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Daily Archives: May 4, 2012
Amid Mideast Tensions, Putin Will Visit Israel in June
From The Moscow Times Vladimir Putin will visit Israel next month in one of his first foreign visits as president, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said. “The information we have received from Russia shows that the visit will take place in June,” Lieberman said in an interview published Wednesday in Moskovsky Komsomolets. He said the exact date for the visit would be decided after Putin’s inauguration on May 7. He gave no further information about the trip, which unidentified sources in his ministry first leaked to Israeli media in March. But Syria and Iran will almost certainly lead Putin’s agenda. more »
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Young Families Bringing New Life To Budapest Synagogues
From the Jewish Telegraph Agency Linda Ban is a rebbetzin, but with a mass of curly hair and chunky rings on the fingers of both hands, she hardly fits the stereotype of a Central European rabbi’s wife. A mother of two in her mid-30s, Ban is married to Tamas Vero, the 38-year-old spiritual leader of Budapest’s Frankel Leo Street Synagogue, a neo-Gothic building hidden in a courtyard near the Danube. The congregation may hold a key to the Jewish future in Hungary. “My husband and I are building a Jewish community at our synagogue,” Ban says. “But my goal is more »
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Impressive Jewish Visitors’ Center In Brno
From Ruth Ellen Gruber: Jewish Heritage Travel Once again I have to hand it to the Czechs for the exemplary way that they preserve and promote Jewish heritage, heritage sites and memory. I spent a day this past week in Brno, the Czech Republic’s second largest city and the capital of Moravia. I was there for a totally different —- non-Jewish—reason (a country music concert and a meeting related to the Czech country music and bluegrass scene) but I took the time to visit the Jewish Tourism and Information Center that was opened last year at the city’s Jewish cemetery, more »
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Czech Anti-Semitism Remains Fairly Low
From the Associated Press A new study by Prague’s Jewish Community says that anti-Semitism in the Czech Republic has not risen over the last year and remains at a relatively low level. The annual report on anti-Semitism released Thursday notes that unlike in the Czech Republic, anti-Semitism is on the rise in other parts of the world. It notes a swastika painted on a Holocaust memorial and another one on a synagogue, a physical attack on a Jew, and several verbal attacks and threats in the Czech Republic in 2011. In total, the report compiles five attacks against Jewish property, more »
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American Jewish Comittee Contributes To Bulgaria’s Positive Image
From Novinite The American Jewish Committee is among the strongest advocates for Bulgaria’s better in the US, Maxim Behar, a prominent Bulgariam media and public relations expert said after his brief meeting with the Executive Director of AJC David Harris in Washington D.C. Behar is an official delegate of the AJC Global Forum 2012, which is taking place at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in the US capital. “I’ve participated in the annual forums of the AJC for many years, and can definitely say that you can hardly find a more active and convinced promoter of Bulgaria not only in the more »
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