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Facebook ‘Deserves Credit’ for Removing Hungarian Hate Speech

The Anti-Defamation League today praised Facebook for removing the page of Kuruc.info, the leading Hungarian purveyor of anti-Semitic and anti-Roma hate speech.The League assisted the Action and Protection Foundation, which monitors and combats anti-Semitism in Hungary, to submit a detailed complaint to Facebook.“Through its Facebook page, Kuruc.info was conveying threats against Jews and Roma, inciting to violence, spreading vile anti-Semitism ...

B’klyn Food Stamps Funds Trans-Atlantic Food Shipments

Food stamps are paying for trans-Atlantic takeout — with New Yorkers using taxpayer-funded benefits to ship food to relatives in Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.Welfare recipients are buying groceries with their Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards and packing them in giant barrels for the trip overseas, The Post found.The practice is so common that hundreds of 45- to 55-gallon ...

Gilad Shalit to Join New Immigrants to Israel on Flight from U.S.

Gilad Shalit will accompany a flight of new immigrants, including 106 children, leaving New York for Israel on Monday.The former captive soldier will be onboard the first chartered El Al aliyah flight of the summer, which will leave John F. Kennedy Airport with 231 new immigrants, including 41 families.A live feed of the immigrants landing in Israel, at 7 A.M. Tuesday, ...

500-year-old Jewish Skeleton Found in Brazil

Brazilian archaeologists unearthed what they said are the 500-year-old remains of a Jewish man in Recife.A report Thursday in the online edition of the Rio de Janeiro-based O Globo described the discovery earlier this month as a perfectly-preserved skeleton of a male adult. The skeleton was found during earthwork in Recife in northern Brazil, where Portuguese Jews in 1636 built ...

Doorway by Doorway, Rabbi Seeks Jews

Montana’s small Jewish population is scattered across a huge US state that has more rodeos than rabbis, but one man is logging thousands of miles to seek out the faithful one doorway at a time.Rabbi Chaim Bruk has set his sights on making sure each Jewish home in the state has a mezuzah at its entrance – and that those ...

Polish PM to Form Committee to Discuss Kosher Slaughter

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has given his consent to the establishment of a special committee in order to find a solution that would allow kosher slaughtering in his country, after the Polish parliament last week rejected a government-sponsored bill to legalize shechita, the European Jewish Press (EJP) reported.The announcement was made Thursday in Brussels by the Polish Ambassador to the EU, ...

AllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 85 July 17, 2013

For 15 years now, Chabad of the East Valley in Arizona, one of the fastest-growing states in America has been searching for a permanent home. They have based operations in such varied locations as a rented apartment, hotel rooms, boardrooms, the living room of a house, a local storefront, and the nearby Jewish Community Center and synagogue. None of these, however, ...

Swiss Banks’ Shoah Fund ‘Paid Out $1.24B’

The Swiss-Jewish weekly Tachles said the figure was contained in a report by New York judge Edward Korman, who oversees the management of the fund.Korman’s report summed up operations since a landmark 1998 deal between the World Jewish Congress and Swiss banks.The banks were accused of keeping money owned by Jews who had hidden funds in secret accounts in neutral ...

Anti-Semitism in Sweden Forces Jews to Question their Future

Attacks against Jews in Malmoe, Sweden’s third largest city, have left members of the community questioning their future in a place known for its “multiculturalism.”Jewish people have lived in Malmoe for over two centuries, often arriving in the south Swedish port city – a safe haven for generations – after fleeing persecution and intolerance in other parts of Europe.But though waves of immigration over the past ...

Teens Seek Purpose, Identity at Summer Un-Camp

“When my classmates asked me what religion I am, I made them guess,” Luca Koo, 15 from Budapest, Hungary says. “They went through the whole list before I told them I’m Jewish.”One of thirty-five teen girls who’ve come from foreign countries to spend summer at Un-Camp, a three week program in Dorchester, IA, Luca first noticed anti-Semitism in Hungary as a 10-year-old, ...

Peres Attends Unveiling of Latvia Museum to Honor WWII Rescuers of Jews

President Shimon Peres took part in a ceremony marking the opening of a museum in Latvia dedicated to a couple who saved some 50 Jews from extermination.The museum in downtown Riga, Latvia’s capital, is located next to the property once owned by Zanis Lipke, a port worker who together with his wife hid Jews in an underground pit measuring some ...

At Least 10 Nazi War Criminals Ignored U.S. Deportation Orders

At least 10 suspected Nazi war criminals whose deportations were ordered by the United States never actually left the country, according to an Associated Press review of Justice Department data — and four are living in the U.S. today. All remained eligible for public benefits such as Social Security until they exhausted appeals, and in one case even beyond.Quiet American ...