This last week, we Norwegians have been more concerned with the fate of our countrymen who have been taken hostage in Algiers (desperately awaiting news about them, alas so far not forthcoming), than with whatever is going on in the…
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O Come all Ye faithful translated into Norwegian: Come and bash the Joos
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Christian organizations in Norway who claim to be friends of Israel, now also resort to age-old anti-Semitic trick to use the upcoming Christian holidays to bash the Joos. Obviously they are coy about it, but you need not be very…
The King cancelled the Medal of Merit for anti-Semite Linstad – here is a sample of the many reasons why Norway protested.
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wholesale copy from Tundratabloids.com INFAMOUS NORWEGIAN CONVERT TO ISLAM TROND ALI LINSTAD CONDONES MURDER ONLINE, INSISTS ON ISRAEL TO BE DESTROYED ……… Posted on 21/11/2012 by KGS Antisemites throughout Norwegian society. This is the same man who was to receive a medal for…
Norwegian Muslim Labor politician serves anti-Semitic slurs on Facebook
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Abysmal translation from google translate… but you get the gist… Jews harassed on facebook From Nettavisen today, November 20th It says that Jews are being harassed on facebook by AUF members (youth labor party) AND Ap…
Mrs. Sender wants to write a book, went to the West Bank to lose her veil.
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The former leader of the Jewish Congregation in Oslo is writing a book about her experience. Apparently, this triggered a need to go to the West Bank in the Norwegian Church Aid accompaniment program, to see what life is like…
NRK style religious education for kids: on Judaism
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Some sorry sod actually thinks this is unbiased, and correct information, suitable to small children…. I read in todays Times of Israel that some blogger have started a BBC watch blog… BBC is infinitely much better than the NRK in…
Rabbi Coopers holiday letter from Norway
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lifted from TimesofIsrael.com The teddy bear in Norway: A new threat for Jews SEPTEMBER 25, 2012, 12:16 AM 1 Rabbi Abraham Cooper is associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center MORE IN THIS BLOG A tale of two Swedens: Wallenberg’s…
Gmar hatima tova
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Yom Kippur came and went. A sublime experience. There is no other possible way of describing it. This years joy over this most wonderful celebration of life, had an extra element of joy, as on the occasion I was visiting…
The Mayor of Oslo and his views on freedom of speech
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Norway too, has also felt the consequences of upsetting Muslim sensitivities. Luckily, we were spared riots and gratuitous violence, which seems to be the most common way a not insignificant proportion of Muslims think they are entitled to react with…
Norway put under scrutiny
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this message just ticked in (apologies for horrible translation, google translate job….) lifted from idag.no Puts more focus on Norway Rabbi Abraham Cooper and Mark Weitzman believe the proposal to ban circumcision is one of several threats against religious freedom…
Norwegian obsession for prepuce earns us an international raised eyebrow
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lifted from Jpost.com See how fast bad news travel, it is less than one week ago since Israelwhat wrote about this… Norway recommends ‘symbolic’ circumcision By JTA08/06/2012 14:37 Ombudsman for children’s rights proposes that Jews and Muslims replace male circumcision…
Childrens Ombudsman does a Marie Antoinette: They can’t have circumcision, give them a symbolic religious ritual
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Marie Antoinette has (falsely) been attributed the following statement; They don’t have bread? Give them cake! Now it seems our newly appointed Children’s Ombudsman is trying her best to better this (lifted from Dagen.no): Ombudsman wants to replace circumcision with…
Trying to stamp out the anti-Semitic fire – ministers now flock to the Synagogue to learn about Judaism
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The two following news pieces should be read in conjunction with previous entry to get an impression of the schizophrenic relationship Norway has to Israel and the Jews INTERESTED MINISTER AT THE SYNAGOGUE Vårt Land 2012 06 28 p…
10 good Norwegians – protesting the circumcision ban proposal
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Lifted from Aftenposten.no It fills me with immense pride that we still have a sizable proportion of our society who will not stay silent, but make use of their social prestige to protest a serious attempt to curtail religious freedom.…
Circumcision debate: the Center Party wants to prohibit
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Coalition member, the Center Party has adopted a decision that they will vote for prohibition of circumcision in Norway, when the matter comes up for a vote in the Government in the near future. The Labour Party has not yet…
Ruth’s commitment and Shavuot: “Wherever you go, I will go, wherever you lodge, I will lodge, your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.”
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Tomorrow evening, after sundown, after the Sabbath, Jews around the world will flock to their Synagogues to celebrate the giving of the Torah. It is a night of study, lasting until dawn the following morning; a night of pondering on…
Norwegian Church Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel (but without Israelis)
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THE CHURCH WEEK FOR PEACE IN PALESTINE AND ISRAEL Kirkeuka.no No stated author Summary. The Church of Norway arranges solidarity week for peace in Palestine and Israel, with extensive program. This program has numerous references to Palestinian participation, no Israelis…
Public meeting at the Literature House today – what do we do about the new anti-Semitism?
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Aftenposten and NRK organized a public meeting on how to confront the new anti-Semitism in Norway. The debate was sporadically very tense and SV’s Kristin Halvorsen got a dressing down over left’s failure to confront its anti-Semitic attitudes: lifted from…
Isaak Meyer Goldman, z”l, brought back to memory
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They say a person only truly dies when nobody talks of them any more. Isaak Meyer Goldman lived in the small Arctic town of Hammerfest before WWII, possibly the only Jew there, yet that was one too many for this…
…ויהי בעצם היום הזה…It happened on that day
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For many years, I thought that the Exodus took place at night. Not a big mistake, since the Haggadah relates of events that took place in the darkness of night, the Angel of Death, the doughs that were picked up…