Today in Jewish History – Shvat 3

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Sponsored by Aish.com: In 1933, Adolph Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. The November 1932 elections saw the Nazis emerge as the largest party in the Reichstag. Leading German politicians and businessmen persuaded President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as chancellor, as a way to stabilize the government and economy. Hindenburg reluctantly agreed. Two months later, the Nazis passed the Enabling Act, giving Hitler dictatorial authority. Hitler’s government then banned all other political parties, and in July 1933, a Concordat (agreement) was signed with the Vatican. Hitler secured popular support by persuading Germans that he was their savior from

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More cemetery vandalism in Polish area

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From JTA: A swastika defacing a Jewish grave in northeastern Poland is the third such desecration in the area this year. The swastika in Suwalki was discovered last week in the town’s Jewish cemetery. “We notified the prosecutor’s office, and the local authorities are not dealing with it since the cemetery just last month came under the ownership of the Jewish community in Poland,” Monika Krawczyk of the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland told JTA. “We are not going to clean it up since it testifies to attitudes of some local residents today.” Earlier this year

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The New Anti-Semitism

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Via DailyAlert. From The New Anti-Semitism: Hatred of Jews has reached new heights in Europe. Last year I chaired a blue-ribbon committee of British parliamentarians that examined the problem of anti-Semitism in Britain. None of us are Jewish or active in the unending debates on the Israeli-Palestinian question. Our report showed a pattern of fear among a small number of British citizens – there are around 300,000 Jews in Britain – that is not acceptable in a modern democracy. Synagogues attacked. Jewish schoolboys jostled on public transportation. Rabbis punched and knifed. British Jews feeling compelled to raise millions to provide

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Today in Jewish History – Tammuz 5

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Sponsored by Aish.com: In 1946, Jewish refugees from the Holocaust, with no other place to go, returned to their hometown of Kielce, Poland — and were attacked by the townspeople in a bloody pogrom that left 42 Jews dead and 80 wounded. The pogrom began when rumors spread that Jews had kidnapped a Polish child. Polish policemen and soldiers entered the Jewish residences and began the violence; the Jews were then attacked outside by mobs in a fray that lasted five hours. Some 3 million Polish Jews had been murdered in the Holocaust, yet this pogrom — occurring 15 months

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Today in Jewish History – Iyar 13

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Sponsored by Aish.com: In 1427, a decree was issued ordering all Jews expelled from Berne, Switzerland. Jews have wandered and settled in over 100 lands on five continents. Throughout the Middle Ages, Jews were subject to frequent expulsions. And amazingly, 90 percent of Jewish families were uprooted in the 20th century — with mass immigration to America and Israel, and the tragic Holocaust. This is prophesied in Leviticus 26:33: “I will scatter you among the nations…” Yet amidst it all, the Jewish people have miraculously maintained their distinct national identity.

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Today in Jewish History – Iyar 8

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Sponsored by Aish.com: In 1516, the Jews of Venice were forced to move to an enclosed area, the site of an old metal foundry. The Italian word for foundry is “ghetto,” thus giving rise to a concept that would be used over the centuries to persecute Jews. In 1555, for example, Pope Paul IV created the Roman Ghetto, and in the 20th century the Nazis forced Jews into dozens of ghettos — the Warsaw Ghetto alone held 450,000 people (30% of the entire population of Warsaw), crammed into a tiny area.

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French rabbi punched in anti-Semitic attack

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Anti-Semitism is on the rise worldwide, but France has seen a particularly significant jump in the number of violent attacks on Jews. On Thursday, a rabbi was punched in the face and hospitalized. The rabbi of Nord-Pas-de-Calais in northern France was violently attacked Thursday morning by a 20-year-old man while walking in the lanes of the Paris North train station. Rabbi Elie Dahan said, “I arrived from Lille and was walking in the Paris station when the man, who was accompanied by a woman, looked at me and cried: dirty Jew, you are looking at me, I will punch you,

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Exclusive: Images of a lost community

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This is the incredible story of a collection of 178 family pictures, which were hidden in the walls of a house in Poland just before the Holocaust, only to be found some 60 years later and be returned to their rightful owners http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3387796,00.html#n

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