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'My friend's house was tagged on 1 November. The tag read simply 'Mort aux Juifs" (Death to Jews). It was the only tag on the block, in an unassuming neighbourhood of Strasbourg' (Photo: Alina Bricman)

85 years after the Nazi November pogrom

On 13 October, Jewish institutions across the world — community centres, synagogues, welfare offices, elderly homes — had to take additional security precautions. Special advisories were issued, many Jewish schools and kindergartens remained closed.

The occasion? Following its 7 October massacre of more than 1,400 people, Hamas leadership had called for "the entire Islamic Nation to join the Jihad against Israel," and declared Friday t...

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Alina Bricman is the director of EU Affairs of B'nai B'rith International and a member of Romania's delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).

'My friend's house was tagged on 1 November. The tag read simply 'Mort aux Juifs" (Death to Jews). It was the only tag on the block, in an unassuming neighbourhood of Strasbourg' (Photo: Alina Bricman)

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Alina Bricman is the director of EU Affairs of B'nai B'rith International and a member of Romania's delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).

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