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A Holocaust Denier Hits Manhattan (And Hearts Hitchens)

Max Blumenthal | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Jews, Hate, Holocaust, Hitler, Nazis, David Irving, Conspiracy, Race, Hitchens, Holocaust Deniers, Christopher Hitchens, Politics News

In a recent talk, the world's most prominent Holocaust denier issued a rousing defense of Hitler, blamed Jews for their own persecution, and revealed his strange friendship with Christopher Hitchens.

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Hitler's Physician

Steven G. Kellman | Posted 07.21.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Literature, Jews, Oedipus, Holocaust, Adolf Hitler, Hitler, Books, Entertainment News

A few historians and psychoanalysts have suggested that that Hitler's physician was himself responsible in part for Adolf's violent obsession with Jews.

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Ice on Mars: Good for the Jews?

Marty Kaplan | Posted 06.30.2008 | Living

Read More: Mars Spacecraft, Phoenix Lander, Jews, Judaism, Space, Science, Mars, Phoenix Lander Mars, Living News

If scientists believe that invisible dark matter and unobservable dark energy make up the vast majority of the universe, then why should mystical accounts of an unseeable cosmos be any more inconceivable?

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A Lesson About Pride Jews Can Learn From Obama

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 06.23.2008 | Living

Read More: Obama Ethnicity, Jewish Culture, Jews, Names, Anglicizing Names, Barack Obama Jews, Barry Barack Obama, Living News

By changing his name from Barry, Barack Obama has now forever eliminated the excuse for American Jews, not to mention other minorities, to bury their ethnicity by Anglicizing their names.

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Israel-Hamas Truce Holds, Gaza Receives Badly-Needed Goods

AP | IBRAHIM BARZAK | Posted 06.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israel, Hamas, Irsrael-Hamas Truce, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Jews, Arabs, Palestinians, Politics News

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel allowed dozens of trucks to deliver food, diapers and clothes to the Gaza Strip on Sunday, boosting the flow of b...

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Israel-Hamas Truce Confirmed By Israel

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Arab-Israeli Conflict, Arabs, Israel, Israel Hamas Truce, Jews, Middle East Conflict, Mideast Conflict, Palestine, Politics News, Politics News

JERUSALEM — A long-sought truce between Israel and Gaza militants went into effect early Thursday, with the aim of halting militant attacks and ...

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Israel-Hamas Truce To Begin Thursday: Report

AP | JOSEF FEDERMAN | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israel, Palestine, Mideast Conflict, Middle East Conflict, Jews, Arabs, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Israel Hamas Truce, Politics News

JERUSALEM — The Gaza Strip's ruling Hamas militant group said Tuesday it has reached a cease-fire with Israel meant to halt a cycle of deadly Pa...

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Barack Obama's Real Problem with the Jewish Vote

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Elections, Politics, John McCain, Campaigns, Obama Jewish Vote, Israel, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Judaism, Politics News

Lost in all the noise about Obama's supposed problems winning Jewish support is that he is winning this group by nearly 2-1. Obama should wish for such problems with Christian voters as well.

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New Book Asks: Where's God While We Suffer?

Sandy Goodman | Posted 06.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Religion, Jews, Jesus, Bible, Atheism, Faith, Agnostic, Christianity, God, Suffering, Job, Israelites, Ehrman, Prophets, Exodus, Huffpost Books, Living News

Books by three atheists created a firestorm last year. Surprisingly, some of the harshest criticism came from other atheists, scientists and philosoph...

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Barack Obama - The First Jewish Presidential Nominee

Adam Hanft | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jews, First Jewish President, Jewish President, Barack Obama Jews, Jewish Culture, Jewish Voters, Barack Obama, Politics News

Jews have been a great American catalysts for change, not just in the way we fought for it, but in the way that our successes here birthed the narrative imagination that led to Obama's victory.

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No Longer Staring Into the Abyss of an Obama-Clinton Ticket

Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Lloyd Bentsen, Vice President, Gas Prices, Jack Kemp, Latinos, West Virginia, Democratic Party, White People, California, John Kerry, Ohio, West, John Edwards, Health Care, Jewish Voters, Bill Clinton, Women, John McCain, Karl Rove, Florida, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Iraq War, Wisconsin, Presidential Campaign, South, Arkansas, Michigan, Iowa, Hispanic Voters, Tennessee, Hillary Clinton, Joe Lieberman, Gay Issues, Politics News

Clinton's increasingly desperate quest to show something for her decades of campaigning has taken on a vaguely insane turn, for which we should be grateful, even as it makes us queasy.

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Jews, McCain, Obama, Evangelical Anti-Semites, Our Troops -- and Insanity

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Evangelical Anti-Semites, Jews, Reverend John C. Hagee, Our Troops, GI Bill, John McCain, Barack Obama, Politics News

Senator McCain's motto seems to be: Judge me not by what I say or do or who I climb into bed with, rather judge me by the fact that I served my country.

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Friday Talking Points [32] -- Democrats Throw Bush A Few Elbows

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics

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Borah Peak, at 12,662 feet high, is the highest point in Idaho. [That may sound like a strange place to begin this column, but please bear with me.] I...

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2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Slams Clinton's "Obliteration" Remark: She is Exception to the Norm

Omid Memarian | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics

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"My reply to people such as Mrs. Clinton, who use their fear of Israel's destruction as an excuse to attack Iran, is to remind them that Iran has been a refuge for Jewish people for centuries."

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The Israel I Was Fighting For

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Israeli-Arabs, Jewish Culture, Statehood, Israel, Nations, Diversity, Israelis Palestinians, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Politics News

Sixty years ago, when I was fighting for Israel during its war of independence, I won a lot of respect. Now many of my liberal colleagues, including Jewish ones, raise their eyebrows.

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Deafening Silence on McCain, Hagee and Parsley

Sam Sedaei | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Clinton, Parsley, Muslims, Media, Israel, Mccain, Obama, Election, Hagee, Wright, Blitzer, Pastor, Politics News

Many bloggers and activists seem to have succeeded in getting the media to again do what it is supposed to do: cover the issues that matter most to people.

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Bible Amusement Park Now Twice As Amusing

Daniel Radosh | Posted 05.06.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Jews, Nashville, Bible Park USA, Christianity, Theme Parks, Penthouse Magazine, Amnon Bar-Tur, Armon Bar-Tur, Christian Theme Park, Rapture, Rapture Ready!, Entertainment News

Bible Park USA is to be a for-profit venture, all the better to focus on delivering spectacular entertainment without the constraints of edification. This, I believe, is a massive miscalculation.

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America's Twisted Marriage of Religion and Politics

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Mormons, Hiv, Catholicism, George W. Bush, Colorado, Democratic Party, Pacifism, John Vitter, Eliot Spitzer, Defense of Marriage Act, Same-Sex Marriage, Catholics, Catholic Church, Jewish Issues, Mike Huckabee, New Jersey, Latino Voters, Ohio, John Edwards, Baptists, Aids, Republican Party, African-American Issues, John Magee, Mark Foley, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Atheism, Louisiana, Monica Lewinsky, Abortion Rights, Mitt Romney, Episcopal Church, Congress, Clintons, Mormonism, Pennsylvania, Democratic National Committee, Donna Hanover, Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, Geraldine Ferraro, Denver Convention, Religion, Rudy Giuliani, Bible, Christian Conservatives, Iraq War, Anti-Semitism, Joe Lieberman, Hillary Clinton, Christianity, Gay Marriage, Heterosexuals, Gay Issues, Methodists, Politics News

In a presidential campaign infused like never before with the candidates' efforts to sell their religious beliefs as best-fitting an illusory mainstream, Obama hasn't quite pulled it off.

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A Racist Jewish Court?

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 02.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Jews, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Judaism, Christopher Hitchens, Jewish Law, Living News

It is time to finally put to bed a malicious libel against Judaism that is getting increasing attention in modern media -- that Judaism will not allow for the breaking of the Sabbath to save a non-Jewish life.

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Who's Making These Nazi-like Statements?

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Anti-Semitism, Nazism, Nazis, Politics News

Highly regarded individuals who have large followings around the world mimic the most despised group in modern history -- the Nazi Party.

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A Rabbi in the Mosque

Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 01.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Muslims, Islam, Jewish Culture, Jews, Denver Mosque, Israel, Politics News

Muslims joined with Christians and Jews to witness a historic event: the first time a Jew had been invited to speak at the Denver Mosque.

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Observant Jews Effectively Barred From Nevada Caucus

Faith In Public Life | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Republican Presidential Candidate, Jews, Nevada Caucus, Republican Primary, Democratic Primary, Hillary Clinton Nevada, Barack Obama Nevada, Nevada Jews, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Nevada, John Edwards Nevada, 2008 Election, Politics News

We've been drawing attention this week to the fact that the media-sponsored exit polls in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary only asked Repub...

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Bah, Hitchens

Daniel Radosh | Posted 12.04.2007 | Media

Read More: Jews, Religion, Hanukkah, Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair, Chanukah, God Is Not Great, Judaism, Story of Hanukkah, Holiday Season, Christopher Hitchens Hanukkah, Story of Chanukah, Media News

Christopher Hitchens spreads a little holiday cheer today with an essay denouncing Hanukkah. Like all Hitchens' work on religion, it's smart, witty and totally frustrating.

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Why Humans are Different -- Oy Vey!

Jon Entine | Posted 11.16.2007 | Media

Read More: Religion, Jews, Jews Race, Abraham's Children, Judaism, Genome, Jesus, Jews Genes, Genome Research, Chosen People, Ashkenazi, Race, Gene Pool, Human Genome, Media News

How do we talk about human differences in a society that believes that "diversity" should be celebrated, but only if it's skin deep?

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Rudy Would Be First Jewish President

Politco | Jonathan Martin | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics

Read More: Presidential Campaign 2008, Jews, Presidential Race, 2008 Residential Campaign, Jewish President, Jewish, 208 Presidential Race, Rudy Is First Jewish President, Israel, Rudy Giuliani, Giuliani Is First Jewish President, Politics News

Per the Jewish news service JTA, top Giuliani aide Ken Kurson told a Jewish audience last night in New York that if Bill Clinton was "the first black ...

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