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Was Columbus a Secret Jew?

Charles Garcia | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Hispanic Heritage, Religion, Spain, Jew, Conquest, Judaism, Christopher Columbus, Latino Voices News

Everybody knows the story of Columbus, right? He was an Italian explorer from Genoa who set sail in 1492 to enrich the Spanish monarchs with gold and spices from the orient. Not quite.

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The Biblical Exodus Story Is Fiction

Staks Rosch | Posted 04.06.2012

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When I first heard that there was not a shred of evidence discovered in the Sinai Desert that a large number of Jews had wandered for 40 years, I thought that wasn't such a big deal. I mean, it's a desert, right?

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Awaiting The Advent Of American Ambivalence

Carol Smaldino | Posted 04.29.2012

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Standing for religious liberty as well as the freedom to question and even refuse religion as an absolute or inevitable path often "ordained" at birth, is not always a symptom of being radical or even a rebel by nature.

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Happy Hanukkah: the Latke Mobile Menorah

Vivian Reiss | Posted 02.12.2012

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Even though my menorah is dedicated to the latke, the symbolic fried food that I make for chanukah comes from my Hungarian roots: langos.

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Judaism Without God? Yes, Say American Atheists

Posted 11.23.2011

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By Kimberly Winston Religion News Service BERKELEY, Calif. (RNS) For an atheist, Maxim Schrogin talks about God a lot. Over lunch at a Jewish d...

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My Come-to-Jesus Moment

Rich Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

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I have this undeniably strong sense of Jewishness. Which makes it all the more ironic that my wife and I are attempting to send our daughters to Saint Monica's Catholic High School.

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PHOTO: 'Jew York Jets' Lose to Steelers?

Posted 05.25.2011

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Look, we've made our share of typos, so we're not really in the business of casting aspersions on someone for making an honest mistake. And yes, the l...

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100 Reasons for a Christmas Miracle

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Advent is a season of hope. The DREAM Act has been before Congress for the past 10 years. The time for waiting is over. It is time for the Senate to give hope and a future to hundreds of thousands of other DREAMers across the US.

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Brush up Your Shakespeare! (VIDEOS)

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

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Shakespeare's plays have been the stuff of inspiration for playwrights, composers, and film directors. Here are a few of the best and worst attempts to re-imagine the Bard.

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Huffington Post Readers' Picks

Posted 05.25.2011

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Last week, to celebrate the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, we published "8 Favorite Fictional Jewish Characters In Books". Readers responded in drove...

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Celebrate Rosh Hashanah: 8 Favorite Fictional Jewish Characters In Books (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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To help ring in Rosh Hashanah -- the Jewish New Year -- we've reflected on the Jewish literary canon. From Philip Roth to Michael Chabon, some of the ...

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MidEast Peace: Pessimism from the Right and the Left

Eileen Read | Posted 05.25.2011

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Why is it that merely talking about talking about peace brings instant backlash? Four of the most controversial writers on the Middle East - pessimist...

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This Holocaust Memorial Day: Dr. Al-Fulaij Demonstrates the Only Thing Worse Than Holocaust Denial

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

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On April 12th Jews the world over will gather to pray for the souls of six million of our brothers and sisters who were mass murdered by Nazi Germany ...

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Interpreting an Embrace: A Jew and a Sikh in Kansas

Rabbi Or Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

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I am reminded once again that the fate of my community is inextricably bound up in the fate of all others. In the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., "We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny."

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Religion, Bigotry, and Political Hypocrisy

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Put aside the crazy "Obama's a Muslim" idiocy -- assume John McCain had won the presidency instead. Do you really think the Senate would confirm a Muslim candidate right now, even a conservative right-wing one? I don't.

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Memo To President Obama: Want Peace? Make them Stop the Hate!

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

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While diplomats may sign treaties, it is people who make peace and the people of Israel have every right to ask this basic question: When will the hate end?

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Jewish America, One Book Tour Stop At A Time

Benyamin Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

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For these down-on-their-luck Jewish communities, it was a divine tale of "Yes, we can," writ large. And I found myself being inspired by their against-all-odds road to redemption.

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Alleged Muslim Power over Holocaust Curriculum: Please Don't Forward!

Nancy Fuchs Kreimer | Posted 05.25.2011

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We ought to be slow to believe the worst about others, quick to report the best. Now, that would be a true memorial to those who died in the Holocaust!

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Sara Hurwitz's 'Rabba' Title Sparks Orthodox Jewish Condemnation

ReligionDispatches | Mark Dery | Posted 05.25.2011

Just six weeks after Sara Hurwitz was granted the title of "rabba" -- a feminized version of "rabbi" -- that title is in jeopardy as Orthodox Jews con...

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Moses Maimonides: Arab Jew, Religious Humanist

David Shasha | Posted 05.25.2011

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The figure of Moses Maimonides (ca. 1138-1204), perhaps the greatest post-Talmudic rabbi, exemplifies the complications and pitfalls involved in the Arabic articulation of Judaism.

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In Search of the Moderate Muslim: It Takes an Ummah

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

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Until moderate Muslims find each other, 'find the other hand,' and start a global response, nothing less than a cacophony of figurative clapping, we will remain as we are now: voiceless.

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Is A Jewish Wedding Ahead For Chelsea Clinton?

AP | RACHEL ZOLL | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Her mother is a churchgoing Methodist. Her father is a Southern Baptist. Yet could Chelsea Clinton be planning one of the biggest Jew...

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The Arab Jewish Tradition and the Past and Future Promise of Peace

David Shasha | Posted 05.25.2011

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It is standard practice to see Jews and Arabs as embattled enemies rather than try to recall a time when the Jews of the Middle East were integrated into the Arab culture and civilization.

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ADL's Foxman Crying Wolf?

Brad Hirschfield | Posted 05.25.2011

The issue here is not a tiff between Abe Foxman and Andrew Sullivan but the dangerous devaluation of the real and ugly phenomenon of anti-Semitism.

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4 Reasons Sarah Palin Loves Jews

R.J. Fried | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Jewish people have found their Moses and her name is Sarah Palin. During Palin's pitch perfect speech at the National Tea Party convention in Nas...

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