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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Artist condemned over I Will Survive dance routine at Auschwitz

    Jane Korman, who is Jewish, filmed three generations of her family performing dance routines to the 70s disco track during a trip to the infamous concentration camp in Poland.
    The Australian claims the video, which has...more

    Published: July 13 AT 6:26 AM
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  • Jewish leader guilty of fraud

    Carmen Weinstein, the head of Egypt’s tiny Jewish community, was convicted of fraud by an Egyptian court Monday and may face time behind bars.

    Foreign Ministry officials confirmed Weinstein had been tried in court,...more

    Published: July 12 AT 7:51 AM
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  • Jews reluctantly abandon Swedish city amid growing anti-Semitism

    At some point, the shouts of “Heil Hitler” that often greeted Marcus Eilenberg as he walked to the 107-year-old Moorish-style synagogue in this port city forced the 32-year-old attorney to make a difficult, life-changing...more

    Published: July 12 AT 7:50 AM
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  • Israeli conversion bill moves ahead, draws anger

    Liberal Jewish groups were angered Monday after a parliamentary committee in Israel approved a bill that would give Orthodox rabbis more control over the sensitive issue of conversions to Judaism.
    The Reform and...more

    Published: July 12 AT 7:50 AM
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  • From the Heart: Fish for City's Kosher Soup Kitchen

    This filet has soul.

    The Stefansky family, owner of Brooklyn kosher fish company Dagim, is donating 2,500 portions of tilapia, flounder, salmon and tuna to the city's only kosher soup kitchen. The donation...more

    Published: July 12 AT 7:49 AM
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  • Unearthed fragment bears oldest text found in Jerusalem

    Archaeologists in Jerusalem have uncovered an ancient clay fragment dating back some 3,400 years, the oldest-ever sample of writing found in the Holy City, Israeli researchers said on Monday.
    The tiny fragment measures two...more

    Published: July 12 AT 7:47 AM
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  • Germany outlaws charity over alleged Hamas links

    Germany has outlawed a charity operating in the country because of its alleged links to the militant Palestinian organization Hamas, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere announced Monday.

    Published: July 12 AT 7:46 AM
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  • Anne Frank story published as graphic novel

    The Anne Frank House Museum launched a graphic novel version of the teenage Jewish diarist's biography Friday, hoping to bring her story and death in a Nazi concentration camp to a wider audience.
    Spokeswoman...more

    Published: July 12 AT 7:45 AM
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  • How the Recession Is Affecting the Jewish Religion

    It sounds like a Catskills-era joke with a Jewish lawyer in the punchline, but among Jewish leaders it’s deadly serious. Why does it cost so much to be Jewish? At a time when American families are tightening household budgets,...more

    Published: July 11 AT 9:27 AM
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  • TA Municipality rejects rabbis’ petition

    The Tel Aviv Municipality on Thursday distanced itself from a letter signed by 25 rabbis imploring residents not to rent property to foreign workers and refuge-seekers, saying the city had nothing to do with the initiative and...more

    Published: July 11 AT 9:26 AM
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  • The ADL, Arizona and anti-immigrant craziness

    Some of the nastiest email I get is on the issue of immigration reform. To read these missives, you'd never know that Jewish groups have been at the forefront of the effort to overhaul a badly broken legal immigration...more

    Published: July 8 AT 10:48 AM
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  • Drug bust at Israel airport, Hasidic Jews arrested

    Police say they've arrested a pair of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men suspected of trying to smuggle $1 million of pure cocaine into Israel from Brazil.
    Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said on Thursday that the two former...more

    Published: July 8 AT 10:48 AM
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  • German artist revives names of Holocaust victims

    Artist Gunter Demnig carefully pried a cobblestone out of the sidewalk on Friedrichstrasse in downtown Berlin and replaced it with a shiny square brass plaque.
    "Davicso Asriel lived here," the inscription read....more

    Published: July 8 AT 10:47 AM
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  • Rabbis: 'Don't rent to foreign workers'

    Twenty-five rabbis in southern Tel Aviv released a letter on Thursday, warning Jews not to rent their homes to illegal immigrants and foreign workers.

    "The neighborhood and synagogue rabbis who signed below...more

    Published: July 8 AT 10:47 AM
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  • Obama and Netanyahu both say talks of U.S.-Israeli rift 'flat wrong'

    Meeting in the Oval Office -— the fifth meeting between the two men -— Obama and Netanyahu rejected any suggestion that there exists a divide between them. Both expressed optimism that Israeli and Palestinian leaders will sit...more

    Published: July 6 AT 3:53 PM
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  • Analysis: Anything would be better than last time

    Short of Barack Obama physically wrestling Binyamin Netanyahu out of the White House with the admonishment never to darken his doorway again, it is hard to imagine how Tuesday’s talks between the president and the prime minister...more

    Published: July 6 AT 12:02 PM
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  • US plans grant to preserve Auschwitz death camp

    The United States plans to contribute 15 million dollars to help preserve the Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday in Krakow.
    Clinton made the announcement...more

    Published: July 6 AT 7:53 AM
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  • Pope under fire for Yom Kippur eve speech

    Pope Benedict XVI has come under fire from Jewish groups in Britain following a report that his address to Parliament will occur on the eve of Yom Kippur.

    The Cabinet Office has rejected requests to change the Sept....more

    Published: July 6 AT 7:53 AM
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  • British Methodists boycott settlement goods

    British Methodists voted to boycott goods manufactured in West Bank settlements.

    "This decision has not been taken lightly, but after months of research, careful consideration and, finally, today’s debate at...more

    Published: July 6 AT 7:52 AM
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  • Calif. bill aims to expose French railroad’s Nazi ties

    France’s railroad system will have to fully disclose its role in transporting Jews to Nazi concentration camps to get part of a lucrative contract to build a California rail line.

    Under provisions of the state...more

    Published: July 6 AT 5:52 AM
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  • In Israel, some Holocaust survivors face hard times

    Tucked into the hillside of this ancient port city is a sight few Israelis ever imagined they'd see in the Jewish state.

    It's a simple, small housing shelter, converted from an old office building and not...more

    Published: July 6 AT 5:52 AM
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  • Netanyahu heads to Washington in effort to mend U.S. ties

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will fly to Washington on Monday evening to meet with President Barack Obama for the fifth time since the two leaders took office.

    A senior source in Jerusalem said that Netanyahu...more

    Published: July 6 AT 5:50 AM
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  • Israel rebuffs Turkish demand for raid apology

    Israel will never apologize for defending its citizens," a high-ranking Israeli government official told CNN Monday, after Turkey reportedly demanded an apology or an inquiry into an Israeli raid on an aid ship that killed...more

    Published: July 5 AT 10:58 AM
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  • Red, White and Kosher

    IN 1972, a TV commercial changed the way Americans looked at kosher food. It showed Uncle Sam munching on a Hebrew National beef hot dog as a heavenly voice assures him it is free of the additives and byproducts present in...more

    Published: July 5 AT 7:33 AM
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  • Queen Elizabeth Meets With Chabad Representative of Canada

    Rabbi Chaim Mendelsohn was invited on behalf of the Canadian Federation of Chabad Lubavitch to an exclusive Garden Party with Queen Elizabeth as well as Prime Minister Stephen Harper. 

    The Garden Reception took...more

    Published: July 5 AT 7:31 AM
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  • Farrakhan charges Jews with 'anti-black' behavior

    Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan has written the leaders of more than a dozen major U.S. Jewish groups and denominations seeking "repair of my people from the damage" he claims Jews have caused blacks for...more

    Published: July 5 AT 7:30 AM
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  • Rabbi Marc Schneier still in court with third ex-wife while divorcing his fourth

    Prominent Rabbi Marc Schneier, who just split from his fourth wife, is being sued by his third wife for full custody of their son after he admitted he was suffering from bipolar disorder.

    Schneier, founding rabbi of...more

    Published: July 5 AT 7:30 AM
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  • Israeli FM warns of rising anti-Semitism in Latvia

    Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman said he fears anti-Semitism is on the rise not only in Latvia but across Europe and that last week’s neo-Nazi procession is an indication of that.
    “The lesson,” Lieberman told...more

    Published: July 5 AT 7:29 AM
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  • Diplomatic Memo - Nudge on Arms Further Divides U.S. and Israel

    It was only one paragraph buried deep in the most plain-vanilla kind of diplomatic document, 40 pages of dry language committing 189 nations to a world free of nuclear weapons. But it has become the latest source of friction...more

    Published: July 5 AT 6:17 AM
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