Biden: ‘Jewish heritage is American heritage’
Jewish Journal
May 22, 2013
Vice President Joe Biden said at a Jewish American Heritage Month reception that American and Jewish cultures are intertwined.
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May 22, 2013
FBI says man shot dead while being questioned about Boston bombings
Jewish Journal
May 22, 2013
An FBI agent shot and killed a Florida man who turned violent while being questioned about the Boston Marathon bombings early on Wednesday, the bureau said.
Top Claims Conference officials carried out own botched probe of 2001 fraud
Jewish Journal
May 22, 2013
A document obtained by JTA shows that top officials of the Claims Conference were sufficiently concerned by allegations of fraudulent restitution claims that they launched their own probe in 2001, nearly eight years before the $57 million scheme was finally detected.
Rescuers search Oklahoma tornado town ruins as recovery starts
Jewish Journal
May 22, 2013
Rescue workers with sniffer dogs picked through the ruins of an Oklahoma town on Wednesday to ensure no survivors remained buried after a deadly tornado left thousands homeless and trying to salvage what was left of their belongings.
Obituaries
Jewish Journal
May 22, 2013
Rubin Barasch died March 31 at 87. Survived by wife Lillian; daughters Marsha Evans, Cindy (Larry) Shilkoff; sons Billy, Daniel, Shel (Terry Logan); 6 grandchildren.
Is Sharansky the only one who doesn’t want confrontation at the Western Wall?
Shmuel Rosner
May 22, 2013
In the last two years, the Western Wall in Jerusalem — also known as the Kotel — has become a place of controversy as much as of worship. It’s the site of a battle that has long been waged by a group called Women of the Wall, who are demanding they be able to pray in the women’s section wearing tallits — Jewish prayer shawls — and also be permitted to read from the Torah, rights that the rabbi of the Kotel, backed by the police, wouldn’t give them.
Gun violence in America: Scandal!
Rob Eshman
May 22, 2013
Two years after his mother was shot and killed, Dallas Sonnier received a phone call from the police: His father had just been shot and killed.
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