<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.congoo.com/css/rss.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Jewish-Interest News - Congoo</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=12&amp;catid=283</link><description>News Feed for - Jewish-Interest</description><item><title>Funding for Diaspora Jewry in disarray as agencies duel</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96368269&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T04:02:00</pubDate><description>WASHINGTON - Threatening to shake the fragile structure of the American Jewish federations' umbrella organization, one of the key partners for overseas funding has turned down a proposed agreement on </description><source>Haaretz</source></item><item><title>Jewish leaders ask Harper to trash Tory flyer</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96363255&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T02:46:00</pubDate><description>Jewish leaders Harper tory flyer community adv.lastSection userCookie hdCookie null hdCookie else (hdCookie null) Email: (or username) Password: Invalid Email/Password combination. Passwords are case </description><source>Globe and Mail</source></item><item><title>Jewish Agency may 'borrow' government money to avoid deficit</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96360283&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T02:06:00</pubDate><description>Officials close to discussions between the Jewish Agency and the government over helping to shore up the agency's financial condition have told The Jerusalem Post in recent days that under no circumstances </description><source>Jerusalem Post</source></item><item><title>Zionist rabbis back rebellious soldiers</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96359353&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T01:54:00</pubDate><description>Leading religious Zionist rabbis convened late Sunday night in Jerusalem and reiterated their support for soldiers who refuse to follow IDF orders calling to evacuate Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria. </description><source>Jerusalem Post</source></item><item><title>Book calls Jews an â??inventionâ??</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96352885&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T03:04:00</pubDate><description>NEW YORK, Nov 24 â?? Despite the fragmented and incomplete historical record, experts pretty much agree that some popular beliefs about Jewish history simply donâ??t hold up: there was no sudden expulsion </description><source>Malaysian Insider</source></item><item><title>Jewish settlements may be brought to a halt</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96370251&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T04:23:00</pubDate><description>Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is hoping to relaunch stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks by convincing his cabinet to freeze West Bank settlement construction for ten months. Israeli </description><source>Malaysia Sun</source></item><item><title>Neo-Nazi sought for attempted murder in bomb attack</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96369480&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T04:14:00</pubDate><description>CALGARY (CBC) - Calgary police are looking for a self-proclaimed white supremacist and a teenager suspected of leaving explosive devices outside an apartment unit that were later detonated in a nearby </description><source>Yahoo! Canada</source></item><item><title>Ask the Rabbi: 'Passive euthanasia'</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96367849&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T03:56:00</pubDate><description>Unfortunately, the health system has not implemented the passive-euthanasia hospital committees advocated by the 2006 Steinberg Commission.    (The full text of this article is available free)</description><source>Keep Media</source></item><item><title>Overcoming religious prejudices through education: the experience of Bethlehem University</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96365220&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T03:21:00</pubDate><description>Ø¢ RestaurantsØ¢ |Ø¢ MuseumsØ¢ |Ø¢ GalleriesØ¢ |Ø¢ Health ClubsØ¢ |Ø¢ HotelsØ¢ |Ø¢ CinemaØ¢ |Ø¢ HoroscopeØ¢ |Ø¢ WeatherØ¢ |Ø¢ GalleryØ¢ |Ø¢ ClassifiedsØ¢ |Ø¢ Competitions</description><source>Daily News Egypt</source></item><item><title>Mubarak warns Israel over Jerusalem construction</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96301154&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T03:32:00</pubDate><description>- Powered by CAIRO: Egypts president on Sunday criticized Israeli construction in occupied East Jerusalem, telling his Israeli counterpart that settlement activity in the disputed sector of the holy city </description><source>Lebanon Daily Star</source></item><item><title>Mubarak, Peres meeting shows splits over Jerusalem</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96214176&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T03:22:00</pubDate><description>AFP, Cairo Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres on Sunday acknowledged differences over the contentious issue of Jerusalem, after talks in Cairo. 'I don't deny there </description><source>The New Nation</source></item><item><title>Jerusalem, Weisz &amp; Henry Scoop Standard Awards</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96316205&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T01:26:00</pubDate><description>Rachel Weisz in A Streetcar Named Desire The Royal Court converted four of its 11 nominations in this years 55th annual Evening Standard Theatre Awards (See News, 9 Nov 2009), which were announced today </description><source>Whatsonstage.com</source></item><item><title>Bullish Iran insists war games are an exercise in protecting nuclear plants</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96258979&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T01:49:00</pubDate><description>Iran yesterday began large-scale air defence war games aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack. State TV reported the five-day drill will cover an area a third of the size of Iran and spread </description><source>Belfast Telegraph</source></item><item><title>Palestine: Two homes demolished in Jerusalem</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96355327&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T00:48:00</pubDate><description>IMEMC &amp; Agencies: The Israeli Authorities demolished on Tuesday two Palestinians homes in Beit Hanin and in Wadi kadum, in East Jerusalem. The Beit Hanina house was home to five Palestinians for the last </description><source>Muslim News</source></item><item><title>Palestine: East Jerusalem settlements continue to expand</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96355055&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T00:44:00</pubDate><description>IMEMC News: As part of the 3,000 units scheduled to be constructed in the coming months in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, construction has begun in Ras al-Amud, Pisgat Ze'ev and a number of other East </description><source>Muslim News</source></item><item><title>Zambish: Netanyahu Freezing Bids in Heart of Jerusalem</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96354204&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T00:34:00</pubDate><description>(IsraelNN.com) Secretary-General Ze'ev Hever of the Amana movement for housing in Judea and Samarai said Monday that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was freezing construction bids in Jerusalem. During </description><source>Israel National News</source></item><item><title>Nazi hunter sees threat worse than Holocaust denial</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96368256&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T04:01:00</pubDate><description>European anti-Semites are pushing a new line â??more pernicious than Holocaust denialâ? to denigrate the murder of six million Jews, warns veteran Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff.  Read more .</description><source>The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles</source></item><item><title>New anti-Semitism monitor sees her role as reactive, proactive</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96368255&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T04:01:00</pubDate><description>Hannah Rosenthal knows her new position fighting anti-Semitism will include responding to anti-Jewish attacks and rhetoric, but she also figures to be heavily involved in outreach, too.  Read more .</description><source>The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles</source></item><item><title>Gateways' Russian American Jewish Experience (RAJE) Newly Top-Rated Jewish Nonprofit </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96345084&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T23:10:00</pubDate><description>RAJE, a Division of Gateways, First Place Winner in 2009 Jewish Choice Awards from GreatNonprofits, GuideStar's Nonprofit Technology Partner NEW YORK, Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Gateways' Russian American </description><source>Reuters</source></item><item><title>Life in Jerusalem's city of three faiths</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96152022&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T08:06:00</pubDate><description>Jerusalem's Old City is a district containing a number of holy sites venerated by Muslims, Christians and Jews. The BBC's Heather Sharp, who moved into a home within its walls last year, reports on daily </description><source>BBC</source></item><item><title>Principle &amp; pragmatism</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96346181&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T23:03:00</pubDate><description>Yesterday, according to the Hebrew calendar, marked David Ben-Gurion's 36th yahrzeit. A founding father of Israel and its first prime minister, he died on December 1, 1973 at 87. In considering the lessons </description><source>Jerusalem Post</source></item><item><title>Israeli captive soldier's family meets ministers (AFP)</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96269090&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T15:15:00</pubDate><description>TEL AVIV (AFP) The family of an Israeli soldier held captive by Gaza militants since 2006 met senior government officials on Monday amid reports of progress in talks to free him in a Palestinian prisoner </description><source>AFP via Yahoo!</source></item><item><title>Neo-Nazi sought for attempted murder in bomb attack</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96344665&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T04:14:00</pubDate><description>CALGARY (CBC) - Calgary police are looking for a self-proclaimed white supremacist and a teenager suspected of leaving explosive devices outside an apartment unit that were later detonated in a nearby </description><source>Yahoo! Canada</source></item><item><title>Terra Incognita: Where is the banality of the Jews?</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96342940&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T20:51:00</pubDate><description>The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall reminds us once again of the theory of the 'banality of evil.' It is important to explore the way in which contemporary thought views the actions of </description><source>Jerusalem Post</source></item><item><title>Borderline Views: 'Dispatches' and Anglo-Jewish self-confidence</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96342864&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=283</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T20:50:00</pubDate><description>On the day that my column appears in the newspaper, I invariably wake up to a full inbox of messages, the vast majority of which take issue with the sentiments expressed, while not a few are personal </description><source>Jerusalem Post</source></item></channel></rss>