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Austrian anti-Semitism victim: Police apathetic

A rabbi who was subjected to an anti-Semitic verbal attack last week, told The Jerusalem Post on Monday that he made three attempts to urge the police to intervene but that at least a dozen officers remained passive and indifferent to the anti-Jewish tirades. An extremist right-wing soccer hooligan verbally attacked the rabbi, who serves Vienna’s tiny [...]

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Order from Hermann Göring to Reinhard Heydrich

To Gruppenführer Heydrich: Supplementing the task assigned to you by the decree of January 24, 1939, to solve the Jewish problem by means of emigration and evacuation in the best possible way according to present conditions, I hereby charge you to carry out preparations as regards organizational, financial, and material matters for a total solution [...]

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‘Us vs them’ fears in German debate over ritual Jewish, Muslim circumcisions

Rabbi David Goldberg had performed about 25 ritual circumcisions this year before a regional court ruled in June that the practice amounted to causing criminal bodily harm. Despite the decision, he expects to perform the same number in the second half of the year. “I haven’t changed anything,” said Goldberg, one of Germany‘s few mohels [...]

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U.S. Jewish NGOs to get 97% of Homeland Security’s defense grant in 2012

Jewish non-profit organizations in the United States will receive 97 percent of the funds granted by the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year 2012, money which is aimed at dealing with security threats those institutions face.

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Agreement will allow ritual slaughter in the Netherlands

Dutch Agriculture Minister Hans Bleker signed an agreement with Jewish and Muslim religious leaders and slaughterhouses which will prevent a ban on ritual slaughter. Under the agreement signed Tuesday, animals can continue to be ritually slaughtered as long as they lose consciousness within 40 seconds of their throats being cut. After 40 seconds they must [...]

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Islamic Sunday school pulls anti-Semitic teachings from website

A Toronto-area Islamic organization is facing a police investigation after one of its Sunday school texts drew a comparison between Judaism and Nazism and accused “treacherous” Jews of conspiring to assassinate the Prophet Mohammed. The East End Madrassah, which holds classes in a Scarborough public school, apologized for the offending statements, removed them from its [...]

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BÄCK (BAECK), LEO

(1873-1956) The central personality of German Jewry during the Nazi period, a great rabbinical scholar, teacher, and community leader. Born in Prussia, Baeck was called in 1912 to serve the most prominent Jewish congregation in Berlin, and except for several years spent as a chaplain during WWI, would hold that position for the next thirty [...]

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Zionism versus Bolshevism.

A Struggle for the Soul of the Jewish People By the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill. SOME people like Jews and some do not; but no thoughtful man can doubt the fact that they are beyond all question the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has ever appeared in the world. Disraeli, the Jew [...]

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A Missionary Impulse

“The Jews are like rats,” Peter Beinart’s grandmother told him when he was a boy. “We leave the sinking ship.” This grandmother — who was born in Egypt and lived in South Africa but dreamed of joining her brother in Israel — believed that Israel was the last refuge of a hounded people, and she [...]

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JEWS THREATEN BOYCOTT OF MICETRAP RECORDS

NEW JERSEY JEWISH NEWS

Jews in New Jersey are joinging forces this week to organize a Jewish boycott of Micetrap Records located in Maple Shade. Ra…

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