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INDIA: Jew Community Unhappy With Shop Named After Hitler

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">AHMEDABAD, Gujarat state, India (NNN-Bernama) -- The owners of a garment store named Hitler in the city said they will change the shop's name following intervention by Israel and the local Jew community. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">"We have voluntarily decided to change the name of our shop within this week and will remove the billboard displaying Hitler's name," Rajesh Shah, one of the owners of the shop located in Vastrapur, told Press Trust of India. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">The 'i' in 'Hitler' is dotted with a Nazi swastika, which had stirred a controversy among local Jews. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">A group of Jews from a synagogue had earlier demanded that the shop owners change the controversial name, saying it hurt the sentiments of their community. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Israel counsel-general Orna Sagiv, who is currently visiting West Indian Gujarat state, had taken up the matter with top state officials here. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">"I met the officials in Gujarat and expressed my concern about this shop and why we take the matter so seriously," she said. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">In the last few years, similar incidents have happened in Nagpur and Navi Mumbai, where shop owners changed their stores' names following complaints. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">The shop in Vastrapur selling western menswear opened last month and chose its name as an attribute to the grandfather of one of the shop owners, who was nicknamed Hitler for being very strict. -- NNN-BERNAMA <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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INDIA: Jew Community Unhappy With Shop Named After Hitler

AHMEDABAD, Gujarat state, India (NNN-Bernama) -- The owners of a garment store named Hitler in the city said they will change the shop...

Russian culture minister slams US claims to sacred Jewish books

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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">MOSCOW</span></st1:city><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> (RIA Novosti)- <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> claims to the Schneerson library are provocative and spoil cultural ties with <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region> as the sacred Jewish books are the unalienable property of the country, Russian Culture Minister Alexander Avdeyev said on Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The Schneerson Library is a collection of books and religious documents assembled by the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement over two centuries prior to World War II in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Belarus</st1:place></st1:country-region>. It is one of the main Jewish religious relics.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Part of the collection amassed by Lubavitcher Rebbe Yosef Yitzchok Schneerson was nationalized by the Bolsheviks in 1918. Later, about 25,000 pages of manuscripts fell into the hands of the Nazis, and were later seized by the Red Army and handed over to the Russian State Military Archive. This part of Schneerson's Library is now kept in the archive of Lenin’s Library in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:city>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The other part was taken out of the <st1:place w:st="on">Soviet  Union</st1:place> by Schneerson, who emigrated in the 1930s.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Since 1991, the year of Schneerson's death, leaders of the Brooklyn-based Orthodox Jewish movement have been trying to regain possession of the library, saying that it was illegally held by the Soviet authorities after the war.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">In 1991, a court in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:city> agreed to turn over the library to Chabad. After the <st1:place w:st="on">Soviet  Union</st1:place> collapsed, the ruling was ignored. The Russian government now says it wants to keep the archive for future scholars.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">In 2010, a court in <st1:state w:st="on">Washington</st1:state> confirmed the American Jewish community’s right to the library, but <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region></st1:place> called the court’s decision illegitimate. In late 2011, a <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> court ruled that <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region> must return about 12,00 books and 50,000 manuscripts from the library.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"The library forms part of the Russian library reserve and is inalienable. The history of its claiming by <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> plaintiffs appears to us provocative," Avdeyev said at a press conference.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The request by <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> plaintiffs "aims to spoil the bilateral relations between our countries and to undermine the political reset," the culture minister said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The complex legal dispute over Schneerson Library is causing Russian art institutions to cancel scheduled loans of world-renowned artworks to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> art institutions. It has already turned into a full-scale diplomatic feud between the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“Only when the 2011 decision of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place> court is set aside will a dialogue become possible,” Avdeev added.</span></div> <br />
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Russian culture minister slams US claims to sacred Jewish books

MOSCOW (RIA Novosti)- U.S. claims to the Schneerson library are provocative and spoil cultural ties with Russia as the sacred Jewish bo...