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A man allegedly trying to set fire to a synagogue in northern France was shot and killed by police on Friday, according to French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin. Officers in Rouen "responded to a report of smoke near the synagogue," a police source said. "The man was armed with a knife and an iron bar, he approached the police officers who fired," said a source close to the case. He died at the scene, they added. "In Rouen, national police officers neutralised an armed individual early this morning who was clearly intent on setting fire to the town's synagogue," wrote Darmanin on X. "I cong...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A new exhibition opening in California this weekend traces the Jewish origins of Hollywood. "Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital" tells the story of how the then-small city of Los Angeles became the global center of filmmaking, partially because of the challenges Jews faced at the start of the 20th century. Jewish migrants escaping pogroms and persecution in Europe flocked to the New World where they hoped for better opportunities, said exhibition curator Dara Jaffe. "Even in America, Jews would have been restricted from entering any industry th...
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Jerusalem (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday denounced a "volcano of anti-Semitism" and international criticism of Israel's war in Gaza, insisting that no pressure would stop it from defending itself. "If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone," Netanyahu said. Speaking at a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem, he lamented that when the Nazis killed six million Jews during World War II, his people "were totally defenceless against those who sought our destruction. "No nation came to our aid," he said as the Israe...
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Hundreds of people attended the Kosher Food Festival in Berlin on Sunday, despite Iran's overnight attack on Israel. The Jewish community group, Chabad, organised the event to respond with a “positive spirit” to the ongoing situation in the Middle East, inviting all residents of the German capital to get a taste of Jewish life. In the face of an unprecedented attack by Iran on Israel involving hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles, people considered cancelling the festival. But Chabad chairman, Yehuda Teichtal, said it was more important than ever that events like these go...
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WATCH: Ultra-Orthodox Jews block a road in central Israel in protest of the Supreme Court's decision on military draft exemptions for the religious. The court decided last week to freeze funding to Jewish seminaries whose students have not turned up to be drafted into the military. Ultra-Orthodox men have long received exemptions from military service, which is compulsory for most Jewish men, generating widespread resentment.
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