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Yiddish Culture Day Marked In Israeli Parliament

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

Read More: Israel, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Yiddish Culture Day, Yiddish, Yiddish Culture, Israeli Parliament, Israeli Parliament Yiddish, Jews, Jewish Diaspora, World News

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

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jews, Education, Arabs, Children, Jewish, Israel, Students, Obama Israel, Arab-Israeli Conflict, World News

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

Read More: Morocco Islamists, Jews, Africa, Morocco, Foreign Affairs, Moroccan Jews, Morocco Jews, Islamist Militants, Islamists, Advocacy, World News

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

Read More: Jews, Bloomberg, Islam, Synagogues, Explosives, Mosques, 9/11, Terrorism, Plot, Jihad, Fbi, World News

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

Read More: Christians, Jews, 1948, Two States, Israelis, President Obama, Muslims, Benjamin Netanyahu, 1967, Palestine, Peace, World News

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

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jews, Arabs, Nakba, Foreign Affairs, Palestinians, Catastrophe, Israel, Advocacy, World News

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

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jews, West Bank Wall, West Bank, Jews Arabs, Foreign Affairs, Pope Benedict, Pope Benedict XVI, Israel Wall, Religion, Arabs, 2 State Solution, Israel, Pope, The Pope, Advocacy, World News

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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Austrian Bed And Breakfest Denied Jewish Customers

Jerusalem Post | Posted 06.13.2009 | World

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Austrian Bed and Breakfest, Anti-Semetic, Jews, Austria, Anti-Semitic, Jewish, Foreign Affairs, Jewish Culture, Europe, Anti-Semite, Advocacy, World News

The owner of a bed and breakfast in the Austrian town of Serfaus refused earlier this month to book rooms to a family because they were Jews....

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Pope Mideast Trip Begins In Jordan

AP | VICTOR L. SIMPSON | Posted 06.08.2009 | World

AMMAN, Jordan — Pope Benedict XVI began his first trip to the Middle East on Friday, expressing his "deep respect" for Islam and hopes that the ...

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Swine Flu: Who Benefits? And Why?

Patrick Sauer | Posted 06.01.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Jews, Ron Howard, Swine Flu, Minutemen, Pandemic, Cdc, Border Fence, Der Wiernerschnitzel, Barack Obama, Tom Hanks, Angels & Demons, Flaming Lips, John Travolta, H1n1, Donald Rumsfeld, Pandemics, Freak-Outs, Comedy News

This conspiracy is bigger than all of us.

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Roosevelt Aided European Jews, Claims New Book

nytimes.com | PATRICIA COHEN | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Genocide, Roosevelt European Jews, Jews, Holocaust, Fdr Jews, Roosevelt Jews, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jews, Roosevelt World War Ii, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Fdr Holocaust, World News

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's legacy has been slid back under the microscope recently as his efforts to pull the country out of the Great Depression are...

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UN: Israel Demolitions Must Cease

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

Read More: Israel, Palestinian Territories, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Nir Barkat, Jews, Israeli Settlements, Demolition, Israel-Palestine, Settlements, East Jerusalem, Settlements in Palestine, West Bank, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Arabs, Jerusalem, Palestinian Home Demolition, World News

The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has issued a report detailing the difficulties facing Palestinians in East Jerusalem who ...

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The New Terror in the Middle East: Swine

Jamal Dajani | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Hysteria, Jews, Lebanon, Jerusalem, Terror, Algeria, Egypt, Middle East, Terrorism, Swine Flu, Muslims, Swine Hysteria, Israel, Copts, Jerusalem Gay Parade, H1n1, World News

A spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt calls swine flu "more serious than a hydrogen bomb" during a symposium on the health scare. Egypt's pa...

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Making Synagogue Stimulating Again

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.27.2009 | Style

Read More: Jews, Synagogue, Congregation, Judaism, Orthodox Judaism, Rabbi, Style News

Many of us find the Synagogue services oppressive and stultifying. They're too formal, too long, too boring. Nobody said that there shouldn't be a stimulating and satisfying social portion of a Synagogue.

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Yad Vashem Fires Employee Who Compared Holocaust To Palestinians' Plight

Haaretz | Yoav Stern | Posted 05.24.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Jews, Nakba, Holocaust, Al-Nakba, Yad Vashem, Israel Palestine Conflict, Jerusalem, Israel Palestine, Middle East, Israel Yad Vashem, Palestinian, The Holocaust, Israel, Jerusalem Israel, World News

Yad Vashem has fired an instructor who compared the trauma of Jewish Holocaust survivors with the trauma experienced by the Palestinian people in Isr...

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Ahmadinejad Gives Another Victory to the Israeli Right

Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

Read More: Jews, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Gaza, Tikkun, Muslims, Middle East, Israel, Palestine, Palestinians, Netanyahu, Ahmadinejad-Iran, Isreali-Palestinian Conflict, Hamas, Isreali History, Lieberman, Peace in Middle East, Nazis, World News

One reason peace forces are unable to win majority support in Israel is that too many Arabs seek not a two-state solution but the total elimination of the State of Israel as a Jewish homeland.

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How We All Bow to the Saudi King

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

The US is showing some signs of "getting tough" with Israel. But where are the calls for getting tough with Saudi Arabia, that "other" country that has now enjoyed virtually unconditional, bipartisan support from the United States for decades?

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Elie Weisel Attacked as ¨Zion-Nazi¨ by Ahmadinejad Backer

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.22.2009 | World

Read More: Jews, The Holocaust, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Durban, United Nations, Weisel, Anti-Semitism, Elie Weisel, Durban Ii, World News

Only time will tell if the world's got the guts to deal with the menacing smirk and threats of Mahmoud Ahamdinejad.

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Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Remarkable Strength (and Success) of the Survivors

Ben Sherwood | Posted 05.21.2009 | World

Read More: Survivors Club, Jews, Nazi Final Solution, Holocaust, Remembrance, William Helmreich, World War II, Survival, Yom Hashoah, World News

On these days of Holocaust remembrance, we honor the memory of millions who perished. We also pay tribute to those who somehow survived a massive and systematic attack on Jewish existence.

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Yom Hashoah: Filling the Empty Spaces

Tamar Abrams | Posted 05.20.2009 | World

Read More: Schindler's List, Jews, Synagogue, Holocaust, Yom Hashoah, Days of Remembrance, Jewish, Poland, Krakow, World News

The worn four story buildings in Krakow overlooking the cafe where my family dines must once have housed families like my own.

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Auschwitz Tattoos Reunite Lost Inmates

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 05.20.2009 | World

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Genocide, Jews, Holocaust, Holocaust Tattoos, Auschwitz, Auschwitz Tattoos, Yad Vashem, World News

JERUSALEM — As terrified teenagers 65 years ago, Menachem Sholowicz and Anshel Sieradzki stood in line together in Auschwitz, having serial numb...

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Mel Gibson's Wife Entitled To Half of the Kidnapped Jews in Basement

The Hollywood Ham | Posted 05.17.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Jews, Mel Gibson, Robyn Gibson, Mel Gibson Divorce, Mel Gibson and Robyn, Mel Gibsons Wife, Gibson Divorce, Comedy News

In addition to receiving close to $500 million, Robyn Gibson is now fighting for the right to keep half of the 42 Jews that the couple acquired during their 28 year marriage.

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Italian Jews Give Back to Earthquake Victims Who Helped During WWII

AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 05.14.2009 | World

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FOSSA, Italy — More than 65 years after villagers provided shelter to Italian Jews fleeing from the Nazis, a group of those who evaded capture r...

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So What If Obama Bowed? HALAS!

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.13.2009 | World

Read More: Jews, Saudi King Abduallah, President Obama, Obama Bow, President Barack Obama, King Abdullah, Obama Adullah, Obama, World, Jewish, Barack Obama, Seder, Muslim, G-20 Summit, Arab, Saudi Arabia, President Bush, Nato Summit, President George W. Bush, Patrick J. Buchanan, World News, Nato, Passover Seder, Passover, Islam, Pat Buchanan, Ozzy Osbourne, Muslim World, Christianity, Glenn Beck, Judaism, World News

The President is speaking a language of acceptance and outreach to the Muslim world that is quite sincere.

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