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  • Jewish leaders call for limit on refugee numbers [Germany: Central Council of Jews]

    11/23/2015 6:35:05 AM PST · by Olog-hai · 9 replies
    TheLocal.de ^ | 23 Nov 2015 14:55 GMT+01:00 | (AFP)
    The Central Council of Jews in Germany called Monday for a limit to the migrant influx because of problems with integrating the mainly Muslim newcomers, earning a quick rebuke from a pro-refugee charity. [...] "Sooner or later, we won't have a choice but to set an upper limit," the council's president Josef Schuster told Die Welt daily. "Many of the refugees are fleeing the terror of the Islamic State and want to live in peace and freedom, but at the same time they come from cultures where hatred of Jews and intolerance are an integral part." [...] Schuster's comments were...
  • Germany’s main Jewish leader steps down

    10/31/2014 1:47:09 PM PDT · by Olog-hai
    Associated Press ^ | Oct 31, 2014 7:42 AM EDT
    Germany’s main Jewish leader, who in 2010 became the first person born after the Holocaust to take the job, says he’s stepping down. Dieter Graumann said Friday he won’t seek a second term leading the Central Council of Jews in a vote Nov. 30. […] Graumann was among leading critics of a 2012 German court ruling that male infant circumcision amounts to bodily harm. Parliament later approved legislation explicitly permitting the practice. …