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Is Denmark's Move to Protect Danish Identity a Noble Move?

Danish officials are grappling with the issue of parallel societies due to the influx of non-Western asylum seekers and alleged refugees...

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DENMARK: Prime Minister Pushes For Country To Admit ‘Zero Asylum Seekers’ In 2021

As Joe Biden issues orders to discontinue construction of the border wall and prepare for an onslaught of undocumented refugees

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Drive-In Concerts Are Now a Thing in Denmark

Denmark hosted a drive-in concert last week, where audience members watched Mads Langer perform live from their cars and tuned in on FM radio.

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DNA from Stone Age ‘chewing gum’ tells an incredible story

For the first time, scientists used 5,700-year-old saliva to sequence the complete human genome of an ancient hunter gatherer, as well as the world of microbes that lived inside her.

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The Long Legacy of the Shoah in Scandinavia – Tablet Magazine

Within the Northern European countries that make up Scandinavia there has been a revival of active scholarship and popular interest into the treatment of Jews during World War II. The subject is very much alive in these countries and much more so than in

This is fascinating, although I am disappointed that the story of the Danish King confronting the Nazis is basically not true. The bottom line is that if other occupied countries had acted differently: millions more of us would have survived. The stories of Denmark and Sweden, but not Norway, name that clear.

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Jews Threatened and Told To Remove 'Jewish Hats' in Copenhagen – Tablet Magazine

Most visitors to Copenhagen avoid the gritty neighborhood of Nørrebro, a mixed enclave of immigrants, lower-middle class Danes, and gentrifying white hipsters. But the literate traveler might stop at the area’s one major tourist attraction: Assistens C

"Israel’s ambassador to Denmark, Arthur Avnon...suggested that Jews traveling in Copenhage...Don’t speak Hebrew too loudly, cover up any visible Star of David jewelry, fold your kippot and slip them into your pockets." Or, even better: "But how can we know that you’re not Israeli?” If you’re an Israeli, Krasnik was told, “we have a right to kick your ass.”

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Denmark: Hundreds March Against Anti-Semitism - Jewish World

Hundreds of protesters wearing yarmulkas, Stars of David and other Jewish symbols marched through a predominantly Muslim neighbhorhood of the Danish capital of Copenhagen, in a march against anti-Semitism late last week.