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JEWISH WORLD NEWS

 Sh'vat . 10 . 5771

2011 . 15 . January

Shas spiritual leader approves disputed IDF conversions

Mahler's visit with Freud opens New York Jewish Film Festival

Greek victims of Nazi atrocities file claim for WWII damages from Germany

U.S. Jewish leaders slam Sarah Palin's blood libel accusation

ADL analysis claims suspected Arizona shooter not anti-Semitic

Jerusalem opens Muslim Quarter Jewish site to prayer, upsetting status quo

SPJ board votes to shelve Helen Thomas award

Board of directors of Society of Professional Journalists decides to retire lifetime achievement award named for controversial journalist.

Woman in Ilan Halimi case involved in prison love affair

Emma Arbabzadeh, 23, used as bait in 2006 kidnap, murder of French Jew was involved in an affair with her prison warden, Florent Gonclaves.

Bulgarian Jewry's story 

Experts discuss heroic efforts to save Bulgarian Jews during WWII, Balkans' tolerance 

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US professors study Shoah on Israel tour

Professors representing 16 colleges and universities from across the United States attended a special seminar in Israel to study the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, as

Nazi-hunters give low grades to 13 countries

A new report by a prominent Nazi-hunting group gives more than a dozen countries, including Hungary, Ukraine and Canada, low grades for bringing suspected Holocaust-era ...

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'Gentile sperm leads to barbaric offspring'

Rabbi Dov Lior, a senior authority on Jewish law in the Religious Zionism movement, asserted recently that a Jewish woman should never get pregnant using sperm donated by ...

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Government allots $100M to Birthright

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the government has approved $100 million in funding for Taglit-Birthright Israel over the next three years, speaking last ...

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Jewish folk singer Debbie Friedman dies in US

Debbie Friedman, a folk singer who set Jewish prayers to contemporary music and created songs that are sung in synagogues throughout the world, has died. She was 59. ...

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Would you like a chaser with your psalm?

The Chabad Hasidism movement keeps reinventing itself in attempts to bring people closer to their Jewish heritage. Introducing: Chabar – a bar combined with a Chabad ...

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'No government will get me out of yeshiva'

The government has approved a program for recruiting ultra-Orthodox youths and the opposition warns the move will merely legitimize draft-dodging, but what do the yeshiva ...

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Dances with Jews

VIDEO - Hundreds of kids and teens, members of Bnei Akiva, the largest religious Zionist youth movement in the world, took part in an upbeat music video, dancing to an ...

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Haredi divorcees tell their story

Three haredi women, separated or divorced, have agreed to expose their lives in a new film dealing with the difficult and painful issue of divorce among haredim. The ...

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Addis Ababa Jews see no quick route to promised land

In a run-down synagogue built from corrugated iron sheets in the north east of the Ethiopian capital, preacher Wagaw Moges addresses a crowd of dozens gathered for ...

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Rabbis take a stand on road safety

Israel's Chief Rabbinate battling road accidents: Chief Rabbinate Committee members held Monday a meeting on the endless carnage on Israel's roads and highways during ...

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JEWISH HUOMOR

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An Israeli sense of humor at the UN set the record straight. An ingenious example of speech and politics occurred recently in  the United Nations Assembly and made the world community smile. A representative from Israel began: 'Befor e beginning my talk I want to tell you something about Moses: When he struck the rock and it brought forth water, he thought, 'What a good opportunity to have a bath!' Moses removed his clothes, put them aside on the rock and entered the water. When he got out and wanted to dress, his clothes had vanished.  A Palestinian had stolen them! The Palestinian representative jumped up furiously and shouted, 'What are you talking about? The Palestinians weren't there then.' The Israeli representative smiled and said, 'And now that we have made that clear, I will begin my speech...'