17 May 2012 Last updated at 08:49 ET Turkey says it scrambled two military jets to chase away an Israeli plane which allegedly violated the airspace of Turkish-held northern Cyprus. A statement from the Turkish military says two F-16 jets were used to force the Israeli plane to leave the area. An Israeli military spokeswoman told Reuters they were checking the report
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Israel 'violates' Turkey airspace
I know that in Judaism , Chanukah is not one of the holiest celebrations. In fact, it is far less holy than the celebration of the weekly Sabbath. (Politics aside, my admiration for the way Joe Leiberman does the Sabbath borders …
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My Judaism – Aliza Worthington | In the Pink
One of Karen Finley's recent installations is an ongoing (annual) holocaust memorial at the remains and site of the Gusen concentration camp in Austria.
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Karen Finley's holocaust memorial at Gusen, Austria | Jacket2
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Rabbi Reflects on the news, Torah, Israel: Judaism in 2 minutes?
Six Holocaust survivors who were unable as children to celebrate the bar mitzvah, the Jewish rite of passage that marks a boy's 13th birthday, were finally able to mark their coming of age in a ceremony in the Israeli city of …
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PhotoBlog – Holocaust survivors celebrate belated bar mitzvah
GAZA (Reuters) – The Israeli army fired into the Gaza Strip on Thursday, injuring seven Palestinians in an incident that broke a relative lull in the coastal enclave, Palestinian and Israeli sources said. Palestinian medics said two of the wounded were in a critical condition. Three of those hit were elderly farmers, a hospital source said, but the identity of the other four was not immediately …
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Israeli fire wounds seven Palestinians in Gaza
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office will set up a sobriety checkpoint on the West Bank on Friday night.
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Sobriety checkpoint scheduled for West Bank on Friday night
Jewish groups in Lithuania condemn a plan to repatriate Nazi-era PM Juozas Brazaitis, whose administration oversaw anti-Semitic attacks.
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Jewish ire at Lithuania reburial
The Anti-Defamation League, a national group that battles anti-Semitism, has called for state Rep. Steve Vaillancourt of Manchester to apologize more broadly for shouting the Nazi-era salute “Sieg Heil” at the House speaker in Concord on Tuesday. “The verbal apologies by Rep.
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No crime in the annals of history has been as well documented as Nazi Germany's Final Solution. Against this backdrop, how do we account for the growing phenomenon of Holocaust revisionism and denial?
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Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Holocaust Denial: Assaults on Collective …