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April 5, 2010
Israel envoy to the U.S.: Bilateral ties are ‘great’
Israel\’s Ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren, on Sunday described the ties between Israel and the U.S. as \’great.\’
Jewish groups outraged at papal preacher’s Good Friday homily
Father Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the Pontifical Household, provoked international controversy for his April 2 remarks comparing recent criticism of the Church to the “collective violence” suffered by Jews. Towards the conclusion of his Good Friday homily in St. Peter’s Basilica, Father Cantalamessa preached:
China’s Ancient Jewish Enclave
Through a locked door in the coal-darkened boiler room of No. 1 Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Kaifeng, there’s a well lined with Ming Dynasty bricks. It’s just a few yards deep and still holds water. Guo Yan, 29, an eager, bespectacled native of this Chinese city on the flood plains of the Yellow River about 600 miles south of Beijing, led me to it one recent Friday afternoon, past the doormen accustomed to her visits.
Oren says Israel wants peace deal
Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren said Sunday Israel\’s desire to negotiate peace with the Palestinians hasn\’t weakened.
The English-speaking world no longer sees Jews as greedy villains.Old-style anti-Semitism is dying
An interesting analysis in New York’s Jewish Daily Forward, “Anti-Semitism and the recession”, contends that Jewish history has changed course, for the better. Looking back at late 2008, it says:\n\n … if ever the country seemed primed for a revived outbreak of the populist formula equating Wall Street with Jews and both of these with evil, this was a moment when the stars were aligned in malignant confluence.
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