"Kochi, India - The death of an 83-year-old Jew on the Sabbath leaves only nine Jews left in the Jewish Community of Mattanchery, a tourist area located in the Kochi, India region, formerly known as Cochin"
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Monday, 1 August 2011
Kochi, India - ‘Tenth Jew’ Dies, Only Nine Left
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"Kochi, India - The death of an 83-year-old Jew on the Sabbath leaves only nine Jews left in the Jewish Community of Mattanchery, a tourist area located in the Kochi, India region, formerly known as Cochin"
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"Kochi, India - The death of an 83-year-old Jew on the Sabbath leaves only nine Jews left in the Jewish Community of Mattanchery, a tourist area located in the Kochi, India region, formerly known as Cochin"
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Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Israeli orchestra to play Wagner in German
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"Hitler's theories of racial purity and exterminating Jews were said to be partly drawn from Richard Wagner's anti-Semitic and fervently nationalistic writings. Since its founding in 1948, Israel has observed an informal ban on the composer's music.
The news that Israel Chamber Orchestra and members of the Israel Symphony Orchestra will play a piece by Wagner at Bayreuth Festival, has aroused the hostility of Israeli politicians. The ensemble have also been threatened with funding cuts"
Monday, 18 July 2011
Lithuania - Site of Holy Ark Uncovered in Excavations of Great Synagogue of Vilnius
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"Lithuania - The site of the Aron Kodesh, or Holy Ark of The Great Synagogue of Vilnius dating back to the end of the 16th century, was recently uncovered in the excavations of this historically significant synagogue. Lithuania’s Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius visited the site Friday to view the synagogue’s excavated fragments and attend as 25 Jewish Lithuanian students of the local Beis Menachem school prayed there"
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Monday, 11 July 2011
Jedwabne, Poland - Ceremony Honors Jews Killed in Massacre by Their Neighbors
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"State and religious leaders are marking 70 years on Sunday since Polish villagers murdered hundreds of their Jewish neighbors in a World War II massacre that caused painful soul-searching in Poland when it was revealed in 2000.
In an agonizing debate at the time Poles were forced to modify their belief, shaped by decades of communist-era propaganda, that they were always heroic victims — never collaborators — in Nazi-era atrocities.
The date of the massacre in the village of Jedwabne has entered Poland’s remembrance calendar and the state and church leaders have apologized. But it still remains to be seen to what extent the entire nation has acknowledged cases of Polish wrongdoing against the Jews"
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In an agonizing debate at the time Poles were forced to modify their belief, shaped by decades of communist-era propaganda, that they were always heroic victims — never collaborators — in Nazi-era atrocities.
The date of the massacre in the village of Jedwabne has entered Poland’s remembrance calendar and the state and church leaders have apologized. But it still remains to be seen to what extent the entire nation has acknowledged cases of Polish wrongdoing against the Jews"
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Friday, 1 July 2011
Chief Rabbi: Equality laws leading to new Mayflower exodus
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"New equality laws are forcing religious people to flee the country because they are being denied the freedom to live in accordance with their beliefs, the Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks, has warned.
"New equality laws are forcing religious people to flee the country because they are being denied the freedom to live in accordance with their beliefs, the Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks, has warned.
The Orthodox Jewish leader claimed that anti-discrimination policies had fuelled an “erosion of religious liberty" in Britain that was leading to a new “Mayflower”, a reference to the flight of the persecuted Pilgrim Fathers to America in the 17th century."
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Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Warsaw - Poland Complains to Vatican over Priest's Anti-Semitic Remarks
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"Warsaw, Poland - A Polish priest and media mogul has sparked uproar in Poland by calling the country a totalitarian state that “hasn’t been ruled by Poles since 1939” — a statement many interpret as code for saying Jews are secretly running the country.
The Rev. Tadeusz Rydzyk, who has previously been accused of fomenting anti-Semitism through his politically influential, ultra-Catholic radio station Radio Maryja, made the comments at the European Parliament last week"
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Friday, 24 June 2011
Berlin, Germany - Schindler's List Creator Dies At 91
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"The man who typed up Oskar Schindler’s list which helped save more than 1,000 Jews from the Nazis, Mietek Pemper, has died in Germany aged 91, the Bavarian city where he lived said Thursday.
Pemper died Tuesday in Augsburg, southern Germany, and is to be buried in the city’s Jewish cemetery Friday, when municipal authorities will order flags to be lowered to half-mast in his honour"
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Pemper died Tuesday in Augsburg, southern Germany, and is to be buried in the city’s Jewish cemetery Friday, when municipal authorities will order flags to be lowered to half-mast in his honour"
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Thursday, 23 June 2011
Hitler model banned by eBay
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"An amateur model-maker has been banned from selling tiny figures of Hitler on eBay after the online auction site decided it could be classed as Nazi propoganda"
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Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Adolf Hitler’s first letter expressing anti-Semitism goes on public display
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"The four page letter, dated September 6, 1919 is signed by the man who later became the fascist leader of Germany responsible for World War II and the Holocaust.
Hitler wrote the letter when he was a 30-year-old army veteran tasked to investigate the 'Jewish Question' in relation to the German humiliation in World War I"
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"The four page letter, dated September 6, 1919 is signed by the man who later became the fascist leader of Germany responsible for World War II and the Holocaust.
Hitler wrote the letter when he was a 30-year-old army veteran tasked to investigate the 'Jewish Question' in relation to the German humiliation in World War I"
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