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Posted Friday, September 3, 2010 in Jewish News, Science, Top Stories

Jewish community in Mainz, the German city that was a centre of European Judaism for centuries, opened a new synagogue Friday on the site of a predecessor building, which was ransacked by the Nazis in…

Posted Friday, September 3, 2010 in Jewish News, Science, Top Stories

The European Jewish Congress has demanded a retraction on Friday from a the European Union official who made anti-Semitic comments on Belgian radio.Karel De Gucht, European Commissioner for Trade, was…

Posted Friday, September 3, 2010 in Jewish News, Science, Top Stories

London, Sep 3 : The chief rabbi, Lord Sacks, has lashed out at Stephen Hawking after the astrophysicist claimed in his new book that God had no role to play in the creation of the universe.

Posted Friday, September 3, 2010 in Jewish News, Science, Top Stories

PORTSMOUTH — To commemorate the beginning of the period of forgiveness in the Jewish religion, the film "Live and Become," will be shown at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 4 in the Levenson Social …

Posted Thursday, September 2, 2010 in Jewish News, Science, Top Stories

BUDAPEST – It was the sort of reception you would expect a rock star to receive, not the author of a book on political theory.But when Natan Sharansky – whose 2004 manifesto

Posted Thursday, September 2, 2010 in Jewish News, Science, Top Stories

ORLANDO — French company SNCF is trying to get involved in Florida's high speed rail project, but Holocaust survivors are speaking out against the company. SNCF is getting ready to make a bid on F…

Posted Thursday, September 2, 2010 in Jewish News, Science, Top Stories

Here's a quick linguistics lesson: In the context of this film, "baraka" refers neither to the female version of our current president's name, nor does it refer to my favorite Mortal Kombat character….

Posted Thursday, September 2, 2010 in Jewish News, Science, Top Stories

Four members of a volunteer Jewish security force were shot in Brooklyn earlier tonight, police said. A man believed to be the shooter was in police custody, cops said. All of the victims, whose names…

Posted Thursday, September 2, 2010 in Jewish News, Science, Top Stories

Two more professionals have joined the Bay Area mohel brigade. Though they represent different streams of Judaism, Dr. Elizabeth Pohl and Rabbi Gil Leeds are eager to carry on the ancient tradition o…

Posted Thursday, September 2, 2010 in Jewish News, Science, Top Stories

Eli Yishai , head of the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party, said Thursday Hamas will block any agreement in the peace talks. Yishai, writing in the Shas newsletter, From Day to Day, said that if Israel makes…