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|  | | In an interfaith protest against a church’s call to burn Korans on Sept. 11, one rabbi has asked Jews instead to read from the Koran during Shabbat services that morning. | | | | | |  | | A French high school teacher was suspended for spending too much class time on the Holocaust. Inspectors said she 'exploited students by brainwashing.' | | | | | |  | | German police are investigating an arson attack that damaged the funeral chapel of a Jewish cemetery in Dresden. | | | | | |  | | Rosh Hashanah is a time when every individual affirms his own relationship with God, and the second day is an equal part of that process. | | | | | |  | | Elie Wiesel will be teaching at a Southern California university that features a large bronze bust of the Nobel laureate at its library entrance. | | | | | |  | | Yoseph's life shows that you really can change, that you are not stuck with the hand you are dealt. He was a pillar for our generation. | | | | | |  | | Iraq's Tourism Ministry is calling on Israel to return an ancient Torah scroll that it says was illegally smuggled out of the country. | | | | | |  | | Following the opening of the first-ever Zionist editing group aimed at defending Israel on Wikipedia, a group of PA journalists plan to join the fray and create their own. | | | | | |  | | Silence is the biggest danger that we face. Incitement against Jews in Europe by radical Islamists presents a threat to everyone and it is everyone's obligation to speak out against it. | | | | | |  | | Right-wing extremism on the Internet is increasing in Germany. Hateful material in disguise includes antisemitic songs on youtube, and Holocaust denial. | | | | | |  | | The original Nuremberg Laws documents were transferred to the National Archives in Washington, where they will reside permanently. | | | | | |  | | The head of the company developing Jerusalem's light rail system said there could be gender-segregated cars on the trains. | | | | | |  | | Livia Shacter made a lot of people happy just by getting on a plane. Shacter, a 93-year-old great-grandmother of 35, made Aliyah a few days ago. | | | | | |  | | The Cave of Patriarchs (the Biblical Cave of Machpela) in Hevron will be open to the devout all night long during the Ten Days of Repentance between Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur. | | | | | |  | | The death threat came in the form of a letter stating: "Dirty Jews, we’ll get you all, accompanied with nine bullets." | | | | | |  | | The pig's head reportedly had a Star of David engraved on its forehead and wore a black hat with side-locks attached to it and was discovered last Saturday at a synagogue in Lithuania. | | | | | |  | | A former US Senator is exploring his Jewish roots of which he found out four years ago. | | | | | |  | | More and more Jewish religious life is moving online. Synagogues stream worship services over the Internet to reach homebound congregants. | | | | | |  | | Rabbi Cherlow speaks about Zionism and the terrible disgrace of the publication of a Torah work that causes a desecration of God’s Name. | | | | | |  | | Within hours of receiving word of a Jewess trapped in an Arab village with her four children, Yad L'Achim rescued the five and found them a safe haven outside Israel. | | | | | |  | | Efraim Zuroff has spent the last 30 years bringing suspected war criminals to justice. Now, he offers Jewish communities across the United States a window into his work. | | | | | |  | | A group of 22 young Poles who recently discovered they have Jewish roots is visiting Israel. | | | | | |  | | Arabs are fighting plans for an elevator to allow disabled Jews to reach the Western Wall, claiming the project is a threat to the Al Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount. | | | | | |  | | Despite the more than 60 years that have passed since the Holocaust, many survivors still hope to find missing relatives, or in the case of young survivors, to find clues to a missing past. | | | | | |  | | As the Hebrew translation of Rabbi Meir Kahane hits shelves, the author - his wife Rebbetzin Libby Kahane sits down for an interview. | | | | | |  | | The Elul Project: 150 university students, both religious and secular, will learn Torah and philosophy in the 40 days leading up to the holy day of Yom Kippur. | | | | | |  | | The mental health needs of the Orthodox community are not being sufficiently addressed, according to a new study from Yeshiva University. | | | | | |  | | Hispanic gunmen allegedly shot a Chasidic man in the stomach in Brooklyn. | | | | | |  | | "No Muslim in his right mind, female or male, should deny the Holocaust, how can a person deny physical evidence, something that's beyond doubt?" | | | | | |  | Five Toronto synagogues and a Jewish day school are the latest beneficiaries of Canadian government money to guard against hate crimes.
| | | | | |  | Rabbi Kook was the first Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of the Jewish population in the Land of Israel in modern times, and had great love and respect for the secular Zionist movement.
| | | | | |  | | The Germany city of Bremen will help the local Jewish community pay for repairs to the historic cemetery in Hastedt, which was damaged by unknown vandals. | | | | | |  | | Jews have come out swinging against a new Iranian Holocaust denial website that showcases anti-Semitic imagery, Jewish conspiracy theories, Holocaust denial and factual inaccuracies. | | | | | |  | | The small Jewish community in New Zealand has won an interim battle for themselves and for kosher consumers around the world. | | | | | |  | | A fire at the Majdanek concentration camp has destroyed a barracks and thousands of prisoners' shoes displayed on the site. | | | | | |  | | The largest school system in Rhode Island is removing the Jewish High Holidays as vacation days after more than 30 years. | | | | | |  | | The Alrov Group, owner of luxury Jerusalem hotels, has purchased the Lutetia Hotel in Paris - Nazi headquarters that later housed Jewish refugees. | | | | | |  | | A U.S. court ruled that the Russian Federation must return sacred documents to the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. The texts fell into Russian hands when the Rebbe fled Poland during World War II | | | | | |  | | The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum condemned Romania's release of a coin commemorating an anti-Semitic church leader. | | | | | |  | | A hareidi-religious rabbinic council in Israel is preparing to ban the 'Jewish burka.' The garment is being worn by a tiny group of Jewish women who live in a Jerusalem suburb. | | | | | |  | | A $200 million, 10,000-seat replica of King Solomon's Temple will be built in Sao Paolo, Brazil. | | | | | |
|  | | How do you balance an abstract evocation of Jews and Jewish life with the real thing? Shabbatons for non-Jews might just be the answer. | | | | | |  | | Dozens of Orthodox rabbis have signed a statement of principles calling for the acceptance of gays in the Orthodox community. | | | | | |  | | Florida prison inmates requesting kosher food will be able to join a meal plan supervised by the Aleph Institute. | | | | | |  | | Wikipedia has become the new battleground for Israel's PR image. | | | | | |  | | A new iPhone application teaches the recitation of the Kaddish, the mourner's prayer recited daily in synagogue. | | | | | |  | | New Jersey has given final approval to open the state's first Hebrew-language charter school. | | | | | |  | | Yad Vashem will honor William Cooper, an indigenous Australian who led a protest march against the mistreatment of Jews in Germany following Kristallnacht in 1938. | | | | | |  | | The leader of Conservative Judaism's flagship institution said the movement is debating a name change. | | | | | |  | | The gelatin saga is nearing a close. Strauss Dairies will not have to admit it produced non-kosher food, but will compensate consumers for having used gelatin. | | | | | |  | | Hackers replaced a list of Buchenwald victims with far-right slogans and links to Holocaust denial sites, officials at the concentration camp's memorial said. | | | | | |  | | "We are all Jews here. They are Jews, you are Jews. How can you hate each other? Everyone else hates us; we have to love each other." | | | | | |  | | With changes in DNA testing and computer technology, Jewish genealogical research is more accessible than ever. | | | | | |  | | A Maryland synagogue was vandalized with swastikas and anti-Semitic epithets. | | | | | |  | | Israel's Chief Rabbinate has ordered rabbis to stop singing under the chupah, saying it "cheapens the Rabbinate." | | | | | |  | | Peres mentioned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has denied the Holocaust, saying, 'I wish I would see him here.' | | | | | |  | | Several rabbis protested the inclusion of their names in a hateful artistic display, where they were alleged to have called to murder Jews who do not follow Torah law. | | | | | |  | | St. Petersburg University's Academic Commission voted unanimously to establish a Department of Jewish Culture as part of the university's faculty of philosophy. | | | | | |  | | Eight incredible stories of heroism are told in a new booklet produced by a British interfaith dialogue group and called 'The Role of Righteous Muslims.' | | | | | |  | | Israel's conversion bill reportedly will not reach the Knesset floor until October. | | | | | |  | | The main finding of a poll commissioned by the Knesset Television Channel is that half of the Israeli public wants the Holy Temple to be rebuilt. | | | | | |  | | A French organization named “'The Strength of the Name' has been formed to help Jews change their French last names to their original Jewish ones. | | | | | |  | | Advocates for Ethiopian aliyah hope Israel’s minister of immigrant absorption's visit to the African country will begin the process that will bring 7,500 additional Ethiopians to Israel. | | | | | |  | | A YouTube video of a family singing and dancing at Auschwitz has received more than half a million hits and mixed reaction. | | | | | |  | | Five years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orlean’s hard-hit Jewish community points to the grand-opening of a mikvah as evidence of the region’s continuing rebirth. | | | | | |  | | A woman activist returned to the Wall holding a holy Torah scroll in violation of a High Court order defining acceptable behavior at the religious site. | | | | | |  | | 10,000 Jews gathered at the old gates of the Temple Mount Monday night and declared their allegiance to the holy site. | | | | | |  | | A Polish performance artist burned down a barn to commemorate a Nazi pogrom dedicating his act to 'those ignorant who know nothing about Jews' input in Poland's history.' | | | | | |  | | Al Aqsa TV continues its unabated televised anti-Semitic incitement, claiming that Benjamin Franklin warned Americans about the Jews. | | | | | |  | | A Canadian man who has called for the "extermination" of Jews in Canada has been charged under a rarely used hate crimes law. | | | | | |  | | A practicing Muslim and an Orthodox Jew have been chosen to run a New Jersey township. | | | | | |  | | Some 15,000 former Berliners who survived the Holocaust have been invited back at German taxpayer expense over the years. | | | | | |  | | Shoaib Choudhury, a Muslim Zionist tells his story in Bangladesh. “Political Islam and hate speech are our biggest enemies.” | | | | | |  | | Yad Vashem criticized a former Israeli Air Force captain caught on camera painting pro-Palestinian graffiti on the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto. | | | | | |  | | Demographers estimate that nearly 150,000 Red Army Jewish soldiers were killed during World War II. | | | | | |  | | After a lengthy review of plans by a local council, Cambridge, England’s Chabad-Lubavitch center will now be able to convert a garage into the city’s first Jewish ritual bath. | | | | | |  | | Yemeni Jews demanded an end to the delay in the execution of a man sentenced to death for killing a Jewish man after saying that Yemen Jews should convert or be killed. | | | | | |  | | The 'Three Weeks' of gradually-increasing mourning over the destruction of the Holy Temples and Israel's exile begins today with the fast of the 17th of the Hebrew month of Tammuz. | | | | | |  | | "We feel Elena Kagan turns traditional Judaism on its head - from a concept of a nation of priests and holy people to, 'Let's homosexualize every segment of society.'" | | | | | |  | | A showdown between the Supreme Court and the parents of students at a haredi Orthodox school found guilty of discriminatory practices has brought already strained secular-religious relations in Israel to a fever pitch. | | | | | |  | | Jewish leaders in New Zealand appear certain to launch legal action against the government over its controversial new law banning kosher slaughter. | | | | | |  | | Elie Wiesel has launched a global campaign to free former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who is on trial in Moscow for embezzlement. | | | | |
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