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December 2011

“KRISTALLNACHT: IN NEW JERSEY…VANDALS TARGET JEWISH-OWNED ESTABLISHMENTS

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/150282
“Kristallnacht” Strikes Jewish Stores in New Jersey
Highland Park targeted in a series of anti-Semitic attacks on at least five Jewish-owned establishments.

By Chana Ya’ar & Elad Benari

The central New Jersey community of Highland Park was targeted Tuesday night in a series of anti-Semitic attacks on at least five Jewish-owned establishments.

Vandals hurled bricks through the plate glass windows of a kosher restaurant, a kosher pizza shop, two Judaica stores, and a Jewish-owned hardware store.

At least three other Jewish-owned establishments in nearby New Brunswick were also similarly attacked, including the Rutgers Chabad House, the Rutgers Hillel and an Israeli-owned falafel eatery.

The destruction took place on the anniversary of the 1947 United Nations Partition Vote to create the Jewish State in Palestine.

Smashed glass (illustration)
Smashed glass (illustration)
Israel news photo: Flash 90

A report published by the Algemeiner Journal quoted “Facebook rumors” relating two separate incidents in which a local individual made anti-Semitic remarks and threatened to launch a new Kristallnacht — a reference to the 1938 “night of broken glass” pogrom in which thousands of Jewish stores and synagogues were destroyed and that launched the Nazi Holocaust in Germany.

It is not clear whether the two incidents were related, nor is it clear whether all the attacks were perpetrated by the same vandal or vandals.

The newspaper pointed out that Highland Park has recently elected an Orthodox Jewish man as its mayor.

Local police said in a statement detectives were “actively investigating these incidents and are in contact with and coordinating efforts with other law enforcement agencies that may be able to expedite the investigation.”

However, police cautioned that it was “too soon to reach a conclusion” as to the nature of the crimes.

“We would also like to briefly address the fear that these are acts motivated by anti-Semitism or that these are bias crimes,” the statement said. “The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office has been notified, but it is too soon to reach a conclusion.

“All of our officers are aware of the sensitivity of this situation and we will make every effort with patrols and surveillance to keep everyone safe. We would like to encourage you to communicate with your congregants and urge them to avoid speculation which could lead to unnecessary anxiety.”

CAL THOMAS: 70 YEARS SINCE PEARL HARBOR….A DECEMBER TO REMEMBER

http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2011/12/01/a_december_to_remember

Seventy years ago this month, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and brought America into a war that had begun in Europe in 1939.

In his masterful new book “December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World,” Craig Shirley takes readers back to a very different America. Through hundreds of stories and advertisements culled from newspapers, Shirley not only transports us back to that tumultuous time, but reminds this generation that denial about an enemy’s intentions can have grave consequences.

Each chapter in the book deals with a single day of December 1941. We go to the movies with Clark Gable and Betty Grable, view the “cafe society” of New York, and listen to radio stars like Jack Benny and Walter Winchell, the acerbic columnist and powerful radio gossip.

EMMETT TYRELL: BARNEY SHUFFLES OFF

http://townhall.com/columnists/emmetttyrrell/2011/12/01/barney_shuffles_off/print WASHINGTON — When Barney Frank announced the other day that he was shuffling off stage after three decades in the Congressional limelight, I was brought back to 1980, when some very thoughtful friends from Harvard told me to watch him. Paul H. Weaver had been an aide to Irving Kristol, the godfather of neoconservatism, […]

SHOSHANA BRYEN: IN LEBANON HEZBOLLAH DIGS IN

http://www.hudson-ny.org/2629/lebanon-hezbollah-digs-in Hezbollah is the Shiite outpost of Iran on the Mediterranean, largely supplied through Syria, Iran’s ally, while training and on-the-ground-assistance is supplied by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps [IRGC]. While parts of Lebanon –- a “semi-sovereign” country — are occupied by Palestinian refugee camps that are “no go zones” for the government, the south […]

SOEREN KERN: ISLAM IN CHRISTIANITY OUT IN BRITAIN

http://www.hudson-ny.org/2634/britain-islam-christianity A Christian worker in Britain has filed a lawsuit after losing her job when she exposed a campaign of systematic harassment by fundamentalist Muslims. In a landmark legal case, Nohad Halawi, a former employee at London’s Heathrow Airport, is suing her former employer for unfair dismissal, claiming that Christian staff members, including her, were […]