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Stateless People Number Up To 15 Million People Worldwide (AUDIO)

WorldFocus.org | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

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Imagine you have no birth certificate, no passport and no legal rights. You're trapped in the country where you were born, but no document indica...

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Jon Stewart And Larry Wilmore Squash The Beef Between Blacks And Jews (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 07.22.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Jews, Larry Wilmore, Daily Show, Jon Stewart, Comedy News

Blacks and Jews have been having a rough time of it lately and the "Daily Show" knows exactly what to do about it: Have Jon Stewart and Larry Wilmore ...

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The US Senate Apologized for Slavery. But We Ain't Gettin' 40 Acres and a Mule!

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

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We can all feel relieved there is an official acknowledgment that something terrible was done to black people. Yet the reality is way too much time has passed for this apology to really mean anything.

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As A WASP And A Jew, What's A Girl To Do?

Emily Bracken | Posted 07.12.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Religion, Jews, Protestants, Wasps, White-Anglo-Saxon-Protestants, Jewish People, Religious Tolerance, Multiculturalism, Comedy News

Complex, contradictory and conflicted, I carry with me all the baggage of someone who's had to ponder the existential question: If I had been living in Berlin, in 1939, would I have turned myself into the Gestapo?

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Von Brunn: "Obama Was Created By Jews"

AP | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Authorities are charging an 88-year-old white supremacist with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a guard at the U.S. Hol...

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The Shooting, Anti-Semitism and Blogging

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

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It is good to see so many progressive voices condemning this bigoted and twisted act of violence. However, much of the analysis of this incident seems to skirt a more troubling and confounding question.

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My Pro-Israel Friends Need Pro-Zac

Larry Gellman | Posted 07.09.2009 | World

What was once a proud, smart, intelligent, nuanced, and diverse movement has devolved into a combination cult-booster club.

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Obama and the "God Gap"

Jim Lichtman | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Is Obama's openly engaging, pragmatic style working to close the "God gap" in American politics?

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One Unrepentant Zionist and the Two State Solution

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 07.07.2009 | Politics

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That one Zionist would be me, but I know that I'm not alone. Take President Obama: he sounded like another unrepentant Zionist in Cairo this week. Z...

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How to Green Your Spiritual Life

Avital Binshtock | Posted 07.07.2009 | Green

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Most people who consider themselves at least somewhat spiritual, regardless of their religion or set of beliefs, have realized that caring for the earth is imperative to their spirituality.

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Friday Talking Points [80] -- Parsing Obama's Cairo Speech

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

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This is an interesting and refreshing subtext in Obama's entire speech -- he says things are "facts" and not opinions. Considering the lunacy that passes for "political debate" on American television screens -- where there are always two points of view, and every "fact" is subject to spin from one side or another -- it is a breath of fresh air.

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Marcus Epstein Gives Everyone a Bad Name

Disgrasian | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

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Marcus Epstein should know by now: Shame never dies. After all: shame, disappointment in self, feelings of failure and a deep sense of self-loathing ...

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Charles Taylor Converts To Judaism, Who Could Be Worse? (POLL)

Huffington Post | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

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Via Foreign Policy, one of former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor's wives told BBC Radio today that her husband is converting to Judaism. He will pr...

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Japanese-Jew Doesn't "Oy Veh" So Much Since Obama

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living

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Since Obama has become president, I feel comfortable as the multiracial shikseh that I am, and am engaging in thoughtful conversations about my heritage and background, without self-deprecation.

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German Scholar Exposes Turkish Propaganda about Jews

Harut Sassounian | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: Jews, Protocols of Elders of Zion, Turkey, Nazi Germany, Germany, Holocaust, Third Reich, Kurds, Greeks, Corry Guttstadt, Mein Kampf, World War II, Wealth Tax, Armenian Genocide, World News

German scholar Corry Guttstadt exposes the oft-repeated lie that Turkey provided a safe haven to many European Jews during the Holocaust.

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Old White Men

Norman Horowitz | Posted 07.01.2009 | Home

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I am "an old Jewish white man." I am also Father, Grandfather, and an ex Husband. How else or who else could I be? I have an opinion about everyth...

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Niyazi Capa: Turkish Club Owner Jailed For Banning Jews

Haaretz | Posted 06.27.2009 | World

Read More: Turkey Human Rights, Jews, Niyazi Capa, Turkey, Foreign Affairs, Erdogan, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Israel, Turkish Jews, Advocacy, World News

A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced a man to five months in prison for "insulting a section of society" after he put up a banner saying Jews and Ar...

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Yiddish Culture Day Marked In Israeli Parliament

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — Oy Gevalt! Yiddish has been uttered in the Israeli parliament! Long disparaged in Hebrew-speaking Israel as the native tongue of Di...

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If the Government Won't the People Will Part II: The Hand in Hand Schools

Amy York Rubin | Posted 06.25.2009 | World

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At the "Hand in Hand" school in the Beit Safafa neighborhood of Jerusalem everything is double, everything is done twice -- in Hebrew and Arabic.

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Arrested Moroccan Islamists Planned To Attack Jews

AFP | Posted 06.21.2009 | World

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A group of alleged Islamists recently arrested in Morocco planned to attack Jewish interests in the country, a court source said Thursday, citing the ...

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Will Friday Sermons Condemn Jihadist Plot to Blow Up New York Synagogues?

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

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When Obama expands the limits of dialogue, the first red line he must draw is against the poison of state-sanctioned bigotry that is spawning not only hatred but criminal violence.

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Remembering Palestine

Ray Hanania | Posted 06.18.2009 | World

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Why should Palestinians stop fighting for that land when their role models are the very Israelis who said they wanted their homeland back too? They waited 2,000 years. It's been only 61 for us.

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Tevye's Descendant to Sing "If I Were A Gay Man" on Broadway

Emily Bracken | Posted 06.14.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Jews, Upper West Side, Fiddler on the Roof, Matthew McConaughey, Bebe Neuwirth, Broadway, Jewish Culture, Musicals, Gay, Broadway Plays, American Jews, Nathan Lane, Single Women, Homosexuals, Matthew Broderick, New York-New York, Comedy News

"If I Were A Gay Man" lyrics from a Fiddler on the Roof spinoff. The story follows Tevye's great-great-great granddaughter, Rachel, a single Jewish woman in her 30's who lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

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Palestinians Mark 'Nakba' 61st Anniversary

Al Jazeera | Posted 06.14.2009 | World

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Thousands of Palestinians have marked the 61st anniversary of the "Nakba" or "catastrophe," in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displa...

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Pope In Mideast Calls Wall A Symbol Of "Stalemate"

Times Online | Posted 06.13.2009 | World

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Pope Benedict XVI today lamented the "tragic" building by Israel of the West Bank separation barrier in a speech to Palestinians at a refugee camp in ...

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