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The warren of slum alleys is called the Jews' Quarter, but no Jews live there. The ancient synagogue still stands, but its roof is gone. The government is renovating it, but is doing so at a moment when anti-Israel feeling is running especially high in Egypt.
President Barack Obama is making his first major address to the Jewish community since taking office.
The U.S. violin virtuoso Joshua Bell helped raise funds Wednesday for a Jewish History museum in Poland with a charity concert at Warsaw's Opera House.
A white supremacist who killed a postal worker and wounded five people at a Los Angeles area Jewish community center in a 1999 shooting spree says he has renounced his racist views.
ESPN and Major League Baseball have agreed to switch the starting time of a Yankees-Red Sox game to avoid conflicting with Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.
Comedian Sunda Croonquist is being sued by her mother-in-law, Ruth Zafrin, after making her the punch line of too many jokes. “I was shocked and sickened by it,” Croonquist said Thursday. “Ruth, it’s just not that serious . Call me! I need a new recipe.”
The defeat of incumbent Norm Coleman in the drawn-out Minnesota Senate race leaves Republicans without a Jewish senator for the first time in half a century.
For the second time in two years, Polish officials began building a new museum of Jewish history in Warsaw on Tuesday that they hope will become a major cultural landmark.
The American Girl doll company is adding a new character to its multiethnic lineup. She's Rebecca, a Jewish Russian immigrant girl living on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1914.
A Republican state senator's reference to Democratic U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer as "that Jew" has drawn a rebuke from the director of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
A new book disputes widely held assumptions that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was insensitive to the plight of European Jews under the Nazis, and instead concludes that he tried to arrange resettlement for thousands of refugees in the late 1930s, only to be thwarted by his own State Department.
Devout Jews around the world on Wednesday observed a ritual performed only once every 28 years, saying their morning prayers under the open sky in a ceremony called the "blessing of the sun."
At dawn on Wednesday, some devout Jews around the world began observing a ritual that comes around only once every 28 years.
Two Jewish groups have denounced a Pat Oliphant political cartoon on Gaza as anti-Semitic, likening its fanged Star of David to Nazi imagery before the Holocaust.
Poland's Jews were nearly wiped out in the Nazi Holocaust, then the communists who ruled the country for decades after World War II waged anti-Semitic campaigns and made Jewish history a taboo topic.
A new exhibition by the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw brings together photos and documents depicting the rich history of 1,000 years of Jewish life in Poland.
Assailants threw an explosive at a Jewish community center on Thursday, but nobody was hurt in the blast — the second assault against Venezuela's Jewish community this year.
An Algerian-born man pleaded guilty Thursday to firebombing two Jewish institutions in Montreal and was sentenced to seven years in prison.
A German couple who started a charity to reconnect their town with Jewish families who fled during the Holocaust is among five recipients of an annual Jewish history award.
A federal judge ordered Russia on Thursday to preserve sacred religious documents that members of a Hasidic Jewish movement fear could be headed to the black market.
Jewish groups have condemned a Belgian public broadcaster for airing a show in which a standup comedian jokes about the Holocaust and the persecution of Jews.
Twelve hours after gunmen stormed a Jewish center in Mumbai, Sandra Samuel heard the cries of a small child outside the room in which she had barricaded herself.
The Army has kicked out a soldier for beating a Jewish trainee who complained about religious harassment in their basic training unit, a Fort Benning spokesman said Monday.
A genealogy Web site is launching what it's billing as the world's largest online collection of Jewish family history records.
A Jewish group asked the Ukrainian government on Wednesday to stop construction on the site of a grave containing the remains of an estimated 26,000 victims of the Holocaust.
Defending abortion from a liberal Christian perspectiveFor most of the history of the Catholic Church, one did not become a human being or a person until well after conception.
Jewish anger as Pope Benedict moves Pius XII closer to sainthoodThe outpouring of rage is rightfully so. It's appalling that Benedict would even consider Pius XII for sainthood when he clearly supported the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. But then again... Benedict is a Nazi sympathizer.
Didja Know ? - Almost All The Popular Christmas Songs Were Written By JewsIf you look at a list of the most popular Christmas songs, you'll find that the writers are disproportionately Jewish: Irving Berlin's "White Christmas," "The Christmas Song" (yes, Mel Tormé was Jewish), "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!," "I'll Be Home …
Think about it. Wouldn't the world be so peaceful without religion? None of that jihad crap. No split between Sunnis' and Shiites. That means no war in the middle east!
In Defense of Foxhole Atheists: It's no secret that conservative Christians dominate the U.S. military, but when higher-ups start talking about conversion missions, it's time to worry.It is outrageous that brave and intelligent young officers, seeing such theocratic absurdity rampant among the top brass, could suspect even for a second that their road to promotion was a longer one unless they acquiesced in this use of public resources for the promotion of (a s …
In Iran, Arming for Armageddon - A Prophetic Commentary by Charles Krauthammer December 16 2005To be sure, Holocaust denial and calls for Israel's destruction are commonplace in the Middle East. ...Everyone knows where Iran's nuclear weapons will be aimed. Everyone knows they will be put on Shahab rockets, which have been modified so that they can reach Israel.
Peace possible within six months: Mahmoud Abbas PALESTINIAN leader Mahmoud Abbas has declared that a final-status agreement between Israelis and Palestinians can be completed within six months if Israel freezes all construction in Jewish settlements and in East Jerusalem.
Chanukah in Santa Monica by Tom LehrerLatkes, Donuts, Dreidels & More -- Happy Chanukah! L'Chaim
City Decides Not To Display Menorah; Residents RankledDELRAY BEACH, Fla. -- It's a 100-foot December dilemma in Delray Beach. For the past few years, there's been a menorah on display in the city, but the organization responsible for it decided not to display one this year.
German Jewish leader condemns Swiss vote and Europe's growing anti-Muslim viewsStephan Kramer from the German Jewish Council warned that Switzerland's vote to ban mosques with minarets was an expression of Europe's deep-seated aversion to Islam (Islamophobia).
The convenient curtain of mythRecently, I met some jihadis who have been in the business of holy war since the 1990s. I was surprised to hear that even though they were in support of the jihad in Afghanistan and Kashmir, they were opposed to the idea of destabilising Pakistan itself.
BBC News - Middle East conflict played out in the olive grovesBy Bethany Bell BBC News, West Bank Akram Imran says the Jewish settlers came at night. "I came to work in the early morning. It was a horrible sight, a massacre of trees," he said. "Some of them are at least 70 years old."
BBC News - Israel settlers obstruct building curbs inspectorsJewish settlers have sought to prevent building inspectors from enforcing recently announced limits on construction in the occupied West Bank.
BBC News - Palestinians shun Israeli settlement restriction planThe Palestinian Authority has reacted negatively to Israel's offer to temporarily restrict construction in Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Chief negotiator Sayeb Erekat said any settlement freeze that did not include East Jerusalem was unacceptable.
Manmohan Singh's sojourn to USAIndian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be on a visit to USA from 23 November onwards to hold wide ranging talks of mutual interest. The visit assumes significance since it is the first visit of any head of state to USA on the request of Obama Administration.
3 Clergymen of Different Faiths Attempt to Bridge Interfaith GapThe three say they became close not by avoiding or glossing over their conflicts, but by running straight at them.
Zionism's un-Christian BibleThe Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign should widen its scope to target non-Israeli companies who contribute significantly to the oppression of Palestinians.
PM's Jewish pitch hits a new low, critics say - thestar.comOTTAWA–Angry Liberals Wednesday accused the Conservative government of reaching a new political low by circulating flyers characterizing the Liberals as anti-Semitic.
Barack Obama's Jewish half-brother "We've all heard about Michelle Obama's Jewish cousin, Rabbi Caspers Funnye. Now it turns out the Jewish people have an even closer link to the First Couple..."
House Health Care Bill Discriminates Against Religious Freedom Abortion is not a liberal, secular invention; there are examples in Jewish, Muslim, and even Christian theologies—and in Buddhist and Hindu traditions—of instances in which abortion is justified.
School entrance locked 'for modesty reasons' - Israel Jewish Scene, YnetnewsSchool teachers in Kiryat Gat in Israel are barred from entering the building from the front entrance. The reason? Haredi men don't want to see women dressed "immodestly"*, so once again, women have to kowtow to religious idiots.
Israel displays coins from ancient Jewish revoltIsrael displayed for the first time Wednesday a collection of rare coins charred and burned from the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple nearly 2,000 years ago.
U.K. teen who took on far-rightist: Jews, Israel don't want BNP support Israel and the Jewish people do not want the support of the British National Party, a British teenager who confronted the leader of the extreme-rightwing on a flagship BBC news show told Haaretz on Sunday.
Steve and Yoram on Jewish People and Lech LechaSteve and Yoram discuss the Jewish people. Individual and communal responsibility and the future destiny of the nation.
Cops release teen in Jewish temple shootingLos Angeles police release a 17-year-old boy detained after a shooting injured two men at a North Hollywood synagogue on Thursday.
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