Hatemonger charged in Maryland synagogue vandalism
Jewish Journal
August 5, 2010
Police arrested a man associated with hate groups throughout the United States and charged him with vandalizing a Maryland synagogue.
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FBI probing white powder mailed to Israeli Embassy
Jewish Journal
August 5, 2010
The FBI is investigating an envelope mailed to the Israeli Embassy in Washington containing a suspicious white powder.
Russia ordered to return documents to Chabad
Jewish Journal
August 5, 2010
A U.S. court ruled that the Russian Federation must return sacred documents to the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
Polish court upholds Mossad agent’s extradition
Jewish Journal
August 5, 2010
A Polish appeals court has upheld a decision to extradite an alleged Israeli Mossad agent suspected of involvement in the assassination of a Hamas leader in Dubai.
Kagan expected to win approval to high court
Jewish Journal
August 5, 2010
The U.S. Senate is expected to approve Elana Kagan to serve on the Supreme Court.
Elena Kagan wins Senate confirmation to Supreme Court
Jewish Journal
August 5, 2010
Elena Kagan was confirmed as the U.S. Supreme Court\’s 112th justice.
Prop. 8 Overturned, Judge Affirms Right to Gay Marriage
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
August 5, 2010
Robin Tyler’s home was full of television and radio reporters Wednesday afternoon, awaiting her reaction to Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn
Walker’s ruling on Proposition 8, and Tyler, a longtime gay activist, didn’t disappoint when Walker ruled that the voter approved ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
She cried.
Tyler has been fighting for gay rights since 1971, and she sees the Walker’s ruling as monumental.
Calif. Rabbis Respond to Prop. 8 Ruling
Jewish Journal
August 5, 2010
California Rabbis respond to the recent overturning Proposition 8
Orthodox rabbis release statement on respecting homosexuals
Jonah Lowenfeld
August 4, 2010
Proposition 8 was overturned in part because it placed “the force of [U.S.] law behind stigmas against gays and lesbians,” according to a ruling by Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker. Just days before, in a statement released in late July that draws extensively on Jewish law, a group of Orthodox rabbis and educators wrote that even though halachah prohibits homosexual sex and same-sex relationships, gay Jews in their communities shouldn’t be subjected to social stigma.
An Endowed Judaic Studies Chair … Where?
Jewish Journal
August 4, 2010
When you hear the name Idaho, you might picture fields of potatoes, vistas of jagged mountaintops, high-desert clusters of grazing sheep and — unfortunately — the stain of bigotry. You’d be accurate on three of four counts.
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