Germany Ordaining 1st Rabbis Since 1942
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More than 60 years after the Nazis shut down Germany's only rabbinical school, the first rabbis will be ordained Thursday in a ceremony welcomed by many as confirmation that Jewish life can again flourish in ...
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The historic visit of President Moshe Katsav to Vienna today happens to follow the recent publication of "Reports from Israel," 13 volumes of memorandums dispatched by Austrian diplomats - first counselors, ...
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NEW YORK, Dec. 6 -- A panel of rabbis gave permission Wednesday for same-sex commitment ceremonies and ordination of gays within Conservative Judaism, a wrenching change for a movement that occupies the middle ground between orthodoxy and liberalism in Judaism.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit Israel in March and during the trip mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Jewish state, her spokesman said on Wednesday.
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Germany's largest synagogue, featuring golden mosaic tiles and a star-spangled blue dome, reopened Friday after more than a year of renovations to restore its beauty following decades of neglect.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 6 -- A panel of rabbis opened the way Wednesday to allow same-sex commitment ceremonies and the ordination of gays within Conservative Judaism, which occupies a difficult middle ground between orthodoxy and liberalism in American Judaism.
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WARSAW -- Jewish community leaders and Warsaw officials lighted the candles of a large menorah in the center of the capital yesterday for Hanukkah, a rare public observance of a Jewish holiday in Poland. Israel's chief rabbi, Yona Metzger, chanted Hebrew prayers as he and Warsaw Deputy Mayor Andrzej Urbanski were lifted by an industrial crane to the top of ...
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A trio of retired Jewish major leaguers will try to help grow professional baseball in Israel in this year's opening season of the Israel Baseball League, organizers said Monday.
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BERLIN, Aug 5  (IPS) - After a period of what many felt was collective  suspicion, Germany's Muslims are  searching new ways of  recovering identity.
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German leaders hailed the ordination as a milestone in the rebirth of Jewish life here.
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Berlin- The leader of Germany's Jewish community was on Wednesday holding a hastily-arranged meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel after accusing a cabinet minister of anti-Semitism. Charlotte Knobloch, ...
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The about-to-be-completed 73-volume Schottenstein edition of the Talmud has helped attract a new audience for the rabbinic texts.
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Israel's President Moshe Katzav will arrive in Austria next week for the first-ever official visit by an Israeli head of state, an official announcement in Vienna said Tuesday.
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The Pope has revised a section of the old Latin liturgy that castigated the Jews. But it still calls for their conversion. Jewish leaders are up in arms
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There were mixed feelings in Israel yesterday as the Holy Land awaited the arrival of the world&#39;s most celebrated kabbalist to share Jewish New Year.
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Gerhard Schroeder, in the first visit to Libya by a German head of government, on Friday praised leader Moammar Gadhafi&#39;s ``remarkable&#39;&#39; change in the course of a country once shunned for its support of terrorism.
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Three rabbis have been ordained in Dresden in eastern Germany in the first such ceremony in the country since the mass murder of Jews in the Holocaust.