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Belgian minister slams anti-Semitic campaign against local election candidate – European Jewish Press
11 Oct 2012 Belgian Interior Minister Joelle Milquet “condemned “ Tuesday “attacks of an anti-Semitic nature” waged against a Socialist candidate in next Sunday’s municipal elections in Belgium. read more »
French Jew of Moroccan origin is co-recipient of 2012 Nobel Prize in physics – Times of Israel
11 Oct 2012 Serge Haroche, a French-Jewish physicist, has won the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with David Wineland from the United States. read more »
‘EU warned Palestinian Authority of negative costs of UN bid’ – Jerusalem Post, Israel
11 Oct 2012 The European Union is advising the Palestinian Authority to “be careful” regarding its stated plan to ask the UN for non-member state observer status at its General Assembly, Deputy Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Kourkoulas has said. read more »
French police find jihadist bomb lab used in kosher store attack – JTA, USA
11 Oct 2012 French police found an explosives lab that they say was used by a “jihadist cell” in the bombing of a kosher store near Paris. read more »
Journalists say Jewish voters could be critical in presidential election – Boston Globe, USA
11 Oct 2012 Two prominent journalists said on Wednesday that Jewish voters could play an outsized role in the presidential election, particularly in the battleground state of Florida, where they represent about 3 percent of all registered voters but 8 percent of the actual electorate, according to the Jewish Demography Project at the University of Miami. read more »
Film about Egyptian Jews stirs ‘normalization’ uproar in Cairo – Israel National News
11 Oct 2012 An Egyptian film documenting Jewish life in Egypt prior to the 1950s has stirred controversy after it was screened at film festival in Cairo. read more »
