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CALGARY: Antisemitic vandals strike again. This time, elementary schools.
(CANWEST NEWS) CALGARY - For the second time in a week, police are looking for someone who spray-painted anti-Semitic signs and slogans in Calgary. The most recent case happened either late Tuesday or early Wednesday at Sundance Elementary School and Midsun School. The graffiti included swastikas, SS symbols and threats. Police say the slogans included "School Sucks" and "Down with Institutions" as well as references to sexual anatomy. Paint ended up on school walls, fences and vehicles. "Certainly, it's ve

Norway: Muslims want university gym for Friday prayers
From Islam in Europe: The Muslim Student Society asked to use a gym hall at Oslo university (Blindern) for half an hour every Friday for prayer, but the university administration is skeptic. Deans Hans Petter Graver (Law) and Trygve Wyller (Theology) are critical of such use of common areas. They want a principle debate on how you can meet the demands for exercising one’s religion and at the same time protect the common, secular space, reports Uniforum, the university’s newspaper. There’s an especially big influx into

LA: Promotion of violence on Facebook leads to physical attack of 12 year old boy
(LA TIMES) Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives are investigating an assault on a 12-year-old middle school boy in Calabasas who may have been targeted after a Facebook group urged students to beat up redheads, a sheriff's official said Saturday. The boy was kicked and hit in two incidents on the campus of A.E. Wright Middle School by as many as 14 of his classmates, Lt. Richard Erickson said. The students who participated in the attack may have been motivated by a Facebook message telling them that Friday was "Kick a Ginger Day," Erickson said.

PALM BEACH: Antisemitic slurs painted on woman's door
(WPTV) PALM BEACH GARDENS, FL -- Words so vicious and spray-painted in bold black letters for all to see outside a woman's Palm Beach Gardens home: "Fat Jewish (expletive)." "This was pretty horrifying," said the victim, Jodi, who asked that her last name not be used. "I don't think it's something that anybody ever imagines that they're gonna see on their front door." Those horrifying words follow other insults left at her doorstep in Legacy Place Apartments. Several weeks ago Jodi came ho

Mumbai Doctor Smashed Idols and Became a Jew with Holtzbergs
by Hana Levi Julian, IsraelNN.com In a powerful echo of the Biblical story of the patriarch Abraham, a Mumbai doctor smashed his father's idols and eventually decided to become a Jew in the Land of Israel. Dr. Aharon Abraham, left his position as Director of the ICU Medical Center at British Kennedy in Mumbai, India after terrorists murdere