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Breaking News Norway Jews Back Bill Regulating Circumcision
The leader of Norway’s Jewish community praised his country’s parliament for passing an act regulating ritual circumcision for boys. “The act changes the paradigm of the debate about ritual circumcision in Norway in a very positive way and is therefore very significant,” Ervin Kohn, president of the Jewish Community in Oslo, told JTA Friday. “I…
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News Europe Warns Against Occupation Investments
Spain and Italy bring to five the number of major European Union countries warning citizens against investment in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. Haaretz reported on Thursday that the countries joined France, Germany and Britain in issuing such advisories this year. France posted its warning earlier this week…
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News Zionism’s Victory and the Socialist Enlightenment of the Masses
If such news — that the land of Israel is going to be given to the Jews, had come 50 years ago, it would have made a totally different impression on the Jewish masses than it is making today. It would then have had a similar impact as the coming of the Messiah as it…
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News Czar Nicholas II Writes a Letter to the Forverts’ Bintel Brief
This letter was received by one of our readers, Mr. Pinkus. The letter was written in Russian and translated by B. Kovner into Galician Yiddish. Here is the letter: Dear and very beloved editor of the Forverts! As I have heard that you are a kind soul with a soft heart, and that you rescue…
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News Letters from War-Torn Europe
April 7, 1915 From Vilna a letter was posted to Mr. Arbeiter of 932 North 2nd What can I tell you about Vilna, whatever it is will only be one trop in a sea of great troubles and misfortunes that this war has brought upon us. The most awful thing occurred in Vilna—with a young…
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News The Role Jews Play in the War in Facts and Figures
Jews play no small role in the current war. In the armies and navies fighting on land and sea a large number of Jews can be found. The following list enumerates the number of Jewish soldiers in the various European regular armies: Russia: 250,000 Germany: 6,150 Austria: 52,000 France: 10,000 Bulgaria: 4,500 Italy: 2,000 Holland:…
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News A Terrible Blood Bath
It’s almost impossible to believe, but it happened. War has been declared. The great powers began a terrible blood bath. If the flames are not extinguished right away, the war will be the most terrible, the worst in human history. Think about what happens next. None of the peoples caught up in the war have…
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News My Beloved America, I Don’t Recognize You!
When I came here I was a very young man. Many years have passed. I sometimes think it was only yesterday that I arrived here; but often that day feels so far away— like a half forgotten dream. I sometimes feel as if I’d been born here having spent my most interesting years here. It…
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