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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 1 (JTA) — In the wake of a political assassination in a South African province and a terrorist attack on a synagogue in Cape Town, South Africa’s deputy president has condemned anti-Semitism and political violence. At a keynote address at a Union of Orthodox Synagogues benefit dinner in Cape Town last week, Thabo […]

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BUDAPEST, Feb. 1 (JTA) — Chess legend Bobby Fischer has come out of hiding. In retrospect, maybe he shouldn’t have. Fischer launched into an anti-Semitic rant during a rare live interview on Hungarian national public radio, prompting station officials to pull the plug. During last week’s interview, Fischer, 55, began waving around photocopies of checks […]

FRANKFURT, Feb. 1 (JTA) — A World War II exhibit that has been traveling around Germany for the past four years still manages to generate heated debate – – and worse. Violence erupted Saturday when some 1,000 German neo-Nazis clashed with 500 counter-demonstrators outside the exhibit, currently on display in the northern German city of […]

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