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  • 121Money burning — 500 French franc banknote burning Money burning or burning money is the purposeful act of destroying money. In the prototypical example, banknotes are destroyed by literally setting them on fire. Burning money decreases the wealth of the owner… …

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  • 122Accusation de profanation d'hosties contre les Juifs — L accusation de profanation d hosties contre les Juifs est l un des thèmes majeurs de la propagande antisémite depuis le Moyen Âge. Les accusateurs appartiennent aux différentes confessions chrétiennes : l Église catholique romaine, l Église …

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  • 123blasphemy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. irreverence, profanity; heresy. See impiety. Ant., piety. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. impiety, sacrilege, profanity, irreverence, disrespect, swearing, cursing, obscenity, lewdness, reviling, scoffing,… …

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  • 124violation — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Transgression] Syn. infringement, infraction, negligence, misbehavior, nonobservance, vioLating, shattering, transgressing, forcible trespass, trespassing, contravention, breach, breaking, rupture, flouting; see also crime 1 …

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  • 125profanation — noun 1. blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character desecration of the Holy Sabbath • Syn: ↑desecration, ↑blasphemy, ↑sacrilege • Derivationally related forms: ↑sacrilegious (for: ↑ …

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  • 126MUNICH — (Heb. עיר הכמרים), capital of bavaria , central Germany. In 1229 a Jew called Abraham, from Munich, appeared as a witness at a Regensburg trial. In the second half of the 13th century Munich appears to have had a sizable Jewish community; the… …

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  • 127POLAND — POLAND, republic in E. Central Europe; the kingdom of Poland and the grand duchy of Lithuania united formally (Poland Lithuania) in 1569. This article is arranged according to the following outline: the early settlements jewish legal status… …

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  • 128RIGHTS, HUMAN — The following article deals with the subject of human rights, their essence and the contents of various fundamental rights as reflected in the sources of Jewish Law. The interpretation of Israel s Basic Laws concerning human rights in accordance… …

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