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July 17th, 2009 by Rocky Mountain Jew
It’s been a week where news stories surrounding the Jewish community have been permeated by violence - with Jews acting as both perpetrators and victims.
- In Paris, Ilan Halimi’s murderers will be retried, after France’s justice minister found their sentence too lenient (Guardian)
- Meanwhile in Israel, Jews are perpetrating chaos and violence through protests surrounding the arrest of a charedi women on suspicion of child abuse (Ha’aretz)
- Anti-Semitic attacks continue in Hungary paralleling the rising power of Jobbik, a Hungarian right-wing political group. Read the IJN commentary
