A new report from the Jewish Community Protection Service says that anti-Semitic attacks in France increased by 58% from 2011 to 2012.
The biggest attack in 2012 was that of Mohamed Merah, who shot dead seven people, including three children and a rabbi, outside a school in Toulouse. Merah’s killings, the report says, led to a spike of anti-Semitic attacks in the days following.
The increase in anti-Semitism has led to an exodus of French Jews who have moved across the Channel to English shores, with St. John’s Wood Synagogue in London establishing French-language Shabbat services to fulfill a growing demand.
UK Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, who is retiring this year, has expressed concern over whether there was still a place for Jews in Europe after recent legal challenges to the Jewish practices of circumcision and ritual slaughter.
Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Lent 5 - "For even in our day it happens that
many read and study in the Scriptures and yet they cannot find Christ, he
is hid and has gone out of the temple. And how many there are who say with
their mouth that God is become man, and yet they are without the Spirit in
their hearts; who whenever tested, prove that they were never in real
earnest. This is sufficient on this subject."
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Luther's Sermons - John 8:46-59.
Judica. Fifth Sunday in Lent
15. But here reason is terribly offended and becomes mad and furious
because God sho...
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