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JEWS IN SHANGHAI have been the subject of many memoirs and novels, especially when it comes to the more than 24,000 refugees who fled Nazi Europe during the 1930s. Kirsty Mannings The Song of Jade Lily (2018) and Rachel DeWoskins Someday We Will Fly (2019) are two recent novels that tell stories of Jewish refugees who fled to the Chinese city, one of the only places in the world that didnt require papers back then.
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admin | September 19, 2021
Wearing a replica of the Star of David patch to compare maskmandates to the Holocaust isbeyond offensive and wrong 100% of the time," according to Atty Garfinkel, who oversees Jewish student life at the University of Nevada, Reno. At least two people attending the Washoe County School Board meeting Tuesday wore yellow stars like those the Nazis forced Jews to wear during the mass genocide of World War II. James Benthin, who attended the meeting, said he wore a yellow starto equatepeople who don't want to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or wear masks with the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust.
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admin | September 19, 2021
The College Democrats of America (CDA) Jewish Caucus called on a CDA official who is running to be vice president of the organization to step out of the race, alleging that her Twitter history shows her being prejudiced against Jews.
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admin | September 19, 2021
A 21-year-old Jewish anti-Zionist, who fled Israel in 2017, is pleading his case for asylum in the UK. The hearing, scheduled for September 20 at a First-tier tribunal in Manchester, will address his appeal against the rejection he received in December last year from the UK Home Office. The rabbinical student, who has been granted anonymity order from the court on security concerns, andhis lawyers believe his personal views, including his refusal to join the Israeli army, would expose him to persecution if he was to return to Israel
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admin | September 19, 2021
Pope Francis speaks to the media on board an Alitalia aircraft enroute from Bratislava's Milan Rastislav Stefanik International airport in Bratislava, Slovakia, back to Rome, September 15, 2021. Tiziana Fabi/Pool via REUTERS ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Wednesday related how he once inadvertently gave communion to an elderly Jewish woman, who only afterwards told him about her religion
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admin | September 19, 2021
More than one in five Jewish adults who play online multiplayer games faced antisemitism while playing, according to a new survey from the Anti-Defamation League.
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admin | September 19, 2021
A senior imam in France who in a sermon recited a religious text commanding Muslims to kill Jews has been acquitted of incitement to antisemitic hate charges.Mohamed Tatai, the rector of the Great Mosque of Toulouse, had no desire to incite hatred in his sermon from 2017, the Correctional Tribunal of Toulouse ruled Tuesday. The sermon came days after news broke that the United States would recognize Jerusalem as Israels capital. Jewish community leaders, who broke relations with Tatai and his mosque following the discovery of his sermon, protested the ruling
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admin | September 19, 2021
"The defendant entered a synagogue with the intent to kill all those inside because of his hatred for Jewish people, and days earlier used fire in an attempt to destroy another sacred house of worship because of his hatred for Muslims," Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in a statement. John T. Earnest of Rancho Penasquitos pleaded guilty to a 113-count hate crimes indictment, the statement said
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The Toledo Jewish community is breathing a sigh of relief after an Ohio man who planned to provide material support to ISIS and attack two Toledo-area synagogues was sentenced to 20 years in prison Sept.
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admin | September 19, 2021
On September 17, 1394, King Charles VI of France ordered that all Jewish people be expelled from the kingdom. Leading up to the expulsion, French Jews had dealt with the burning of sacred religious texts, discriminatory taxes, as well as other fiscal policies aimed at targeting Jews.
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