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Fast Forward Mississippi Rabbi Ordered To Leave Restaurant in ‘Jew Size’ Flap
A rabbi in Jackson, Miss. said he was thrown out of a local restaurant due to his religion. Rabbi Ted Riter of the Beth Israel Congregation told local media that an employee of Wraps, a Jackson restaurant, asked him if he wanted “a full size or a Jewish size” when he ordered a Greek salad….
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Opinion Do Jewish Actions Ever Cause Anti-Semitism?
Jewish graves daubed with anti-Semitic slogans in a German cemetery / Getty Images Is anti-Semitism ever a response to things that Jews do? Jeffrey Goldberg thinks saying “Jews… Jewish organizations, or the Jewish state” ever cause anti-Semitism amounts to blaming the victim. Thus he attacked Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, for…
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Fast Forward French Man Gets $1,300 Fine for Doing Quenelle
A tribunal fined and handed a suspended sentence to a man who made the quenelle gesture in front of a French synagogue’s Holocaust memorial plaque. The Correctional Tribunal of Colmar in northeastern France last week sentenced the 42-year-old man, who was not named in media reports, to three months in jail, to become effective if…
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Fast Forward Europe Jews Demand More Security Amid Anti-Semitic Attacks
European authorities must provide greater security for Jewish institutions, a major Jewish organization said in the wake of a suspected arson attack on a Brussels synagogue. “While it is unclear who was behind the attack, what is clear is that synagogues and other Jewish institutions have been placed on the front lines,” Dr. Moshe Kantor,…
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Opinion VIDEO: Satan and Jewess Give Birth to ISIS
Well, this is weird. Iraqi TV is rolling out a new satirical series, “Superstitious State,” that portrays the leader of ISIS as the spawn of Satan and — you guessed it — a Jewish woman. In a promo for the soon-to-come anti-ISIS show, broadcast several times daily on Al-Iraqiyya, we meet a Jewess adorned with…
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Fast Forward French Chief Rabbi Sees ‘Indifference’ to Anti-Semitism
(Reuters) — France’s government has reacted strongly to a rising tide of anti-Semitic acts this year but French society seems indifferent to the threat they present, the country’s newly elected chief rabbi said on Tuesday. Haim Korsia, who was elected in June, recalled the huge crowds that demonstrated in Paris in 1990 after a Jewish…
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Fast Forward Scottish Jews Wary of Independence Ahead of Historic Vote
(JTA) — Bright blue signs scream “Yes” while red ones urge “No, thanks” in the streets of Scotland’s largest city just days before a vote on whether to secede from the United Kingdom. But at Frank Angell’s house, his windows are empty and his yard is bare. A former local council candidate for the Scottish National…
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Fast Forward Philadelphia Kosher Butcher Shop Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Graffiti
A kosher butcher shop in Philadelphia was defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti. Crude swastikas were painted on the butcher shop, Simon’s Glatt Kosher meats, between the evening of Sept. 10 and the next morning, the Jewish Exponent reported. The butcher store has been at its location for 20 years. A nearby synagogue was similarly vandalized in…
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