https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Denmark in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Those comparing Denmark’s plan to strip asylum seekers of their valuables with the measures carried out by Nazi Germany against the Jews, are talking “nonsense,” Denmark’s former Chief Rabbi Bent Melchior has told The Local. https://www.thelocal.dk/20151218/comparing-denmark-to-the-nazis-is-nonsense-rabbi Fri, 18 Dec 2015 13:56:11 +0100 comparing-denmark-to-the-nazis-is-nonsense-rabbi Anna Church in the Copenhagen district of Nørrebro was vandalized Sunday in an apparent act of anti-Semitism. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150504/anti-semetic-vandalism-of-copenhagen-church Mon, 04 May 2015 11:11:44 +0200 anti-semetic-vandalism-of-copenhagen-church After plans for a 'peace ring' were nixed by police over security concerns, a Muslim group has announced that it will hold a vigil outside Copenhagen City Hall on Friday. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150224/danish-muslims-plan-peace-vigil-after-shootings Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:09:00 +0100 danish-muslims-plan-peace-vigil-after-shootings Denmark's small Jewish community, which Wednesday buried a Jewish man shot dead outside the Copenhagen synagogue, has been the butt of mounting anti-Semitism in recent years after centuries of living at peace. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150219/danish-jews-hit-by-mounting-anti-semitism Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:29:00 +0100 danish-jews-hit-by-mounting-anti-semitism In light of last week's killing of four Jews in a kosher supermarket in Paris and an August incident in which a Jewish school in Copenhagen was vandalised, Jewish targets see themselves as "high priority" targets. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150113/danish-jews-ask-for-police-protection-after-paris-attack Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:16:00 +0100 danish-jews-ask-for-police-protection-after-paris-attack A Copenhagen politician organised for a demonstration against anti-Semitism that went right through the heart of the local Muslim community. Despite fears of conflict, the march was peaceful and quiet. https://www.thelocal.dk/20140816/kippah-march-goes-off-without-drama Sat, 16 Aug 2014 23:10:01 +0200 kippah-march-goes-off-without-drama