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Fast Forward Europe Urged To Keep Tight Rein on Aid to Palestinians
Citing alleged corruption by Palestinian recipients of aid money, the European Parliament’s Israel-relations czar urged more conditionality by E.U. donor states. Fulvio Martusciello, the chairman of the parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Israel, issued the call during a parliamentary debate Wednesday in Strasbourg on E.U. funding for the Middle East, his office wrote in a…
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Fast Forward Chief Rabbis Meet Pope on Anti-Semitism — 50 Years After Vatican II
A delegation of chief rabbis from Europe travelled to the Vatican for a meeting with Pope Francis about anti-Semitism. After meeting Monday with the delegation of 10 rabbis representing the Conference of European Rabbis, Pope Francis is scheduled to meet privately with the chief rabbi of France, Haim Korsia, who is a prominent promoter of…
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Culture Europe Anti-Semitism Literally Carved in Stone
(JTA) — Notre Dame Cathedral in the heart of Paris is among the most visited sites on the planet and a splendid example of Gothic architecture. Each year, millions flock to admire and photograph its flying buttresses and statuary, yet few take any real notice of two prominent female statues on either side of the main…
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Fast Forward Security Costs ‘Bankrupt’ European Jewish Communities: U.S. Anti-Semitism Envoy
Jewish communities in Europe are “being bankrupted” by the need to provide security for their institutions, the U.S. special envoy on anti-Semitism said. “Every Jewish community in Western Europe certainly needs security support,” said Ira Forman, the State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, said Friday in Stockholm, the French news agency AFP…
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News What’s Behind Bill de Blasio’s Concern For European Jews?
Bill de Blasio seems to be spending a lot of time worrying about Jews in Europe. The New York City mayor has visited two different Upper East Side synagogues in the past month to deliver addresses about attacks on French Jews. He went to Paris for less than 24 hours in January to lay wreaths…
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Culture Jew Hatred, the New Euro Retro Chic?
One of the hottest new trends in Europe is also one of the oldest — attacking Jews. And the energy driving this throwback can be traced to some of Europe’s newest residents, as Islamist immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East are taking up a tradition of their new home and making it their…
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Opinion You Want To Give Every European Jew a Gun — Really?
Getty Images In an article originally titled “Why Every Jewish Man, Woman, and Child in Europe Should Get a Gun,” Liel Leibovitz claims that European Jews need guns because they can’t trust their governments to protect them from anti-Semitic “savages.” Leibovitz chides those trusting in “reasonable measures,” arguing instead that, “European Jews with guns can…
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Opinion Don’t Lecture, Listen to Europe’s Jews
First Paris, now Copenhagen. This annus horribilis for European Jews has become even more frightening, as the names of capital cities are now synonymous with anti-Semitic attacks creeping across the continent. We hesitate to ask, but — will the list grow? Israeli officials, aggressively led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have a ready answer to…
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