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Fast Forward Albuquerque Jewish Deli Hit Again by Vandals
A Jewish deli in Albuquerque was targeted again by anti-Semitic vandalism, for the second time in about two weeks. Mailing labels with anti-Semitic slurs written on them were stuck to the front door of Nosh Deli on Saturday, KOB Eyewitness News 4 in Albuquerque reported. On Sunday, the stickers were pasted on the restaurant and…
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Fast Forward Robbers Targeted Home of Slain Jewish Day School Aide and Sister
Robbers reportedly targeted the home of a Pittsburgh Jewish day school teacher’s aide two months before she was murdered alongside her pediatrician sister inside the house. Hillel Academy officials told Pittsburgh’s Jewish Chronicle newspaper that Susan Wolfe had told of returning to the home to find it ransacked in December. The sisters, who recently bought…
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Fast Forward Germany Expands Pensions for Jews Forced To Work in Nazi Ghettos
Germany’s Labour Ministry is to bring in new legislation extending the pension rights of thousands of Jews forced to work in Nazi-era ghettos, Spiegel magazine reported on Sunday. Spiegel said the ministry had presented the proposal to an Israeli delegation visiting Berlin last week, and it would be worth an average of 15,000 euros ($20,400)…
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News The Jewish Settlers Who Would Stay in West Bank Under Palestinian Rule
Eliaz Cohen is a second-generation Jewish settler in the occupied West Bank — and that’s where he’s determined to remain. Sitting in his kitchen in Kfar Etzion, between Jerusalem and Hebron, the yarmulke-wearing settler says that he wants to see a two-state solution and to see his home become part of the Palestinian state, with…
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Culture Israel’s Model of Engineering Education Comes To American Jewish High Schools
The classrooms that Adam Jerozolim visits each week don’t have neat rows of desks and chairs. There are no teachers standing at the front. Instead, he said, they each “look like a mad scientist’s lab”: computer chips everywhere; a mass of light bulbs, Legos and circuit boards strewn about. The students are huddled around tables,…
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Opinion Toxic Denial of Climate Change Reality as Planet Hangs in the Balance
Environmentalists sometimes accuse conservatives of turning a blind eye to the extreme weather battering the country lately, because of disagreements over global warming. That’s unfair. Despite political squabbling, some bold initiatives are emerging. On February 1, seeking to end the crippling drought that’s produced federal disaster areas in 11 Western states, faith leaders from across…
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Opinion Why Climate Change Denial Is Biggest Conservative Lie of All
Are conservatives ever right? They were wrong about slavery, wrong about women’s suffrage, wrong about segregation, wrong about gay rights. They were wrong about trickle down economics – it’s never worked and never will, as the ballooning wealth gap proves once again. They were wrong about Iraq (where are those WMD’s, anyway?) and wrong about…
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The Schmooze Adam Brody Thinks ‘Seth Cohen’ Would be Dead By Now
Youtube Well O.C. fans, here you were comforting yourself with the thought that Seth and Summer lived happily ever after, and Adam Brody had to rip your heart out, slice it up and feast on it. Brody, who played the Jewish and adorkable Seth Cohen, told Nylon that his character probably would have died in…
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