Judaism

Chabad House Lubavitch

Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 24 June 2004.

Phone: 207-780-8718

Congregation Beth Israel

Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 9 October 2015.

Phone: 207-934-2973

Jews Consider Leaving France Due to Rising Anti-Semitism

June 22, 2004

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0622/p01s03-woeu.html

On June 22, 2004 The Christian Science Monitor ran an article on rising anti-Semitism in France, because of which many French Jews are considering immigrating to Israel. The writer focused on Sarcelles, a suburb of Paris: "On a sunny summer's day in this middle-class suburb north of Paris it is not hard to imagine yourself in Israel: Jewish bookshops and kosher grocery stores line...

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Fire at Jewish Community Centre Suspected to be Arson

June 20, 2004

Source: The Scotsman/PA News

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3091338

On June 20, 2004 PA News reported, "A suspicious fire at a Jewish community centre has caused thousands of pounds worth of damage, police said today. Two Torah scrolls, hand-written parchments of the Bible and holy Jewish scriptures were also left 'torn and desecrated,' a spokesman for the centre said. Firefighters were called to reports of a blaze at the Aish centre in Hendon, north London, at...

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Jews Returning to Russia from Israel Due to Economic and Security Instabilities

June 20, 2004

Source: CBC News

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/06/20/world/russianjews040620

On June 20, 2004 CBC News reported, "Thousands of the Soviet Jews who fled to Israel when the Soviet Union collapsed are beginning to return to Russia. Slowly but surely, the synagogues of Moscow are filling up again. In the late 1980s and early 1990s close to one million Soviet Jews emigrated to Israel. The Soviet Union was collapsing, Russia was in economic and social chaos and anti...

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Rome's Great Synagogue Remembers Liberation 60 Years Later

June 20, 2004

Source: JTA

http://www.uja.org/content_display.html?ArticleID=118746

On June 20, 2004 JTA reported, "Rabbi Vittorio Della Rocca was only 11 years old at the time, but he will never forget a historic Shabbat at Rome's Great Synagogue 60 years ago this month. It was June 9, 1944 -- just five days after Allied troops had liberated the city from the Nazis. And on that first Friday night of freedom, an American Jewish chaplain led 4,000 Jews in the Shehecheyanu prayer...

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Report Shows Increase in "Anti-Different" Feelings; Muslims, Jews, Sikhs Are Targets

June 17, 2004

Source: ABC News Online

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200406/s1134201.htm

On June 17, 2004 ABC News Online reported, "Developed through 69 consultations around Australia over 14 months, the [the Human Rights And Equal Opportunity Commission's 'Isma', or 'Listen', report] looks at the extent of prejudice against Arab and Muslim Australians. Commissioned after anecdotal evidence of an increase in racism in Australia since the September 11 attacks in the United...

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