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Two Republican county officials in South Carolina have apologized after they disparaged Jews in a newspaper op-ed in support of a fiscally conservative U.S. senator.
The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI will visit Rome's main synagogue in January as part of Catholic-Jewish dialogue.
Proud of his religion and worried about its future, Chicago dentist Max Feinberg wrote a will with an unusual catch: His grandchildren wouldn't inherit a penny if they married someone who wasn't Jewish.
Major Jewish groups and rabbis from the three largest branches of American Judaism said Thursday that their relationship with Roman Catholic leaders is at risk because of a recent U.S. bishops' statement on salvation.
Liechtenstein's reigning prince has angered German Jews by invoking the Holocaust to defend his country's banking secrecy.
Representatives of an anti-Zionist, ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect paid a brief visit to the Gaza Strip on Thursday on a solidarity mission with the area's militantly anti-Israel Hamas leaders.
In this village in northern Yemen, where a kosher butcher slaughters chickens and the school bus carries young boys in side curls along a dirt track to their Hebrew studies, one of the oldest Jewish communities in the Arab world is fighting for its survival.
More than 65 years after villagers provided shelter to Italian Jews fleeing from the Nazis, a group of those who evaded capture rushed to repay that sacrifice in rural communities hard-hit by an earthquake.
Prosecutors, counselors and religious leaders on Wednesday announced a program to combat sexual abuse among members of the insular world of Brooklyn's ultra-Orthodox Jews — a problem one lawmaker says extends beyond New York.
Vatican Radio said Wednesday that a 1943 document found in a Rome convent bolsters church contentions that Pope Pius XII tried to save Jews from Nazis in World War II.
Members of the newest Jewish family in Dothan are settling in to their piece of the promised land: A new home, just down the street from the city's water park and Dixie Youth baseball fields.
A British bishop whose denial of the Holocaust embroiled the pope in controversy left Argentina Tuesday after the government ordered him out, calling his statements "an insult" to humanity.
France's top judicial body on Monday formally recognized the nation's role in deporting Jews to Nazi death camps during the Holocaust — but effectively ruled out any more reparations for the deportees or their families.
Pope Benedict XVI issued his strongest condemnation yet about Holocaust denial during a meeting Thursday with American Jewish leaders. Here are excerpts of his speech and reactions from some Jewish representatives present.
Pope Benedict XVI told American Jewish leaders Thursday that he plans to visit Israel in May, coupling the long-awaited announcement with his strongest condemnation of Holocaust denial. The 81-year-old pope assured the group that the Catholic Church was "profoundly and irrevocably committed to reject all anti-Semitism," helping to ease Jewish furor that followed the pope's reinstatement of an ultraconservative bishop who questioned the extent of the Holocaust.
The bishop whose rehabilitation by the Vatican sparked outrage because of his denials of the Holocaust has been removed as the head of an Argentine seminary, his superiors said Monday.
The German chancellor called the pope Sunday, days after she demanded he clarify the Vatican's stance on the Holocaust after it lifted the excommunication of a bishop who denies six million Jews were killed.
The following are some quotes by Bishop Richard Williamson, who the Vatican said Wednesday must recant his position on the Holocaust:
Representatives of the World Jewish Congress say they are optimistic about Vatican-Jewish ties after meeting with top Vatican officials following a dispute over a Holocaust-denying bishop.
Turkey's main Jewish group urged the state Wednesday to prosecute what it called anti-Semitic acts linked to Israel's offensive in Gaza.
A bishop recently rehabilitated by Pope Benedict XVI expressed regret Friday to the pontiff for the "distress and problems" he caused by denying the Holocaust.
The Vatican says Jewish complaints about Pope Benedict XVI's commitment to dialogue with Jews are "excessive."
Signs are mounting that the conflict in Gaza is starting to spill over into violence in Europe's towns and cities, with assaults against Jews and arson attacks on Jewish congregations in France, Sweden and Britain.
Mumbai's tiny Jewish community feels itself under threat for the first time in hundreds of years in the wake of the deadly attacks by suspected Muslim militants that included a bloody two-day siege at an ultra-Orthodox Jewish center.
Dozens of Poles were awarded medals Monday for risking their lives during World War II to save Jews from the Holocaust.
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..."
tazkiyah.org- The Ideological AttackThis article has been handed around in several emails. What do you think about it? What would you reply to the sender?
Terrorism is an industry in Pakistan : I was sold to Lashkar by my father: Mumbai attacker KasabSnatches of cellphone conversations - many never heard before - between the gunmen and their controllers in Pakistan, as well as video footage of the police with Kasab were aired Sunday in a preview of the documentary by narrator Fareed Zakaria in his GPS programme on CNN.
The Big Lie: The Muslims, Jerusalem and Archaeology, Part TwoThis article first appeared at aish.com and is the original source of the material. I want to personally thank the wonderful people at aish.com for giving us permission to reprint this important two part article by Rabbi Leibel Reznick.
Another apology. This time for kids shipped from Britain to coloniesLovely cartoon. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a ... apology Monday to ... British children shipped to Australia with the promise of a better life, only to suffer abuse and neglect thousands of miles from home. At a ceremony ...
British bishop Richard Williamson to go on trial in Germany for Holocaust denial British Holocaust-denying bishop Richard Williamson faces trial in Germany for an outspoken TV interview in which he denied that the wartime extermination of the Jews took place.
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.
Muslims Wear Perfume, Maoists Use Dettol!Let me share with you Prashant Rangnekar's report in the Sunday Express (8th Nov) headlined: Goa bombers tried to leave Muslim imprint. Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram too should read Rangnekar's dispatch from Mumbai.
Satchmo & The JewsIn addition to being the greatest jazz musician of the 20th century, Louis Armstrong was also the most beloved. "I never met anybody that didn't love him that ever saw him work or ever has encountered him, had any connection or any business with him," said Bing Crosby.
Misogynist Dead Sea Scroll text: 'She is the beginning of all the ways of perversity:' Femininity and Metaphor in 4Q184One of the most provocative documents in the Qumran corpus, a sapiential poem describing a temptress and the consequences of her seduction, is found (at least, for the most part) in fragment one of 4Q184.
The recent killings at Fort Hood and Orlando have proven several examples, in my humble opinion, of how things have gone awry or gotten twisted in today's society.
Reforming Islam From WithinIs a movement to reform Islam from within already here — and some of us do not even know it? On October 27, 2009, the well-known Muslim peace activist from Bangladesh, Shoaib Choudhury, arrived in New York City to give talks on the problem of jihad at several prestigious inst …
'Everyone hates Jews,' declares Islamic clericJERUSALEM – Trees, animals and non-Jewish athletes despise Jews, declared an Egyptian cleric on his country's television network.
Israeli military gives settlers free reinDuring a swearing-in ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem last Thursday, two soldiers held up a banner that sparked a wave of condemnation by soldiers and civilians alike.
Writing Jews out of Jerusalem's historyAside from the agitation is the disturbing notion that Jews seeking to visit, or even pray at, their holiest place of worship (the Temple Mount and not merely the Western Wall) should be seen as provocation, desecration or in any other way unacceptable.
Science confirms historyAn expert has found evidence to support claims that modern-day Jewish priests, Cohanim, are descended from Aaron, the older brother of Moses. Menahem Kahana, AFP, Getty Images Files Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray near the tomb of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, in the West Bank.
Analysis: What would Maimonides say about Temple Mt riots?In the year 1165, on the sixth of the Jewish month of Heshvan, which fell 844 years ago this past Sunday, Maimonides, arguably the single most important rabbinic authority in Jewish history, visited Jerusalem and may have gone onto the Temple Mount.
Britain: "Show Respect" BNP Bigwig Warns Jews"One of Nick Griffin's most trusted lieutenants sparked fresh outrage last night after he warned British Jews to "show respect" or "reap what you sow when we are in power".
Israeli Police Clash With Palestinians at Sacred Compound in JerusalemJERUSALEM - Israeli police officers clashed Sunday with stone-throwing Palestinians at a site sacred to Muslims and Jews, in the latest sign of tension in this volatile city.
Muslims Stone Jews at Holiest Jewish SitePolice were forced to enter the Temple Mount twice during the the day of fierce rioting, and were met by a hail of rocks and a firebomb.
In quotes: Hamza's preachings : (Killing a Kafir for no reason is OKBBC News looks back on some of the statements he (abu hamza) made in a series of sermons and lectures, as he sought to stir up racial hatred and attacked a range of subjects.
More Anti-Semitism From an ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) OutletThe Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), arguably the nation's most politically influential Muslim organization, has a habit of contradicting itself.
To the Jew FirstThe book of Romans would be incomplete without a masterful treatise on the plight of God's people, the Jews. Paul provides this treatise in chapters 9-11 of the book.
It's getting near "holiday" time again, and we are likely to hear more of the same fights about religion. We have to hear the same old complaints that someone dared to wish them Happy Holidays (go figure). However, this is not the only source of problems.
The ReportOn Tuesday, October 20, 2009, a Ministerial Committee on National Security convened for the first time in Israel to discuss the implications of the Goldstone Report recently adopted by the UN Human Rights Council.
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