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April 29, 2011
High percentage of Romanian teens reject Jews, Roma, gays, Muslim as neighbors
One third of Romanian teenagers would be opposed to living next to Jewish neighbors according to a poll that found even higher levels of prejudice directed at Roma, Muslims and gays.
Survivors lobby to sue French railroad
Holocaust survivors lobbied in the U.S. Congress for a bill that would allow lawsuits against France\’s national railroad. Bills introduced in March in the U.S. House of Representatives and in the Senate, and by a bipartisan slate of top lawmakers, would make SNCF and other railroads that transported Jews during the Holocaust subject to lawsuits in federal courts.\n
Report: Archbishop of York on people wanting to ‘test the milk before they buy the cow’
Protests erupt across Syria on ‘Day of Rage’
Syrian security forces opened fire on demonstrations Friday in the capital Damascus and the coastal city of Latakia – the heartland the ruling elite – wounding at least five people as thousands took to the streets in several places across the country, witnesses said.