Don Snyder
By Don Snyder
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News Half of Polish Students Don’t Want Jewish Neighbor
Forty-four percent of Warsaw high school students don’t want a Jewish neighbor. This is one of the findings in a new poll of 1,250 students in 20 Warsaw high schools. The poll was conducted by the Center for Research on Prejudice at Warsaw University. It’s findings came April 16, just days before the commemoration of…
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News Poland Plans Monument to Righteous Gentiles on Site of Warsaw Ghetto
A fight over memory overshadows Poland’s commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The controversy surfaced as the April 19 commemoration neared, with information from prominent Jewish activists that the government intended to use the occasion to announce plans for a monument to Righteous Gentiles on the grounds of the former ghetto,…
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Breaking News Germans Mull Revamped Holocaust Education Plan
Germany’s parliament is considering a review of education programs in its schools after receiving a government commissioned report showing that anti-Semitism in the country remains at disturbingly high levels. The Bundestag, which debated the report Wednesday, put off approving any legislation or resolutions in response to the report’s findings until it could develop a concrete…
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Breaking News German Gov’t Drafts Bill Allowing Circumcision
BERLIN—Germany’s Ministry of Justice has presented a draft law to permit circumcisions by doctors and mohels in response to uncertainty about the procedure fueled by a Cologne court’s ban on the procedure. The Cologne court’s June ruling, which angered many among the country’s 4 million Muslims and 100,000 Jews, held that circumcision deprives a child…
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News Germany Drafts Law To Protect Circumcision
Germany’s Ministry of Justice has presented a draft law to permit circumcisions by doctors and mohels as a matter of religious freedom in response to uncertainty about the procedure fueled by a Cologne court’s ban on the procedure. The Cologne court’s June ruling, which angered Muslims and Jews, held that circumcision deprives a child of…
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News Nazi-Era Case Reopens Old Polish Wounds
Poland has just reopened a 71-year-old case involving the rape and murder of 20 Jewish women. In the 1941 case — in the midst of World II, and two years after the Nazi invasion of Poland — six Poles allegedly beat the Jewish women to death with metal-tipped clubs outside the hamlet of Bzury, in…
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News Israel Arms German Subs With Nuclear Missiles
Israel is deploying nuclear-tipped cruise missiles on three of its German-built submarines, reports Der Spiegel, a mass-circulation news magazine. The German government has known about the Israeli nuclear program for decades, despite official denials, according to the magazine. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Spiegel, that Germany should be “proud” that it secured the existence…
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News Swedish Mayor Chided for Anti-Semitism
A representative of the Obama administration scolded the mayor of Malmö, Sweden, during an April 24 meeting at Malmö’s town hall. Hannah Rosenthal, the United States special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, accused the controversial Malmö mayor, Ilmar Reepalu, of not doing enough to fight rampant anti-Semitism in this southern Swedish city of nearly…
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