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From The Times of Israel
Animal rights activists, chicken swingers brawl
Three arrested after attempting to break up kapparot ritual before Yom Kippur in Petah Tikva
A brawl broke out Tuesday at the Great Synagogue in Petah Tikva between animal rights activists and people who’d come to perform a Yom Kippur ritual involving swinging a chicken.
The ritual, known in Hebrew as kapparot, involves reciting prayers while swinging a chicken around your head three times in the belief that one transfers one’s sins to the chicken ahead of the Day of Atonement. The chicken is then slaughtered and donated to the poor. In recent years, money has replaced the chicken in the rite for many Jewish groups.
Police were called to the scene and broke up the dust-up, which involved hundreds of people, according to Army Radio. Three animal rights activists were arrested.
Tuesday’s scuffle was the second in recent days, after animal rights activists clashed with ultra-Orthodox Jews in the port city of Ashdod over the same ritual.
The police said that the protesters used tear gas on those participating in the ritual, NRG reported. One person was hospitalized after suffering a reaction to the effects of the gas.
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From Russia Today
EU refugee crisis: Traffic between Croatia and Serbia halted after reciprocal bans imposed
“Serbian passport holders and cars registered in Serbia cannot enter Croatia until further notice,” a police officer told Reuters.
Earlier on Thursday, Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said that Serbian police were instructed, to “not allow the entry through any border crossing any cargo vehicle registered in Croatia, nor any truck carrying goods made in Croatia.”
However, Croatia’s Prime Minister, Zoran Milanovic, said that he didn’t believe Serbia would go as far as introducing retaliatory measures because that would constitute an act “against the European Union.”
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From The Times of Israel
UK in a tizzy over Cameron-pig claims
In new book, disgruntled ex-politician alleges bizarre sexual escapade by British PM in his student days
LONDON (AP) — Many people have student antics they’d rather forget.
On Monday, British Prime Minister David Cameron’s university days at Oxford were in the news — and causing national bemusement — thanks to a new book by a former Conservative Party treasurer.
Michael Ashcroft, a wealthy businessman who donated millions to the party before falling out with Cameron, has co-written “Call Me Dave,” an unauthorized biography that includes allegations of undergraduate drug-taking and juvenile sexual escapades.
Extracts published Monday in the Daily Mail newspaper claim Cameron smoked marijuana with friends — often while listening to 1970s rock group Supertramp. The book also quotes an unnamed college contemporary as saying Cameron once inserted “a private part of his anatomy” into the mouth of a dead pig during an initiation ritual for a student club.
Downing Street said Cameron wouldn’t “dignify” the claims with a response, and they are likely to prove more embarrassing than harmful. Satirical responses flourished on social media under the hashtags #piggate and #hameron.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Greek government minister resigns over anti-Semitic, homophobic tweets
ATHENS, Greece (JTA) — A minister in the new Greek government has resigned less than 48 hours after being appointed over an outcry about a series of anti-Semitic and homophobic tweets.
Dimitris Kammenos of the Independent Greeks Party had been appointed deputy transport minister following Sunday’s election. The Independent Greeks are the junior coalition partner in the government of the far-left Syriza party.
Among the tweets on his page, which have since been deleted, were some that referred to a conspiracy theory alleging that Jews did not show up to work at the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11. Another mocked the Athens pride parade.
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From PressTV
Egypt further besieging Gaza by flooding border: Hamas
Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says Egypt is further besieging the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip by flooding the border area, calling on Cairo to call off the project.
Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh made the remarks during a speech to commemorate the Eid al-Adha (the Feast of Sacrifice) in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis on Thursday.
“Why are they (the Egyptians) digging those trenches and those water pipes around Rafah [border crossing]? … We are telling our Egyptian brothers: Stop this project. We will do our duty against those who besiege Gaza and plot against it,” Haniyeh said.
Over the past few weeks, Egyptian military bulldozers have been digging through the sand along Egypt’s border with Gaza in an attempt to flood underground tunnels used by Palestinians to transfer essential supplies, including food and fuel, into the besieged coastal sliver.
Earlier this month, witnesses said the tunnels were submerged by water from the Mediterranean Sea through underground pipes with holes on them.
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From PressTV
Israeli forces arrest nine Palestinians in West Bank
Israeli forces have arrested at least nine Palestinians during separate overnight raids on a number of houses across the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Wadi Hilweh Information Center said Israeli military vehicles rolled into the Ras al-Amud neighborhood of East al-Quds (Jerusalem) early on Thursday and unloaded Israeli forces, who broke into dozens of homes and violently searched them.
The Israeli forces caused excessive property damage before detaining the eight young Palestinians.
The center added that an 18-year-old Palestinian, identified as Abdul Karim Khleilo, was also detained in Sur Baher neighborhood on the southeastern outskirts of East al-Quds.
In recent months, Israeli forces have frequently raided the houses of Palestinians in the West Bank, arresting dozens of people, who are then transferred to Israeli prisons, where they are kept without charge.
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From PressTV
Israelis clash with Palestinians mourning killing of young woman
Israeli forces have clashed with Palestinians in the occupied West Bank following the funeral of a young woman shot dead by the Tel Aviv regime’s troops.
The clashes erupted between the Palestinians and the Israeli troops in the West Bank city of al-Khalil also known as Hebron on Wednesday when thousands of Palestinians, who were carrying the flag of Palestine, participated in the funeral ceremony of Hadil Salah Hashlamoun.
The Israeli forces fired stun grenades and used tear gas against the Palestinians, who responded by throwing stones.
There are as of yet no reports on possible casualties as a result of the incident.
The 18-year-old female student was fatally shot by Israeli forces on Tuesday morning and was left to bleed on a sidewalk in al-Khalil. A video published by PalMedia shows Israeli forces and settlers standing around, smiling and laughing in some cases, while the young woman bleeds to death.
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From Russia Today
EU pledges €1 billion to UN agencies for Syrian refugees in Middle East
“Tonight our decision was based on fact, not emotion,” Tusk said. “Leaders have agreed on increased help to Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and other countries in the region. More assistance will be offered for reinforced cooperation. At least an additional 1 billion euro will be mobilized for help to the refugees in the region via UN agencies.”
From The Independent
More people have joined Labour since Jeremy Corbyn became leader than are in Ukip
Latest numbers show that more than 50,000 people have joined it in the week since Saturday 12 September
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Canadian candidate apologizes for not knowing Auschwitz was death camp
TORONTO (JTA) — A candidate in Canada’s federal elections has apologized for not knowing that Auschwitz was a Nazi death camp.
“Well, I didn’t know what Auschwitz was, or I didn’t up until today,” Alex Johnstone, who is running in the Oct. 19 elections for Parliament in southwestern Ontario for the New Democratic Party, told the Hamilton Spectator on Tuesday.
Johnstone said she had “heard about concentration camps” before and accused her opponents of “mud slinging.”
The gaffe came to light when a satirical website found a 2008 Facebook posting of a photograph of part of the electrified fence and its curved concrete supports at Auschwitz.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Former Nazi camp Dachau housing homeless and refugees
(JTA) — Buildings that were part of an herb garden at the former Nazi concentration camp Dachau have been turned into housing for homeless people and refugees.
The buildings are housing about 50 people, Dachau Mayor Florian Hartmann said Tuesday in the southern German town, the French news agency AFP reported.
“These are the weakest members of society. This building has been burdened by history but can now take on a useful social role,” Hartmann said, according to AFP.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Ex-deputy subjected to Mel Gibson’s anti-Semitic rant must be reinstated
(JTA) — The sheriff’s deputy who arrested actor Mel Gibson and was subjected to his anti-Semitic rant in 2006 must be given his job back, a commission ruled.
The Los Angeles County’s Civil Service Commission ruled Wednesday that James Mee, who is Jewish, should never have been fired from his position following a 2011 incident involving a drunk driver who crashed into a Santa Clarita gas station, the Los Angeles Timesreported. Mee was accused of violating the department’s rules on pursuits.
Mee has said he was subject to religious discrimination and a hostile work environment after arresting Gibson in 2006 in Malibu, California, for driving while intoxicated. He claimed he was passed over for promotions because he complained about purging the report on Gibson’s arrest of the slurs, as directed by his superiors, ultimately ending in his firing in 2012.
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