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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Sun Feb 15, 2015, 05:20 PM Feb 2015

Denmark's Jews, defiant after attack, vow to stay

Reuters

By Alexander Tange and Ole Mikkelsen

COPENHAGEN, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Denmark's small but vibrant Jewish community rebuffed Israel's call to emigrate on Sunday after an attack on Copenhagen's main synagogue that shook the sense of security Scandinavian tolerance had long provided.

Jewish communities around Europe have been reporting rising hostility against them and an attack last month on a Paris kosher supermarket killed four Jews, prompting the United Nations to say that anti-Semitism was thriving in Europe.

http://www.trust.org/item/20150215184915-u1r0l/

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