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	<title>Norway, Israel and the jews &#187; Norwegian jews</title>

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		<title>VG&#8217;s Hanne Skartveit: the great betrayal</title>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lifted from VG. Applause to Skartveit for this eminent oped The great betrayal Synagogue OSLO (AP) We were unable to protect our Jewish compatriots during the war. And today we are unable to give them the security they need. Do we simply not care? OpEd by Hanne Skartveit In the street where I lived for some years, just outside Washington, DC, we had a neighbor that almost every day dragged a large box and out of his car. When he was driving the kids to soccer practice, he dragged the box into the hallway of the house. And when he got home, he put the box back in the trunk of the car. The box was filled with blankets, flashlights, water and dried food. The Jewish family, who eventually became our good friends, had kept the box in the car since the terrorist attack on U.S. 11 September 2001. Al-Qaeda, who was behind the attack, had already urged Muslims to kill Americans and their allies &#8211; everywhere. Jews know from historical experience, that those who come with such threats, act according to what they say. Jews also know that anti-Semitism is alive all over the world. It either began or ended with the Holocaust, the industrial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One week after PM&#8217;s reassurance that nobody should live in fear in Norway &#8211; Justice Minister Grete Faremo to reassess Jewish community&#8217;s security needs</title>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lifted from Dagbladet, but also mentioned in other media. Faremo to reassess Synagogue security needs &#8211; Is in constant contact with police and the Police Security Services. The Minister of Justice Grete Faremo (Labour) is reviewing the safety precautions in place for the Synagogue in Oslo, and is in constant contact with the police and the police and the security services. Earlier this year, the Jewish community asked for support for security measures at the synagogue in Oslo. Previously, the community was denied such support for enhanced access control, as well as physical and electronic protection against intruders in community centers. The Ministry of Justice has now confirmed that it will be carrying out a review of threats made against the community as well as a new assessment for the need for support, Vårt Land writes. Faremo did not say how long time the reassessment will take. The Ministry&#8217;s information service does not wish to comment why the reassessment of the security is carried out again. - We cannot comment on the background for our safety assessments. In general, the police continually evaluates the need to implement any special safety and protective measures. Ministry of Justice has an ongoing dialogue with the Police Security [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The PMs Holocaust Memorial Day speech in full</title>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Dear all, This year marks 70 years since the &#8220;Danube&#8221; cast off from this quay, and embarked on a voyage of shame . 532 Jews were brutally stowed on board. Only nine returned. One of them was Samuel Steinmann. He is the last survivor. I&#8217;m especially glad you are here with us. Today we remember the millions of innocent people who were wiped out in History&#8217;s most heinous genocide. We remember all of the Norwegian Jews who were murdered. We remember the Roma, the disabled, gays and other victims of the Hitler regime&#8217;s cruelty. The Holocaust will forever be a stain in the history of Mankind. Thursday 26 November 1942 the Holocaust came to Norway. One of the many who were arrested that day was Ruth Maier. Her story is well known thanks to Gunvor Hofmo and Jan Erik Vold. At dawn on 26 November heavy boots stomped up the stairs in the rooming house &#8220;Englehjemmet&#8221; in Oslo. Shortly after, the frightened  girlfriends of a humble Jewish girl, saw her being led out the door  from her home in Dalsbergstien 3 The last glimpse of Ruth Maier is that she is pushed into a black car by two powerful Norwegian police officers. Five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our deepest regret this could happen on Norwegian soil</title>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, the first real step towards acknowledging our own role in the tragedy. Only after accepting responsibility, can the hard work of forgiveness and the arduous task of reconstructing relations begin. Lifted from Aftenposten (by Elisabeth Rodum and Halvor Hegtun) PM Jens Stoltenberg (Labour) deeply regretted the deportation of Norwegian Jews at the Holocaust Memorial ceremony in Oslo on friday. This autumn marks 70 years since, &#8220;the Norwegian Holocaust.&#8221; During the WWII, 772 Norwegian Jews or refugees were deported from Norway to the Nazi extermination camps. Only 34 survived. - The murders iare without doubt the work of the Nazi. But it was Norwegians who carried out the arrests. And it was the Norwegians who drove the cars, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said  in his speech. - Without denying the Nazis&#8217;s responsibility, it&#8217;s time to acknowledge that the police and other Norwegians participated in the arrests and deportations of Jews. It is now incumbent upon us, to t to express our deep regret that this could happen on Norwegian soil, said Stoltenberg. - Many open wounds 50 years after the war, the Parliament established a financial settlement, collectively and individually, for the liquidation of the Norwegian Jews. Just under NOK 200 million was allocated, of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holocaust commemoration ceremony today at 1500 hrs in Oslo</title>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lifted from Dagen.no, but also covered most other news outlets. For more details on the event itself, you can go to http://www.holocaustdagen.no/ Thinks Jens will apologize to the Jews Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is expected to come up with a form of apology to the Norwegian Jews during the International Holocaust Remembrance Day today. Bjørn Arild Hatlem - I think certainly that the Prime Minister should apologize. There are many wounds that are still open and an apology is long over, historian Kjersti Dybvig at University College in London say to dagen.no. The Memorial Day will be marked in many places around Norway and in Oslo PM Stoltenberg will hold the keynote speech at the quayside. Dybvig will launch her book  &#8221;Jews and police in Stavanger &#8211; the Convenience of Forgetfulness &#8221; on Pax publishers in March. - Most of the Jews who were arrested in Norway, were Norwegian citizens. When they were arrested, they lost their citizenship. After the WWII, when the White buses wentn to pick up prisoners who had survived, did not allow the Jews to return to Norway with them, since they were not Norwegian citizens and the government after 8 May 1945 therefore would not fund the repatriation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mixed signals from Norway as Holocaust commemoration ceremony is expected to bring a much awaited formal apology from Norway to its Jewish community</title>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, at 3 PM, our PM Jens Stoltenberg is widely expected to officially and formally apologize to the Norwegian Jewish community for the state sponsored persecution and murder of Norwegian citizens with a Jewish background during the WWII. Whatever form that eventual apology finally would be presented as, does not detract from the perception that Norway continues to send mixed signals to our own Jewish community as well as our well documented partiality in the ME conflict. Whilst we as a nation, prepare to possibly apologize to our Jewish minority, former Bishop of Oslo, Gunnar Stålsett led a rally against extremism. In his address, he said among other things Through the years we have paraded against racism and war. We have turned our backs on neo-Nazism anti-Semitism. We stand shoulder to shoulder, Christians, Jews, Muslims, believers and humanists. Today too, we stand together for human dignity and tolerance. Fine words, but actions speak louder than words. Stålsett himself should look in himself before preaching tolerance to others, judging by his own record, he leaves a bit to be desired in that department. To make it even more complex, how can a rally that features Lars Gule as a speaker, remotely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pre-slaughter stun = animal cruelty</title>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McGonagall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will make many a ham fisted bureaucrat who has googled a wee bit too much go bonkers; I can virtually hear the gnashing of teeth and furious rejections from academics with tunnel vision&#8230; But will this be enough to convince Norwegian legislators that the Jews too, now should have full religious freedom in Norway? &#8216;Pre-slaughter stunning less humane than shechita’ By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH &#8220;Anti-kosher meat bill delayed in Dutch legislature due to Israeli research,&#8221; TAU psychiatrist says. An Israeli study on electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) for severely depressed or psychotic patients has apparently disproved the claim that the similar process of stunning animals before slaughter is humane and minimizes their suffering. Prof. Rael Strous, a psychiatrist at Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine and the Be’er Ya’acov Mental Health Center, has just published an article on the subject in the journal Meat Science together with Bar-Ilan University researcher Dr. Ari Zivotofsky. The researchers reached the conclusion that electric stunning of animals, often advocated as kinder than kosher slaughter, “is in fact cruel and barbaric,” as if one administered ECT without first giving patients sedation and/or general anesthesia. The team studied ECT given to depressed patients – in which a strong electric [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norwegian Jews reluctant to be members of Jewish congregations</title>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McGonagall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lifted from Vårt Land Jews do not dare join Jewish communities The Jewish community in Norway has shrunk by nearly a fifth in ten years. Fear of making themselves visible as a Jew, is one of the reasons, the leader of the Jewish Congregation in Oslo, Ervin Kohn believes. by: Geir Ole Bjartvik Figures from Statistics Norway show that the number of members for the two Jewish congregations in Norway has decreased from 1,015 to 819 members over the past decade. This corresponds to a decrease of almost 20 percent. According to Ervin Kohn, Chairman and Trustee of the Jewish community in Oslo, this decline  is due to a mix of different factors: Some members have moved from Norway. Some marry out of the congregations. The Member Register has undergone a clean-up. Members pass away. - As we do not proselytize, we do not have this avenue for growth. Fear visibility. Kohn says that the fear of making themselves visible as Jews, keep some from joining. Others drop their membership because they think it&#8217;s too scary to be registered as a member of the Jewish minority. - I just spoke with one person in Stavanger, who said that  the desire to keep a low profile was the main reason for not becoming a member, says Kohn. He says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PM&#8217;s reply to Hans Olav Syvertsen&#8217;s request for formal apology to Norwegian Jews</title>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suppose it is a good thing that our PM will honor the memory of the murdered Norwegian citizens who happened to be Jewish for this upcoming Holocaust Day Memorial. But if I am not mistaken, the Holocaust center, which the PM claims he was on the forefront for establishing, was in fact the brainchild of the Jewish community itself, and which the Storting, in 1997, instructed the then Department of Church, Education and Research to establish a politically and value neutral center for our religious minorities. The center was officially opened in 2001, when Stoltenberg led his first and short lived government. Methinks the man brags too much! Or maybe he thinks that merely rubber-stamping somebody else&#8217;s hard work somehow makes this his merit? A QUESTION IN WRITING TO THE PRIME MINISTER BY HANS OLAV SYVERSEN Stortinget.no, Hans Olav Syversen Summary. Hans Olav Syversen of the CPP raises a question to the Prime Minster over the “Norwegian Holocaust” 70 years. He questions whether an official apology will be issued. The PM’ response in full: “Jens Stoltenberg: for a long time, I have been conscious over the destiny of the Jews in WW2, therefore, I was in the forefront of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forgiveness or pardon&#8230; what&#8217;s the difference</title>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McGonagall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somebody said that in order to be able to forgive, the parties involved in an incident need to work very hard to uncover the underlying history, the perpetrator needs to explain why he or she acted the way they did and why it now is important to be forgiven, whilst the victim truly must grapple with the difficult feelings of wanting to exact a revenge, but actively choosing to let bygones be bygones&#8230; Unless this arduous process has been completed, we are merely talking about granting pardons, which require very little work, but is no more than an expression of exhaustion. Some politicians, writers and others who participate in the public discourse have recently demanded that Norway officially apologizes to the Jewish community for the persecution and mass murders suffered during WW2; the Jewish community appears to be in two minds about the issue: TELLS JENS TO APOLOGIZE TO JEWS Vårt Land 2012 01 11 p 4 Ingjerd Våge/Bjørgulv K. Bjåen Summary. Hans Olav Syversen of the CPP asks PM Jens Stoltenberg to issue official apology over the «Norwegian holocaust» 70 years ago. Quotes: “Jews are a national minority in Norway; I find the time has come for the PM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Also not in Norwegian news; Jewish funeral procession in Oslo suffers harassment</title>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First an admission &#8211; one Norwegian newspaper did report on this incident &#8211; the Christian daily Dagen. Excellent as though it is, it is hardly a paper read by your average Norwegian, so for the majority of Norwegians, who rely on NRK, Dagbladet, VG and Aftenposten for coverage of domestic affairs, this one has slipped under the radar. Jewish funeral procession &#8220;attacked&#8221; in Oslo When the Jewish man  Gabriel Philip Stiris (91) was buried in Oslo early in december, an unknown man appeared and shouted  «fuck the jews» and behaved in a manner that was threatening. Ove Eikje - We were shocked when this happened, and have never heard of anything like this, his son Morten Stiris tells Dagen. He was about  to shovel earth on the coffin when the unknown man expressed his hatred of Jews. The man stood outside the fence of the Jewish cemetery. Maybe he had discovered the obituary in the newspaper Aftenposten, and knew that a Jewish burial would take place at this time? Chase The man raised his left arm to  a Nazi salute, and he seemed threatening. This was a very deliberate action, my father was the only Jew who was buried that day, says Morten [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norway: We do not boycott Israeli wines, but Golan wines are Syrian</title>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following up on the story from a few days back, when we reported that Jørund Rytman, the new leader of Stortingets Friends of Israel group, had written to the Minister of Health to query why Israeli wines are not readily available in Vinmonopolet&#8217;s stores. Today, the NRK has a follow up story, where a radio reporter from the news program Political Quarter  joins Rytman on a search for Israeli wines in Vinmonopolet&#8217;s outlets in Oslo. Of 4511 different brands of red wine, none are labeled as originating in Israel. One brand of red wine originates from the Golan Heights, but is labeled &#8220;other origin&#8221;. Rytman suggests this is evidence of a de facto boycott, and asks since when do we categorize this wine as &#8220;other origin&#8221;, this is politics. The Minister of Health has replied to Rytmans query, and she explains that the lack of Israeli wines has nothing to do with boycott, but lack of demand. This argument, as well as a slip up by a representative from Vinmonopolet, was picked up by Hans Rustad at Document.no (unauthorized translation) Israeli wine is Syrian Hans Rustad The NRK News program broadcasted today a story  on why there are no Israeli [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government party MP: Circumcision is monstrous</title>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We return to the developing saga of the Norwegian debate on circumcision, and while I take the view that in the name of preventative medicine, i.e. to keep the small, but nevertheless realistic risks of something going wrong under control, it is a good thing that the Ministry of Health has tabled a proposal that circumcision of boys should be done at a hospital and by adequately trained personnel. Personally, I am not convinced that the procedure has to be carried out at a hospital, what with MRSA infested surgeries that would pose an even greater health risk, plus not to say the unnecessary use of surgeries that probably could be put to better use, for instance, giving cancer patients adequate treatment all over the country? But the idea of adequately trained personnel is one that is central at least in Jewish practice, and although I only have a patchy understanding of Muslim practices with regards to circumcision, I would like to see the Muslim mother who gladly would give up her son to a brutal butcher? Jews and Muslims alike, have always regarded personal hygiene as their strongest weapon against disease. For the act of circumcision, the Jews rely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gerstenfeld: Essay on anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism in Western schools</title>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld has published an extensive essay on anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism in Western schools. It is well researched and well documented and gives concrete examples from various countries in Europe. Below I have copied in some selected examples from Norway. It seems we are merely copying other countries, but in some areas upping the ante and trying to outdo the others. Sadly we seem to excel at it. You can read the whole essay here. Anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism in schools or places related to them are significant problems in a number of Western countries. A third related topic concerns Holocaust education in a variety of European schools. When such education is part of the curriculum in some schools, problems may emerge with students. The few reports available on some key aspects of these topics all concern single countries. In the United States and France, textbooks have been studied. In the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway, polls are available on some aspects of anti-Semitism in schools. Programs to combat anti-Semitism in schools have been developed in the Netherlands and Canada. Systematic research is required on a number of subjects. These concern, first, the neutrality of textbooks and curricula. The second aspect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norwegian phobia against circumcision</title>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Christian daily Vårt Land runs a separate discussion forum, verdidebatt.no. The readers of Vårt Land tend to have a high academic profile, perhaps even elitist. Hence, one expects more of this debate forum than others, where they do not flag values and ethics as important guiding principles. Not that the debate therefore must be toothless, but certain forms of expression should perhaps not be encouraged? A reader called Kjetil Stenvik has provided the following to the debate on circumcision. It is a shame that verdidebatt&#8217;s moderator is hopelessly undereducated on the facts on circumcision on the one hand, and racist remarks on the other, otherwise, he or she might have decided to use the delete button for this entry: Circumcision &#8211; state-sponsored abuse Published 27 October &#8211; 563 views Post Several years has passed since the Norwegian society focused on female circumcision in the Muslim community. Nowadays, submissions to the consultation on the circumcision of boys requested by the Ministry of Health and Care Services are being reviewed. It is high time. It is strange that none of the regulatory proposals on circumcision of male children mention a ban. Rather, the proposed alternatives only suggest that circumcision either be performed by health [...]]]></description>
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