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The Jewish Museum in Calmeyers street in Oslo was until 1942 inhabited by several Jewish families, among them the Samuels (See above – picture from Oslo Jewish Museum). On November 26th 1942, Norwegian collaborators sent 19 of the 28 residents of the building to Auschwitz. By Minerva McGonagall, an NIJ-street-irregular For tourists visiting Oslo there [...] Aftenposten op-ed: Jews more powerful than ever NRK’s Tormod Strand has uncovered anti-Semitism among Norwegian muslims. Israeli academic Manfred Gerstenfeld has identified anti-Semitism in the ethnic Norwegian mainstream. The Aftenposten op-ed above claims “Jews stronger than ever“. The author throws a few decent punches. Yet she can hardly escape the fact that the Norwegian Jews [...] Aftenposten op-ed "The Norwegian Jew disappears" Norway is one of those societies which has great difficulties in providing Jews with circumstances in which they can thrive. The author of the op-ed in Aftenposten above raises an interesting question: If Jews cannot live in Norway, does not that prove the necessity of a Jewish state where [...] Forces of evil are moving. Today state television NRK broadcast on anti-Semitism in Norway. The broadcast, which was approximately five minutes long, was put together by NRK journalist Tormod Strand and sent during prime time as part of the national news at 7 pm. There was an introduction on the state of affairs in Malmö, Sweden, [...] Oslo has never had many Jews. Due to a mix of natural deaths, emigration and membership error, it now turns out there are even fewer of them than we thought until quite recently. Only a few days ago, on December 13th, Norway’s ambassador to Israel slammed JCPA’s Dr.Gerstenfeld in an op-ed to the Jerusalem Post. [...] Here is an excerpt from a short article on Norwegian Jewry in Haaretz, by Tom Segev. It appears well researched except for the estimation of the number of jews in Norway today. Segev proposes “some hundred”, while a commonly used figure is 1500. Read the entire article in Haaretz. Up until 1851 Jews were not allowed [...] |
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