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Breaking News Pamela Geller’s Talk at Toronto Shul Scrapped in ‘Hate Speech’ Flap
A speaking engagement by American anti-Islamic firebrand Pamela Geller was moved following police intervention. Geller, a vocal critic of radical Islam, was due to speak May 13 at a Chabad synagogue in Thornhill, north of Toronto, but the synagogue’s rabbi, Mendel Kaplan, backed out after a visit by the hate crimes unit of local police….
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News Could Run-of-Mill French Suburb Be Global Model of Religious Tolerance?
A knot of about 100 people stood under a steely winter sky January 26 to plant a tree for Tu B’Shvat in the Paris suburb of Bussy-Saint-Georges. The town’s 120-family strong Jewish community was out in force for the celebration, which mirrored similar rites held around the world. Here, however, a few things stood out…
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Breaking News Slain Boston Bomb Suspect Tried To Obtain Infamous Anti-Semitic Tract
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the slain man suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing with his younger brother, told a relative he was seeking a copy of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Elmirza Khozhugov, who was married for a time to Tsarnaev’s sister, Ailina, told the Associated Press in an interview published Tuesday that…
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Opinion The Deadly Identity Crisis Along Islam’s Borders
In the first few days after the Boston bombings, liberal pundits (like David Sirota, Cenk Uygur and Michael Shure) were hoping aloud that the perpetrators would turn out to be “white” rather than Muslim or Middle Eastern, so that the incident wouldn’t further inflame grass-roots anti-Muslim passions. Well, it looks like this was a twofer…
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Opinion Shul Axes Pamela Geller, and 2 Others Invite Her
Her April 14 appearance at Great Neck Synagogue was canceled amid liberal protests, but anti-Islam blogger Pamela Geller got the last laugh: The next morning, two other area synagogues invited her to speak the same day as the canceled speech. “Two courageous and magnificent Rabbis have asked me to speak on Sunday,” Geller wrote last…
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Breaking News Anti-Semitism 7 Times Higher for Belgian Muslim Students: Report
A major survey among Belgian teenagers indicated anti-Semitism was seven times more prevalent among Muslim youths than in non-Muslim teenagers. Conducted in recent months by three universities for the Flemish government, the survey was published last month based on questionnaires filled out by 3,867 high school students in Antwerp and Ghent, including 1,068 Muslims. Among…
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Breaking News San Francisco Grapples With Anti-Islam Bus Ads
San Francisco city buses began carrying political ads on Monday denounced by several municipal leaders as anti-Islamic, racist messages that unfairly depict Arabs and Muslims as groups defined by extremism and violence. But rather than seek to bar San Francisco’s transit agency from accepting the paid ads and risk a court fight over free speech…
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Breaking News Menachem Froman, Backed Coexistence With Muslim Fundamentalists, Dies at 68
Rabbi Menachem Froman died on Monday at the age of 68, following a prolonged illness. Froman, rabbi of the West Bank settlement of Tekoa, was unique among settler rabbis in that he was a leading proponent of Israeli-Palestinian dialogue as far back as the 1980s, when contact with the PLO was still illegal. He was…
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