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From Russia Today
‘Without Russia we can’t solve conflicts of our time’ – Bavarian leader
Published time: 21 Nov, 2015 16:50
Bavarian Prime Minister and head of the Christian Social Union (CSU) Horst Seehofer © Michaela Rehle / Reuters It is impossible to solve modern conflicts without Russia, Merkel’s coalition partner and Bavarian leader Horst Seehofer said at a party congress. He went on to criticize the chancellor for her asylum policy.
“That’s true, without or against Russia we cannot solve conflicts of our time,” the Bavarian prime minister and leader of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) said at the party congress in Munich, where he was re-elected as CSU head on Saturday.
Despite Western sanctions, Seehofer wants to develop cooperation with Russia, which he will visit in 2016 to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin. However, he stressed this doesn’t contradict Germany’s friendly ties with the US.
“We have been defending this position for a long time. By no means does this question our partnership and friendship with the US. But ladies and gentlemen, politically we have to face the fact that without Russia we cannot solve many things. We won’t be able to solve them.”
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From The Times of Israel
Moved by moral imperative, Canadian synagogues sponsor Syrian refugees
Peterborough, Ontario Jewish congregation helps local mosque hit by arson attack
Vancouver, British Columbia’s Temple Sholom and Peterborough, Ontario’s Beth Israel Synagogue couldn’t be more different. One is the largest Jewish congregation in one of Canada’s largest cities, while the other has a membership of only 35 families, employs no professional clergy, and attracts at most 100 worshipers for High Holiday services.
Yet, these two disparate synagogues at opposite ends of the country are representative of the efforts being made by Jewish congregations across Canada to help Arabs affected by war far away in the Middle East and Muslims targeted by hate crimes close by.
Unlike the United States, which has severely restricted the entrance of Syrian civil war refugees (just 1,854 have been absorbed since 2012), Canada has already resettled 23,000 Iraqi refugees and has announced a plan to accept 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of this year, after having absorbed several thousand already. Jewish congregations and community organizations are actively — alone or in concert with other Canadian groups — sponsoring Syrian refugee families.
Temple Sholom’s senior rabbi Dan Moskovitz has been on the vanguard of this effort, both within his own congregation and as chair of a national association of Reform Rabbis. In early September, Moskovitz brought the idea of sponsorship to his Temple’s board, which unanimously accepted it. Shortly thereafter on the High Holidays, the rabbi delivered an impassioned sermon referencing everything from Holocaust history to Rosh Hashanah liturgy to Abraham Lincoln. A single follow-up email that went out to congregants raised the $40,000 required for sponsoring one refugee family in just a few days.
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From Russia Today
Leftist protesters clash with police outside far-right party conference in Germany; 125 arrested
Published time: 21 Nov, 2015 20:09
Over 120 people were detained in the southern German town of Weinheim after protesters clashed with police outside a far-right NPD party conference, which opened on Saturday.
More than 1,000 leftist activists gathered in Weinheim to protest the party congress of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), which has been accused of xenophobia and far-right extremism.
Police had blocked the streets near the venue of the congress, but anti-fascist protesters tried to break through the cordon and threw stones at police officers. Police responded with rubber truncheons and pepper spray.
“We resorted to rubber truncheons and pepper sprays as the attack on our colleagues was so massive,” a police spokeswoman told Spiegel Online.
She added that one police officer had been seriously injured and another had suffered a light injury. Several protesters were also inured but the number remains unclear. Police arrested a total of 125 activists.
These were the most violent clashes of their kind in Weinheim, which is hosting the NPD congress for the third year in a row.
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From Russia Today
State of emergency, blackout in Russia’s Crimea after transmission towers in Ukraine blown up
Published time: 21 Nov, 2015 22:46
© Igor Mikhalev / Sputnik
Russia’s Crimea has switched to autonomous reserve power after transmission towers in the adjacent Ukrainian Kherson region were blown up, causing a blackout. Meanwhile, the Right Sector and Crimean Tatar “activists” have been attempting to block repairs.
Crimean authorities rushed to connect hospitals and other vital infrastructure to reserve power stations and generators late on Saturday after the four main transmission lines from Ukraine were cut off in an apparent act of sabotage. The regional energy ministry has created an emergency response center to deal with the power cut.
“Crimea has been completely cut off,” the Krymenergo energy company’s director Viktor Plakida told TASS, adding that he could not immediately provide any more details.
The Crimean Emergencies Ministry has declared a state of emergency due to the complete power outage and has put rescue teams on high alert.
Nearly 1.9 million people have been left partly or fully without electricity. While important public facilities and infrastructure have been wired up to reserve sources of energy, homes all across the region have been left in the dark.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian police and journalists simultaneously posted social media reports of explosions in Chaplinka in the Kherson region, where power transmission towers supporting the lines delivering energy to Crimea are located. Photos of severed towers with a Crimean-Tatar flag hanging on one of them have been posted online.
Earlier on Friday, unidentified saboteurs damaged two of Kherson’s four electricity transmission towers, prompting Crimean authorities to issue warnings of possible power cuts. However, when local Ukrainian repairs crews attempted to reach the site, they were blocked by Crimean Tatar activists and Right Sector militants, who proclaimed they were taking the area “under protection,” TASS reported.
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From Ynet News
US academic association votes to boycott Israel
American Anthropological Association passes resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions in landslide vote; Pro BDS groups praise ‘historic result.’ A major American Academic association, the American Anthropological Association, overwhelmingly approved a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions during the group’s annual meeting in Denver, Colorado on Friday.
The motion, which sought to support the BDS movement, was passed by a landslide majority of 1,040 votes in favor, to 136 against. A final electronic vote is set to be held in the coming months.
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From The Times of Israel
New kid’s book tackles Jewish Christmas envy
As husbands work on ‘Game of Thrones’ set, actress Amanda Peet and Andrea Troyer take sting out of holiday FOMO
JTA — Winter is coming … and so is Christmas, with its onslaught of carols, forced cheer and letters addressed to the North Pole.
A new children’s book, “Dear Santa, Love, Rachel Rosenstein” — written by actress Amanda Peet and Andrea Troyer — seeks to take some of the sting out of the FOMO that so many Jews feel on December 25.
The writers came up with the idea for the book while shopping for Hanukkah gifts in Belfast, Peet tells our friends at Kveller. (“Originally, we wanted to write a book about how awesome Hanukkah is,” Peet says. “That proved to be really difficult.”)
Just what were the pair doing in the Northern Ireland capital? As it happens, Peet and Troyer’s husbands, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, are the co-creators of HBO’s wildly popular series “Game of Thrones.” Various spots in and around Belfast serve as locations for the show: Winterfell, Robb’s camp and the Twins, to name a few.
With its bright, cheery illustrations and happy ending — which can pretty much be summed up as: “Hey, look! Other people don’t celebrate Christmas, either!” — comparisons between “Dear Santa” and the fantastical (and often violent) series aren’t particularly apt.
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