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NEW YORK (JTA)- A U.S. federal judge vacated a $174-million judgment against the Palestinian Authority. Relatives of Aharon Ellis, killed in a 2002 terrorist attack in Israel, won a $174-million judgment in 2006 after the Palestinian Authority refused to defend itself on charges that its officials had enabled terrorism, claiming the immunity of sovereign states. More ... NEW YORK (JTA)- Woody Allen is suing a clothing company for advertisements showing the actor dressed as a rabbi. Allen filed a $10 million lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan against American Apparel Inc. for using an image from one of the filmmaker's movies of him dressed as a rabbi. More ... NEW YORK (JTA)- The FBI has joined an investigation into the vandalism of a synagogue in northeastern Pennsylvania. Swastikas and the words "Juden" and "abschaum," German for "scum," were spray-painted on the doors of the Ohav Zedek synagogue in Wilkes-Barre, PA. An outdoor light belonging to the synagogue was also damaged last month. More ... NEW YORK (JTA)- Abby Mann, the Jewish screenwriter who won an Oscar for "Judgment at Nuremberg," has died. Mann, born Abraham Goodman, was 80 when he died, The Associated Press reported. More ... NEW YORK (JTA)- The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a Utah case involving religious monuments. The high court agreed to hear a case in the term beginning in October brought by the Summum religious group against Pleasant Grove City, which refused to allow the building of a religious monument in a park that houses a Ten Commandments monument. More ... NEW YORK (JTA)- The Anti-Defamation League criticized a New York Times advertisement in which evangelicals defend their efforts to convert Jews. Abraham Foxman, the ADL's national director, called the ad "offensive and insulting. More ... NEW YORK (JTA)- A famous kosher Italian bakery has an important local patron: Pope Benedict XVI. Wilma Limentani, the owner of the Boccione bakery in Rome's ancient ghetto, More ... NEW YORK - Pope Benedict XVI will make a historic visit to a New York synagogue the day before Passover. On Apr. 18, Park East Synagogue on Manhattan's Upper East Side will become the first American Jewish house of worship to host a papal visit. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops made the announcement. More ... NEW YORK (JTA)- Dozens of posters spreading antisemitic blood libel have appeared in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. The posters and leaflets warn parents to protect their children from Russian Jews as Passover approaches, according to reports in the Israeli media. More ... NEW YORK (JTA)- York University's practice of canceling classes on Jewish holidays is discriminatory, a panel found. An Ontario Human Rights Commission investigation has found that the practice violates the provincial Human Rights Code's protection against discrimination based on a person's "creed. More ... |
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