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Obama, who has appointed a Jewish vote director in Florida and visited a temple in Boca Raton, has good reason to court old Florida Jews. They make up a significant portion of the voters in a key swing state, will go to the polls for absolutely anything and are a reliably liberal base that is just not into him. He wronged them by beating Hillary Clinton, whom they loved because she's feisty and tough, like a fifth Golden Girl. But it's also because he's young, seen as dovish on Israel and black, which...
...population is black and there are large Asian and Turkish communities, only 11% of officers come from ethnic minorities. That's better than the Met as a whole, where minorities account for just 8.3% of police. But, says Dann, "we have independent advisers who are community representatives: Jewish, Turkish, black, faith, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...
...wake-up call arrived in May 2003, when al-Qaeda suicide bombers killed 45 people and wounded dozens of others in Casablanca in explosions outside a luxury hotel, a Jewish center, a Spanish restaurant, a social club and the Belgian consulate. Since then, Morocco has been rocked by scattered acts of terrorism, and in February police arrested 38 people who were allegedly members of an extremist gang suspected of pulling off robberies in Europe in the mid-1990s to bankroll a plot to assassinate Moroccan ministers and police chiefs. "We also know that Moroccans are feeding into the pipeline...
...Jewish Refugees Museum is housed in one of the city's two remaining synagogues, the Ohel Moishe. The main building comprises the original worship area and displays of some fascinating memorabilia. The renovation - undertaken by the Hongkou district government at the cost of $1 million - has seen the addition of two new exhibition halls, however. The first is a permanent display that takes visitors through Jewish history in Shanghai. Photos show Jewish girls holding Chinese dolls and families celebrating Passover. The second hall opened in June with an exhibit dedicated to Ho Fengshan, a diplomat known as the "Chinese Schindler...
...During the postwar years, the city's Jewish population dwindled to nearly zero, as Jews fled the Chinese Revolution and sought homes in newly founded Israel or elsewhere. In the following decades, the Ohel Moishe became a factory and later a mental hospital before the local government recognized its historical significance. "This space preserves the memory of that time," says Andrea Zilberszac, an Austrian visitor whose relatives fled to Shanghai during World War II. "It reminds us not to forget...