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Jewish Agency's covert mission to bring 40 Iranian Jews to build new lives in Israel ends successfully on Tuesday.

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Leaders representing four distinct religious traditions confront differences over the meaning of Jesus' life

Complaints of religious bullying in the nation's military academies have been occurring for more than two years.

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Heads already are rolling and other sweeping changes are in the pike for the Tribune Company, given its buyout today by real estate magnate Sam Zell. Zell may even plan to take on Yahoo! or Google in cyberspace. Big things are happening for the media conglomerate.

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Rosemarie Koczy, 68, who survived a childhood in German concentration camps and later spent years creating searing art infused with images of Holocaust victims, died from breast cancer Dec. 12, 2007.
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Outstanding UK evolutionary biologist Professor Richard Dawkins (Oxford University): 25 December is the birthday of one of one of the world's greatest men, Sir Isaac Newton. "Happy Newton Day!"

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If one religon can take over the world, which one would it be and why ??

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"That a random Muslim kid helped some Jewish kids, that's what's positive about New York," said Adler, 23, who suffered a broken nose and required four stitches to close a lip wound.

Source: haaretz.com
A group 10 of subway riders approached the 4 victims, including 2 men and 2 women, in the NY subway and offered them holiday greetings. When the victims responded by saying "Happy Hannuka", the larger group of 8 men and 2 women jumped on them and beat them up.

Source: On The Hill
A leading Jewish group is voicing its concern regarding the speech that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivered this week on religion, saying that faith is becoming too ingrained in electoral politics.

Presidential Message: Hanukkah 2007
Monday December 3, 7:50 pm ET

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With resumed violent riots in France, the Saudi Arabian woman who was recently convicted of having been gang-raped by seven men and has been sentenced by the Islamic Shari'a court to 200 lashes with a whip (a virtual death sentence) and 6-months in prison—assuming she survive …

Source: The New York Times
Young Jews around the country are challenging traditional Jewish notions of prayer and identity by organizing independent prayer groups.

The other night, as I was sitting down to a Thanksgiving dinner, my brother received a text message from one of his frat brothers: "Do Jews celebrate Thanksgiving?" Normally questions about religion don't bother me...

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The chestnut tree that comforted Anne Frank as she hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II has won another reprieve.
Amsterdam city council ruled in March that the rotting 150-year-old tree must be felled as a danger to the public.

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For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation. You shall not do any work; it is a sabbath to the LORD in all your dwellings.

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When Judy Bart Kancigor was excitedly expecting her first grandchild, she suddenly realized: how would this coming generation ever know her family's history, hear the wonderful stories—and, more importantly, taste its wonderful food? review in the blog "Israel On Blog" if the …

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In advance of the upcoming diplomatic conference in Annapolis, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced the other day that he expects the Palestinian Authority to finally acknowledge Israel's existence as a Jewish state.

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Tel Rumeida is a small Palestinian neighborhood deep in the West Bank city of Hebron.

Source: The Boston Globe
The refusal of the Palestinian Authority to acknowledge Israel as a legitimate Jewish state isn't a denial of reality; it is a sign of their determination to change that reality.

Source: SPIEGEL ONLINE
More than 60 years after the Holocaust, survivors and their heirs are filing new claims for compensation against Germany. And the Israeli government wants Berlin to provide additional payments of millions of euros to help pay for social services for survivors.

Source: The New Media Journal
Erik Rush takes a good, hard, cold look at the crushing of people's rights to express their religion in public-particularly Christian and Jewish religions.

Source: Slate
A culture that trains its young people to procreate only with one another becomes, over time, a genetically distinct population.

Source: The L.A. Times
Ann Coulter said recently that Jews like me could be "perfected" by becoming Christian. Of course she didn't express that in the most sensitive way possible.

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Appearing at the Jewish Agency's Board of Governors meeting in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Sheetrit said he believed "Israel should no longer grant automatic citizenship to Jews."