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WASHINGTON—A string of controversies has reignited the pluralism wars, prompting a loose alliance of American and Israeli Jews to wage a renewed campaign against Orthodox control in the Jewish state. More ... Muslims placed personal messages against antisemitism on the Facebook page of a Muslim reformist and author. The hundreds of personal messages on Irshad Manji’s Facebook fan page were a thank you to the European Union of Jewish Students for the group’s statement earlier last month condemning the Swiss vote to ban minarets in Switzerland. More ... A hacker attacked Jewish Web sites in Boulder, Colo., posting antisemitic messages. The Web sites of two Boulder synagogues, Bonai Shalom and Har HaShem, were defaced. The messages compared the Jewish community to a terrorist organization, a company that maintains the Web sites told the Denver Post. More ... A 94-year-old Holocaust survivor died, leaving behind at least 2,500 descendants. Yitta Schwartz of Kiryas Joel in New York had five generations of descendants. More ... A Nevada teacher who reportedly denied the Holocaust in front of her students will not lose her job. More ... WASHINGTON—As the debate over how to combat climate change heats up, the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life is ramping up its efforts to help make the Jewish community a key player in the discussion. More ... Micah Naftalin, a leader in human rights activism on behalf of Soviet Jews, has died. Naftalin, 76, the national director of UCSJ, an independent grassroots human rights organization operating across the former Soviet Union, died in Washington, DC. More ... |
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