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Fast Forward Danish Teen In Jewish School Bomb Plot Inspired By Copenhagen Synagogue Gunman
(JTA) — A 17-year-old Danish girl charged with planning to bomb two schools in Denmark, including a Jewish one, allegedly was inspired by the terrorist who killed a security guard at a Copenhagen synagogue in 2015. A Danish prosecutor alleged last month that the teen looked up to the 2015 synagogue gunman, Omar El-Hussein, according…
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Breaking News Rabbi’s Speech Sparks Vandalism at Copenhagen Church in Gunman’s Neighborhood
A Copenhagen church was vandalized in an anti-Semitic event hours before a rabbi was scheduled to speak there. “Free Gaza” and “Close the Death Camps” was spray-painted on the door of the Anna Church in the Copenhagen district of Nørrebro overnight Sunday, the Local reported. Bricks also were thrown through some of the church’s windows….
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Breaking News Copenhagen Synagogue Killer’s Rapid Descent to Radical Hate
(Reuters) — On Valentine’s Day, two weeks after his release from prison, Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein walked up to a Copenhagen cafe hosting a debate on freedom of speech and sprayed it with bullets. As a manhunt began, the 22-year-old went to ground. Nine hours later he launched a second assault, this time on a…
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Breaking News Kosher Deli in Copenhagen Vandalized With ‘Jewish Pigs’ Graffiti
A Jewish deli and kosher supermarket in Copenhagen was vandalized. A window of the store was smashed and anti-Semitic epithets were scrawled on the wall, including “Jewish pigs,” The Local reported, citing the Berlingske Tidende newspaper. The attack, which was discovered on Thursday at Slagter & Delikatesse, comes less than two months after a terror…
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Breaking News Copenhagen Girl Whose Bat Mitzvah Was Marred by Terror Is Feted in Israel
The bat mitzvah girl whose celebration in Copenhagen ended abruptly after the shooting death of a volunteer synagogue guard was feted in Israel. Hannah Bentow, 13, on Sunday night in Jerusalem had a ceremony and a dance party for girls and women with a DJ. The party took place at the headquarters of the Matan…
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Breaking News Peace Ring Formed Around Copenhagen Synagogue
More than 1,000 people formed a peace ring around a Copenhagen synagogue that came under deadly attack last month. Muslim, Jewish and Christian participants held hands and called for peace during the display of solidarity at the central Copenhagen shul, or Krystalgade Synagogue, on Saturday afternoon, according to reports. On Feb. 14, a volunteer Jewish…
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Breaking News Copenhagen Muslims Get Permission for Peace Ring Around Synagogue
Danish Muslims can create a peace ring around a Copenhagen synagogue that came under a deadly attack, the city’s police said after originally refusing the request. The peace ring is scheduled to take place on Saturday at the central Copenhagen shul, or Krystalgade Synagogue. On Feb. 14, a volunteer Jewish security guard, Dan Uzan, was…
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