This is the Forward’s coverage of protests and demonstrations relating to Jewish issues.
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Fast Forward Turkish Official Blames Jews for Stoking Street Protests
A Turkish deputy prime minister linked the “Jewish diaspora” to recent anti-government unrest and the country’s Jewish community expressed fears on Tuesday the comments could make them targets of popular anger. Turkey was rocked by violent protests last month when a small effort to save Gezi Park in central Istanbul from redevelopment mushroomed into a…
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Fast Forward Muslim Brotherhood Head Quarters Under Attack During Mass Protests
Anti-government protesters set the national headquarters of the ruling Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo ablaze on Sunday, throwing petrol bombs and exchanging gunfire with guards. The attack came amid protests across Egypt calling for President Mohamed Mursi of the Brotherhood to resign, in which hundreds of thousands demonstrated on the first anniversary of his inauguration. Brotherhood…
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Fast Forward 200K Egyptians Flood Tahrir Square Demanding Morsi Quit
Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians flooded into the streets on the first anniversary of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi’s inauguration on Sunday to demand that he resign. Waving national flags and chanting “Get out!”, a crowd of more than 200,000 had massed by sunset on Cairo’s central Tahrir Square in the biggest demonstration since the 2011…
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Fast Forward After Student’s Killing, Egypt Braces for New Protests Against Government
Egyptians and their security forces prepared for demonstrations on Sunday that may determine their future, two years after people power toppled a dictator and ushered in a democracy crippled by bitter divisions. Waving national flags, thousands gathered on Cairo’s Tahrir Square, cradle of the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak. They hope that, after the working…
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Opinion Brazil Grapples With Crisis of Expectations
Peering in from the outside, it may be tricky to understand what’s going on in Brazil right now Unlike Tunisians and Egyptians, Brazilians did not take to the streets in historic demonstrations last week to overthrow an authoritarian government. After enduring a two-decade-long dictatorship, we’ve been living under democratic rule since the mid-1980s, and those…
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Opinion Did Rabbi’s Forged Letter Boost Anti-Draft Rally?
Was the weekend rally in New York against Israel’s plans to draft ultra-Orthodox Jews boosted by a prominent rabbi’s forged endorsement? According to a writer on the Hasidic Yiddish forum KaveShtiebel.com, a letter in support of the Satmar-led demonstration by Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, one of the foremost leaders of the Lithuanian Haredi sector, was forged….
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Opinion At Massive Anti-Draft Protest, Haredi Jews Came Together — But Not on Zionism
In an unusual show of unity, various streams of ultra-Orthodox Jews joined together June 9 in a massive rally in downtown Manhattan to protest the Israeli government’s recent efforts to draft yeshiva students into the military. Even the dueling factions within the Satmar Hasidic movement put aside their differences to organize the protest, and the…
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Opinion At Women of the Wall Service, Tables Are Turned
The tables were well and truly turned at the Western Wall this morning, as the Israeli Police, which until this spring detained women holding communal prayers, executed a mass operation to protect them and facilitate their worship. Until April 25, the police treated the monthly gatherings by the feminist alliance Women of the Wall as…
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