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Obama na Rosh Hashana u sinagogi u Stockholmu
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Obama to visit Stockholm synagogue on Rosh Hashanah
August 30, 2013 2:57am
(JTA) — President Barack Obama is slated to visit the Great Synagogue of Stockholm during his visit to Sweden.
Obama, who will arrive in the Swedish capital Wednesday on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, is en route to the G20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, Svenska Dagbladet reported Thursday.
Predsjednik Obama namjerava posjetiti Veliku sinagogu u Stockholmu, na Rosh Hashana, u toku svoje posjete švedskom glavnom gradu a na svom putu na Samit G20 u Petrogradu u Rusiji. Ambasada USA u S
tockholmu je potvrdila da će predsjednik Obama posjetiti sinagogu i memorijalni spomenik Raoulu Walenbergu, švedskom diplomatu koji je spasio tisuće mađarskih Židova u toku Holokausta.
Švedski ministar za intergracije je u srijedu odobrio posebnih 9 milijuna dolara za borbu protiv netolerancije u Švedskoj, posebno na Islamofobiju. "Mi smo se specijalno fokusirali na Malmo područje gdje imamo problem s antisemitizmom, ali i za muslimane- rekao je Erik Ullenhag za švedski radio.
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Swedish police registered a record 60 hate crimes against Jews in the city last year and an average of 37 anti-Semitic hate crimes per year in the years 2009-2011, according to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention.
Fred Kahn, chairperson of Malmo’s community of 1,000 Jews, told JTA the majority of attacks were perpetrated by people “of Middle Eastern origins.”
Swedish police also registered an average of 21 Islamophobic hate crimes per year in 2009-2011 in Malmo, a city of 300,000 residents where approximately 30 percent of the population is immigrants from Muslim countries.
In total, 190 anti-Semitic attacks were recorded in 2011 in Sweden, home to about 20,000 Jews, and 280 hate crimes against Muslims, who constitute five percent of the Swedish population, according to the U.S. State Department.
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