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Jan, 2012

Bullying Victim Fights Backs

Related Videos Paige Pless, a sophomore at Tech Valley High School, talks about being bullied and how a school project led her to realize her desired career path: working with the Anti-Defamation League as an educator in their “Be An Ally” program. Jan 31 2012 South Glens Falls High School students were treated to two anti-bullying presentations following the death of 6 students over the last few years. Dec 15 2010 CBS6 has partnered with The Anti-Defamation League, Neil and Jane Golub and Price Chopper Supermarkets to empower people to take action when they see bullying.

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In Israel, A Non-Stop Debate On Possible Iran Strike

Speculation is mounting over whether Israel will attack Iran's nuclear facilities sometime soon. Israelis see Iran as a threat, but many wonder whether it would be worth the price.

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In Israel, A Nonstop Debate On Possible Iran Strike

Speculation is mounting over whether Israel will attack Iran's nuclear facilities sometime soon. Israelis see Iran as a threat, but many wonder whether it would be worth the price.

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UN leader to seek settlement 'gesture' from Israel

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has indicated he will press Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday to make a “gesture” on settlement building in the Palestinian territories to boost peace talks.

BBC censors 'Palestine' from rapper's performance

The BBC has admitted it was ‘overcautious’ in editing the word ‘Palestine’ from an artist’s performance on Radio 1Xtra and has said it is ‘looking to learn’ from the way it handled the situation. However, in a ruling released today (31/01/12), the BBC Trust said the final content that was broadcast on the Charlie Sloth Hip Hop M1X – a music programme – was

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Gingrich: 'No idea' about robocall on Romney, Holocaust survivors

Newt Gingrich denied any knowledge Tuesday of a robocall hitting Florida households that accuses rival Mitt Romney of forcing Holocaust survivors to eat non-kosher food — though his campaign later acknowledged it was behind the attack.

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Austria row at 'new Jews' remark

31 January 2012 Last updated at 14:35 ET Austrian President Heinz Fischer has withdrawn an award from a far-right leader who allegedly likened his supporters to Jews under the Nazis.

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Gingrich Robo-Call: Romney Took Kosher Food From Holocaust Survivors

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any nastier, some Florida voters today have been greeted with pre-recorded telephone calls saying Mitt Romney took kosher meals away from Holocaust survivors. “Holocaust survivors who for the first time were forced to eat non-kosher because Romney thought…

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For some schoolchildren in southern Italy, meeting their first Jew on Holocaust Day

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.

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Gingrich Denies Knowledge of Holocaust Robo-Call

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Israel says it will deport South Sudanese migrants

Now that their country has gained independence, thousands of migrants from South Sudan must leave Israel or face deportation, Israel's Interior Ministry said Tuesday.Some 7,000 South Sudanese are believed …

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Gingrich Disavows Knowledge of Holocaust Robo-Call

Newt Gingrich on Tuesday disavowed any knowledge of a robo-call by his campaign claiming that rival Mitt Romney deprived Holocaust survivors of the kosher food they ate in Massachusetts nursing homes when he served as governor–an allegation intended to rally Florida’s sizable Jewish voting bloc against Romney. “As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney vetoed a bill paying for kosher food for our seniors in nursing homes,” says the call, which was first reported by The New York Post. “Holocaust survivors, who for the first time, were forced to eat nonkosher because Romney thought $5 was too much to pay for our grandparents to eat kosher.

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Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony held in Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park

London SE1 website team London SE1 community website London SE1 community website The Mayor of Southwark hosted the borough's Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations at the Imperial War Museum and Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park on Friday. Cllr Lorraine Lauder MBE was joined by Holocaust survivor Vera Schaufeld and Rabbi Dr Moshe Freedman from the Chief Rabbi's office.

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Israel to deport South Sudanese

JERUSALEM – Israel's Interior Ministry says thousands of people from South Sudan must leave or face deportation.

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Dolan's emotional visit to a Holocaust museum

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL — A visibly moved Archbishop Timothy Dolan toured Israel ’s Holocaust Museum Tuesday in his most emotional day yet in the Holy Land.

Israel says it will deport South Sudanese

Israel's Interior Ministry says thousands of people from South Sudan must leave or face deportation.

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Worthwhile Canadian Analysis on the New Anti-Semitism

Canada's foreign minister, John Baird, believes that the anti-Israel double-standard in much of polite discourse today is simply another form of anti-Semitism.

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Poll: Most Jews Keep Kosher, Observe Shabbat Somehow

More than four of every five Israeli Jews believe in God and three-quarters of Israeli Jews keep kosher, according to a survey. The study, conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute’s Guttman Center and paid for by the Avi Chai Foundation, also found that 51 percent of Israeli Jews favor instituting civil marriage; in Israel, marriage is controlled by the religious authorities

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Tunisia's Jews shun 'migrate to Israel' idea

31 January 2012 Last updated at 04:41 ET By Wyre Davies BBC News, Tunisia In the wake of the Arab Spring, an Israeli government minister said that for their own safety all of Tunisia's remaining Jews should move to Israel. Hundreds of thousands of Jews once lived across North Africa and the Middle East before the creation of Israel in 1948. But the suggestion that the small communities that remain should disband has been largely met with derision – from the Jews themselves

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Italy: Neo-Fascists Claim Ezra Pound, His Family Protests

The American poet Ezra Pound might seem a strange sort of inspiration for a group of Italian neo-fascists. That is, until one remembers that Pound was an admirer of Benito Mussolini, a defender of Adolf Hitler and, that while living in Italy during World War II, he broadcast a series of anti-Semitic radio addresses calling for American neutrality.