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News In Israel, Peace Talks Met With Skepticism
Jerusalem – As the Annapolis conference kicked into high gear, one Israeli reporter chose a more modest urban backdrop: the southern Israeli town of Sderot, its streets deserted for fear of Qassam rocket attacks from the nearby Gaza. “Residents here know that no matter what happens, in the end they get Qassams falling on their…
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News Neo-Nazis Met By Thousands of Protestors in Prague
Thousands rallied against neo-Nazism in Prague as Czech police prevented a right-wing extremist march. A high court had banned Saturday’s march through the city’s Jewish quarter by neo-Nazis on the anniversary of Kristallnacht. Instead, thousands of Jews and their supporters turned up for a Sabbath prayer by Chief Rabbi Karol Sidon, and speeches against extremism…
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Israel News Ode to Ann Coulter
Nearly 4 million people have heard her voice on the Internet video smash “I Got a Crush on Obama,” in which a sultry admirer confesses her love for the presidential candidate. Another 3.5 million have watched her video “My Box in a Box,” a parody of a Justin Timberlake number from “Saturday Night Live” whose…
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News Comments by Belarus’s President Draw Ire
Moscow – After Belarus’s president made a stinging remark about Israel and his own country’s Jewish community, some local Jewish communal leaders say they fear they may be caught in the crossfire of Iran’s growing relationship with their country. The offending comments came during a live radio broadcast October 12, when the president of Belarus,…
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News Researchers Probe City’s (Very Recent) Jewish Past
Mogilev-Podolsky, Ukraine – On a sweltering summer day, researchers fan out in this city’s historical center, its walls lined with photos of local Jews who went through the Holocaust. The visiting scholars from St. Petersburg, however, aren’t here to dwell on Jewish demise. They have come to document Jewish life in what expedition leader Valery…
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News ADL: Tutu Should Not Be Denied Platform
The Anti-Defamation League is urging the president of a Minnesota university to invite Archbishop Desmond Tutu to speak just days after it was revealed that he had been disinvited because of fears that he might offend Jews. Tutu had been slated to visit the University of St. Thomas next spring as part of a program…
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Fast Forward Protest, Calls for Arrest Greet Iran’s Leader in N.Y.
Several thousand demonstrators turned out for the rally against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad across from the United Nations. New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn helped kick off Monday’s event, declaring: “We are all here today to send one clear, loud and united message that there is no place for hate and terror in this…
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News Bush’s Justice Dept. Pick Is Orthodox Jew
To those who know him, retired federal judge Michael Mukasey, an Orthodox Jew and political conservative, is a jurist who kept his politics and religion out of the courtroom. That’s in marked contrast to his predecessor, the scandal-plagued Alberto Gonzales, who resigned this month despite President Bush’s best efforts to retain him. Gonzales’s tenure was…
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