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Jewish people in Belgium say friends have packed bags ready to flee amid spike in antisemitism

Sky News Thursday, 14 March 2024
A Holocaust survivor in Belgium says she knows Jewish people who have packed their bags ready to flee amid a spike in antisemitism.
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Watch: Thousands of Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest potential conscription [Video]

Watch: Thousands of Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest potential conscription

The ultra-Orthodox Israeli community say integrating into the army will threaten their generations-old way of life, while the IDF said it is suffering from manpower shortages because of the war.

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How Religions Around the World View Solar Eclipses [Video]

How Religions Around the World View Solar Eclipses

How Religions , Around the World , View Solar Eclipses. With the upcoming April 8 total solar eclipse quickly approaching, Fox News offered readers an overview of how religions traditionally view eclipses. Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism suggests that the karmic results of positive and negative actions are magnified during major astronomical events, including solar eclipses. Christianity, Christian tradition connects eclipses with a number of significant events, including the death of Jesus and the "end times.". Hinduism, In Hinduism, eclipses both solar and lunar are generally regarded as bad omens. Islam, Muslims see a solar eclipse as a time for prayer and contemplating God. The sun and the moon are two signs amongst the signs of Allah and they do not eclipse because of the death of someone... Whenever you see these eclipses pray and invoke (Allah), Kaiser Aslam, Muslim chaplain at the Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers University, via Fox News. Judaism, Similarly to Hinduism, Judaism views eclipses as "an ill omen for the world.". Eclipses should be opportunities to increase in prayer and introspection — as opposed to prompting joyous blessings. It is a sign that we really could and should be doing better, Rabbi Menachem Posner, via Fox News. Fox News reports that Rabbi Mordechai Becher cited Judaism's longstanding connections with astronomy and the heavenly message eclipses deliver. He created a system that would remind us regularly that our choices can create darkness, even at times when there should be light. Our free will choices can create a barrier between us and the Divine light, but can also allow Divine light to be seen here, Rabbi Mordechai Becher, via Fox News

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WATCH: Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest against new military draft exemption rules [Video]

WATCH: Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest against new military draft exemption rules

Police use water cannons to disperse the protesters blocking a road in central Israel.

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Hundreds of Jewish Women in U.S. on Strike Against 'Unfair' Divorce Laws | Oneindia News [Video]

Hundreds of Jewish Women in U.S. on Strike Against 'Unfair' Divorce Laws | Oneindia News

Join us as we explore the bold protest of over 800 Hasidic women in Kiryas Joel, New York, who have initiated a Sex strike to challenge centuries-old Jewish divorce laws. Learn about their fight for justice and equality as they refuse Intimacy with their husbands to demand legal reforms. #JewishWomen #Jews #Strike #JewishWomenProtest #USLaws #USNews #JewishDivorceLaws #JewsinUS #JewsProtest #IsraelHamasWar #JoeBiden #Oneindia ~HT.178~PR.274~ED.103~GR.123~

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The Holocaust The Holocaust Genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany

Lethal Gaza aid convoy strike sparks row between Poland and Israel [Video]

Lethal Gaza aid convoy strike sparks row between Poland and Israel

The two countries had recently begun a rapprochement after the fall of a nationalist government in Warsaw that indulged in Holocaust revisionism.

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Palestinian protesters gather as Amsterdam opens Holocaust museum [Video]

Palestinian protesters gather as Amsterdam opens Holocaust museum

The protest leaders emphasized they were against the Israeli president's presence, not the museum.

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Increase in antisemitic vandalism at Holocaust sites in Germany [Video]

Increase in antisemitic vandalism at Holocaust sites in Germany

Anti-Nazi campaigners say there has been a surge in antisemitic vandalism at Holocaust memorial sites in Germany.

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