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Gallup Poll: American Support for Israel Near 20 Year High
by Malkah Fleisher
(IsraelNN.com) American sympathy for Israel in the Arab-Israeli conflict has surged, with 63% of Americans saying they side more with Israelis than with Palestinians, according to a new Gallup poll.
In 1996 and 1997, support for Israel hovered at a lowly 38%. Support for Palestinians [...]

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day

January 27th marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the Nazi death camps. In October 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated this day as “International Holocaust Remembrance Day” to commemorate and honor the victims of the Nazi era. Note that the UN-sponsored date is NOT the same thing as Yom [...]

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(IsraelNN.com) Anti-Semitism in Western Europe last year was the worst since World War II, according to the Jewish Agency’s arm for fighting attacks and incitement against Jews.
Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein directly linked worsening anti-Semitism with the United Nations “Goldstone Report” on alleged war crimes in last year’s Operation Cast Lead counterterrorist campaign aimed at [...]

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Slaves didn’t build pyramids
By KATARINA KRATOVAC
CAIRO — Egypt displayed on Monday newly discovered tombs more than 4,000 years old and said they belonged to people who worked on the Great Pyramids of Giza, presenting the discovery as more evidence that slaves did not build the ancient monuments.
The series of modest nine-foot-deep shafts held a dozen [...]

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America’s First Hebrew Teacher
Judah Monis, North America’s first Hebrew instructor, taught students at Harvard College from 1722 to 1760. His career teaches us about the challenges of maintaining a Jewish life in early America.
Monis was born in Italy in 1683, into a family of Portuguese conversos. Educated at Jewish academies in Italy, Holland and Scotland, [...]

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(Jerusalem Post) Incidents of haredim harassing Christian religious leaders and nuns in the capital are still being reported, according to the Polish honorary consul in the capital, Zeev Baran.
“Yeshiva students hurl insults at nuns and spit at them,” Baran told Israel Radio in a report aired Thursday.
He also said four monasteries were recently sprayed with [...]

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[ For starters, Ron Paul is a Libertarian who believes Israel can set their own foreign policy and doesn't need the US to police the region.  But perhaps more importantly, Ben Stein appears ignorant of what the term "anti-Semitic" means... Semitic peoples INCLUDE many Arabs.  What Stein perhaps wanted to say is [...]

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Jimmy Carter asked the Jewish community for forgiveness for any stigma he may have caused Israel.
In a letter released exclusively to JTA, the former US president sent a seasonal message wishing for peace between Israel and its neighbors, and concluded: “We must recognize Israel’s achievements under difficult circumstances, even as we strive in a positive [...]

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Previously undiscovered ancient city found on Caribbean sea floor
By Jes Alexander on December 9, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC (Herald de Paris) – EXCLUSIVE – Researchers have revealed the first images from the Caribbean sea floor of what they believe are the archaeological remains of an ancient civilization. Guarding the location’s coordinates carefully, the project’s leader, [...]

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More Signs in the Heavens

First in Norway, now in China:
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December 12, 2009
The day before President Obama made his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in Oslo, a strange cosmic phenomenon occurred in the Norway skies. The giant spiral that suddenly appeared was not an aurora, as was first suspected, [...]

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