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August 20, 2012
5:58 am

Swimmers in the Sea of Galilee (illustrative photo: Doron Horowitz/Flash90)

FBI investigated congressmen’s late-night swim in the Galilee — Politico

Website reports that Kansas lawmaker went for nude dip in the Sea of Galilee during trip last year

By Times of Israel staff

August 20, 2012
5:01 am

Double chai. Omri Casspi wearing number 36 for the Cleveland Cavaliers. (Photo credit: Howard Blas)

Omri Casspi denies he’s being sent packing

Cleveland said to buy out contract of first Israeli-born NBAer after mediocre season

By Joshua Davidovich

August 19, 2012
6:31 pm

From the 2012 film 'Match' (photo credit: Courtesy)

When the Luftwaffe was grounded — on a soccer field

Seventy years ago this month, a team in Nazi-held Kiev played a game — or games — of life-and-death soccer against their occupiers. Even today, it’s hard to separate the truth from the myth of what became known as the ‘Death Match’

By David Horovitz

August 19, 2012
1:34 pm

Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Dozens cancel move to Israel due to Iran threats

Jewish Agency head Natan Sharansky says potential immigrants are waiting for calmer times

By Aaron Kalman

August 19, 2012
1:09 pm

Czech Jewish leaders condemn ‘Nazi-style’ poster featuring a priest

Campaign opposes a government-sponsored plan to compensate 17 religious denominations for $3.69 billion for property nationalized after 1945

August 19, 2012
12:52 pm

Ex-Malaysian PM reasserts Israel ‘rules world by proxy’

American candidates must pledge loyalty to Israel and make ‘pilgrimage’ or risk losing the elections, claims Mahathir Mohamad

August 19, 2012
12:46 pm

New Reform wedding edition confronts same-sex ceremonies

‘A wedding is a wedding, whether it is between a man and woman, or two men or two women’

August 19, 2012
9:32 am

The rabbi of the Nigerian Ibo community recites a blessing in a Tel Aviv sukka. The Ibo tribe considers itself descendants of Ephraim (one of the ten lost tribes). (Photo credit: Yossi Zamir / Flash9)

How a film on Africa’s ‘lost’ Jewish tribes rekindled its maker’s own Jewish identity

Laurence Gavron splits her time between France, Israel and Africa — where, along with focusing her lens on ‘Jewish’ tribes, she’s now also begun a unique political career in Muslim-dominated Senegal

By Rina Bassist

August 19, 2012
4:30 am

Ban Ki-moon speaking at a climate change conference last year. (photo credit: CC-BY UNclimatechange, Flickr)

Jewish groups step up protest over UN head’s trip to Tehran

Ban Ki-moon should not visit a country whose leaders have ‘routinely, ritually, and sometimes daily called for the annihilation of a UN member state,’ says AJC

By Haviv Rettig Gur

August 19, 2012
4:07 am

Broward County Prison in Ft. Lauderdale. (photo credit: CC-BY Christopher Gosselin, Flickr)

Washington sues Florida over ending kosher meals in prison

From the web Reuters: Feds charge that state discriminates against Jewish prisoners by not offering kosher food

August 18, 2012
11:27 pm

In this May 9, 2012 file photo, Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. On Friday, Aug. 17, 2012, businessman Ofer Biton, an Israeli who helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Grimm during his 2010 campaign, was arraigned in New York on immigration fraud charges. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Former top aide to Rabbi Pinto arrested in NYC

Businessman Ofer Biton, who fundraised for Republican candidate, charged with lying about finances when applying for visa

August 18, 2012
10:11 pm

Among non-Jews in Poland, a curious revival — of Hebrew

Anna Lengiewicz says her friends and family were surprised and excited about her new studies. ‘They said it’s a very rare language, especially in Poland’

August 18, 2012
5:38 pm

The ADL's Abe Foxman. (photo credit: Courtesy Shilo Productions)

State Dept., ADL slam attacks on Palestinians

ADL: Israeli political, religious, cultural leaders ‘must come together to make clear that these manifestations of hate are unacceptable’

August 18, 2012
5:25 pm

Sex offender in Irish jail sues prison for kosher food

Ivan Peter Gan, a British convert to Judaism, convicted in Kilkenny of having sex with a mentally impaired woman

August 18, 2012
4:56 pm

The Malmö Synagogue, the city's one and only (photo credit: CC BY-SA jorchr, Wikimedia)

Jews and sympathizers march against anti-Semitism in Sweden

Malmö rally passes without incident, described as a success; most of the participants not Jewish, says organizer

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