Denmark’s chief rabbi on Sunday reportedly said he was “disappointed” by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call on European Jews to immigrate to Israel, following the double shootings in Copenhagen a day earlier, including one on a synagogue that left a young Jewish guard dead. “Terror is not a reason to move to Israel,” said…
Danish police shot dead a gunman in Copenhagen on Sunday they believe was responsible for killing two people — including a Jewish guard at the city’s main synagogue — and wounding five police in separate attacks on a synagogue and an event promoting freedom of speech. Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said the shootings, which bore…
(Reuters) — A man who had been shot in the head multiple times at a Copenhagen synagogue has died from his injuries, Danish police said on Sunday. Denmark was on high alert and a massive manhunt was underway after the shooting on Saturday, in which two police officers were injured. The attack occurred hours after…
Denmark’s national health authority sees no risks to justify recommending a ban on the non-medical circumcision of boys, the body’s director said in parliament. The Danish Health and Medicines Authority’s director-general, Else Smith, made the statement during her address at a debate in the Danish parliament on Wednesday on the custom, which two Danish parties…
A new poll indicates that 74 percent of Denmark’s citizens believe circumcision should be fully or partially banned. The survey was released Tuesday, the day before a parliamentary hearing believed to be a potential first step in implementing a circumcision ban. Two Danish parties favor a ban, while others are divided on the issue. Only…
A Jewish school in Denmark’s capital city was vandalized this week — its windows broken and anti-Semitic graffiti spray-painted on the building. Scrawled on the walls of the historic Carolineskolen school in Copenhagen were the words “No peace in Gaza” and “No peace to you Zionist pigs,” AFP is reporting. The school’s headmaster, Jan Hansen,…
I had never harbored any ambitions of becoming an international smuggler until one cloud-free summer evening in 1991. I grew up in Sweden, became religious in my teens and immigrated to Israel in 1978. I was living in Ra’anana and working as an engineer at Motorola Israel when Jakob, a new immigrant from Sweden, came…
A Jewish school in Denmark informed parents that its pupils are no longer allowed to wear religious symbols near school grounds. The private Caroline School in Copenhagen informed parents of the policy in a recent letter, the Jyllands-Posten daily reported Friday. The letter said it was not permissible for students of the 7th, 8th and…
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