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 No Motive Yet in LA 
 Synagogue Shootings 

Gunman wounded two men on their way to prayers

Oct 29, 09 3:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - LAPD officers are still searching for the gunman who shot two men on their way to a prayer service at a North Hollywood synagogue this morning. The gunman approached one of the victims in the underground parking lot of the synagogue, and "without any words" shot both him and... More »

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Antonio Villaraigosa • violence • LAPD • synagogue • Jewish • shooting

 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

 Ahmadinejad Is ... Jewish? 

His family changed names after his birth

Oct 3, 09 10:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Holocaust denier Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be hiding Jewish roots. A close look at his identity card—which he held up to the media during Iran's presidential campaign—reveals that his family changed its name from Sabourjian shortly after his birth, the Telegraph reports. That's a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver—... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Jewish • anti-Semitism • Holocaust denier

 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

Ahmadinejad Taps Fugitive
for Iran Cabinet

Defense pick wanted
in '94 blast at Jewish center in Argentina

Aug 21, 09 9:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s pick for Iran’s defense minister is wanted in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Argentina, the Guardian reports. Eight-five were killed and 150 injured in the attack, the worst on a Jewish target outside Israel since World War II; Ahmad Vahidi... More »

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Iran • terrorism • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Hezbollah • Argentina • al Quds Force • Iranian Revolutionary Guard • Interpol • Jewish • Anti-Defamation League • cabinet minister • Ahmad Vahidi • defense minister

(Newser) - In the latest health care-related video to go viral, a woman at a Las Vegas town hall on health care shouted “Heil Hitler!” at an Israeli man as he spoke to a local TV station about Israel’s “fantastic” national health care program, ThinkProgress reports. “Did... More »

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health care • Israel • Las Vegas • Adolf Hitler • health care reform • town hall meeting • Jewish • Israelis • Pamela Pilger

 Roseanne 
 Poses as 
 Hitler: Cue 
 Controversy 

Publisher defends magazine's choice

Jul 31, 09 7:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Roseanne Barr, always good for a controversy, recently dressed up as a “Nazi domestic goddess” for Jewish magazine Heeb, causing quite a flap. “Yes, the story of this infamous satirist/Jewish grandmother pulling a tray of burnt ‘Jew cookies’ out of an oven has been making its... More »

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entertainment • Holocaust • Roseanne Barr • Adolf Hitler • magazine • celebrity • Nazi • Jewish • controversy

OPINION

Jon Leibowitz, Stop Hiding
Your Real Name

Daily Show host
Stewart a proud Jew ... just not proud enough

Jul 24, 09 12:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Jackson’s transformation from black to white makes Ron Rosenbaum of Slate think of Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz—the guy you may know as Jon Stewart. Just as Jackson was probably responding to racism that’s now much less prevalent, the Daily Show host’s stage name “is... More »

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entertainment • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • Jewish • anti-Semitism • Kirk Douglas

NJ Mayors, NY Rabbis Busted in Corruption Probe

Syrian Jews accused
of money-laundering

Jul 23, 09 9:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a huge corruption bust, FBI agents arrested 30 people today, including the mayors of Hoboken and Secaucus, the deputy mayor of Jersey City, a New Jersey assemblyman, and several Brooklyn and New Jersey rabbis, the Star-Ledger reports. The arrests stem from a 2-year money-laundering probe centered on New... More »

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FBI • New Jersey • corruption • Brooklyn • Internal Revenue Service • Jewish • rabbi • Peter Cammarano • Daniel Van Pelt • Dennis Elwell

(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

GLOSSIES

Young Jewish Writers Cool With Being Jewish

alt hed: 'New Yiddishists' Bring Ethnic Pride to the Page

Apr 9, 09 12:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - America’s young Jewish writers are “turning the narrative of assimilation on its head,” writes Daniel Sax in Vanity Fair, and hitting the best-seller list in the process. Unlike Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, who angrily “wrote from experiences directly connected to the traumas of immigration and... More »

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literature • Jonathan Safran Foer • Philip Roth • Jewish • Saul Bellow • Michael Chabon • New Yiddishists

 Obama Plans First 
 Presidential Seder 

Friends and White House staff invited

Apr 8, 09 12:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is planning to host a Passover seder at the White House for friends and staff tomorrow evening, JTA reports. What appears to be the first-ever presidential seder is scheduled for the second night of the Jewish holiday so guests can celebrate with their families tonight. The event “... More »

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White House • minority • holiday • Jewish • Passover • President Obama • seder

Jewish Leaders Blast Clinton for Israel Criticism

Secretary of state tells Jerusalem to stop blocking aid for Gaza

Feb 27, 09 12:51 PM CST
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton has sent sharply worded messages to Israel over the past week, lambasting Jerusalem for throwing obstacles in the way of humanitarian aid to Gaza, reports Haaretz. The move isn't sitting well with Jewish leaders back home, notes CBS News. “I liked her a lot more as a... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Israel • Gaza • Jewish • the Jewish vote

Israeli Rabbis Cut Off Vatican Over Holocaust Dispute

Pope attempts to smooth ties with conciliatory remarks

Jan 28, 09 3:02 PM CST
(Newser) - Israel’s senior rabbinical body has severed ties with the Vatican, saying Bishop Richard Williamson should recant his statements denying that millions of Jews were "deliberately gassed" during the Holocaust. The chief rabbinate expressed “sorrow and pain” at the decision, which follows worldwide outrage among Jews and progressive... More »

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Israel • Pope Benedict XVI • Holocaust • Vatican • Catholic • Jewish • rabbi • Richard Williamson

Courtney Love Knocks Jews
... in Jewish Magazine

Singer utters a few colorful words on girl bands, actors and parenting, too

Jan 16, 09 3:03 PM CST
(Newser) - Courtney Love says she’s sober, but her recent anti-Semitic remarks in a Jewish magazine might give some observers pause, the New York Post reports. “Every time you buy a Nirvana record, part of that money is not going to Kurt’s child, or to me, it’s going... More »

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music • Courtney Love • parenting • Nirvana • rock bands • Jewish • anti-Semitism • interview • celebrity interview

Oy, Caramba!
Cubans Turn
to Judaism

But for some, religious awakening looks a lot like exit strategy

Jan 14, 09 8:25 AM CST
(Newser) - Cuba's Jewish community is growing for the first time in decades, the Wall Street Journal reports. The country's Jewish population dwindled to 1,000 by the late 1980s but has now hit 1,500. Hundreds of other Cuban Jews have recently emigrated, landing in Israel, Canada, and the US. Many... More »

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Israel • Jews • Cuba • Judaism • emigration • conversion • Jewish

There's No Right Way
to Spell This Word

Rabbis agree it doesn't matter

Dec 20, 08 1:28 PM CST
(Newser) - There's definitely an “H,” an “N” and a “K” in there, but beyond that, spellings of the upcoming Jewish holiday differ significantly. Conservative rabbis tell the New York Post not to worry, though, because all English spellings all wrong. The correct one is in Hebrew.... More »

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Hanukkah • Jewish • chanukah • Hebrew

(Newser) - Just 22% of Americans say Jews run Hollywood, and one Jew is insulted: "It just shows how dumb America has gotten," Joel Stein writes in the Los Angeles Times. "Jews totally run Hollywood." Looking through the trades, he could find only eight Gentiles holding powerful positions... More »

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television • Hollywood • film • Jews • Brad Grey • Harvey Weinstein • Jewish

Eliot Spitzer Among Victims of Madoff

Disgraced governor jokes about who's
been worse for Jews

Dec 19, 08 10:15 AM CST
(Newser) - Eliot Spitzer’s family real estate firm was one of many Jewish businesses fleeced by Bernard Madoff, the disgraced governor confirmed at the recent Slate holiday mixer. Spitzer said he hadn’t met Madoff personally and wasn’t into “the Palm Beach scene.” One journalist joked that Madoff... More »

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fraud • Eliot Spitzer • Jewish • Bernard Madoff

Madoff Scam Soaks Jewish Charities

His Wall Street
fraud will wipe out philanthropic groups

Dec 13, 08 12:08 PM CST
(Newser) - Rich investors and hedge funds aren’t the only ones losing their shirts in Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. Madoff was a giant in the small world of Jewish philanthropy, running millions for a variety of charitable organizations, the Washington Post reports. Deborah Coltin, for example, woke up yesterday... More »

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philanthropy • charity • Ponzi scheme • Jewish • Bernard Madoff

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