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Breaking News Jewish Migrants Raise Few Hackles in Britain — Muslims and Roma Unwelcome
— The prospect of Jewish immigration raised the least amount of opposition among respondents to a British survey about attitudes to immigration. A study conducted by the Centre for Social Investigation at Nuffield College in Oxford found that 7 percent of British people would allow no Jewish migrants into the United Kingdom, while 17 percent would…
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Breaking News French Jews Outraged by Islamist Murder of 2 Cops
— French Jews expressed their outrage over the murder of two police officers, a man and his wife, at their home near Paris by an Islamist. Francis Kalifat, president of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities, on Tuesday conveyed that sentiment, along with his solidarity with the family and security forces, on Twitter over the…
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Breaking News Israeli Muslims More Devout Than Jews — but Less Than Others in Middle East
Israeli Muslims are more devout than the country’s Jews, Christians and Druze, but less so than other Muslims in the region, according to Pew research released Wednesday. About 68% of Muslims living in the Jewish state say religion is “very important” in their lives, a figure that is lower than in all countries in the…
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Breaking News Jewish-Muslim CA Cafe Owners Deny Discriminating Against Hijab-Wearing Patrons
A California cafe founded and owned by a Jewish and Muslim husband and wife plans to countersue after being accused of discriminating against Muslim patrons. Urth Caffe, an artisanal coffee shop and restaurant with six Southern California locations, was accused in a suit filed May 2 of forcing seven women to leave its Laguna Beach…
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Breaking News Jewish Groups Join Fight Against Anti-Muslim Discrimination
WASHINGTON (JTA) — From a bid to overcome resistance to building a mosque in New Jersey to defending a Muslim student at a military academy who wants to wear a hijab, Jewish groups this week joined efforts to stop anti-Muslim discrimination. Nearly a dozen Jewish groups are also backing legislation against banning entry to Muslims,…
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Breaking News Islamists Hack Venice Jewish Community Library Website
Unknown individuals calling themselves the “Tunisian Fallaga Team” hacked into the website of the Venice Jewish community’s library and archive and posted pro-Islamist and pro-Palestinian messages on its home page. Gadi Luzzatto Voghera, the director of the Renato Maestro Library and Archive, called the incident Monday “in effect, a violent and targeted threat, of a…
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Breaking News Orthodox Union Official Praises President Obama’s Mosque Visit
WASHINGTON — An Orthodox Union official said a visit by President Barack Obama to a Baltimore mosque was an appropriate message embracing diversity. “George W. Bush went to a mosque a few days after 9-11 to send the message the United States should stand by principles of religious diversity and religious freedom for all faiths,”…
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Breaking News Most French Muslims Wouldn’t Object to Daughter Dating Jew
A majority of French Muslims said they would react positively if their daughter married a Jew, a survey found. The results were part of a document comprising three reports published Sunday by the polling firm Ipsos based on opinion polls and interviews conducted over 2014 and 2015 with several partner organizations, including the Foundation of…
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