case of a Jewish school accused of breaching race relations laws over admissions could have ramifications for other faith schools, ministers say.The Supreme Court case centres on the refusal of London school JFS to admit a boy whose mother converted to Judaism in a way that it does not accept.Appeal Court judges held that as Jews are an ethnic group, denying places on these grounds is racial discrimination.This...
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the tender age of 29, Yuri Foreman has already fulfilled his childhood dream.On 14 November in Las Vegas, he won the World Boxing Association (WBA) super welterweight champion, defeating Daniel Santos from Puerto Rico over 12 rounds.He then moved with his family to Israel, where he continued training, and then moved again to America, where he joined a grand tradition of immigrant Jewish boxers.This...
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ultra-Orthodox Jews demonstrated on Saturday at Intel Corp.'s new electronic chip plant in Israel, in protest against work taking place at the site on the Jewish Sabbath.Policemen dispersed the crowd and arrested several protesters for violent conduct, a police spokesman said.The protesters said opening the plant for work on Saturday was a desecration of the Sabbath, which runs from Friday night to...
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| Israeli authorities have arrested a Jewish-American extremist suspected of carrying out a series of high-profile hate crimes, security officials said Sunday.Police and Shin Bet security forces say Jack Teitel, a 37-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jewish West Bank settler, was behind the killing of two Arabs, the targeting of a peace activist and an attack on a breakaway Jewish sect over a period of 12 years.Authorities...
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German prosecutors have charged a 90-year-old alleged former Nazi SS member with the killing of 58 Jewish forced labourers, officials say.The man is accused of murdering the workers in Deutsch Schuetzen, a village in eastern Austria, at the end of World War II.The victims' remains were found in a mass grave in 1995 by the Austrian Jewish association.The German state court was told that on 29 March...
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Israeli police and Palestinian worshippers have clashed at Jerusalem's most sensitive religious site.Police arrested people who were throwing stones in the Temple Mount compound, known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, a police spokesman said.The site houses both the al-Aqsa mosque and the Jewish holy site, the Western Wall. A spokesman said police did not enter the al-Aqsa mosque itself.On Saturday,...
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Jewish settler has been charged in Israel with murdering two Palestinians and attacking left-wing Israeli, gay and messianic Jewish targets.Yaakov Teitel, an American immigrant who lives in the West Bank, faces 14 charges, including two counts of murder and three of attempted murder.Police called him a "Jewish terrorist" when he was arrested in October. His lawyer says he is mentally disturbed."It's...
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There's a new Jewish lobby in town. But wait, before you roll your eyes, this one is worth knowing.J Street, the self-described "pro-Israel, pro-peace" group, is a lot smaller and more liberal than its counterpart, the powerful American-Israel Public Affairs Committee. But like David and Goliath, it has succeeded in delivering a knock-out blow to the American Jewish debate on the Middle East.This week,...
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Jewish men were shot outside a synagogue Thursday in Los Angeles, prompting police to go on high alert to protect Jewish groups throughout the city.Authorities were careful to avoid terming the attack a hate crime, pending further inquiry. Police detained a suspect soon after the incident but released him several hours later after he cooperated with the investigation.Both victims were shot in the legs...
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90-year-old former member of the SS has been charged with 58 counts of murder for the 1945 killings of Jewish forced labourers in Austria.The man is suspected of the killings near the Austrian village of Deutsch Schuetzen, a German state court said in a statement today."On March 29, 1945, the accused and his accomplices brought at least 57 Jewish forced labourers in several groups to a nearby forest...
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