richards | October 28, 2015
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simmons | October 28, 2015
August 25, 2015 - Buenos Aires Jew and mobster were spray painted on a subway station in reference to Mauricio Macri, head of the government of the City of Buenos Aires and a presidential candidate. August 1, 2015 Sauce Viejo, Santa Fe Graffiti reading Black and Jewish here along with a swastika were spray painted on a police officers home, whose wife is Jewish.
Category: Anti-Semitsm |
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simmons | October 28, 2015
Antisemitism (also spelled anti-Semitism or anti-semitism) is prejudice against, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews as an ethnic, religious, or racial group.[1][2][3] A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is widely considered to be a form of racism.[4][5] While the conjunction of the units anti-, Semite, and -ism indicates antisemitism as being directed against all Semitic people, the term was popularized in Germany in 1873 as a scientific-sounding term for Judenhass (Jew-hatred),[6][7] although it had been used for at least two decades prior,[8] and that has been its normal use since then.[9] For the purposes of a 2005 U.S
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simmons | October 28, 2015
The Armenian diaspora refers to the communities of Armenians outside the Republic of Armenia including the self-proclaimed de facto independent Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. Since antiquity, Armenians have established communities in many regions throughout the world. However, the modern Armenian diaspora was largely formed as a result of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, when the Armenians living in their ancestral homeland in eastern Turkeyknown as Western Armenia to Armenianswere systematically exterminated by the Ottoman government.[1] In Armenian, the diaspora is referred to as spyurk (pronounced[spjurk]), spelled in classical orthography and in reformed orthography.[2][3] In the past, the word gaghut ( pronounced[ut]) was mostly used to refer to the Armenian communities outside the Armenian homeland.
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simmons | October 28, 2015
B'nai B'rith International (English pronunciation: , from Hebrew: b'n brit, "Children of the Covenant"),[1] is the oldest Jewish service organization in the world. B'nai B'rith states that it is committed to the security and continuity of the Jewish people and the State of Israel and combating antisemitism and bigotry
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simmons | October 28, 2015
noun 1.
Category: West Bank |
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simmons | October 28, 2015
The history of Israel encompasses the history of the Jews in the Land of Israel, as well as the history of the modern State of Israel.
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simmons | October 28, 2015
Elizabeth is both the largest city and the county seat of Union County, New Jersey, United States.[19][20] As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a total population of 124,969,[7][8][9] retaining its ranking as New Jersey's fourth largest city (by population).[21] The population increased by 4,401 (3.7%) from the 120,568 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 10,566 (+9.6%) from the 110,002 counted in the 1990 Census.[22] In 2008, Elizabeth was named one of "America's 50 Greenest Cities" by Popular Science magazine, the only city in New Jersey selected.[23] Elizabeth, originally called "Elizabethtown" and part of the Elizabethtown Tract, was founded in 1664 by English settlers.
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simmons | October 28, 2015
Sunday, November 1 at 5:30 pm Please join us at Congregation Shaarey Zedek (map) for an elegant evening featuring a strolling buffet and inspiring presentations. Our guest speaker will be Rudy Giuliani, the 107th Mayor of New York City. The Holocaust Memorial Center was built as a living memorial to the Holocaustone that commemorates the victims, honors the survivors and transforms attitudes each day
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simmons | October 28, 2015
In January 1942, SS official Reinhard Heydrich held a meeting of Nazi government officials to present the Final Solution. At this meeting, known as the Wannsee Conference , the Nazi officials agreed to SS plans for the transport and destruction of all 11 million Jews of Europe. The Nazis would use the latest in twentieth century technology, cost efficient engineering and mass production techniques for the sole purpose of killing off the following racial groups: Jews, Russian prisoners of war, and Gypsies (Sinti-Roma)
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