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SPAIN |
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Granada Jewish museum opens with wedding celebration
A Jewish museum has opened in the Spanish city of Granada and simultaneously hosted a wedding.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
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TUNISIA |
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Djerba synagogue
Hundreds of Jewish worshippers on Sunday completed an incident-free annual pilgrimage to Ghriba, Africa’s oldest synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba, where security was high to prevent any violence.
Monday, April 29, 2013
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UKRAINE |
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Vandals destroy gravestones at Ukrainian cemetery
Vandals have destroyed 66 gravestones at the Dzhurin cemetery in southern Ukraine.
Monday, April 29, 2013
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UNITED KINGDOM |
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Scottish hotel pulls Jewish event after threats
A Scottish hotel pulled out of holding a Jewish student event after staff received threatening phone calls and email from activists linked to the radical fringe group Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) and other anti-Israel groups.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
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UK Orthodox synagogue group elects first woman head
One of the United Synagogue’s smallest communities has made history by becoming the first US congregation to elect a woman chair.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
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GERMANY |
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Dresden gets first local-born rabbi since WWII
The Jewish community of Dresden has installed its first hometown rabbi since World War II.
Monday, April 29, 2013
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HUNGARY |
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Wallenberg Association head attacked in Budapest
The head of Hungary’s Raoul Wallenberg Association said far-right football fans shouted „Sieg Heil” and attacked him during a match in Budapest.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
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ITALY |
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Italian Jews irked by honour to PA’s Abbas
A decision by the city of Naples to award honorary citizenship to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has irked local Jews.
Monday, April 29, 2013
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THE NETHERLANDS |
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Dutch Jews mark inauguration of new king
The Jewish community in the Netherlands has celebrated the accession to the throne of a new king with a majestic synagogue service held at the historic Portuguese synagogue in Amsterdam on Sunday.
Monday, April 29, 2013
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NEWS |
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GLOBAL NEWS |
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Arab League backs territorial compromise
Arab countries endorsed a Mideast peace plan Monday that would allow for small shifts in Israel’s 1967 border.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
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Israeli and US museums to share rare Maimonides book
A 15th-century illustrated volume of Maimonides’ principal codebook of Jewish law, the Mishneh Torah, has been jointly purchased by the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sotheby’s said today.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
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Australia PM denounces anti-Israel boycotts
Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard has denounced the boycott, sanctions and divestment movement.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
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Kalashnikov classes for Palestinian school children
Palestinian schoolboys are learning how to fire Kalashnikovs, throw grenades and plant improvised explosive devices as part of a program run by Hamas’s education ministry.
Monday, April 29, 2013
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Western Wall rabbi vows to fight Sharansky proposals
Shmuel Rabinowitz, the rabbi of the Western Wall, has vowed to fight against „the slightest deviation” from customary practice at the Western Wall.
Monday, April 29, 2013
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New York synagogue bomber sentenced
A man who planned a foiled attempt to ban a New York synagogue was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison.
Monday, April 29, 2013
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Lebanon bans award-winning Israeli film
Lebanese authorities have banned an award-winning film from cinemas because it was partly shot in Tel Aviv using Israeli actors.
Monday, April 29, 2013
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EJC ISRAELI PRESS REVIEW |
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– Israeli youth murdered in West Bank
– Unions call off strike action
– Bedouin evicted from West Bank village
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
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– Olmert denies PM bid
– Row over lack of Sephardim on new banknotes
– Another Gaza rocket hits southern Israel
Monday, April 29, 2013
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