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 Riots in N. Israeli City Mar Yom Kippur 

Jews set upon Arab for driving his car, igniting violence

Oct 9, 08 4:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Israeli city of Acre descended into rioting today after a group of Jewish youths attacked an Arab man who was driving on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. The young men allegedly shouted anti-Muslim epithets at the driver before several younger Arabs came to his defense. As news... More »

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Israel • Jews • Judaism • riots • Israeli Arabs • Acre • Yom Kippur

Holy Season for Two Faiths Intersects in Jerusalem

Jewish new year coincides with Muslim month of Ramadan in city special to both

Sep 29, 08 11:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - This year’s intersection of Jewish new-year holidays and the Muslim holy month of Ramadan—a rarity due to Islam’s changing calendar—is felt particularly keenly in Jerusalem, a sacred city for both religions, Ethan Bronner notes in the New York Times. Night has become “a kind of... More »

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Israel • Islam • Jews • Muslims • Jerusalem • Judaism • Islamic Sharia law • holiday • Ramadan • Dome of the Rock • lunar new year • Western Wall • Rosh Hashanah

France Plotzes as Sarko Jr Weds Jewish Heiress

Nuptials spark anti-Semitic debate

Sep 11, 08 8:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jean Sarkozy, the 22-year-old son of France's president, married his childhood sweetheart last night in a ceremony so under wraps that guests were informed via text message. A possible reason for the secrecy? His bride, the heiress to a huge electronics company, is Jewish—and the marriage has set off... More »

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France • Jews • Judaism • heiress • anti-Semitism • Neuilly-sur-Seine • Jean Sarkozy

(Newser) - A divorce ruling in Israel has thrown thousands of Jewish conversions into question and sparked a debate over who is really Jewish, the Washington Post reports. Ultra-Orthodox rabbis, who frame one side of the dispute, refused to let a Jewish convert divorce last year, saying she was never married because... More »

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Israel • religion • Judaism • conversion • Jewish

'Jewish Clause' in Will Launches Lawsuits

Can a man disinherit his offspring for marrying outside faith?

Aug 25, 08 1:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Chicago courtroom is the site of a nasty tangle over a Jewish patriarch’s wishes for his family, the Chicago Tribune reports. A wealthy dentist, upset to discover that a grandson was taking a gentile to the junior prom, left a provision in his will disowning any of... More »

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Chicago • Judaism • lawsuit • inheritance • Jewish • gentile • intermarriage

Paper Runs Obama's
Western Wall Prayer

Dem wants to be guarded against 'pride and despair'

Jul 25, 08 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - The prayer Barack Obama put in Jerusalem’s Western Wall yesterday was removed by a Jewish seminary student and published in a local newspaper, the AP reports. It read, “Lord—Protect my family and me. Forgive me my sins, and help me guard against pride and despair. Give me... More »

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Barack Obama • Israel • Judaism • prayer • Western Wall • rabbi

Ancient Text Casts Doubt on Resurrection

In tablet, scholar sees risen messiah as pre-Jesus theme

Jul 10, 08 2:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new interpretation of a tablet written in 1st century BC questions the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Times of London reports. One biblical scholar says the text conveys the story of an angel telling a dying Jew, killed by Romans 4 years before Christ's birth, that he... More »

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Christianity • religion • Judaism • Bible • Dead Sea • Jesus Christ • resurrection • New Testament

OPINION

 Candidates Exploit
 Muslim-Jewish Divide 

McCain and Obama insulting Muslims to gain favor with Jewish voters

Jun 26, 08 6:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - The presidential candidates are ignoring—even insulting—American Muslims in the hope of grabbing the Jewish vote, write Salam Al-Marayati and Steven B. Jacobs in the Los Angles Times. McCain and Obama have on several occasions snubbed Muslims, who seem to be the victims of modern McCarthyism—just substitute... More »

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Islam • United States • Judaism • America • Muslim • Jewish • Election 2008

ARCHITECTURE REVIEW

 Jewish Museum
 in SF Unsettles 

But architect too distracted by secret signs, allegories, writes NYT critic

Jun 9, 08 7:52 AM CDT
(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... More »

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architecture • San Francisco • Jews • Judaism • Daniel Libeskind • Contemporary Jewish Museum

Einstein Called Faith 'Childish Superstition'

1954 letter, headed for auction, sheds new light on scientist's view

May 13, 08 3:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - A relatively unknown letter by Albert Einstein, offered at auction Thursday in London, offers new details on the scientist's tangled relationship with religion, the Guardian reports. While believers often consider Einstein a scientist who maintained his religious faith, the 1954 letter calls the Bible "primitive legends," and "... More »

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science • religion • Judaism • auction • Albert Einstein

Matzo Shortage Plagues Passover in Calif.

Stores sold out before holiday began Saturday, Jews 'at wits' end'

Apr 22, 08 1:38 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Pope Makes History
With Visit to US Synagogue

Benedict is first pope to visit an American synagogue

Apr 19, 08 5:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI became the first pontiff to ever set foot inside an American synagogue with his visit to New York's Park East Synagogue yesterday, the New York Times reports. Benedict, presented with matzo, a Seder plate and a Passover prayer book, spoke to the congregation of "building bridges... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Judaism • synagogue • Pope Benedict's US visit • Passover • matzo

 World's Holy Days Converge 

Believers of almost all stripes have something to celebrate today

Mar 21, 08 8:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - This Good Friday is not simply the most solemn day in the Christian calendar but a convergence of movable feasts that doesn't occur more than once in a century. March 21 is also the first day of the Jewish festival of Purim and the celebration of the birth of the... More »

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Islam • Christianity • religion • Judaism • Buddhism • Holy Days • Good Friday • Purim • Eid • Narouz • Small Holi • Magha Puja • Persian New Year • Hindus

Paging Indiana Jones: Scholar Finds Ark

Biblical treasure reportedly surfaces
in Zimbabwe, not Hollywood

Feb 22, 08 11:03 AM CST
(Newser) - A real-life Indiana Jones says he has found the Ark of the Covenant—not on the set of the latest Raiders of the Lost Ark movie, but on a shelf in a museum storeroom in Zimbabwe. The alleged ark is an old drum with an uncharacteristic charred hole on its... More »

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Africa • Zimbabwe • Indiana Jones • Judaism • Tudor Parfitt • Ark of the Covenant

'Kosher' Phones Block Porn

Rabbis sign off on no-call list in Israel

Feb 4, 08 5:37 PM CST
(Newser) - Israel’s top phone company is betting that its most orthodox customers need less temptation in their lives. Bezeq Israel Telecom launched a “kosher” phone service yesterday that will block calls to and from “improper” numbers, such as porn lines. In true kosher fashion, Israel’s top rabbis... More »

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Israel • telecom industry • pornography • Judaism • kosher • orthodoxy • Bezeq Israel Telecom

Video Spoofs Jews on Christmas

Baltimore teacher strikes a chord with song about Chinese food

Dec 18, 07 11:20 AM CST
(Newser) - A band teacher at a Baltimore yeshiva is the latest YouTube celebrity thanks to his holiday spoof on the Jewish dilemma of what to do on Christmas. His video, "Chinese Food on Christmas," in which a rock band of faux Hasidic Jews jams for fellow members of the... More »

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Judaism • Christmas • Christmas music • Brandon Walker • Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School • Owings Mills • Chinese food

Jesus 2.0: GodTube Is a Smash With Believers

Site offers networking, user-generated video

Oct 21, 07 8:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - GodTube, one of the fastest-growing sites on the web, is drawing masses of the Christian faithful to its user-generated videos, social-networking tools and the "GodCaster," which offers live video presentations. It's not a church, the LA Times reports, but a for-profit business backed by a "who's who"... More »

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Islam • Christianity • Judaism • website • GodTube.com • Jesus Christ

Coulter: Jews Need to Be 'Perfected'

She's flamed again, this time for calling 'dream' nation Christian

Oct 12, 07 4:05 AM CDT
(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... More »

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Ann Coulter • Republican • Christianity • Jews • CNBC • Judaism • Christians • Bill Maher • Donny Deutsch • The Big Idea

Madonna Toasts New Year With Israeli Prez

Calls trip 'a dream come true' despite criticism from Orthodox

Sep 16, 07 3:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Madonna enjoyed "a dream come true" yesterday by celebrating the Jewish New Year with Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, the AP reports. She landed last week with husband Guy Ritchie and a gaggle of Hollywood Kabbalists to attend a conference about Jewish mysticism. "I am an ambassador for Judaism,... More »

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Israel • Judaism • Shimon Perez • Madonna • Kabbalah

God's No 'He' Man in Reform Judaism's New Prayer Book

Gender-neutral book took 20 years to develop

Sep 3, 07 5:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - After 20 years of development, Reform Judaism's new prayer book hits the shuls in about a month with a gender-neutral text that eliminates references to God as "He." The new prayer book, "Mishkan T’filah," is intended to offer something for everyone, from those who prefer... More »

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Jews • religion • Judaism • Reform Judaism • Mishkan T'filah

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