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Pro-Israel Rally in NYC

Rally in support of Israel’s war in Gaza in NYC
Photo is by Dan Sieradski of the rally for Israel in New York on January 6th 2009, he has even more on Flickr, as well.

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Parents Name Child After Hitler

Heath Campbell and his wife, Deborah, have named their three young children JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, and Adolf Hitler Campbell. Yes, for real. Even though they’ve gotten their birthday cakes from Wal-Mart for two years previous, they decided to expand their horizons. However, ShopRite refused to personalize a birthday cake for [...]

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“Israeli Victims Bore the Maximum Torture Marks”

During the time I spent streaming CNN-IBN and CNN International online to get up-to-the-minute information on the Mumbai attacks, I had a bad feeling about the people in the Chabad House. After looking at the pictures of the aftermath, it was sickening, but not surprising, to hear that the terrorists had treated the Jewish victims [...]

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Obama Family’s Jewish Ties

I hadn’t heard of this earlier, but I could also just be the last person to find out: President-elect Barack Obama’s cousin-in-law is an African-American Jewish rabbi, Capers Funnye. I really like one of his quotes in the article:
“I often like to tell new people that when you start studying Judaism, every time you get [...]

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