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Jewish Philanthropist Celebrates Birth of Baby With $2 Million Gift to Chabad Shluchim

Mr. Gennady Bogolubov, a major supporter of Chabad activities, has made a $2 million gift to Chabad representatives, to be disbursed in individual stipends to all Shluchim in time for Rosh Hashana.Announced by Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky of Lubavitch Headquarters, the gift was made through the Bogolubov Simcha Fund, dedicated to assisting Chabad representatives during their respective family life-cycle events.Read More: @ ...

Jewish Owners of Nazi-Looted Art Sought by France

France launched a search for the Jewish owners of about 2,000 pieces of Nazi-plundered art, from Monets and Rubens to Renoirs, that hang in museums such as the Louvre and the Musee d’Orsay in Paris.Almost 70 years after World War II, France is making one of its biggest efforts to trace the Jewish owners of artworks stolen by the Nazis, ...

Jewish outfielder Ryan Braun named U.S. National League MVP

Ryan Braun, the slugging outfielder for the Milwaukee Brewers, was named the National League Most Valuable Player, making him the first Jewish ballplayer to win the award in nearly five decades.Braun, the son of an Israeli-born Jewish father and a Catholic mother, received 20 of 32 first-place votes and 388 points in voting announced by the Baseball Writers’ Association of ...

Jewish organizations laud South Sudan independence

Jewish community leaders throughout the world reacted to the declaration South Sudan’s independence, its establishment officially coming into effect at midnight between Friday and Saturday last week.The nascent African nation voted for independence in a referendum under the terms of a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of war. The new state has its capital in Juba and was officially ...

Jewish NATO soldiers could defend future Palestinian state

Mahmoud Abbas is not opposed to including Jewish soldiers in an international NATO force to be deployed along the borders of a future Palestinian state under a potential permanent peace agreement, the Palestinian president’s political adviser said Saturday. Nimar Hamad told the Palestinian news agency Wafa that “Abbas is open to an international force along Palestinian borders of any religion ...

Jewish Museum Uncovers World of Statue of Liberty Poet Emma Lazarus

An exhibit at a New York museum sheds new light on the life of Emma Lazarus, whose sonnet on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty transformed the monument into a symbol of hope for millions of immigrants.“Emma Lazarus Poet of Exiles” at The Museum of Jewish Heritage, which runs through December, marks the 125th anniversary of the dedication of ...

Jewish museum completes new home in Philadelphia

After 34 years in cramped quarters but with big dreams, a new museum opening in the heart of Philadelphia’s historic district aims to tell for the first time the complete story of the Jewish experience in America.Plans to expand the National Museum of American Jewish History were a decade in the making. A grand opening weekend kicks off with a ...

Jewish lt. Governor to Replace Hawaii Senator

Hawaii Lieutenant Governor Brian Schatz was named on Wednesday to fill the US Senate seat left vacant by the death of fellow Democrat Daniel Inouye.Schatz, 40, was appointed by Governor Neil Abercrombie, also a Democrat, to succeed Inouye for the two years remaining in the term.Because Schatz and Inouye are from the same party, the change does not alter the ...

Jewish Lobby? US Jews Help Save Pro-Hamas Flotilla

American Jews comprise more than 25 percent of the pro-Hamas flotilla that aims to challenge the IDF on the high seas and reach Hamas-backed Gaza, throwing cold water on the allegation of a unified pro-Israel “Jewish lobby” in the United States.“It’s important that Jews are in this boat… The Jewish lobby in this country is so powerful,” New York Jewish ...

Jewish Friend Of Late Pope John Paul II Dies

Jerzy Kluger, a Polish-born Jew who was a lifetime friend and childhood playmate of the late Pope John Paul II and who lost much of his family to Nazi death camps, has died in a Rome clinic, his widow said Monday. He was 90.Irene Kluger told The Associated Press that her husband died on Dec. 31 after suffering from Alzheimer’s ...

Jewish Foundation Creates Jewish Nobel Prize

A Jewish foundation on Tuesday announced the creation of an annual award with a one million dollar cash prize that will be bestowed upon a personality with strong ties to the Jewish people for achievements in the fields of art, science or diplomacy.The Genesis Philanthropy Group, headed by Russian- Jewish businessmen including billionaires Mikhail Fridman, Pyotr Aven and German Khan, among others, said the Genesis Prize, ...

Jewish Federations’ Security Arm Ramps Up Cyber Security Training

he security arm of the Jewish Federations network is intensifying training to resist cyber-attacks in the wake of a wave of such attacks on synagogue websites.“In the most recent round of cyber-attacks against American Jewish websites on November 23rd, upwards of fifty (50) synagogue websites were hacked and linked to anti-Semitic websites,” said a memo distributed Wednesday by Paul Goldenberg, ...