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  • August 2008

    • Ownership Dispute Swirls Around NY Picassos

      Der Spiegel  |  Aug 20, 08 5:10 PM CDT

      Ownership Dispute Swirls Around NY Picassos

      (Newser) - The heirs of a German-Jewish banker are demanding that New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim relinquish possession of two works by Picasso, Der Spiegel reports. The heirs say the two paintings, Boy Leading a Horse and Le Moulin de la Galette , unjustly fell into the hands of American art collectors during the Nazi rise to power. More »

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      Germany  • art  • World War II  • Jews  • anti-Semitism  • Nazis  • Pablo Picasso  • MoMA

    • France Launches Probe of Anti-Semitic T-Shirts

      BBC  |  Aug 13, 08 4:19 PM CDT

      France Launches Probe of Anti-Semitic T-Shirts

      (Newser) - French authorities are investigating the sale of T-shirts bearing anti-Semitic slogans that date to 1940, the BBC reports. The shirts carry the slogan "Jews not allowed in this park" in German and Polish, reproduced from signs posted in Lodz, Poland, during World War II. Almost all of Lodz's Jews perished in the Holocaust. More »

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      France  • racism  • Paris  • Jews  • anti-Semitism  • T shirts

  • July 2008

    • Klein to Jewish 'Extremists': Stop Bullying Me

      Time  |  Jul 30, 08 5:06 PM CDT

      Klein to Jewish 'Extremists': Stop Bullying Me

      (Newser) - The Jewish right-wing "extremists" at Commentary can call Joe Klein anti-Semitic and intellectually unstable all they want, the columnist writes, and they can even call for Time to fire him, but he’s not going stop telling what he calls the “palpable” truth that's "unspoken in polite society": that a group of Jewish neoconservatives provided Bush with the rationale he needed for the Iraq war—and now they’re agitating for a strike on Iran. More »

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      Iraq war  • Iran  • Israel  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  • Jews  • Benjamin Netanyahu  • neoconservatves

    • Judaism's Black Converts Growing Part of US Mosaic

      Christian Science Monitor  |  Jul 17, 08 8:55 PM CDT

      Judaism's Black Converts Growing Part of US Mosaic

      (Newser) - The number of African-Americans converting to Judaism is growing, the Christian Science Monitor reports, at a time when Democrat Barack Obama is seeking to renew what was once a strong alliance between the groups. Politics, though, plays a small role; "Obama's candidacy, African-Americans choosing to be Jews ... is all part of the great American story of freedom and choice," one observer says. More »

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      Barack Obama  • election 2008  • religion  • Jews  • presidential politics  • black voters  • conversion

  • June 2008

    • Euro Cup Arena Covers Vienna's Dark Past

      Radio Free Netherlands  |  Jun 28, 08 7:10 PM CDT

      Euro Cup Arena Covers Vienna's Dark Past

      (Newser) - The Vienna stadium that will host tomorrow's Euro Cup final hides a brutal past beneath the stands, where more than the 1,000 Jewish prisoners were held in 1939. Nazis took medical samples and made plaster casts of the prisoners, who were allowed outside daily but could not step on the grass—because soccer games were still being played there. More »

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      Austria  • Holocaust  • Jews  • Vienna  • Euro 2008

    • France Shocked by Beating of Jewish Teen

      Associated Press  |  Jun 22, 08 8:18 AM CDT

      France Shocked by Beating of Jewish Teen

      (Newser) - A Paris teenager was beaten into a coma yesterday in what Jewish groups are calling an anti-Semitic attack, the AP reports. In one account, about 15 people beat the 17-year-old, who was wearing a skullcap in eastern Paris. Authorities have detained five people for questioning, and President Nicolas Sarkozy has called for "total determination to fighting all forms of racism and anti-Semitism." More »

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      France  • Jews  • anti-Semitism

    • Jewish Museum in SF Unsettles

      New York Times  |  Jun 9, 08 7:52 AM CDT

      Jewish Museum in SF Unsettles

      (Newser) - Architect Daniel Libeskind won worldwide acclaim for his stark, unsettling Jewish Museum in the heart of Berlin. Now the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco has moved into a new Libeskind-designed building. But as a critic for the New York Times observes, the Bay Area institution shies away from the particularities of the Jewish experience. More »

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      San Francisco  • Jews  • architecture  • Judaism  • Daniel Libeskind

    • Obama: Israel's Security Is Sacrosanct

      Time  |  Jun 4, 08 11:52 AM CDT

      Obama: Israel's Security Is Sacrosanct

      (Newser) - Less than 24 hours after securing the Dem nomination, Barack Obama moved to shore up his support among Jewish voters this morning, pledging before a pro-Israel lobby his unequivocal support of Israel. “Those who threaten Israel threaten us,” he told the AIPAC. “I will never compromise when it comes to Israeli security.” He promised to send more weapons to Israel, and to work more aggressively towards peace than his predecessor. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Israel  • Obama 2008  • Jews  • the Jewish vote  • AIPAC

  • May 2008
  • April 2008

    • Matzo Shortage Plagues Passover in Calif.

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Apr 22, 08 1:38 PM CDT

      Matzo Shortage Plagues Passover in Calif.

      (Newser) - With Passover in full swing, Jews in the San Francisco area are enduring a shortage of matzo, the Chronicle reports. Most grocers were cleaned out Friday or Saturday, the first day of the observance, and with the holiday stretching to the weekend, the observant wonder how they'll manage without the staple food. More »

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      California  • Jews  • Judaism  • holiday  • Bay Area  • Passover  • matzo

    • Schindler's Autograph on Sale for $154K

      New York Post  |  Apr 16, 08 12:33 PM CDT

      Schindler's Autograph on Sale for $154K

      (Newser) - The only known autographed photo of Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who saved 1,400 Jews from death during WWII, is on sale for $154,000, the New York Post reports. The dealer plans to contact Liam Neeson, who played the legend in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List to see if he's interested.  More »

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      World War II  • Holocaust  • Jews  • memorabilia  • autographs  • Liam Neeson

  • March 2008

    • Anti-Semitism on the Rise: Report

      Reuters  |  Mar 14, 08 3:15 AM CDT

      Anti-Semitism on the Rise: Report

      (Newser) - Over 60 years after the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is on the rise worldwide, warns a State Department report. US embassies across the globe have noted that attacks on Jewish people, their property and institutions have risen in the last ten years. In 2006 more than 100 synagogues were vandalized, hundreds of Jewish people were attacked, and a young French Jew was kidnapped, tortured and murdered, Reuters reports. More »

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      Iran  • Israel  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  • State Department  • Holocaust  • Jews  • anti-Semitism  • synagogue

    • Vatican Goes to Confessional in an Art Museum

      Newsweek  |  Mar 2, 08 9:36 AM CST

      Vatican Goes to Confessional in an Art Museum

      (Newser) - Sure, thousands of accused witches and blasphemers were burned and tortured during the Roman Catholic Church’s centuries-long Inquisition in the Middle Ages—but, with the help of a new art exhibition, the Vatican hopes to show that it wasn't so bad after all, Newsweek reports. The “Rare and Precious” show will “expose some myths” about the church’s dark past, says curator Mario Pizzo. More »

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      Italy  • Catholic Church  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Vatican  • Jews  • Rome  • religious persecution  • Middle Ages

  • February 2008
  • December 2007

    • Sarkozy Shrugs Off Jewish Flap, Visits Algeria

      Associated Press  |  Dec 3, 07 1:32 PM CST

      Sarkozy Shrugs Off Jewish Flap, Visits Algeria

      (Newser) - Nicolas Sarkozy downplayed an Algerian minister's comment last week that he gained the French presidency through a "Jewish lobby that has a monopoly on French industry" and arrived in the country today, the AP reports. On a 3-day visit to the former colony, Sarkozy hopes to lock up a partnership agreement and valuable energy contracts. More »

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      France  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • Jews  • Algeria

  • October 2007

    • Coulter: Jews Need to Be 'Perfected'

      MSNBC  |  Oct 12, 07 4:05 AM CDT

      Coulter: Jews Need to Be 'Perfected'

      (Newser) - After drawing fire last week for wishing women weren't allowed to vote, conservative provocateur Ann Coulter has struck a new nerve, saying that the nation should be Christian and Jews need to be "perfected." She made the comments on CNBC's "The Big Idea" with Donny Deutsch, who said he was a Jew and offended by her remarks, calling them "hateful" and "anti-semitic." More »

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      Republicans  • Christianity  • Jews  • Judaism  • Christians  • CNBC  • Ann Coulter  • Donny Deutsch

  • September 2007

    • Ancient Israeli Tunnel Found

      Associated Press  |  Sep 11, 07 2:37 PM CDT

      Ancient Israeli Tunnel Found

      (Newser) - While searching for the ancient main road of Jerusalem, Israeli archaeologists stumbled upon a 2,000-year-old tunnel that residents used to escape Roman invaders destroying the Second Temple. The tunnel was originally used to drain rain water and prevent flooding, and its discovery is doubly significant, the AP reports, because it also shows how the ancient city’s rulers cared for their citizens during a pivotal moment in history. More »

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      Israel  • Jews  • Jerusalem  • Rome  • discovery  • Romans  • Dead Sea

    • Israel Cracks Neo-Nazi Gang

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Sep 9, 07 4:03 PM CDT

      Israel Cracks Neo-Nazi Gang

      (Newser) - Israelis are glued to the TV over news that police have busted a Neo-Nazi gang on Israeli soil, the Daily Telegraph reports. The Russian immigrant group allegedly filmed its attacks on gays and observant Jews and have vowed to "kill them all." A policeman said, "It is difficult to believe that Nazi ideology sympathizers can exist in Israel, but it is a fact." More »

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      Israel  • police  • Nazi  • immigrant  • Jews  • Adolf Hitler  • Soviet Union  • Neo-Nazi  • white supremacism

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