http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=12&catid=283News Feed for - Jewish-Interesthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235913756&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T21:00:00The Belz Hasidic sect is one of the largest in the world. The groom is the admor's grandson, Shalom Roke'ach, who turned 18 a few weeks ago. The bride is Hannah Batya Penet, of a rank-and-file Belz family. Haaretzhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235891563&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T19:00:00The Bradford Synagogue in West Yorkshire, Britain was facing a dwindling population and serious financial woes when the local Muslim community reached into its pockets to save the day. Bradford, a city Haaretzhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235879112&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T18:00:00The Bradford Synagogue in West Yorkshire, Britain was facing a dwindling population and serious financial woes when the local Muslim community reached into its pockets to save the day. Bradford, a city Haaretzhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235866640&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T14:33:00Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a letter of condolence to President Obama on Tuesday morning in the wake of the tornado. A Chabad center in Oklahoma City has opened its building as a shelter for Haaretzhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235822795&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T12:00:00Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban risked further isolation in the European Union after comparing a remark made by Chancellor Angela Merkel with Nazi Germany's military seizure of the country in World BusinessWeekhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235813780&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T03:25:00U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will try during a weeklong Mideast tour to bring Syria's warring parties to peace talks and to revive negotiations for a two-state agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. BusinessWeekhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235801285&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T01:11:00lity None Specified Categories Ethnic & Cultural Talks & Lectures Tags educational lecture interview speaker discussion talk lecturer jccsf Tuesday, May 21 7:00p Jewish Community Center of San Francisco San Francisco Chroniclehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235772224&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T01:00:00JERUSALEM, May 20 (Xinhua) -- A Jewish man had carried out a shooting rampage at a bank in southern Israel on Monday, in which four people were killed and seven others wounded, local media reported.Police People.com.cnhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235799954&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T00:51:00PR Newswire WASHINGTON, May 20, 2013 WASHINGTON, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC welcomes Secretary of State John Kerry's appointment of Ira Forman as Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, Reutershttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235844292&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T18:56:00Center Field: "In a world obsessed with trivial pursuits, few presidents and prime ministers can avoid all idiotic controversies."Jerusalem Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235914141&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T20:52:00United States Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is to travel to Poland on Wednesday to visit Jewish communities, the site of the former Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Jerusalem Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235912640&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T20:52:00Special envoys Hussain, Ira Forman and imams to travel to Poland to visit Jewish communities, concentration camps.Jerusalem Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235910599&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T20:42:00Life After the Holocaust, at 90 and Beyond Searching for Strategies To Help Scarred Survivors Age With Grace Life Goes On: Holocaust survivors Barbara Kenig Drotow (left) and Stella Esformes dance at Forwardhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235910208&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T20:40:00Footage of the Oklahoma City tornado on Tuesday. Photo: YouTube. Prominent international Jewish organizations are coming to the aid of the victims of Monday's devastating tornado that ripped through the Algemeiner.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235908194&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T20:30:00SPA -- An investigation into a 1944 Nazi massacre in the Tuscan hill town of Sant 'Anna di Stazzema, which left 560 dead, will not be pursued, the chief public prosecutor in Stuttgart said Tuesday, according Saudi Press Agencyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235873654&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T17:09:00President Yudhoyono Blamed for Targeting Minorities getty images Poor Choice? President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia is getting an award from Rabbi Arthur Schneier's Appeal of Conscience Foundation. Forwardhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235862136&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T14:10:00WASHINGTON (EJP)---US Secretary of State John Kerry announced Monday the appointment of Ira Forman as the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. Ira Forman, a graduate of both Harvard and European Jewish Presshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235862134&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T14:10:00BRUSSELS (EJP)---European Parliament President Martin Schulz has demanded a clarification in Belgian daily newspaper Metro which, his spokesperson said, misquoted him as saying that "Hungary wants to European Jewish Presshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235861073&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T14:07:00How One Rabbi Helps Patients Face Terminal Disease Edited By Abigail Jones Rabbi Charles Rudansky brings Irving Silver a challah each time he visits. It's their tradition: Rudansky carries the bread, Forwardhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235860738&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T14:05:00The U.S. religious freedoms report highlights continued 'flourishing' of the Passover blood libel as well as Holocaust denial. The U.S. State Department's religious freedoms report describes ?a continued Haaretzhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235855347&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T13:35:00Chabad Jewish Center Offers Help to Oklahoma Tornado Victims Netanyahu Offers Israel Condolences Over Monster Twister A Chabad center in Oklahoma City opened its building as a shelter for those displaced Forwardhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235837411&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T13:19:00JERUSALEM, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Justice Minister and chief peace negotiator, Tzipi Livni, said on Tuesday that Israel is holding an intensive dialogue with the United States on restarting the peace CHINAdailyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235844278&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T12:37:00It's AB Yehoshua's latest: Some excerpts and my comments:- [Zionism's] definition...[is a] simple concept [but] has turned into one of the most confused and complicated notions of identity, and its overuse Jerusalem Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235837271&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T12:03:00Rabbis and Activists Call for Action Against Homophobia Jewish LGBT leaders are joining the chorus of condemnation around the West Village murder of a gay man over the weekend by a convicted felon who Forwardhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235695802&Channel_ID=12&Category_ID=2832013-05-21T12:41:00BERLIN, May 21 (UPI) -- The composer's great-granddaughter Katharina Wagner has promised the "prompt" release of family letters, coinciding with the musician's 200th birthday Wednesday, Tribune Newspapers UPI