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Breaking News Shimon Peres Refutes Benjamin Netanyahu’s Aliyah Call to Europe Jews
Former Israeli President Shimon Peres repudiated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call for embattled European Jews to move en masse to Israel. “Come because you want to live in Israel,” Peres said Sunday night in New York. “Jews can live all over the world,” he said. “Just keep your children Jewish.” Peres did not specifically…
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Breaking News Europe Loses Half Jews Since 1960
Europe has lost more than half its Jewish population since 1960, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center. Approximately 1.4 million Jews live in Europe, down from the 2 million in 1991, according to the Pew survey, which came out Monday. In 1960, some 3.2 million Jews lived in Europe. European Jews…
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Opinion Europe’s Jews Pick Up the Shards After Paris Terrror
After the Paris terror attacks, Jews in Europe are taking stock of where they stand. Here’s 6 voices of hope and fear from a continent on edge. ‘One Common Enemy Unites Them: Us Jews’ By Charlotte Knobloch The attacks in Paris have filled us all with tremendous shock and sadness. In the past few months…
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Opinion ‘We Should Not Give Up Making Our Countries Better’
When Charlie Hebdo’s headquarters were attacked, we spent hour after hour listening to the news, checking the Internet, calling our loved ones to share our feelings and sense of loss for the disconcerting assault to two of the most crucial European values: the sanctity of life and the freedom of expression. In Italy, the situation…
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Breaking News 11 European Jewish Groups Push Back Against ‘Arm-the-Jews’ Rabbi
Leaders of 11 Jewish communities in Europe lambasted the director of a Brussels-based lobby group who after the Paris attacks called for some Jews to carry guns. Thursday’s statement by European Jewish leaders was directed against Rabbi Menachem Margolin, who heads the European Jewish Association and the Rabbinical Centre of Europe. Among the statement’s cosignatories…
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Opinion ‘I Suddenly Find Myself Feeling Powerless’
‘For once they are not targeting Jews.” This was the strange thought that came to my mind a few minutes after I started reading about the horrific attack at Charlie Hebdo, less than a mile from where I live. But I was wrong. I should have remembered that since the Toulouse attack in 2012 and…
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Breaking News Should European Jews Be Armed?
A Jewish lobby group asked European governments to facilitate the issuing of weapons permits for guards from within Jewish communities. Rabbi Menachem Margolin, director of the Brussels-based European Jewish Association, or EJA, made the plea in a letter he sent Tuesday to the interior ministers of the European Union, he told JTA. “We hereby ask…
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Breaking News Slap ‘JeSuisCharlie’ Tag on Beer? Not So Fast!
European authorities have rejected scores of attempts to secure a trademark on the phrase “Je suis Charlie” which became a worldwide slogan after last week’s attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. A spokeswoman for the French office for intellectual property INPI said on Wednesday more than 100 attempts to get a trademark on the…
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