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Jews stories: 88 news summaries

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 Hilter Used 
 Jews' Gold 
 Fillings in 
 His Mouth 

Dentist had 11 pounds of gold for senior Nazi officials

Oct 9, 09 3:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Adolf Hitler's dentist placed  ten fillings in the führer's mouth in 1944, most likely made from gold fillings removed from Jews at concentration camps, according to a new book. Hitler's dentist had 11 pounds of gold from concentration camp fillings at his disposal to treat senior Nazi officials, according... More »

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Jews • Adolf Hitler • dentistry • Nazis • concentration camps

 Ahmadinejad Is Not Jewish 

Iranian president's family is about as Muslim as can be

Oct 5, 09 5:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - The bombshell claim that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's family is Jewish is false. The assertion was based on the fact that the family changed its last name from Sabourjian shortly before the Iranian leader's birth, and the "fact" that Sabourjian means "weaver of the sabour," which the Telegraph said... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Jews • Mohammed • Koran • Muhammad • Jewish • Daily Telegraph

 Houses of Worship 
 Adapt to Swine Flu 

Synagogues, churches, mosques get ready for H1N1

Sep 20, 09 5:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Places of worship across the country are adjusting holy rituals to head off swine flu, CBS News reports. On the Jewish New Year, one Massachusetts synagogue is skipping handshakes and promoting the use of hand sanitizer—and, in a substantial break from tradition, allowing worshipers to not kiss the Torah.... More »

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Islam • Jews • Muslims • Judaism • Catholicism • mosque • synagogue • Catholics • swine flu • H1N1 virus

 Jewish Engineer Designed 
 Beetle: Historian 

Hitler ordered Porsche to replicated Josef Ganz's prototype

Sep 14, 09 5:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Adolf Hitler took the original design for the Volkswagen Beetle from the brainchild of a Jewish engineer, the Jerusalem Post reports. Historian Paul Schilperoord claims in his forthcoming book The True History of the Beetle that a prototype Josef Ganz designed in the late '20s had many of the Beetle’... More »

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Germany • Jews • Switzerland • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • World War II • Volkswagen • beetle • Josef Ganz • Ferdinand Porsche

OPINION

  Hey, Jews Should Be 
 Conservatives, 
 Not Liberals: 
 Podhoretz 

Following 'false messiah' Obama is bad politics, bad religion: Podhoretz

Sep 10, 09 8:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jewish voters backed Barack Obama over John McCain last year by a staggering 57 points—the most resounding mandate from any group other than African Americans. That bewilders neocon Norman Podhoretz, who argues in the Wall Street Journal that both Judaism and the Jewish experience endorse "the infinitely precious... More »

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Barack Obama • Jews • Norman Podhoretz • Judaism • liberal • the Jewish vote • conservatism

 Israeli 'Lost Jews'  
 Ad Sparks Outrage 

Portrays those assimilated outside Israel as missing

Sep 9, 09 12:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - An Israeli outreach group has dumped an ad campaign that sparked controversy by portraying assimilated Diaspora Jews as “lost,” the Jerusalem Post reports. Prominent American Jewish voices slammed the campaign, which many took as a slight to intermarried Jews. An intermarried Israeli critic called it “racist,”... More »

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Israel • Jews • Jewish • advertising campaign • assimilation • intermarriage

Pope Recalls Holocaust Horrors, Forgets Jews

Benedict XVI has testy relationship with Jewish community

Sep 6, 09 5:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI recognized the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II today by paying tribute to Poles and the “tragedy of the Holocaust,” but did not mention its Jewish victims, the New York Times reports. The omission may further strain relations between Jewish leaders and... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Poland • Holocaust • Hitler youth • Jews • World War II

(Newser) - The hallelujahs are strained in US churches these days as donations plunge at the same time demand for aid is skyrocketing, reports the Wall Street Journal. Congregations across the nation are slashing budgets and even laying off staff, including pastors. Churches and synagogues usually weather downturns well, but not... More »

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Catholic Church • Jews • religion • church • fundamentalism • Protestants • worshippers • donation • priest • synagogue • evangelicals • Baptists • pastor • baptism • temple • Catholic priest • women's issues • congregations • collection box • born again

(Newser) - Hitler's autobiography-manifesto Mein Kampf has been strictly banned in Germany since the end of World War II, but a proposal to reprint it has the endorsement of the country's leading Jewish organization, among other groups, reports the Independent. "A historically critical edition needs to be prepared today to prevent... More »

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Germany • Jews • Germans • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • Third Reich • ban • Mein Kampf

Jews Tweet Prayers
to Wailing Wall


Jul 24, 09 3:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jews seeking to send a message to God can now do so via Twitter, the Daily Telegraph reports. The "Tweet Your Prayers" service prints out tweeted prayers and deposits them between the stones in Jerusalem's 2,000-year-old Western Wall. Its founders accept no responsibility for unanswered prayers. "Take... More »

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Jews • Judaism • prayer • Twitter • Western Wall

 Formula 1 
 Execs Floored 
 by Chief's 
 Hitler Praise 

Calls for boycott after Bernie Ecclestone hails Hitler for 'getting things done'

Jul 8, 09 4:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Executives from the firm that owns Formula One are scrambling to do damage control after their racing boss praised Adolf Hitler as a man who could "get things done." When told the World Jewish Congress was calling for his resignation, billionaire Bernie Ecclestone, 78, also said it was... More »

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Jews • Adolf Hitler • CVC • racing • Formula One • Nazi • Nazism • banking • anti-Semitism • Bernie Ecclestone • World Jewish Congress

(Newser) - For the first time ever, four Jewish players could make baseball’s All-Star Game, Bloomberg reports. Boston’s Kevin Youkilis and Texas’ Ian Kinsler each lead the voting at their positions, Milwaukee’s Ryan Braun is second in voting among National League outfielders, and Colorado pitcher Jason Marquis has the... More »

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MLB • Jews • Kevin Youkilis • Ryan Braun • baseball • Jewish • Ian Kinsler • Jason Marquis • MLB All-Star Game • Howard Megdal • The Baseball Talmud



 Graham Ripped 
 'Synagogue 
 of Satan' on 
 Nixon Tapes 

Nixon: Jews' failure to 'behave themselves' indicated a 'death wish'

Jun 25, 09 4:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Billy Graham blamed Jews from the "Synagogue of Satan" for pornography in a newly released 1973 conversation with Richard Nixon, USA Today reports. The men, in a discussion about anti-Semitism and Jewish opposition to Christian evangelical efforts, agreed that Jews needed to "behave themselves" to avoid unleashing a... More »

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Jews • Billy Graham • Richard Nixon • stereotypes • evangelicals • anti-Semitism • Anti-Defamation League • Nixon tapes

 US Gets Its 
 First Black 
 Female Rabbi 



'I will not be boxed in,' says newly ordained Stanton

Jun 16, 09 6:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Last week Alysa Stanton was ordained as a rabbi at the Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati, one of the country's oldest synagogues, and a little history was made—the US had its first black female leader of a Jewish congregation. Stanton, born a Pentecostal Christian, converted in 1987, enduring hostility... More »

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Jews • religion • Judaism • Cincinnati • African-Americans • rabbi • blacks

OPINION

All Jewish
Spaces Need
Armed Guards

'Queasiness' aside, only guns can stop would-be killers

Jun 11, 09 3:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Yesterday’s Holocaust Museum shooting should stifle the queasiness American Jews feel around weapons, Jeffrey Goldberg writes for the Atlantic. “One of the lessons of the Holocaust to me is that it is more difficult to kill an armed Jew than an unarmed Jew,” he says. Had the... More »

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Holocaust • Jews • shooting • guns • National Holocaust Museum • James Von Brunn • Jeffrey Goldberg

(Newser) - The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has no hard feelings against President Obama and will speak to him again when able, the Newport News (Va.) Daily Press reports. Wright, at a ministers conference, said, “them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter,... More »

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Christianity • Jews • religion • Election 2008 • Trinity United Church of Christ • Rev. Jeremiah Wright • President Obama

 Young Jews 
 Spew Racist 
 Anti-Obama Rants 

Americans in Jerusalem call president 'terrorist,' use racial slur

Jun 5, 09 7:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - The night before Barack Obama's landmark Cairo speech, a documentary filmmaker headed out to the streets of Jerusalem to ask young Israelis and "droves" of American Jews what they thought of the president's Middle East overtures, notes Gawker. The result is "the most shocking footage I have ever... More »

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Barack Obama • Israel • Middle East • Jews • Jerusalem • youth

Accused NY Plotters, 'Eager' to Kill Jews, Denied Bail

Would-be temple bombers 'eager to bring death to Jews': feds

May 21, 09 1:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - A federal judge today ordered three New York men accused of plotting to blow up a synagogue and target military aircraft to be held without bail, the Journal News reports. “These were people who were eager to bring death to Jews,” said an assistant US attorney. The aspiring... More »

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terrorism • FBI • New York • Jews • terror plots • synagogue • terror cell • James Cromitie • David Williams • Onta Williams

(Newser) - A Republican Senate candidate in Arkansas has apologized for referring to Sen. Chuck Schumer as “that Jew” during a county GOP meeting, reports blogger Jason Tolbert of the Tolbert Report. “I don’t use a teleprompter and occasionally I put my foot in my month,” said state... More »

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Charles Schumer • Jews • Arkansas • gaffe • state senate • Jay-ZTV • Kim Hendren


 Eco-Kosher 
 Jews Aim for 
 Sustainable 
 Sabbath 

Culinary consciousness 'gives taste to the text we study': advocate

May 9, 09 9:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new wave of “eco-kosher” Jews treats environmentalism as law, the Los Angeles Times reports. To strengthen their ties to their faith, culinarily conscious believers are hosting sustainable Sabbath dinners using homemade, locally grown foods. “Jewish tradition should heighten our awareness of the choices we’re making,”... More »

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environment • sustainable living • Jews • kosher • eco-friendly • seder

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