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June 4, 2012
German Jewish leader criticizes national soccer coach over Holocaust commemoration
Germany\’s top Jewish leader lashed out at the country\’s national soccer team manager for failing to properly commemorate the Holocaust ahead of the Euro 2012 soccer championship in Poland and Ukraine.
Ulpana activists begin march to Jerusalem
Hundreds of settlement activists began marching Monday from the Ulpana neighborhood on the outskirts of the Beit El settlement in the West Bank toward Jerusalem.
Jewish group provides Israeli technology to East Africa
Jewish Heart for Africa is now serving 250,000 people in East Africa with Israeli technologies.
Belarus Holocaust memorial vandalized
A Holocaust memorial in eastern Belarus was vandalized.
Syria: More leading from behind
The horrors currently unfolding in Syria offer further proof of what might reasonably be described as Kofi Annan’s law of international relations: Wherever Kofi Annan turns up, bloodshed is sure to follow.
Conservative rabbinic group issues guidelines for same-sex wedding rituals
A landmark vote last week by the Conservative movement’s rabbinic committee has established rituals for same-sex wedding ceremonies, affirming that same-sex marriages have “the same sense of holiness and joy as that expressed in heterosexual marriages.”