News tagged with 'jews'. Found 80 tagged news.

'Vindicated' Eckstein finally gets official appreciation from Jewish organizations

Jerusalem :: Israel | 12 days ago

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, got the thanks he's been looking for from the organized Jewish world on Monday at a reception at the United Jewish Communities General Assembly. Eckstein, who started...

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Ukrainian Jews rally against Iran

Jerusalem :: Israel | 13 days ago

The Ukrainian Jewish Committee held a rally to protest Iran’s nuclear program and its threats to Israel and the United States. More than 20 committee members demonstrated Tuesday across from the Iranian Embassy in Kiev. The protesters held posters reading...

Tags: holocaust, jews, Israeli, Iran, israel, Tzipi Livni, UJC General Assembly

Baptist raises hell in Jewish dialogue

Sydney :: Australia | 13 days ago

Jewish leaders that Jews were "going to hell" and faced a fate "worse than the Holocaust" because they had not accepted Jesus as their saviour. But Pastor Kevin Harris of the Illawarra Community Baptist Church in Wollongong says his comments were "misunderstood...

Tags: holocaust, jews, Jesus Christ

Top Job for Zionist under Obama: Change???

West Lake Stevens :: WA :: USA | 17 days ago

Posted by Waqas

Its disturbing to see a pro-war Zionist, Rahm Emanuel elected as chief of staff under Obama. Seems some things really dont change at all. Any Republican who is for the war shouldn’t be scared of the “white flag of surrender”. Obama looks,...

Tags: Obama, Jews, So Called Change

Israel and the Jewish vote

Jerusalem :: Israel | 18 days ago

Some suggest this extraordinary result reflects the diminished centrality of Israel to American Jews. Lamenting surveys that point to a declining attachment to Israel and other polls suggesting Israel is not an important voting issue, they worry that...

Tags: Israel, obama, jews, barack, voters, black, Agudath Israel, Israeli, U.S

New synagogue opens old wounds in Jerusalem

Jerusalem :: Israel | 18 days ago

A synagogue newly reopened in Jerusalem's Old City has worried Arab neighbors and Palestinian leaders who accuse Israel of using its political power to push them out and shift the city's religious balance in favor of Jews.   Israelis say the work in the...

Tags: palestinian, jews, Jerusalem, Palestinians

Obama Victory Redraws Political Map

Seattle :: WA :: USA | 25 days ago

Barack Obama’s stunning victory on Tuesday opened a new chapter in American history, redrawing the electoral map and signaling that whatever concerns voters had about his inexperience and race were dwarfed by a sweeping desire for change and a comfort...

Tags: obama, election, democrat, vote, senator, republicans, president, poll, Barack Obama, mccain, barack, presidential election, presidential, democrats, john, john mccain, jews

Chinese diplomat honored for saving Jews

Vienna :: Austria | 25 days ago

Feng Shan Ho was Chinese consul-general in Vienna from 1938-1940 and issued visas to Austrian Jews, enabling them to escape the Nazis. He died in San Francisco in 1997 at the age of 96, before his deeds were recognized. Shunqing Wang, the Chinese Embassy's...

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Democrats in Congress wary of overreaching

Washington :: DC :: USA | 26 days ago

President-elect Barack Obama is facing a Congress with bulked-up Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate to put much of his agenda into law. Obama will inherit a Congress with Democratic House and Senate majorities comparable to those enjoyed...

Tags: Senate, jews, New Congress Includes, House of Representatives, More House, Republican Tony Strickland, Portland Oregonian

Israel denounces UN Human Rights Council

Jerusalem :: Israel | 27 days ago

Israel is accusing the Human Rights Council of targeting the Jewish state in an obsessive and discriminatory way, but Egypt says it is imperative that the U.N. body investigate violations of Palestinian rights. The performance of the council, which replaced...

Tags: jews, UN Rights Council, Human Rights Council, Israel