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News When Jews Found Refuge in Pakistan
When Hazel Kahan went back to Lahore, Pakistan, in 2011 for the first time in 40 years, her childhood homes were completely different. Her first home, formerly a tan stone mansion covered in flowery vines, was now completely painted in white and inhabited by the Rokhri family, one of Pakistan’s most powerful political clans. Her…
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News Moscow Tear Gas Attack Shows Rise of Anti-Semitism in Putin Era
On the second night of Rosh Hashanah, a group of five or six men disrupted a Jewish concert in the Great Hall of Moscow’s International Music House with a tear gas attack. A half-hour into the program, the men, who were seated in the first row, began shouting menacing insults at rock star Andrey Makarevich,…
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Culture Journalist Anne Sinclair Opens Up About Everything — Except DSK
‘I’m a woman, I’m French, I’m Jewish, I’m a journalist, and I’m the granddaughter of my grandfather.” Anne Sinclair, 66, sipping a cappuccino at the Peninsula Hotel on Manhattan’s 5th Avenue, says that she has many identities, and now wants to put together “the pieces of her origin.” In the francophone world, she is perhaps…
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Fast Forward British Youth Soccer Team Quits in Face of Abuse
The coach of a Jewish youth soccer team in England took his players off the field after claiming they had been bombarded with “anti-Semitic abuse.” Members of the Manchester Maccabi team said they had endured anti-Jewish taunts and jibes about Palestine in a game with the Curzon Ashton team on Sunday, the U.K.’s Mirror reported….
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Fast Forward John Galliano Is Back in Fashion World — 2 Years After Anti-Semitic Rant
British fashion designer John Galliano is returning to work in the fashion industry two years after he was fired from Christian Dior for an anti-Semitic rant caught on video. Galliano has been hired as the creative director of the Paris-based fashion house Maison Martin Margiela, the company announced Monday. Dior fired Galliano in March 2011…
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Food Prejudice for Lunch in Bushwick?
@bushwickcoffee shop calls out “greedy” Jewish customers. Instagram. My first day on the job as the new food intern at The Forward, and what news do I hear? The owner of one of my very own neighborhood spots, The Bushwick Coffee Shop, has posted a rant on Facebook and Instagram about the “greedy infiltrators” that…
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Opinion No, Pamela Geller, the Qur’an Is Not Anti-Semitic
Pamela Geller, left; Qur’an, right / Getty Images Soon you will see ads, courtesy of Pamela Geller, in the New York City subway system that state, “Islamic Jew-Hatred: It’s in the Qur’an.” Is she right? It’s easy to understand why many Jews might think so. Anti-Semitism has become a frightening force in much of the…
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Fast Forward Liverpool Soccer Club Yanks Rosh Hashanah Tweet
The Liverpool FC soccer team deleted a tweet wishing its Jewish supporters a happy Rosh Hashanah after the message elicited dozens of anti-Semitic responses. The message — “Liverpool FC would like to wish all our Jewish supporters around the world a happy new year. #RoshHashanah” — was posted Friday and removed several hours later, the…
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