A vacant single family home that was reduced to charred rubble after an overnight fire was being inspected for evidence of arson, a top fire official said this morning.
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The High Court of Justice on Wednesday issued a temporary injunction ordering that a plot of land in the predominantly Jewish town of Rakefet be set aside for an Israeli Arab couple who had been previously denied entry to the community for “lack of suitability.”
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Arsonists set fire to a Chabad school in Kiev on Wednesday evening. Entire sections of the the Simcha School were torched, reported Rabbi Mordechai Levenhartz, who worked with firefighters as they tried to put out the flames.
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Police are investigating a third suspected hate crime at New York’s Columbia University after a swastika was spray-painted on the office door of a Jewish faculty member on Wednesday.
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The truth is out there, and Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich had no trouble offering his version of it when asked Tuesday night about his UFO sighting.
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Prosecutors grappled Wednesday with what charges, if any, to file against the 10-year-old boy who admitted that he set a fire last week that charred more than 38,000 acres and destroyed 21 homes in northern Los Angeles County.
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Strong words from Democratic presidential contender Dennis Kucinich may be nothing new, but his comments to a newspaper Tuesday questioning President Bush’s mental health are raising a few eyebrows.

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Israel’s foreign minister and the chairman of the Democratic National Committee will speak at the opening session of the largest annual gathering of Jewish leadership in the world, the United Jewish Communities (UJC) General Assembly, Nov. 11-13 in Nashville.
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Anger over a cellular phone antenna ignited violence in an ordinarily quiet Arab town in Israel’s north early Tuesday, with hundreds of rioters pelting police on an arrest raid with rocks, police said. Nearly two dozen people were wounded, two of them seriously.
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The U.S. Navy rescued the crew of a North Korean cargo ship off the coast of Somalia Tuesday, after it was attacked by unidentified men who took control of part of the vessel.
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The wife of a kidnapped Israeli soldier made her plea to Jewish student and advocacy groups around the world.
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A Jewish convert was sentenced to seven years in prison Tuesday for collaborating with a Palestinian militant — his brother.
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Twenty-four-year-old Katherine Ann Olson was looking to make extra money babysitting, so she did what many young people do: go to the Web to check job postings on the popular Web site, Craigslist.com. She had success with a job hunt on Craigslist.com before. She worked as a nanny for more than a year.
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IDF troops attacked terrorist strongholds in southern Gaza Sunday night killing one Hamas terrorist in fierce fighting near the Sufa Crossing. Monday morning, the IDF conducted counter terror operations in northern Gaza which ended before noon.
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A new Jewish radio station is broadcasting across northwest London.
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Two university campuses were gripped by grief this morning, a day after a fast-moving fire swept through a beach house at a resort in North Carolina and killed seven college students during a weekend getaway.

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A San Francisco performance artist charged with prematurely torching the Burning Man festival’s namesake effigy in August has been arrested on suspicion of trying to set fire to the historic Grace Cathedral, police said Monday.
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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a dispute involving Elizabeth Taylor over ownership of a Vincent van Gogh painting. The painting is claimed by descendants of a Jewish woman who fled Nazi Germany.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, 62, announced Monday at noon that he has a microscopic-sized growth in his prostate gland.  He said that surgery to remove it is tentatively scheduled for the coming months, and that no chemotherapy or radiation treatments are required.
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People looking to walk into an Apple retailer and buy an iPhone with cash will be out of luck. The company is now accepting only credit or debit card payments for the devices so they can track who purchases the phone, according to an employee at the Apple Store in New York’s SoHo neighborhood.
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Israel’s attorney general told the government on Monday it could not cut electrical power to the Gaza Strip as part of its sanctions against the Hamas controlled territory, although he did approve other measures.
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Jews arrived at the Yad Yair synagogue for morning prayers on Friday to the horrific site of Torah scrolls and holy books consumed in a blaze that destroyed the building.
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SHMAIS.com has learned that Chabad of California has opened its 70-acre campus in Running Springs to all firefighters and relief personnel working to combat area wildfires.
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Halle Berry was apologizing last night after she’d made an apparent anti-Semitic joke while taping “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” Friday afternoon.
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