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Fast Forward 6 Women Arrested at Western Wall Prayer Protest
Six women were detained by Jerusalem police for wearing prayer shawls as more than 100 women gathered for the monthly Women of the Wall service at the Western Wall. The detainments Thursday, on the first day of the Hebrew month Kislev, follow the arrest at last month’s service of Women of the Wall leader Anat…
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Fast Forward London Package Bomb Attempt Was Hate Crime
Metropolitan Police reportedly said the recent delivery of an explosive device to a house near London was an anti-Semitic hate crime. The explosive device was sent to a house in Clayhall near London, causing police to close the area to traffic on Monday, according to the Ilford Recorder, a local newspaper. The report did not…
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Fast Forward 50 German Lawmakers Back Circumcision Ban
A new proposal by liberal and left-leaning legislators in Germany would bar ritual circumcision for boys under the age of 14. Some 50 members of Parliament – from the Social Democratic Party, the Left Party and the Greens – have signed on to the proposal, which they hope will preempt another bill currently awaiting parliamentary…
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Fast Forward Australia Plans Wide Probe of ‘Vile’ Child Sex Abuse
The announcement by Australia’s Prime Minister of a royal commission into the “vile and evil” scourge of child sex abuse has reignited the controversial issue inside the Jewish community. Julia Gillard announced Monday that the inquiry would include children under the care of all religious organizations and that it would focus on the response of…
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Fast Forward Norway Pulls Honor for ‘Jewish Influence’ Activist
The Norwegian Royal Palace reportedly has dropped controversial plans to recognize a converted Muslim who is accused of anti-Semitism. The decision to withdraw the honor for Trond Ali Linstad was announced Tuesday after Oslo Mayor Fabian Stang canceled his participation in the award ceremony. Linstad, 69, is a former communist activist who converted to Islam…
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Fast Forward Kosher Cheese Company Slammed by Sandy
A flooded warehouse, decomposed wall beams, sodden sheetrock, crumbling brick walls, a fried electrical system and about $2 million worth of rotten cheese waiting to be chucked: That’s only a glimpse of the woes facing Brigitte Mizrahi. Mizrahi owns Anderson International Foods, a small kosher cheese company she founded in 1995, and her warehouse is…
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Fast Forward Polish Far-Rightists Take Aim at Jews
Young Polish nationalists and anti-Semitic extreme rightists called for the overthrow of Poland’s government at the republic’s Independence Day march. At Sunday’s event, the groups established a new nationalist organization called the National Movement. Many of the participants in the march waved green flags with Celtic crosses and phalanx. Green flags in prewar Poland were…
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News French Police Bust Anti-Semitic Graffiti Guy
French police reportedly arrested a 21-year-old man suspected of scrawling “death to Jews” on a synagogue near Paris. The man is suspected of writing the message with a black marker on Nov. 7 or Nov. 8 on the entrance to the synagogue of Pantin in Seine-Saint-Denis near Paris, according to the municipality. The radio network…
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