Documents showing Lenin had Jewish roots on display
Jewish Journal
May 25, 2011
Documents showing that Soviet Communist leader Vladimir Lenin had a Jewish heritage are on display in Moscow.
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May 25, 2011
Hadassah offices closing as lifetime members increase
Jewish Journal
May 25, 2011
Sixteen Hadassah offices are closing in the United States as more than 24,000 women became life members of the organization this year. The closure of the offices nationwide, and the consolidation of five others, is part of an ongoing plan to streamline the organization and reduce costs that began three years ago.
Venezuelan Jews protest broadcast of ‘Protocols’
Jewish Journal
May 25, 2011
Venezuela’s largest Jewish advocacy group has protested to the government a state-run radio broadcast that positively referenced the anti-Semitic \”Protocols of the Elders of Zion.\” In a formal complaint filed this week with the Public Ministry, the Venezuelan Confederation of Israelite Associations denounced the broadcast in which journalist Cristina Gonzalez read the infamous text and suggested that listeners also should read it.
Not Mel Gibson
Danielle Berrin
May 25, 2011
Trying to determine the worst offender may seem a Sisyphean task considering the past year’s almost farcical uptick in anti-Semitic rants. It’s like separating your least favorite jelly beans from an overstuffed crate. But to their credit as artists, this bunch has at least provided Jew-hating vitriol so colorful and diverse, no one will get bored with the same bean (OK, Mel, you get to be the exception).
Obama says U.N.-declared Palestinian state a ‘mistake’
Jewish Journal
May 25, 2011
President Obama said in London that it would be a \”mistake\” for the Palestinians to go to the United Nations to proclaim a state. During a news conference Wednesday in the British capital with Prime Minister David Cameron, Obama called for the Palestinians and Israelis to return to the negotiating table.
PA official Salam Fayad released from hospital
Jewish Journal
May 25, 2011
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad was released from a Texas hospital, where he had been admitted with chest pains. Fayyad, 59, was released Tuesday afternoon from the Seton Medical Center in Austin two days after undergoing a heart catheterization to open a blocked artery. He did not suffer a heart attack, as was reported earlier.
Jewish community accounted for in Joplin tornado
Jewish Journal
May 25, 2011
Two Jewish brothers who were reported missing in the wake of a deadly tornado in Joplin, Mo., are safe. All the members of the small Jewish community in Joplin have now been accounted for, but many lost their homes and possessions in the tornado and are in need of basic supplies, according to reports.
Abbas: Speech left ‘nothing to build on’
Jewish Journal
May 25, 2011
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said there was nothing for peace talks to build on in Benjamin Netanyahu\’s address to the U.S. Congress.
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