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Britain to compensate ex-Guantanamo detainees alleging abuse

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi, Peter Finn - Nov. 17 (News Report) - "Without getting into whether they are good guys or bad guys, there is a global obligation that we don't condone torture, and the U.S. has done everything to avoid its duty under domestic and international law to prevent and atone for torture," said retired Air Force Col. Morris D. Davis, the former chief military prosecutor at Guantanamo Ba

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Settlers blamed for mosque blaze

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - Oct. 04 (News) - Israeli settlers are reported to have set fire to a mosque in the occupied Palestinian territory of West Bank, burning the prayers rugs and a large number of copies of the Quran, as well as spraying anti-Arab graffiti on the walls.

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Basic Religion Test Stumps Many Americans

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Lauri Goodstein - Sep. 28 (Research) - Americans surveyed on their religious knowledge got half the questions wrong, including ones about their own faith.

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Fidel to Ahmadinejad: "Stop Slandering the Jews"

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Jeffrey Goldberg - Sep. 07 (Special Report) - I was aware that Castro had become preoccupied with the threat of a military confrontation in the Middle East between Iran and the U.S. (and Israel, the country he calls its Middle East "gendarme"). Since emerging from his medically induced, four-year purdah early this summer (various gastrointestinal maladies had combined to nearly kill him), the 84-year-old Castro has spoken mainly about the catastrophic threat of what he sees as an inevitable war. I was curious to know why he saw conflict as unavoidable, and I wondered, of course, if personal experience - the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 that nearly caused the annihilation of most of humanity - informed his belief that a conflict between America and Iran would escalate into nuclear war. I was even more curious, however, to get a glimpse of the great man.

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Unconditional support for Israel 'is dangerous', say leading European Jews

Sun, 02 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - May. 02 (News) - More than 3,000 European Jews, including prominent intellectuals, have signed a petition speaking out against Israeli settlement policies and warning that systematic support for the Israeli government is dangerous.

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Carter Offers Olive Branch To Jews On Israel

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - Dec. 23 (News Report) - Former President Jimmy Carter apologized for any words or deeds that may have upset the Jewish community in an open letter meant to improve an often-tense relationship. He said he was offering an Al Het, a prayer said on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of

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Temple Mount, also known as Noble Sanctuary, is a Jerusalem flash point

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Howard Schneider - Nov. 17 (Special Report) - It is one of the most watched pieces of real estate in the world, 35 acres where an under-the-breath prayer or a whiff of a rumor can rouse warnings of war.

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Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Sarah Lyall - Nov. 08 (Special Report) - A case involving the admissions policy of a Jewish high school in London has potential repercussions for thousands of other parochial schools across Britain.

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Cap-and-trade & Health Care & Insurance Reform I see these two issues as one and the same thing. The first one is to heal our planet, and the second is to heal our human bodies. Also, both issues have to deal with how the 'healing' is delievered and wh

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Foreign policy, EU news, climate, green technology, health. - Aug. 21 (Investigative Report) - Experts and politicians on whether health care reform will trump climate change.

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Jerusalem court and ultra-Orthodox reach deal - washingtonpost.com

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Steve Weizman - Jul. 17 (News Report) - JERUSALEM -- A judge in Jerusalem and leaders of the city's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community agreed Friday to a compromise aimed at ending days of rioting by religious protesters, Israeli police said. The protesters have been enraged at the arrest of a mentally ill Hasidic woman who authorities say was starving her child. The insular ultra-Orthodox community resents outside interference in its affairs.

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Rabbi Glanz, Who Held Jailhouse Party, Has History of Influence

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By William K. Rashbaum - Jun. 22 (Special Report) - Nothing about Rabbi Glanz and his penchant for favor trading became an issue until this year, when it was disclosed that he had arranged for roughly 60 guests to celebrate, in jail, an important event in the life of an Orthodox prisoner convicted in a $1.7 million fraud. The prisoner, Tuvia Stern, had been a fugitive for nearly two decades, hiding out in South America. Along with the guests, a special feast and a singer made it into the city jail system.

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Netanyahu's two-state solution: You recognize us, we'll recognize you.

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Josh Mitnick - Jun. 16 (News Report) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu broke new ground with his speech Sunday. He voiced support for the first time for a Palestinian state. But he also attached a condition that no other Israeli leader has put on peace negotiations: Palestinians must recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

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Israeli Premier Backs State for Palestinians, With Caveats

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Isabel Kershner - Jun. 15 (News Report) - The prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Sunday endorsed for the first time the principle of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, but on condition that the state is demilitarized and that the Palestinians recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people.

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Israeli PM lays out peace terms

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - Jun. 15 (News Report) - Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has called for the creation of a demilitarised Palestinian state, saying this would be key to peace between Israel and the Palestinians. In his much-anticipated policy speech on Sunday, Netanyahu called for the immediate resumption of peace talks between the two sides.

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Using New Language, President Shows Understanding for Both Sides in Middle East

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler, Jacqueline L. Salmon - Jun. 05 (News Analysis) - There was no mention of "terrorists" or "terrorism," just "violent extremists." There was the suggestion that Israeli settlements are illegitimate and the assertion that the Palestinians "have suffered in pursuit of a homeland." There were frequent references to the "Holy Koran" and echoes of Muslim phrases.

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Varying Responses to Speech in Mideast Highlight Divisions

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Isabel Kershner, Robert W. Worth, Michael Slackman - Jun. 04 (News Analysis) - President Obama’s carefully balanced message was greeted warmly by his immediate audience in Cairo on Thursday and in some other parts of the Mideast, but there was also dismissiveness and frustration. And among Israelis and Palestinians, reactions to a message designed to open each side up to the other seemed rather to reflect the fractures between them.

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Israeli Rejection of Settlement Freeze Spells Trouble for Obama's Cairo Outreach

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Tim McGirk - Jun. 01 (News Analysis) - If President Barack Obama thought he could deliver the promise of a few Israeli concessions during his upcoming Cairo speech to the Muslim world, he was sorely mistaken.

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Jewish family gets financial help to move to Ala.

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Jay Reeves - Feb. 27 (News Report) - Matthew and Michelle Reed, along with their 2-year-old son and newborn baby boy, are the first of what could be a stream of people to move to Dothan under a program that offers Jewish families as much as $50,000 to relocate and get involved with the city's only synagogue, Temple Emanu-El.

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Jewish Charities Scramble to Cover Losses to Trader

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Robin Shulman - Dec. 24 (News Report) - On Tuesday, about three dozen of the biggest Jewish foundations in the country convened an emergency meeting to come up with a plan to anonymously help the Jewish nonprofits that fell victim to a $50 billion Ponzi scheme that Wall Street trader Bernard L. Madoff is charged with operating, and to try to restore the community's faith in its values, said organizers of the meeting.

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Who Is Behind The "Radical Islam" DVD?

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Fresh Air - Sep. 29 (News Report) - Critics are calling the DVD, "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West," anti-Muslim hate, or politicking, or both. It doesn't mention or even obliquely allude to the presidential candidates. It couldn't, since it was made in 2006. But as whisper campaigns dog Obama with rumors that he's a secret Muslim, the DVD showed up as an insert in some 70 newspapers, with an emphasis in swing states. The obvious question: Who is behind it? And the answer: The DVD is distributed by the Clarion Fund, a nonprofit set up by the film's producer, Rabbi Raphael Shore.

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Clarion Responds, As New Details Emerge About "Radical Islam" DVD

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Fresh Air - Sep. 29 (News Report) - Clarion wouldn't return our phone calls before the story aired. But today it hired a PR firm, which quickly issued this statement in response to our story:

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Barack, Thy Name is Biblical

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By David E. Scheim - Aug. 28 (News Analysis) - The way some pundits are using name associations is beyond simply naive; it is truly shameful," "As names, both Barack and Hussein have noble pedigrees, and this fact should be used to promote understanding and not to provoke political or religious enmity."

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Obama Working to Ensure Jewish Vote

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jonathan Weisman, Michelle Boorstein - Jul. 23 (News Report) - For all the hype about his trip to Iraq and his speech in Berlin, it was the Israel leg that was the most sensitive and the most meticulously planned, according to sources involved with the arrangements. That fact alone is a testament to the presidential candidate's ongoing concerns about the Jewish vote this November, and the extraordinary lengths to which the senator from Illinois is going to ensure support from that traditional Democratic constituency.

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Faithful give other religions benefit of doubt

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Eric Gorski - Jun. 24 (Special Report) - America remains a nation of believers, but a new survey finds most Americans don't feel their religion is the only way to eternal life -- even if their faith tradition teaches otherwise. The findings, revealed Monday in a survey of 35,000 adults, can either be taken as a positive sign of growing religious tolerance, or evidence that Americans dismiss or don't know the fundamental teachings of their own faiths.

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Israel's immigration experience

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - May. 14 (News Report) - President Bush's visit to Israel will be watched by Palestinians as they commemorate the Naqba - or catastrophe - on Wednesday. It refers to the end of the British mandate on this day in 1948, which led to the creation of Israel. Since then, Palestinians have become the world's largest refugee group - the right to return to their ancestral land remains a key sticking point to any peace deal. But despite that the Arab population in the country and the occupied territories is growing. David Chater looks at Israel's shifting demographics.

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