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WJC News Update – TERROR IN PARIS – Presumed killer takes hostages in kosher supermarket, including baby

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 09 January 2015

TERROR IN PARIS: Presumed killer takes hostages in kosher supermarket, including baby

At least five people were taken hostage at a kosher supermarket in Paris on Friday after a shootout, the news agency ‘Reuters’ reported. At least one person was wounded.

Ellis Island isn’t to blame for your family’s name change – Smithsonian Magazine

09 Jan 2015 A long-standing myth obscures the truth behind the Americanization of some European names READ MORE »

OPINION – First they came for the Jews, then they came for the cartoonists – Times of Israel

09 Jan 2015 It is Europe’s free press, its freedom of expression, and thus its very civilization, that the Islamists behind the Paris attack seek to destroy. Only if the West internalizes the scale of the threat will it stand a chance of vanquishing it. READ MORE »

Why was Bess Myerson the first and last Jewish Miss America? – Daily Beast

09 Jan 2015 No Jewish woman has been crowned Miss America since Bess Myerson won in 1945. Is it anti-Semitism, or are less insidious cultural forces at work? READ MORE »

BDS leaders promote conspiracy theory linking Mossad to Charlie Hebdo atrocity – The Algemeiner

09 Jan 2015 The anti-Semitism at the heart of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement was again laid bare as prominent activists took to social media to advance the conspiracy theory that the terrorist attack against Charlie Hebdo was carried out by the Mossad. READ MORE »