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Australia – Rabbi Resigns For Alleged Suggestion That Child Abuse Should Be Reported To Rabbis

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Australia - A Sydney rabbi stepped aside from his high-profile post while he fights a report suggesting he supported covering up alleged cases of child molestation. Rabbi Yosef Feldman removed hims...

Palo alto, CA – Facebook: Holocaust Denial Pages Is Freedom Of Speech

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Palo Alto, CA - Facebook, citing free speech, has rejected a request by Holocaust survivors to remove some pages that espouse Holocaust denial. “We think it’s important to maintain consistency in o...

Oslo, Norway – Norwegian Jews Respond To Terror Attack

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Oslo, Norway - “An event like this is so beyond the scope of life – so, so foreign, that it will probably take some time to recover.” Rabbi Shaul Wilhelm, Director of the Chabad-Lubavitch Center in Os...

Argentina – Rabbi Elected To Buenos Aires’ Parliament

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Argentina - Argentinean Rabbi Sergio Bergman won a seat on the Buenos Aires municipal legislature. The rabbi lead the vote tally with 45 percent of the votes, garnering triple the number of votes o...

Buenos Aires – Argentina To Compensate Victims of Israeli Embassy Bombing

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Buenos Aires - Relatives of victims of the 1992 attack on the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires will receive compensation from Argentina. The Argentina Parliament on Wednesday unanimously approved a ...

Jerusalem – Boycott Spurs Tnuva To Drop Cottage Cheese Prices

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Jerusalem - Tnuva, Israel’s largest dairy products manufacturer, agreed to lower cottage cheese prices by about 20 percent following a nationwide boycott. The company announced Wednesday that it wo...

Buenos Aires, Argentina – Mayor Taps Rabbi To Lead His Party’s List

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Buenos Aires, Argentina - Rabbi Sergio Bergman, already one of Buenos Aires’ most prominent spiritual leaders, has become one of the Argentine capital’s most highly visible political candidates. Be...

New York – Anti-Sharia Laws Stir Concerns That Halachah Could Be Next

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New York - With conservative lawmakers across the United States trying to outlaw sharia, or Islamic religious law, Jewish organizations are concerned that halachah could be next. If the state legis...

Poland – New Project Highlights Jewish History of Oswiecim (Oshpitzin)

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Poland - A new multimedia project has been launched to highlight the long Jewish history of Oswiecim, the former shtetl in southern Poland where the Nazis built the Auschwitz death camp. The projec...

Czech Republic – Nazi Film Showcases Theresienstadt as ‘Paradise’ for Inmates

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Czech Republic - "The Fuehrer Gives the Jews a City” may rank as the oddest film fragment in cinematic history. The 23 minutes of raw, unedited footage is all that has been found of a Nazi propagan...

San Francisco, CA – Online Project Modernizing Jewish Texts With Today’s Lingo

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San Francisco, CA - Morgan Friedman loves the way people talk. He wants others to love it, too. The 35-year-old social media entrepreneur, formerly of Brooklyn, N.Y., and now living in Buenos Aires...

Longmeadow, MA – Farmer, Rabbi And Maple Syrup Maker, Melds Torah and Environmentalism

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Longmeadow, MA - It’s easy to spot Rabbi Shmuel Simenowitz at a Jewish food conference, an environmentalist gathering or any of the other progressive-minded confabs he frequents. Just look for the ...

Trenton, NJ – Former NJ Jewish Congressman John Adler Dies

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Trenton, NJ - John Adler, a New Jersey politician who worked his way up from town councilman to congressman, died Monday. He was 51. A spokeswoman for the Democrat confirmed his death on Monday. ...

New York – Reform Leaders Accept Glenn Beck’s Apology

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New York - Jewish leaders said they accept the apology of Glenn Beck, of New York-based Fox News, for a comment equating Reform Judaism and radical Islam. Beck apologized Thursday to the Reform Mov...

Jerusalem – Israel Denies Sending Riot Gear to Egypt

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Jerusalem - Israel has denied an Al Jazeera report that Egypt had requested Israel to send riot-dispersal gear and that two airplanes had landed in Cairo with the equipment. Israel's Foreign Minist...

Berlin – German iTunes Removes Nazi Anthem

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Berlin - Apple removed the anthem of the Nazi Party from the German iTunes online music store. The company on Wednesday removed the German marching song "Horst Wessel Lied," the unofficial Nazi ant...

Washington – NY Congressman Ackerman Cuts Off Ties With J Street

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Washington - U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman severed ties with J Street over its call on the Obama administration not to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution on settlements. “After learning of J Street’...

Russia – Chabad Emissaries At Bombed Moscow Airport: “It Was A Horrifying Scene”

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Russia - Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries who responded to the bombing at Moscow's busiest airport described a "horrifying scene." In an e-mail to JTA, Rabbi Sheah Deitsch, one of a group of Chabad-Luba...

Rome – Talmud to be Translated Into Italian

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Rome - Thanks to collaboration between the Italian Jewish community and the Italian government, the Talmud, for the first time ever, will be translated into Italian. Dubbed "Project Talmud", the pr...

New York – Jewish Group Garnered 10,000 Signatures To Oust Glenn Beck

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New York - A Jewish group garnered 10,000 signatures on a petition asking Fox News Channel to fire political commentator Glenn Beck. Jewish Funds for Justice attempted to deliver the petition on Ja...