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NEW YORK (WABC) -- The recent rise in antisemitic incidents in the greater New York City area has sparked a new collaborative effort to protect the Jewish community.
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About a week ago both theNew York Timesand theWall Street Journaldevoted considerable space to the coverage of Parade, the revival of a 1998 Broadway musical on the 1915 killing of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager in Atlanta, Georgia, arguably the most famous lynching in American history. Frank had been convicted and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a young girl in his employ and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was founded in an effort to save his life. After numerous legal appeals failed, the states governor eventually commuted Franks sentence and a group of outraged citizens responded by hanging Frank
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Mordechai Nisan: In Israel, we are witnessing the post-Zionist left trying to unravel the Jewish state National Post
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The African American & Jewish communities share stories of liberation at their joint Freedom Seder WKBW 7 News Buffalo
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Berber-speaking Jewish people in North Africa Berber Jews are the Jewish communities of the Maghreb, in North Africa, who historically spoke Berber languages.Between 1950 and 1970 most immigrated to France, the United States, or Israel.[1] Jews have settled in Maghreb since at least the third century BC.[2] According to one theory, which is based on the fourteenth-century writings of Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun and was influential during the 20th century, Berbers adopted Judaism from these arrived Jews before the Arab conquest of North Africa.[2][3] For example, French historian, Eugne Albertini dates the Judaization of certain Berber tribes and their expansion from Tripolitania to the Saharan oases, to the end of the 1st century.[4] Marcel Simon for his part, sees the first point of contact between the western Berbers and Judaism in the great Jewish Rebellion of 66-70.[5] Some historians believe, based on the writings of Ibn Khaldoun and other evidence, that some or all of the ancient Judaized Berber tribes later adopted Christianity and afterwards Islam, and it is not clear if they are a part of the ancestry of contemporary Berber-speaking Jews.[6] According to Joseph Chetrit, recent research has shown weaknesses in the evidence supporting Ibn Khaldun's statement, and "seems to support scholars' hypothesis that Jews came to North Africa from ancient Israel after a stay in Egypt and scattered progressively from East to West, from the Middle East to the Atlantic in the Hellenic-Roman Empire".[2] Besides old settlements of Jews in the Atlas mountains and the interior Berber lands of Morocco, strong periodic persecutions by the Almohades most probably augmented the Jewish presence there. This hypothesis is reinforced by the pogroms which happened in Fes, Meknes and Taza in the late 15th century and which would have brought another wave of Jews, including amongst them Spanish Jewish-descended families such as the Peretz, and this wave would have even reached the Sahara with Figuig and Errachidia.[citation needed] Some claim the female Berber military leader, Dihya, was a Berber Jew, though she is remembered in the oral tradition of some North-African communities as an oppressive leader for the Jews, and other sources claim her to be Christian. She is said to have aroused the Berbers in the Aures (Chaoui territory) in the eastern spurs of the Atlas Mountains in modern-day Algeria to a last, although fruitless, resistance to the Arab general Hasan ibn Nu'man.[citation needed] Following the 1948 ArabIsraeli War, the tensions between the Jewish and Muslim communities increased.[7] Jews in the Maghreb were compelled to leave[by whom?] due to these increased tensions
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