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• Military rabbi says still working to identify bodies in Romania

  Chief Military Rabbi Brig. Gen. Rafi Peretz said that teams in Romania are still working to finalize the identification of the victims of a helicopter crash in Romania during an IDF training session. According to him, it has yet...more

  Published: July 30 AT 8:25 AM

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  July 30 AT 8:25 AM

• Tel Aviv's secular yeshiva: Not your typical classroom -

  As soon as you step foot through the door, it is clear that this is not your stereotypical yeshiva: there are no kippot, no black hats, and no prayer shawls. Welcome to the single secular seminary in Tel Aviv.
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  Published: July 30 AT 8:24 AM

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• Staten Island Congressman Thinks You Should Know That Jews Have Donated to His Opponent

  Democratic congressman Mike McMahon, representing Staten Island and areas of Brooklyn, has compiled a list of Jewish donors to the campaign of one of his Republican opponents, Michael Grimm. The point of this exercise was,...more

  Published: July 30 AT 8:23 AM

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• Israel's controversial conversion plan shelved | Seattle Times Newspaper

  A growing crisis between American Jews and the Israeli government over a proposed law on religious conversion was averted — or at least delayed — this week, with both sides agreeing to six months of negotiation. But the depth of...more

  Published: July 30 AT 8:22 AM

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• Stoudemire discovering roots in Israel

  Stephon Marbury once arrived in Las Vegas to the Knicks' summer league-workouts with his Starbury logo tattooed into his head.
  
  Two weeks ago, new Knicks power forward Amar'e Stoudemire arrived in Vegas for...more

  Published: July 30 AT 8:22 AM

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• Turkish Jews seek flats in Israel 'just in case'

  The crisis between Israel and Turkey has led dozens of wealthy Jewish families in Istanbul to consider purchasing luxury apartments in the Tel Aviv area, the Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported Wednesday.
   
  According to...more

  Published: July 30 AT 8:19 AM

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• Hackers hit Buchenwald website

  Hackers replaced a list of Buchenwald victims with far-right slogans and links to Holocaust denial sites, officials at the concentration camp's memorial said.
  
  The Buchenwald foundation said the attack by...more

  Published: July 30 AT 8:11 AM

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• Jewish family sues Hungary for the return of art collection looted by the Nazis

  FEARING they were to be killed by the Nazis, the Herzog family scrambled to hide one of the world's finest art collections in a factory basement.
  
  After World War II the paintings - now valued at $111 million -...more

  Published: July 30 AT 8:09 AM

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• Russia attacks Iran's verbal assault on Medvedev

  Iranian criticism of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is "unacceptable" and "fruitless, irresponsible rhetoric", the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
  
  Medvedev told foreign ambassadors on...more

  Published: July 27 AT 10:41 AM

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• German drone pilots eye Afghanistan... from Israel

  As World War Two raged in the years before Israel's founding, colonial British planes were scrambled here to fend off German forces. Now the German Luftwaffe is back, preparing for a far more remote fight with the modern...more

  Published: July 27 AT 10:40 AM

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• Israeli court: Rape charge for Arab posing as a Jew

  An Israeli court ruled that consensual sex between a Jewish woman and an Arab posing as a Jew constituted rape.
  
  On Monday, the Jerusalem District Court sentenced Sabbar Kashur, 30, an Arab from Jerusalem, to 18...more

  Published: July 20 AT 10:50 AM

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• Israel ready to sign warplane deal

  The United States and Israel are close to agreement on a deal for a new warplane.
  
  Israel's purchase of 19 Lockheed Martin Corp. F-35 fighter jets would mark the first foreign military sale of the new military...more

  Published: July 20 AT 10:50 AM

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• New Law On Jewish Conversion Threatens Israeli Government

  A new bill to change the rules governing how people who convert to Judaism are treated in Israel is threatening a domestic political crisis and has sparked a wider international debate on the nature of modern Judaism.

  Published: July 20 AT 10:45 AM

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• Former inmate recalls daring escape from Auschwitz

  With every step toward the gate, Jerzy Bielecki was certain he would be shot.
  
  The day was July 21, 1944. Bielecki was walking in broad daylight down a pathway at Auschwitz, wearing a stolen SS uniform with his...more

  Published: July 20 AT 10:45 AM

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• Turkish FM met Hamas supremo in Damascus: report

  Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met with Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal in Damascus, Anatolia news agency reported Tuesday, a move that threatens to fan fresh tensions with Israel.
  The two men met on Monday to...more

  Published: July 20 AT 10:44 AM

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• EU foreign policy chief visits Shalit family, urges Hamas to free captive IDF soldier

  European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton called on Hamas Monday to release abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, who has been in captivity in the Gaza Strip for more than four years.

  Published: July 20 AT 10:44 AM

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• Germany mud slide in Nachterstedt 'caused by secret Nazi Zykon B factory'

  Investigators probing a giant mudslide in Germany that killed three people are using old RAF maps to locate a top secret Nazi underground factory that may have triggered the disaster.
  
  Three people died a year ago...more

  Published: July 20 AT 10:43 AM

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• Poll: 74% follow Tisha B'Av tradition

  A majority of the Jewish public declared that they intend to fast or, at the very least, to avoid going out with friends on Tisha B'Av, the day marking the destruction of the First and Second Temples, according to a...more

  Published: July 19 AT 7:50 AM

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• The Yeshiva World Weiner, Maloney Announce Homeland Security Grants for New York Area Jewish Institutions

  Today, Representative Anthony D. Weiner (D- Brooklyn and Queens), a member of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan and Queens) and Jewish leaders announced that 80...more

  Published: July 19 AT 7:50 AM

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• Top EU diplomat calls for further lifting of Gaza siege

  The European Union's top diplomat on Saturday called for the further easing of Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip on the eve of a visit to the Hamas-ruled territory.
  "We've made it clear that we want...more

  Published: July 19 AT 7:49 AM

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• Md. weighs allowing inmates' own clergy at death

  Maryland is considering becoming one of the few states to allow condemned inmates to choose a clergy member not employed by the state to be in the execution chamber when they die.
  Corrections officials must balance the...more

  Published: July 19 AT 7:48 AM

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• Neo-Nazi groups take up arms in Arizona to combat illegal immigration

  Nazis are patrolling the Arizona border.
  
  With violence raging across the border in Mexico and Arizona's anti-immigration legislation stirring controversy in the state, militias with neo-Nazi ties have taken up...more

  Published: July 19 AT 7:48 AM

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• Sponsor of Flotilla Tied to Elite of Turkey

  The Turkish charity that led the flotilla involved in a deadly Israeli raid has extensive connections with Turkey’s political elite, and the group’s efforts to challenge Israel’s blockade of Gaza received support at the top...more

  Published: July 16 AT 7:02 AM

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• Jewish terrorism suspect arrested, alleges conspiracy

  Israeli security agents and police have arrested a man in connection with a series of fatal stabbings in Jerusalem more than a decade ago.
  
  Haim Pearlman, a young Jewish father of three, was arrested Tuesday on...more

  Published: July 16 AT 6:58 AM

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• Chabad Groups Win $340,000 Through Chase Community Giving

  The final votes are in, and 17 Chabad-Lubavitch programs across the United States will each receive $20,000 – for a combined total of $340,000 – after finishing among the top 200 charities in the Chase Community Giving...more

  Published: July 16 AT 6:58 AM

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• FM presents: 2nd disengagement from Gaza

  Five years after Israel's unilateral disengagement from Gaza, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has proposed a new plan aimed at ridding Israel of any responsibility for the coastal enclave, the Yedioth Ahronoth daily...more

  Published: July 16 AT 6:54 AM

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• Mickey Mouse swastika art sparks anger in Poland

  Abnormals Gallery saw the swastika-featuring poster as a catchy way to promote its upcoming exhibition, Abnormal Nudes, in the Polish city of Poznan. But the decision to hang the oversized artwork (which spans several stories)...more

  Published: July 16 AT 6:53 AM

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• 46% say Obama is pro-Palestinian

  US President Barack Obama’s efforts to reach out to the people of Israel last week – when he hosted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for a positive meeting at the White House and gave his first interview as president to an...more

  Published: July 16 AT 6:52 AM

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• Israel threatens to board Gaza-bound Libyan aid ship

  Israel warned it would attempt to board the vessel once again just six weeks after its commandos killed nine pro-Palestinian activists on a Turkish flotilla attempting to reach Gaza,
  Israeli commanders relayed a message to...more

  Published: July 13 AT 5:13 PM

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• Reform rabbi: Israel's pluralism threatened by new conversion law

  Reform Rabbi Galia Sadan plays several roles in the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism: She is rabbi of the Beit Daniel synagogue in Tel Aviv, coordinator of the Council of Progressive Rabbis and director of a conversion...more

  Published: July 13 AT 6:38 AM

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