douglas, Nicole Kidman — and they all worked for free. What kind of studio head has such pull? It’s Rabbi Marvin Hier, the mini-mogul of Moriah Films, the movie division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Actress Sandra Bullock, Oct. 10, 2013.

Actress Sandra Bullock, Oct. 10, 2013.- Photo: Reuters

Founded by Hier in 1981, Moriah Films has won two Academy Awards for its historical documentaries. Continue Reading »

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