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Breaking News Copenhagen Muslims Get Permission for Peace Ring Around Synagogue
Danish Muslims can create a peace ring around a Copenhagen synagogue that came under a deadly attack, the city’s police said after originally refusing the request. The peace ring is scheduled to take place on Saturday at the central Copenhagen shul, or Krystalgade Synagogue. On Feb. 14, a volunteer Jewish security guard, Dan Uzan, was…
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Breaking News Minister Louis Farrakhan Blames 9/11 Attacks on ‘Zionist Jews’
The Anti-Defamation League condemned Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan as the “leading anti-Semite in America” after a speech in which he blamed “Israelis and Zionist Jews” for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. “At a time when anti-Semitic attitudes are at historic lows, Farrakhan’s unabashed promotion of anti-Semitism is a throwback to the…
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Breaking News Dutch Muslim Students Resist Holocaust Education
A number of Dutch schools refrain from teaching about the Holocaust because of resistance from Muslim pupils, teachers told lawmakers. The centrist Christian Union party held a roundtable discussion about Holocaust education with teachers and other professionals Wednesday in parliament in The Hague, The Algemeen Dagblad daily reported. “Holocaust survivor Bloeme Evers does not dare…
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Opinion Why Jews Should Support Closing NYC Schools on Muslim Holidays
All across New York City, Muslims are cheering Mayor Bill de Blasio’s decision to close public schools on the two holiest days of their religious calendar. And Jews should be cheering right along with them. Why should we be happy to see the city observe Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, days that commemorate the end…
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Breaking News New York Schools To Close on Muslim Holidays
New York will become the first major city to close its public schools for Muslim holidays. Schools will be shuttered for the Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha holidays, which rotate around the secular calendar because they are pegged to the Muslim non-leap lunar calendar. Several other smaller municipalities already close their schools for those holy…
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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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Breaking News French Jewish Leader Slammed for Saying Young Muslims Cause ‘All Violence’
A row broke out on Monday between leaders of France’s Jewish and Muslim communities after the former said young Muslims were the cause of all violent crime, prompting the Muslim group to boycott a prominent Jewish event. The comments by the head of the CRIF Jewish umbrella group came just hours before President Francois Hollande…
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Breaking News Oslo Synagogue ‘Peace Ring’ Marred by Organizer’s Anti-Jewish Statements
Several hundred people gathered at a Norwegian synagogue to support Jews at an event which drew praise but also criticism because of an organizer’s anti-Israel and anti-Jewish statements. The event Saturday night featured a human chain around Oslo’s main synagogue by more than 1,000 people, many of them Muslim, who had gathered there at the…
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