A roundup of the most talked about political and global stories in the Jewish world this week:
Erdogan again
Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel this wek of being behind the ouster of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, ” target=”_blank”>said Michael van der Galien at FrontPage Magazine. Meanwhile, a travel warning has been ” target=”_blank”>end of the Jewish Agency's mission to bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel. Tens of thousands have come as part of the program that will end on August 28. “Jews lived in Gondar for 2,500 years, however their longing to return home never weakened,” Chairman Natan Sharansky said at the ceremony. “Today we bring to an end a journey that spans thousands of years — the conclusion of Operation Wings of a Dove.” “As with so many aspects of the Ethiopian aliyah saga, the remaining issues are poignant, complex and bitterly disputed,” campaign by California businessman Tom Cantor to convert Jews to Christianity. The group's message is that Jews can accept Jesus as the messiah and remain Jewish. Cantor is going after areas that are known to be overpopulated with Jews, in this case suburban Maryland. Cantor was born into a Jewish family and ” target=”_blank”>wrote Marc Tracy at Tablet. It's going to be hard to back this claim up, but there should be an investigation, many say. “Overt prejudice is easy to prove; implied prejudice is not,” ” target=”_blank”>reported JTA. “I wanted to draw attention to the neglect of the place. The cemetery is forgotten,” he told Gazeta Wyborcza. People from the Jewish community there expressed outrage over how the Jewish cemetery was bring used. The cemetery has been around since the 1600s and around 150 tombstones are located there.
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