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Antisemitism / News Briefs / Police and Crime / Religion / Terrorism / UK

Catholic Bishop Calls Destruction of 17 Belfast Jewish Graves 'Shameful'

By JNi.Media

Inspector Norman Haslett of the PSNI said the attack was “a particularly sickening incident, which we are treating as a hate crime.”

Israel / News Briefs / Religion

Orthodox Jewish Rabbis Urge Partnership between Christians and Jews

By JNi.Media

Efrat Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, formerly of New York, said the rabbis "acknowledge the positive theological status of the Christian faith."

Intifada / Judea & Samaria / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority

Arabs Burn Bethlehem Church

By Jewish Press News Desk

Arabs in Bethlehem burned the St. Charbel (Sharbel) church on Saturday night.

"Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Religion

2 Days After Pope's Visit, Bethlehem Church Fire Not Arson?

By Jewish Press News Desk

Just two days after the Pope visited Bethlehem, there was a fire in the Church of the Nativity. Coincidence?

Israel / News Briefs

Monastery near Beit Shemesh Vandalized With Anti-American Epithets

By JTA

A Catholic monastery near Beit Shemesh was vandalized sometime before Tuesday morning with anti-American and anti-Christian epithets, and the tires of four vehicles also were slashed. “America is Nazi Germany” and “Price Tag — Peace Agreement,” as well as “Jesus is a monkey” and “Mary is a cow,” were spray painted on the walls of […]

News Briefs / Religion / Syria / Terrorism

Nearly One-Third of Syria’s Christians Have Fled Their Homes

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Nearly one-third of Syria’s native Christians have fled their homes during the Syrian civil war, according to Syrian Christian leader Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregorios III Laham. He said that more than 450,000 Christians out of an estimated 1.75 million have been displaced or have left the country since the Syrian civil war began in […]

Antisemitism / European Union / Israel / Judaism / News Briefs / Religion

Council of Europe Says Ritual Circumcision Won’t Be Banned

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Sometimes anti-Semitism is its own best antidote because it makes its sewage makers look as ignorant as they are. After a Council of Europe body said circumcision violates human rights, its leader rejected the idea.

News Briefs / Religion / Syria

Al-Qaeda-Linked Terrorists Abduct Jesuit Priest in Syria

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Rebels linked to Al-Qaeda have abducted Italian Jesuit Priest Paolo Dall’Oglio, a well-known advocate of Christian-Muslim dialogue and a vocal critic of the government of President Bashar al-Assad. The Vatican’s envoy to Syria, Archbishop Mario Zenari, told Vatican Radio that he has no official confirmation of Dall’Oglio’s abduction, who reportedly was kidnapped in the rebel-held […]

Jewish / News Briefs / Religion / US

Synagogue Raises Funds for Tornado-Stricken Ohio College (Photo)

By Jewish Press News Desk

A Cleveland area synagogue is raising funds to help Ursuline College repaid serious damage caused by a tornado that ripped through its athletic center on Saturday. No one was injured because the twister tore through the area in the pre-dawn hours, tearing the off the roof and blowing away one wall. The conservative B’nai Jeshurun, […]

Holocaust / Jerusalem / News Briefs / Religion

Archbishop of Canterbury to Visit Western Wall and Al Aqsa Mosque

By Jewish Press News Desk

The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, is scheduled to arrive in Israel Wednesday as part of a five-day trip to the Middle East. The archbishop is making sure to honor all three major religions, with visits planned to the Western Wall, the Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount, and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. […]

Israel / Jewish / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Religion / US

Peres and Pope to Team up for Peace Process Resurrection

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Peres, the pope and the word “peace’" are virtually interchangeable. All three of them get together next week to try to resurrect the peace process. And don’t forget Kerry is a Catholic more or less.

News Briefs

Venezuelan Anti-Semitism at New Heights in Race between Chavez and Capriles

By JTA

Anti-Semitism in Venezuela has spiked during the electoral race for president between a Catholic man of Jewish descent and President Hugo Chavez, according to a new report. State media and supporters of Chavez, who has ruled the country for the past 14 years, regularly “vilify” his opponent, Henrique Capriles Radonski, derisively referring to his Jewish […]

Israel / News Briefs / Sports

WBO Welterweight Champ to Visit Israel

By Malkah Fleisher

Manny Pacquiao, the World Boxing Organization welterweight champion, will visit Israel after his title defense fight against Timothy Bradley on June 9, according to his Jewish promoter Bob Arum in a report by JTA.

Not A Jew - Jew

Punch The Other Cheek

By Not a Jew -> Jew

The problem with turning the other cheek is: it doesn’t work. Not with bullies. Not even with Catholic school bullies. Because bullies don’t consult the “Good Book” before they do bad things.

Not A Jew - Jew

Suspended For Being Too Jewish?

By Not a Jew -> Jew

My earliest thought of Judaism came in Catholic school, when I cussed out my grade three teacher for being an anti-Semite. I was no Biblical expert at the age of nine, but even my cursory understanding of the Bible told me that Christians had a heck of a lot in common with Jews.

Not A Jew - Jew

Premature Jew – Bashing

By Not a Jew -> Jew

I was Jew-bashed, and almost killed, before I had my first thought of becoming a Jew.

Jewish / Religion

Vatican Rep Wants Alliance With Jews, Muslims, to Combat Gay Marriage

By Malkah Fleisher

A Vatican representative has issued a call for the world’s foremost religions to unite to take a stand against gay marriage. Archbishop Antonio Mennini, the “Apostolic Nuncio” (Vatican representative) to Great Britain has proposed enlisting the help of all Christian denominations, as well as Jews and Muslims, to oppose the proposition of legalizing gay marriage […]

Impact Of Women On Jewish History/Prof. L. Jackson

Sister Rose Thering: Sister Rose's Passion

By Prof. Livia Bitton-Jackson

Sister Rose's Passion is a documentary film on the life of Sister Rose Thering, a life that stood for love of Jews, for fighting prejudice, anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.

MUSSAR – Avi Ganz

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Freedom Is the Ownership of Time

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