Yes, Virginia, there are Jews in Super Bowl history
Jewish Journal
January 31, 2012
With less than a minute to play in the biggest football game of his life, Jewish punter Josh Miller wanted a ham sandwich.
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January 31, 2012
Netanyahu chats on Facebook in Arabic
Jewish Journal
January 31, 2012
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a live Facebook chat with web surfers from the Arab world.
For some schoolchildren in southern Italy, meeting their first Jew on Holocaust Day
Jewish Journal
January 31, 2012
It was International Holocaust Memorial Day, and when I told my audience that I was a Jew, they burst into applause. I was speaking at the City Hall in this ancient seacoast town in Calabria, deep in southern Italy on the instep of the Italian boot. My audience consisted of some 100 schoolchildren aged 10-13, along with their teachers, city officials and a few parents.
Austrian politician slammed for comparing protests to Kristallnacht
Jewish Journal
January 31, 2012
The leader of an Austrian far-right political party was condemned for comparing protests by students in Vienna with the Nazi persecution of Jews during Kristallnacht.
Controversy grows in Israel over extension of Tal Law granting haredim army exemptions
Jewish Journal
January 31, 2012
When Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, granted a few hundred haredi Orthodox Jews an exemption from army service, it’s likely he never dreamed that 63 years later, tens of thousands of haredi Israelis would claim the exemption — or that the issue would be among the most contentious in modern Israel.
Canada’s foreign minister stresses strong support for Israel
Jewish Journal
January 31, 2012
The foreign minister of Canada emphasized his country\’s staunch support of Israel. “Israel has no greater friend in the world than Canada,” John Baird said Monday at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum.
Likud voters electing party chairman
Jewish Journal
January 31, 2012
Members of Israel\’s Likud Party went to the polls to elect a party chairman and a new Central Committee, more than a year before scheduled national elections.\n
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