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• 5th grader from Chabad day school heading to national spelling bee

  A 5th grader from Chabad Academy in Myrtle Beach won the regional spelling bee Tuesday night and has earned a spot in the national competition this summer. David Habibi beat out nearly 50 of his peers from Horry and Georgetown...more

  Published: March 10 AT 8:16 AM

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  March 10 AT 8:16 AM

• White House faith council wants clearer guidelines

  President Obama's faith-based advisory council urged clearer guidelines on church-state separation in faith-based funding but members differed on some critical details. The 25-member commission, which included three Jewish...more

  Published: March 10 AT 8:16 AM

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• Egypt to pay for restoration of all synagogues

  Egypt will shoulder the costs of restoring the country's Jewish houses of worship said the culture minister Tuesday, two days after a historic synagogue in Cairo's ancient Jewish quarter was rededicated in a private...more

  Published: March 10 AT 8:15 AM

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• Jewish Groups Call Hartford Anti-Semitic

  Jewish group says the City of Hartford denied them the right to use a building for religious purposes, though Baptists and Catholics used the building to practice their religions for more than 80 years. Chabad Chevra and Chabad...more

  Published: March 10 AT 8:12 AM

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• Bibi to Biden: We Did Not Seek To Embarrass You Over Settlement Issue

  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to alleviate new tensions with the United States on Tuesday, after an announcement that Israel will build 1,600 new homes in an ultra-Orthodox East Jerusalem neighborhood drew strong...more

  Published: March 10 AT 8:11 AM

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• Israel, Syria pursue nuclear Mideast

  Is the Middle East about to go officially nuclear?
  
  Dual announcements Tuesday by bitter rivals Israel and Syria that they want to pursue atomic power plants could complicate the diplomatic storm over Iran's...more

  Published: March 9 AT 8:13 PM

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• Jews, Muslims worry body scanners violate their religion

  Canadian lawyer Kerry Gearin plans to fly to Washington, D.C., this summer for a conference on Islamic family law, but the full-body scanners being deployed in some U.S. airports make her wonder if she will be forced to leave...more

  Published: March 9 AT 10:21 AM

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• Biden, in Israel, Says U.S. Will Support Those Who 'Take Risks for Peace'

  U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday praised Israel for agreeing to renew the Middle East process and pledged that the United States would always “stand by those who take risks for peace.”
  
  “Historic peace will...more

  Published: March 9 AT 10:12 AM

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• Sephardi chief rabbi feels 'deceived' over amendment to change conversion rules

  Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar feels he was "deceived" by Yisrael Beiteinu, but still supports in principle amending the law that governs conversions, his associates said yesterday. Until Sunday, MK David Rotem...more

  Published: March 9 AT 10:11 AM

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• Rabbi Found Guilty of Sexually Abusing Teen

  The Borough Park rabbi/travel agent accused in hundreds of incidents of sexual abuse was convicted yesterday of molesting a 16-year-old student. Baruch Lebovits could be sentenced to 32 years in jail, after being found guilty on...more

  Published: March 9 AT 10:11 AM

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• Local Jews say group’s ban on lox has no bite

  Local Orthodox Jews say they have no interest in the new ban on lox served up by an out-of-state group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis that claims parasitic worms sometimes found in the fish makes it non-kosher.
  
  “I think...more

  Published: March 9 AT 10:10 AM

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• Far-right contender for Austrian presidency forced to denounce Nazism

  A far-right contender to become Austria's head of state was forced to denounce the Nazis today, promising to uphold a national ban on denying the Holocaust after previously insisting that it was a matter of free speech.more

  Published: March 9 AT 10:10 AM

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• Britons honoured for holocaust heroism

  Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced the creation of the award last year on a visit to the former Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Two surviving recipients, Sir Nicholas Winton and Denis Avey, will be given their medals...more

  Published: March 9 AT 10:09 AM

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• Some American Jews sit out recession in Israel | Reuters

  Fed up with the tough job market, some young American Jews are choosing to wait out the recession in Israel, where the government heavily subsidizes their stay while they intern, learn Hebrew or volunteer.
  
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  Published: March 8 AT 3:58 PM

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• Interpol expands search for Dubai killing suspects

  Interpol announced Monday it is issuing notices to help search for another 16 suspects believed linked to the January killing of a Hamas leader in Dubai.
  
  The organization will now help investigators in Dubai try to...more

  Published: March 8 AT 2:43 PM

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• 'Rachel's Tomb was never Jewish'

  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday continued his verbal assault on Israel, according to Saudi paper Al Wattan, which quoted him as saying that that al Aksa Mosque, the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb...more

  Published: March 8 AT 9:51 AM

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• Turkish Police Accost Sabbath Worshipers in Synagogue

  A Turkish newspaper reports that police burst into an Istanbul synagogue during recent Sabbath services and demanded worshipers’ ID’s. The Turkish Milliyet newspaper reported that the Muslim government in Turkey appears to be...more

  Published: March 8 AT 9:50 AM

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• Center to pay $150,000 to settle lawsuit over Holocaust museum expansion

  The Simon Wiesenthal Center has agreed to pay $150,000 to a neighborhood group that opposes its planned Museum of Tolerance expansion to avoid going to court in the long-running dispute. Most of the money will cover legal fees...more

  Published: March 8 AT 9:49 AM

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• Women cause fewer accidents than male drivers, study says

  "On average, men drive faster than women, overtake other vehicles more often, are more likely to drive while under the influence of alcohol." Forget the clichés about women being bad drivers. Statistics prove that in...more

  Published: March 8 AT 9:43 AM

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• Tennessee reunion puts Holocaust survivors together with liberator

  Nearly 65 years ago a group of American soldiers advancing through Germany came upon a train loaded with 2,500 starving Jewish prisoners. For Frank Towers, who was serving as the liaison officer in the 30th Infantry Division,...more

  Published: March 8 AT 9:42 AM

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• In Gary Krupp, a Jewish Ally in Debate Over Pope Pius XII

  t home here on Long Island, he is Gary L. Krupp, medical equipment dealer, now retired after a career of ups and downs. He shares one car and a small house in a no-frills neighborhood with his wife, Meredith, and wryly describes...more

  Published: March 8 AT 9:40 AM

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• EU's Catherine Ashton wants to visit Gaza during upcoming visit in the region

  EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said Saturday she hopes to get into the Gaza Strip during her Middle East trip this month, as Europe pushes for renewed peace talks.
  
  Ashton said she plans to travel to...more

  Published: March 8 AT 7:59 AM

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• ‘Ajami’ Co-Director Says He Does Not Represent Israel

  Since everything in Israel ultimately boils down to politics, it was only a matter of time before “Ajami,” the Israeli movie nominated for an Oscar, would be thrust into the fray. And what a better time to do so than hours...more

  Published: March 8 AT 7:58 AM

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• US anti-Semitism envoy slams UN ‘double standards’ on Israel

  The US has decided to reengage with the UN’s Human Rights Council in order to pressure the body to fulfill its mandate, President Barak Obama’s special envoy on anti-Semitism told a London audience.
  
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  Published: March 8 AT 7:05 AM

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• N.Y. governor approves funding to fight Orthodox sex abuse

  New York Gov. David Paterson approved a plan to give $500,000 in state money to help identify and treat sex abuse victims in New York’s Orthodox Jewish community. Paterson backed the expenditure from the state's Department...more

  Published: March 8 AT 7:05 AM

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• '51% believe complaints against Rabbi Elon'

  The Takana forum claims Rabbi Mordechai Elon sexually exploited his students, but did not go into detail about the suspicions against him. The rabbi himself has said this was nothing more than a "blood libel" but did...more

  Published: March 8 AT 7:04 AM

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• Israel rips anti-Zionist tribunal in Barcelona

  The Israeli Embassy in Madrid likened a recent meeting in Barcelona of well-known anti-Zionists as a "lynching."
  
  The Russell Tribunal on Palestine, held March 1-3 and largely funded by Barcelona City Hall,...more

  Published: March 8 AT 7:04 AM

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• Jewish group declares lox unkosher because of parasite, causes uproar

  A group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis is waging a schmear campaign against a staple of the Jewish diet: lox. Smoked salmon should no longer be considered kosher, they say, because the fish often contain parasitic worms. But some...more

  Published: March 8 AT 7:03 AM

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• Weiss will not ordain Orthodox female rabbis

  Rabbi Avi Weiss has backed away from the idea of ordaining women as Orthodox rabbis under the term “rabba.” Weiss, a prominent Modern Orthodox rabbi who guides the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in the Bronx, had taken heat from...more

  Published: March 8 AT 7:02 AM

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• MI5 papers show Britain feared Nazi 'spyclists'

  Clouds of war were gathering over Europe, and the English police officer was concerned. A group of black-clad Germans had been spotted heading for London — by bicycle. Newly declassified British intelligence files reveal the...more

  Published: March 8 AT 7:02 AM

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