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  2. The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center will open April 19 in Skokie, Ill. The date coincides with the anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the largest revolt by Jewish prisoners against the Nazis during the Holocaust. The lar
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  4. What' this The Federal Court of Canada has upheld a decision by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that orders a Regina man to stop posting anti-Semitic commentary on the internet. Terry Tremaine, a former part-time math lecturer for the University
  5. In an unprecedented move, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has taken the cause of peace directly to the Israeli public by taking out an advertisement, to be published Thursday in four Israeli dailies, promoting the 2002 Arab League' Pea
  6. ) Evan Silverstein, an award-winning reporter for the Presbyterian News Service, the official news agency of the , who has died aged 42, is being remembered for his professionalism and devotion to the cause of journalism. 'Though he was Jewish, Evan
  7. He upheld Jewish pride. ? have done justice and righteousness - leave me not to those who oppress me.? For long time, stare at the words in my little Tehillim (Psalms) book. Something about them touches me. The lecturer quoted from a book by
  8. (IsraelNN.com) Since the founding of the State of Israel, the Jewish Agency has been reponsible for bringing millions of new immigrants to the fledgling state. One of the Agency' primary goals is to help immigrants adjust to life in the Jewish homel
  9. (IsraelNN.com) The United Jewish Communities General Assembly of 2008, held this week in Jerusalem, is set to wrap up on Wednesday. Can't see the video? Click here. It is the third time that the General Assembly has been held in Israel. Previous meet
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  11. Attending matinees with children can be highly educational. Take The Lion King that we went to see the other day. If theres anyone left who hasnt seen the cartoon, the story is simple and solid - think Richard III meeting Mowgli. Once upon time the
  12. 2008 United Jewish Communities General Assembly Thousands of Jews from around the world have gathered this week in Jerusalem for the 2008 United Jewish Communities General Assembly--only the third to be hosted in Israel. The conference features
  13. New mayor of Jerusalem secular candidate Nir Barkat is the new mayor of Jerusalem after defeating his Charedi rival Meir Porush in the poll last week. Barkat won 52 per cent of the vote compared to 43 per cent for Porush, with Russian billionaire Ar
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  15. topographical map of Israel, delineating the 1967 borders. Photo: Courtesy Perhaps the most evident omission concerns the unwitting manner in which these 'Territories' fell into Israel's hands in the first place. It is simply and widely disregarded
  16. Ever since three European states (EU-3) - Britain, France and Germany - took the lead in 2003 in confronting the suspicions surrounding Iran' nuclear program through negotiations, the US has been criticized for not putting its full weight behind the
  17. British radio presenter who called a Conservative councillor a ?Nazi? and an ?ignorant pig? live on air has been sacked. An investigation was launched after the remarks, made by Jon Gaunt on his Talksport radio show, generated ?a number? of
  18. British radio presenter who called a Conservative councillor a â??Naziâ? and an â??ignorant pigâ? live on air has been sacked. An investigation was launched after the remarks, made by Jon Gaunt on his Talksport radio show, generated
  19. GENEVA -- The World Council of Churches will help deliver Christmas messages and prayers of peace to the biblical birthplace of Jesus. Christianity' largest ecumenical movement says messages e-mailed before the Jan. 7 Christmas celebrated by Orthodo
  20. Christianity' largest ecumenical movement says messages e-mailed before the Jan. 7 Christmas celebrated by Orthodox Christians will be printed and handed out at schools and places of worship in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. The council said Tuesd
  21. PARIS -- The arrest in Canada of man accused in one of Europe's most shocking terrorist incidents is provoking a sense of relief and rekindling grim memories of the Friday evening in 1980 when a Sabbath service here was brutally interrupted. Rabbi
  22. BAPTIST pastor has admitted telling Jewish leaders that Jews were 'going to hell' and faced a fate 'worse than the Holocaust' because they had not accepted Jesus as their saviour. But Pastor Kevin Harris of the Illawarra Jewish Community Baptist Church in
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  24. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert addresses the United Jewish Communities General Assembly at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem on November 16, 2008. (Daniel Sieradski/JTA) 1 out of 1 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert speaks during t
  25. was interested to see an anonymous article called 'An Unpalatable Truth' in the latest issue of your magazine Franklin Local. (1) The article suggests that a series of European peoples, most notably the Celts, settled New Zealand thousands of yea
  26. traditional Jewish wedding is full of meaningful rituals, symbolizing the beauty of the relationship of husband and wife, as well as their obligations to each other and to the Jewish people. The following guide explains the beauty and joy of these
  27. AM Israeli and Palestinian youngsters are finding some common ground on school playground. Basketball games, hosted in Jerusalem by Hand in Hand, one of the few Israeli public schools where Jews and Arabs study together, are giving youths aged 10 t
  28. Tom Cruise' new Nazi film Valkyrie has finally been allotted a release date after months of uncertainty. The Second World War thriller, which charts a failed attempt by a German officer to assassinate Adolf Hitler, will be released in America on Box
  29. CAR carrying one of Israel?s top mafia kingpins exploded as it travelled in central Tel Aviv, killing him and threatening to unleash an all-out war in Israel?s increasingly violent underworld. Israeli police officials identified the dead man as
  30. drawing mortar fire from Palestinian militants and intensifying violence that has chipped away at tenuous cease-fire. Israel and Hamas have been trading fire for two weeks after nearly five months of relative quiet. The truce is due to expire next
  31. judge in Israel has given an opinion that Bank Leumi is not legally obliged to hand over money it had held for people who died in the Holocaust. The banks board asked the judge to examine its liability after a demand from the state-owned Company fo
  32. - RV) The 20th international Jewish ? Catholic liaison committee meeting is continuing in Budapest and has as it? theme: ?Religion and Civil Society today?. We spoke to The Chairman of the Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultation, Rabbi
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  35. Brooklyn Rabbi who has been outspoken about child molestation in the city's ultra-Orthodox Jewish Jewish Community said yesterday he's been targeted with death threats. Nuchem (Nathan) Rosenberg, 58, complained outside the 90th Precinct in Williamsburg th
  36. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian youngsters are finding some common ground on school playground. Basketball games, hosted in Jerusalem by Hand in Hand, one of the few Israeli public schools where Jews and Arabs study together, are givi
  37. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian youngsters are finding some common ground on school playground. Basketball games, hosted in Jerusalem by Hand in Hand, one of the few Israeli public schools where Jews and Arabs study together, are givi
  38. Eight pairs of eyes were starring at me, their expressions serious. 'So, Miss Hirschhorn,' they continued their interrogation, 'what would you say are your strong points?' was being interviewed for graduate school and knew had to sell myself. '
  39. Barack Obama spent the first week after being elected president of the United States planning the next four years. Yet, even though the office is occupied by somebody else until January, the pundits are already predicting the next administration'
  40. Basketball games, hosted in Jerusalem by Hand in Hand, one of the few Israeli public schools where Jews and Arabs study together, are giving youths aged 10 to 16 chance to try to bridge a wide political and religious divide. LONG-TERM
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  42. About half of US President-elect Barack Obama' unprecedented $640-million campaign war chest was raised in donations of less than $200, mostly via the Internet. Slideshow: Almost 360 million were donated to charity through the small on-line gifts o
  43. (IsraelNN.com) new synagogue was dedicated Monday at the new Air Force base in Navatim, east of Beer Sheva, where a number of transport squadrons were brought, following the dismantling of their base in Lod. Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar was amo
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  45. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian youngsters are finding some common ground on school playground. Basketball games, hosted in Jerusalem by Hand in Hand, one of the few Israeli public schools where Jews and Arabs study together, are givi
  46. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian youngsters are finding some common ground on school playground. Basketball games, hosted in Jerusalem by Hand in Hand, one of the few Israeli public schools where Jews and Arabs study together, are givi
  47. By Claire Sibonney JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian youngsters are finding some common ground on school playground. Basketball games, hosted in Jerusalem by Hand in Hand, one of the few Israeli public schools where Jews and Arabs study
  48. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian youngsters are finding some common ground on school playground. Basketball games, hosted in Jerusalem by Hand in Hand, one of the few Israeli public schools where Jews and Arabs study together, are givi
  49. WARSAW, Poland -- Dozens of Poles were awarded medals Monday for risking their lives during World War II to save Jews from the Holocaust. President Lech Kaczynski awarded state medals _ many posthumously _ to around 70 people from across Poland. Firs
  50. MONTREAL - One-half of Montreal duo accused of firebombing two Jewish institutions was sentenced to four years in prison for what a judge described as a terrorist act. Azim Ibragimov, 25, pleaded guilty earlier this year to tossing a Molotov cockta
  51. Montreal man accused of firebombing two Jewish institutions was sentenced to four years in prison for what a judge described as a terrorist act. Azim Ibragimov, 25, pleaded guilty earlier this year to tossing a Molotov cocktail at a Jewish school
  52. New Delhi (dpa) - group of 200 Indian Jews are set to emigrate to Israel in January after the Israeli government approved their request, news reports said Monday. The newly recognized Jews belong to the Bnei Menashe tribe of India's north-east and
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  54. Jerusalem Mayor-elect Nir Barkat on Monday called on group of thousands of north American Jewish leaders to commit themselves to help turning the capital into Israel's richest city as part of his novel approach to city management and economic
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  58. AIZAWL: About 200 Indians are set to emigrate to Israel in January after they were officially recognised as Jews, Jewish Community leaders here said on Monday. Rabbinical leaders in Jerusalem said the Israeli government approved the request for emigration b
  59. AFP/File ? general view a Palestinian house occupied by Israeli hardline settlers in the southern West Bank town ? Play Video Video: Violence Resumes Along Gaza Strip ABC News Play Video Video: Hamas/ Fatah talks cancelled BBC Play Video Video: Raw
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  62. NEW YORK - 12-year-old New York jewish boy with brain cancer has died after his family battled a hospital to keep him on a ventilator. The lawyer for the Orthodox Jewish family says Motl Brody's bodily functions ceased Saturday. machine had continued to
  63. Foreign secretary takes pulse of Israeli politicians Listen to the Article - Powered by OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: British Foreign Secretary David Miliband arrived in the Middle East on Sunday for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in bid to bolst
  64. On the day British Foreign Secretary David Miliband arrives in Israel, relations between London and Jerusalem are strained due to British initiative to label goods from Judea and Samaria Jewish communities.This initiative is a serious and substanti
  65. -yr-old Earring Found in Jerusalem of Gold IHC Abstract [ISRAEL] Another stunning discovery has made been made at the City of David excavations - this time fashion statement worthy of today's news: a gold earring holding two pearls and an emerald.
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  67. Facebook says it has removed several pages from its site used by Italian neo-Nazis to incite violence after European politicians accused the internet social networking site of allowing platform to racists. Seven different group pages had been creat
  68. The Jewish Agency Assembly called on the government on Sunday to create an 'independent' authority dealing with conversion, removing responsibility for conversions from the Prime Minister' Office. The motion came out of a Sunday morning meeting in
  69. TO TAKE life of a murderer is to save the life of many, says Sheikh Musa Tijani of the Islamic Council of Jamaica. 'When someone kills and he knows he will be killed, he thinks twice to do it and that will make people live in peace and harmony,' he
  70. Article from: Agence France-Presse Font size: Decrease Increase : Email : Print From correspondents in Jerusalem ISRAELI foreign minister Tzipi Livni has told her visiting British counterpart David Miliband she expects the international Jewish Community to
  71. Jewish Political Studies Review 20:3-4 (Fall 2008) 'Jerusalem: Capital of the Jews':1 The Jewish Identity of Jerusalem in Greek and Roman Sources* Rivkah Fishman-Duker For ancient Greek and Roman pagan authors, Jerusalem definitely was Jewish city.
  72. Middle East Task Force of Ann Arbor says any attempt by University Musical Society to develop ties with Israeli orchestra amounts to 'condoning Israeli apartheid', urges condemnation of Israel' 'racist and discriminatory practices' Merav Yudilovitc
  73. Add articles about technology to your Recent Tech News Stories Richmond Times-Dispatch Saturday 15th November, 09:14:07 PM Rocky Mountain News Thursday 13th November, 06:06:41 PM ZDNet Wednesday 12th November, 07:25:07 AM Recent Articles - Facebook
  74. Barack Obama is to pursue an ambitious peace plan in the Middle East involving the recognition of Israel by the Arab world in exchange for its withdrawal to pre-1967 borders, according to sources close to Americas president-elect. Obama intends to th
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  76. Deemed too scary for public consumption, ultra-Orthodox candidate Meir Porush was presented by his PR team in cartoon form. Israel went to the polls Tuesday for its municipal elections. One of our Israeli Observers gave his, somewhat disillusioned,
  77. Barack Obama is to pursue an ambitious peace plan in the Middle East involving the recognition of Israel by the Arab world in exchange for its withdrawal to pre-1967 borders, according to sources close to Americas president-elect. Obama intends to th
  78. Down the street from the Brown University football stadium, the Jewish Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island, in Providence, endeavors to teach its students how to be Jewish in an increasingly pluralistic world. At one time it was Solomon Schechter
  79. Yalta, Ukraine ? The view of this seaside tourist town twinkling precariously in narrow gulf between black mountains and a black sea would have been enough to halt any attempt at conversation. But near a top-floor hotel window with panoramic
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  81. What are the prospects for American Jewry? The United Jewish Communities General Assembly in Jerusalem is an opportune time to address challenges facing the larger concentration of Jews in the world. Since the shock of the early 1990s, when the first
  82. The General Assembly of the United Jewish Communities is meeting in Jerusalem with the world reeling from the economic meltdown. More than 2,500 powerhouse leaders gathered, planning to celebrate Israel' 60th anniversary. Instead, the participants a
  83. entitled 'Is Austria largely Haider' touched upon many sensitive issues between Austria and Israel. While always open for founded criticism, feel that have to clarify some of the distorted comments and conclusions expressed in the article and w
  84. Is Saudi Arabia, home to Islam' two holiest cities, and the Arab world's most conservative monarchy, experiencing a change of heart? In a campaign against extremists at home, Saudi courts have now begun to try 991 prisoners held on terrorism charges
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  86. recent judgment by Israel's supreme court will allow the construction of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's Museum of Tolerance, designed by renowned US architect Frank Gehry, over a Muslim heritage cemetery of great historical importance in the centre
  87. By Kaleem Omar America? powerful Jewish lobby is alive, well and kicking. It is likely to become even more influential when President-Elect Barack Obama takes office as the 44th president of the United States in two months time, and Rahm Israel Eman
  88. ONTREAL: Canadian police arrested University of Ottawa sociology professor on Thursday in connection with the 1980 bombing that killed four people and more than 20 wounded outside a Paris synagogue. Hassan Diab, 54, was taken into custody by agents
  89. WASHINGTON (JTA) - The Zionist Organization of America and 200 Israeli chief rabbis asked President Bush to pardon Jonathan Pollard. Requests to pardon the former U. . Navy analyst, sentenced in 1987 to life for spying for Israel, are routine, but th
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  91. - RV) The 20th international Jewish ? Catholic liaison committee meeting is continuing in Budapest and has as it? theme: ?Religion and Civil Society today?. We spoke to The Chairman of the Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultation, Rabbi
  92. Police in White Plains, in the US state of New York, are increasing patrols around Jewish day school after swastikas and a hate slogan were found scrawled on the wall of the kindergarten building. Police say a groundskeeper at the Solomon Schechter
  93. pupils and left-wing activists who unlawfully occupied Humboldt University in the German capital Berlin and some of whom destroyed an anti-Nazi exhibition were reacting to the university' close ties to Israel, the university president has said.
  94. New Zealand has elected the third Jewish prime minster in its history and its first conservative government in nearly decade, ending the rule of one of the world's longest serving elected female prime minister, Helen Clark. John Key, a 47-year-old
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  96. Especially since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Western scholars and pundits have wrestled with the question of whether violence and intolerance of other viewpoints are somehow endemic to Islam; and, if this is not the case, can liberal for
  97. When Kehilat Hadar met for its first Shabbat morning service on Manhattan' Upper West Side in 2001, about 60 people showed up, some of them spilling into the hallway at the apartment of Ethan Tucker, one of the minyan's founders. Three weeks later t
  98. Churches in Germany have remembered the 70th anniversary of the systematic attack by the Nazis in 1938 on Jewish Germans, saying that many Christians failed then in their duty to speak out. 'In the November pogroms of 1938 defenceless people were
  99. Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, November 2008, page 48 Israel and JudaismWhen It Comes to Israel, American Jews Are Not One, But of Many Minds By Allan C. Brownfeld The myth propagated by many in the organized American Jewish Jewish Community that
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  101. Jerusalem, (PNN): Israeli forces arrested 14 Palestinians in Jerusalem yesterday for calling on shop owners to close their doors during strike against the Israeli-controlled municipal elections. Among those arrested are several Fateh officials. The
  102. The Israeli police kidnapped on Monday at night Abdul-Baset Al Razim, Palestinian reporter from Jerusalem after breaking into his home in Abu Dis and searching it. The Police and members of the so-called border-guard units, broke into the house of
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  104. The President of Israel, Shimon Peres, has described peace proposals put forward by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia as 'unprecedented'. During rare Israeli-Saudi encounter at a United Nations conference on religious tolerance, the King called for 'pe
  105. Mayor-elect Barkat: Jerusalem is for all Cracks surface in haredi voting bloc Official results released early Wednesday morning confirmed that secular businessman Nir Barkat won the tightly contested race for mayor of Jerusalem in yesterday' municip
  106. European Jews claim that Europe is facing the disheartening reality of more neo-Nazis and Nazi sympathisers than ever before. Brussels -- European Jews marked the 70th anniversary of Nazi Germany' Kristallnacht pogrom on Monday, saying that the
  107. Survivors light candles, each commemorating one million Jews, from left, Anna Heilman, Truda Rosenberg, Vera Kovesi, Barry Davis, David Moskovic, George Gara. OTTAWA - Only six Jewish war veterans marched in the ceremony to open the commemoration of
  108. TORONTO - The thousands of books Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut consulted over the decades for his sermons, essays, articles and books, have been donated to York University. Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut, centre, pictured with his daughter Judith Plaut and his son
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  110. High-tech entrepreneur Nir Barkat won Israel' mayoral election in Jerusalem on Wednesday, defeating Rabbi Meir Porush in a political battle between the holy city's secular and ultra-Orthodox Jews. Barkat, 49, took 52 percent of the vote, final offic
  111. JERUSALEM, (AFP) - secular tycooon celebrating his election as Jerusalem mayor on Wednesday vowed to turn the Holy City into a world metropolis and bolster its disputed status as Israel's 'undivided' capital. Nir Barkat won 52 percent of the votes
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  113. Shortly before his 'suicide' in 1955, Henry H. Klein, righteous Jew, uttered these prophetic words: 'Zionism is a political program for the conquest of the world. Zionism destroyed Russia by violence as a warning to other nations. It is destroying
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  115. software tycoon who wants to turn Jerusalem into a bio-tech hub has won the city's mayoral election against an ultra-Orthodox Jewish leader. Nir Barkat, a 49-year-old former paratroop commander won the election by 52% of the vote against rabbi Meir
  116. U. . architect Daniel Libeskind is to design a new synagogue in Munich, possibly on the site of the first Jewish house of worship in the south German city, Jewish leaders said yesterday. Mr. Libeskind, pictured, who was responsible for Berlin's land
  117. hrs Photos of " JERUALE: secular hardliner was elected mayor of Jerusalem in a vote on uesday, ending a five-year rule of an ultra-Orthodox mayor after a campaign that highlighted the Holy City's deep divisions. Nir Barkat won 52 per cent, whi
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  119. Posters tell Mea Shearim residents to boycott elections Flash 90 Bus with Gaydamak poster passes policemen Flash 90 Cycling through promises Flash 90 Father and son, Gaydamak watching from wall Flash 90 Still life with posters Yehuda Boltshauser Mere
  120. (IsraelNN.com) Dozens of hareidi religious Jerusalem activists battled policemen while trying to prevent voters from reaching polling stations in what TIME magazine called 'bizarre election.' The battle took place in the Beit Israel neighborhood of
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  122. Secular candidate Nir Barkat declared victory over Haredi rival Meir Porush in the Jerusalem mayoral election early Wednesday. With votes counted in 704 of 707 polling stations in the capital, Barkat won about 51 percent of the vote versus 42 percent
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  124. - KSBY News (NBC Affiliate) - Members of Temple Beth David donated money to purchase solar cookers for those in refugee camps. The project is organized by the Jewish World Watch of Los Angeles. 'The way these cookers work is you have aluminum that
  125. By Sandor Peto Catholic and Jewish leaders on Tuesday asked believers not to use inflammatory language after the Vatican' plans to make Nazi-era pope Pius XII a saint provoked an outcry from Jewish groups. 'Disagreements between us...must always be
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  127. Ramallah - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday that Israel during its talks with him over the past year had proposed concessions to him regarding Jerusalem, but he rejected them because they were partial. Abbas told tens of thousands of
  128. BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AFP)--The Palestinian leadership mounted security operation in Bethlehem on Tuesday similar to those launched in other West Bank towns that have drawn charges of partisanship from Hamas. 'The security plan is aimed against tho
  129. Israelis are casting ballots in municipal polls. In Jerusalem, the mayoral race has highlighted battle between secular Jews and the Orthodox who are gaining influence over the Holy City. VOA's Luis Ramirez reports from Jerusalem. Jerusalem's landsc
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  131. Ramallah - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday that Israel during its talks with him over the past year had proposed concessions to him regarding Jerusalem, but he rejected them because they were partial. Abbas told tens of thousands of
  132. Jerusalem - Israelis are choosing new mayor of Jerusalem Tuesday. Several candidates are competing to replace Uri Lupolianski, who in 2003 became the city's first ultra-Orthodox mayor when elected to succeed Ehud Olmert, currently Israel's premier.
  133. Holocaust survivors are trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly violated 13-year-old agreement barring the practice. Leaders of The Church of
  134. Archaeologists digging in east Jerusalem have unearthed perfectly preserved 2,000-year-old gold earring inlaid with pearls and precious stones, the said yesterday. The earring is made of a coiled gold hoop and dates from the Roman period between t
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  136. The authority says the earring is inlaid with pearls and emeralds and was made sometime between the first century BC and the beginning of the fourth century AD. In statement released Monday, the authority said the piece is 'astonishingly
  137. The city' stone-faced buildings are draped in campaign posters ahead of Tuesday's mayoral election. In a race being hailed as a turning point in determining the city's character for years to come either ultra-Orthodox or secular the two main contend
  138. Israeli archeologists have discovered 2,000-year-old gold earring beneath a parking lot next to the walls of Jerusalem's old city, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Monday. The discovery dates back to the time of Christ, during the Roman period
  139. Police say no one was seriously injured Sunday when dozens of monks kicked and punched each other at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. The brawl erupted between Greek Orthodox and Armenian monks, whose denominations share control of the
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  141. BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel marked the 70th anniversary of the Nazi pogrom 'Kristallnacht' on Sunday by warning against complacency in the fight against anti-Semitism. Merkel was speaking alongside Jewish leaders at ceremony
  142. Walter Sommers was young apprentice in Hamburg, Germany, 70 years ago today, and he still remembers the buildings afire and streets full of crying people. '...And then we saw a lot of glass in the street,' the retired businessman said Saturday
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  144. The Middle East Quartet called on Israel and the Palestinians on Sunday to press on with peace negotiations even though year-end target date for a deal is dead in the water. It also called for a halt to Jewish settlement activity on occupied
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  146. Berlin - Germans must act against racism in general and anti-Semitism in particular, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday, day before Germany marks a 1938 pogrom against Jewish residents. Ceremonies were to be held Sunday to recall Kristallnacht,
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  148. HEBRON, West Bank (AFP) - Jewish settlers on Saturday beat up six-year-old Palestinian jewish boy near the West Bank town of Hebron, and he was taken to hospital suffering from moderate head wounds, medics said. Bilal Daana was attacked by a group of
  149. Goldensohn donation strengthens ADL' fight against anti-SemitismPublishedA Jewish man was walking to synagogue one Friday evening when six young men verbally accosted him and threatened him. They called him a "dirty Jew" and tried to run h
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  151. British police charged 43-year-old man Thursday with plotting an act of terrorism and having two improvised explosive devices, chemicals, timers, and a Nazi-themed handbook.Neil Christopher Lewington was first arrested last week after police discov
  152. far-right senator in Belgium has stepped down as his party's leader after a video of him singing a song poking fun at the Holocaust was broadcast on national television.The Senate called the actions by National Front senator Michel Delacroix 'beyon
  153. Jewish voters in the United States have overwhelmingly backed Barack Obama as their choice for president. According to exit polls, the Illinois senator received an estimated 77 per cent of the Jewish vote in Tuesday? presidential election, which he
  154. The 111th US Congress is slated to have 46 Jewish members. Three Jewish newcomers were elected to the House of Representatives in Tuesday' elections. One of the new representatives is Jared Polis, 33, of Colorado, who made history as the first openl
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  156. TEL AVIV, Israel - U. . Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is all but conceding that an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal by a year-end is no longer possible. But Rice also said upon arriving in Tel Aviv on Thursday that 'it is important to maintain
  157. TEL AVIV, Israel - U. . Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is all but conceding that an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal by a year-end is no longer possible. But Rice also said upon arriving in Tel Aviv on Thursday that 'it is important to maintain
  158. U. . Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice all but conceded on Thursday that securing an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal by the end of the year is no longer possible. 'Obviously, Israel is in the midst of elections and that is a constraint on the abilit
  159. TEL AVIV, Israel - U. . Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is all but conceding that an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal by a year-end is no longer possible. But Rice also said upon arriving in Tel Aviv on Thursday that 'it is important to maintain
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  161. Muslim and Jewish peers and MPs, including the former Conservative Leader Michael Howard and shadow cabinet member Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, will meet students of both faiths and take part in live panel discussion on Wednesday, November 12th. The eve
  162. Israel has sparked widespread controversy with its construction of synagogue in lieu of a mosque in Jerusalem (al-Quds). The 25-meter-high (more) Israel has sparked widespread controversy with its construction of a synagogue in lieu of a mosque in
  163. Scottish Catholic prelate defended his controversialcomments from criticism late last week, after legislators reacted against being compared with Nazis for their support for the Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill. Keith Cardinal ?Brien, the
  164. JERUSALEM: Israel yesterday demolished four Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem which the authorities said were built without permits, triggering clashes in one of the cityâ?? Arab neighbourhoods. In Silwan, young Palestinians hurled rocks at
  165. UNITED NATIONS The performance of the council, which replaced the discredited U. . Human Rights Commission 2 1/2 years ago, was the subject of debate in the General Assembly which was considering the annual report of the Geneva-based council. Israel'
  166. Berlin plans to argue before The Hague court that sovereign actions by countries, including those of their armed forces, are protected under international law by sovereign immunity. Berlin -- Germany plans to contest an Italian court ruling in order
  167. preliminary exit poll has shown that US president-elect Barak Obama received 78 percent of the Jewish vote in Tuesday's presidential election, whilst his rival Republican John McCain received 21 percent. Slideshow: The MSNBC poll put Jews at 2
  168. Democrat Barack Obama' election on Tuesday as the 44th president of the United States was welcomed by Palestinian and Israeli politicians alike, who expressed hope that under his leadership the peace process would contininue and develop into somethi
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  170. WASHINGTON ? Jewish voters appear to be 'coming home' to the Democratic Party, in the words of one political strategist. Gallup poll released on Oct. 23 had Sen. Barack Obama winning 74 percent of the Jewish vote, up 13 points from July. Quinnipi
  171. The king made the remarks when meeting Koichiro Matsuura, Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), who is in Jordan to inaugurate UNESCO-sponsored laboratory. 'The monarch asserted the
  172. Yuval Diskin, the head of Israel' internal security service, Shin Bet, has expressed concern that Jewish extremists could assassinate an Israeli leader in an attempt to foil the peace process with the Palestinians. There has been a recent increase
  173. few days before the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the 1938 Nazi pogroms in Germany known as 'Kristallnacht', a rabbi and eight rabbinical students were attacked in Berlin. Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, a Chabad Lubavitch rabbi in Berlin was
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  175. HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) - Jewish settlers say they are ready to fight U. .-trained, Palestinian security forces who are being sent to the tense West Bank city of Hebron. Fear of a showdown if the armed Palestinians move into the center, where a h
  176. Moscow - Russian police arrested over 100 neo-Nazi demonstrators at an unsanctioned march Tuesday in Moscow, the Interfax agency reported. The participants in so-called Russian March were taken away by members of the special forces OMON unit, the
  177. (IsraelNN.com) The Lebanese newspaper al-Ahbar reported on Tuesday that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas during his visit to Ramallah this summer that he supports PA state and Arab rig
  178. (IsraelNN.com) The United States Army discharged recruit and disciplined two drill instructors after a Jewish soldier who had just begun wearing a kippah (skull cap) reported that he was being discriminated against because of his religion. Commande
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  180. Germany says it plans to go to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to contest an Italian court' ruling that Berlin must pay damages for a Nazi massacre during World War II. Italy's top court ruled last month that Germany should pay
  181. AMMAN (JT) - His Majesty King Abdullah emphasised on Monday that Jordan will exert all possible efforts to protect the holy sites in Jerusalem in line with its historic role in overseeing and safeguarding these sacred places. At meeting with visiti
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  183. (RTTNews) - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday ruled out the possibility of reaching peace agreement with the Israelis before the end of the year, adding the negotiations are most likely to resume after the completion of Israel
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  185. - RV) Pope Benedict XVI today received the delegates of the International Jewish Committee on Inter-religious Consultations. Chris Altieri reports?
  186. Sarah Honig' column ('Spit isn't rain,' October 23) and other recent opinion pieces that have appeared in your paper over the past month have dealt with the current situation in Acre. While we certainly applaud the initiative taken by Honig and othe
  187. Re: To Stefov and Gandeto - The issue at hand is not if the Ancient Greeks and Modern Greeks are the same; that is undisputed and there is too much evidence to the contrary (except for some 'alleged' historians from FYROM).. The issue here is that if
  188. new poll showed on Monday Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama gaining ground among Jewish voters, widening the gap to 40 percent against his rival, Arizona Senator John McCain. Slideshow: The Washington Post reported that its Post-ABC
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  190. (IsraelNN.com) network of religious seed communities is spreading out throughout Israel in order to try and stem the tide of a gradual Arab takeover in the mixed cities, to strengthen the spirit of the Jewish residents and to revive the spirit of T
  191. (IsraelNN.com) Eight resolutions resolutions are expected to be approved at the biannual Convention of Orthodox Union, scheduled for Nov. 26-30 in Jerusalem. These include calls to avoid slandering the Jews of Judea and Samaria, cautious support for
  192. 2 hours 52 mins ago Israel' radical right wing could resort to armed attacks to scupper any accord under which the occupied West Bank would be ceded to the Palestinians, the official in charge of Israeli leaders' security said Sunday. Skip related
  193. JERUSALEM, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- U. . Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit the Middle East later this week, in a new bid to push forward the staggering Israeli-Palestinian peace process. U. . State Department announced Thursday that Rice would
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  195. Israel will mark the killing of leader that exposed a bitter divide in its democracy. This legacy will haunt any effort by the new man in the White House to bring peace to the Middle East. On Nov. 4, 1995, the shooting of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rab
  196. Bio Jerusalem is offering grants amounting to NIS 30,000 per employee to biomedical companies that move to the city, up to NIS 300,000 year. High-tech companies will be eligible for a smaller grant of NIS 20,000 per employee, up to a maximum of NIS
  197. Exactly 30 years ago, Isaac Bashevis Singer told The New York Times that 'doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.' The Jewish tradition, of course, embraces skepticism, and this year the Jewish Jewish Community is experienci
  198. Anyone in need of additional reminders of how much Romanians love the Jews could have found it in the recent destruction and desecration of some 200 graves in the great cemetery in Bucharest. Even though there are almost no Jews in Romania (their num
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  200. (IsraelNN.com) Hevron activist Baruch Marzel said Saturday night that police and security officers who were trying to dismantle the Federman home in Hevron were ?tough when it comes to children, but we haven't seen that kind of toughness when it come
  201. ZOn Oct. 24, Rabbi Arthur Starr delivered his farewell sermon at historic St. Thomas Synagogue. He discussed the answer to the famous question taken from the story of Cain and Abel, 'Am my brother' keeper?' Starr's answer was an emphatic 'Yes, we
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  203. AMMAN (JT) - The government underlined on Saturday Jordan' right in maintaining and overseeing the holy sites in Jerusalem and the continuation of its historic role in the holy city. Foreign Minister Salah Bashir noted at a meeting with US Assistant
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  205. Special To The Jewish Week Ida, New York City resident now in her 50s, recalls days as a child when her father would rip out clumps of her hair and beat her until she was black and blue ? a consequence of his addiction to alcohol. ?mean drunk,?
  206. Special To The Jewish Week ?What should eat?? is question that nutritionists Chana Rubin and Carol Gelles hear a lot. Their new books creatively and comprehensively answer the question. ?Food for the Soul: Traditional Jewish Wisdom for Healthy
  207. Vatican reconsidering sainthood for Holocaust-era pope Holy See may wait until all archives examined The Vatican will give serious reconsideration to the beautification process - precursor to sainthood - for Pope Pius XII, who headed the Catholic
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  209. *** and blackmail plot involving the richest woman in Germany has been smashed by Italian police. Billionaire heiress Susanne Klatten, 45, was targeted by her lover Helg Sgarbi and his accomplice Ernano Barretta for 6million. The accused claim the
  210. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 31 CA-Anti-Defamation LOS ANGELES, Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- The Anti-Defamation League today condemned the Pacific Justice Institute for invoking Hitler and Nazi Germany in their campaign for California' Proposition 8, which seeks t
  211. With the sun bathing its elegant gardens, the great spa town of central France is picture of autumn beauty. Less visible is the enduring blight from which it suffers: the name of Vichy. Now, 64 years since it was home to the pro-Nazi regime of Mars
  212. *** and blackmail plot involving the richest woman in Germany has been smashed by Italian police. Billionaire heiress Susanne Klatten, 45, was targeted by her lover Helg Sgarbi and his accomplice Ernano Barretta for £6million. The accused claim the
  213. With the sun bathing its elegant gardens, the great spa town of central France is picture of autumn beauty. Less visible is the enduring blight from which it suffers: the name of Vichy. Now, 64 years since it was home to the pro-Nazi regime of Mars
  214. For quite sometime, the Diaspora Jews (those scattered all over the world) have played various roles in the Israeli Jewish awareness. The Jews of the then Soviet Union and those of Latin America were considered candidates for immigration to the occup
  215. HAR BRACHA, West Bank: Being Jewish settler in occupied territory is the only life Renana Cohen has known for most of her 25 years, and she couldnâ??t imagine living anywhere else, including within Israelâ??s borders. Itâ??s not the
  216. HEBRON, Occupied West Bank: Palestinian photographer working for AFP was wounded in the head Friday when settlers hurled rocks at journalists near the Occupied West Bank city of Hebron, witnesses said. Photographer Hazem Bader, 42, was taken to a
  217. An Islamic Jihad leader on Thursday called on the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) to stop peace talks with Israel. 'The political negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israeli occupation became useless and meaningless,' said Mohammed
  218. We've all played the 'Jewish geography' game - you know, questioning someone we've only just met in order to discover common Jewish connections, friends or even family. In doing so, we are mapping out our experiences, delineating sort of Jewish
  219. johannesburg, south africa | The euphoria that permeated all sectors of the South African population with its first democratic election in 1994 has degenerated into widespread pessimism with the forced resignation of President Thabo Mbeki. Mbeki, who
  220. Photographs of those who risked their lives to save Jews in Poland during the Holocaust are featured in an exhibition on display through Dec. 5 at Stanford University. ?Polish Heroes: Those Who Rescued the Jews? recently opened in the Koret Pavilion
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  222. WELLINGTON - Kiwi has been appointed vice-chancellor and chief executive officer of Bethlehem University in the Holy Land. Br Peter Bray, FSC, takes up the positions next February. For the past seven years he has been director and CEO of the Wellin
  223. BETHLEHEM , Conn.Police say 45-year-old Bethlehem man has been charged with cruelty and larceny in the killing of a pig owned by First Selectman Jeffrey Hamel.According to the arrest warrant, one of Hamel's neighbors spotted a man believed to be Jo
  224. CARDINAL Keith 'Brien, the leader of Scotland's Roman Catholics, was today at the centre of a fresh row over his comments likening embryo research to Nazi experiments. Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Tavish Scott claimed the remarks could have
  225. CARDINAL Keith 'Brien, the leader of Scotland's Roman Catholics, was today at the centre of a fresh row over his comments likening embryo research to Nazi experiments. Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Tavish Scott claimed the remarks could have
  226. Moscow, October 31, Interfax - The Tel-Aviv Municipality and the Real Estate Tax Department have seized lands owned by the Russian Orthodox Church. The reason is the accrued tax in amount of 12.5 million shekels (almost 3.5 million dollars), Noviye
  227. Billy Crystal, Kirk Douglas and Steven Spielberg Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.com Spielberg' Shoah Foundation Shines When Billy Crystal met Steven Spielberg at the Oct. 22 Shoah Foundation dinner, the comedian had a beef with the filmmaker. Why,
  228. Her great-uncle was the infamous Nazi leader Hermann Goering. Adolf Hitler' second-in-command, he headed the vaunted Luftwaffe airforce and was a leading architect of the 'Final Solution' to exterminate Europe's Jews. His grandniece's odyssey to cle
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  232. The production company Endemol, producer of the 'Celebrity Big Brother' TV reality show, asked Holocaust-denier David Irving to be contestant on the show, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported Thursday. Endemol, whose producers said their offe
  233. JERUSALEM -- Plans for Jerusalem museum dedicated to tolerance and coexistence got the final go-ahead Wednesday from Israel's Supreme Court, which rejected an appeal by Muslims who complained the site covers part of an ancient Muslim cemetery. The
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  235. Arab twins from the city of Lod, east of Tel Aviv, were arrested Thursday on suspicion that they had torched synagogue. The 15-year-old twins are denying the allegations against them. Their attorney claims they were nowhere near the scene of the cr
  236. Martin Peretz, the Israel-based editor of , and man who is to Zionists what Sarah Palin is to moose-shooting anti-abortionists, says have written more appreciative words about Khalidi than Obama ever uttered. In fact, even invited Khalidi to sp
  237. Republican John McCain is gaining larger share of the traditionally Democratic Jewish vote that could be a deciding factor in several battleground states, according to three recent polls. He also appears to be more popular among younger Jews than t
  238. German soldiers guard Pope Pius XII in Berlin Photo: Getty Documenting the archives will take at least another six or seven years, Vatican spokesman said in response to a request from a senior Jewish leader. Jewish groups and critics of Pope Pius X
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  240. In todays troubled world, With such words Benedict XVI reasserted the importance of meetings between different religions, adding however that the The Holy Father stressed the importance of dialogue and its foundations in brief address to the member
  241. Date : 30/10/2008Time : 15:31 JERUSALEM, October 30, 2008 (WAFA)-An extreme Jew attacked, Wednesday night, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, in the old city of Jerusalem and tried to aggress clergy men before going to shop nearby and
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  244. Re: Debating Judaism, letter to the editor, Oct. 28. agree with letter-writer Jonathan Usher that the assimilation of Jews into the greater culture is serious problem. also agree that the major cause of this is that Jews are not finding meaning
  245. The 'gutter,' or water system mentioned in the Bible as the way King David' men conquered Jerusalem may have been found. Dr. Eilat Mazar, an archaeologist excavating the City of David, the most ancient part of Jerusalem, believes it has, and is to
  246. First-Temple era tunnel found in J'lem Etgar Lefkovits , THE JERUSALEM POST Oct. 29, 2008 www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1225199599844&pagename=JPost%2FJPArt icle%2FShowFull A water tunnel dating back to the First Temple era - but that migh
  247. 'The annihilation of the Jews here in Palestine is one of the most splendid blessings for Palestine. This will be followed by greater blessing, Allah be praised, with the establishment of a Caliphate that will rule the land and will be pleasing to
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  249. West-Holocaust According to the experiences of the last three thousand years, these kinds of unpleasant acts will lead to further reactions of people against arrogant domineers and tyrannizes. Today ' Fredrick Toeben' who is Australian, would be arre
  250. Holocaust-Studies Persecution, conviction and imprisonment of scientists and independent intellectuals are prevalent in the West, Secretary of World Foundation on Reviewing Holocaust Mohammad Ali Ramin said on Wednesday. Ramin said arrest of Fredrick