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Albums Stolen by Nazis Unveiled After Being Taken from Hitler’s Home

Two albums documenting works of art and furniture stolen by the Nazis during World War II were unveiled Tuesday after being discovered by a Dallas-based foundation that was contacted by relatives of two soldiers who had taken them from Adolf Hitler’s home.Robert M. Edsel, founder and president of the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, said a Dallas ...

Albert Einstein’s Immigration Papers Turn Up 80 Years After He Fled To Britain From Nazi Germany

Border chiefs at London’s Heathrow Airport have been left stunned by the discovery of immigration papers belonging to German-born scientist Albert Einstein that go back to the time he escaped dramatically from Nazi Germany almost 80 years ago.The landing card marks the legendary scientist’s arrival in the United Kingdom.Einstein was Jewish and escaped to England with a bounty on his ...

Albany Siyum Launches Digital Torah Solution

At Albany’s communal Siyum, Rabbi Yisroel Rubin introduced futuristic Halachic research on Digital communications, suggesting that Digital fluidity may be the ideal medium to expand and broadcast Oral Torah.The new concept reflects Albany’s Maimonides School emphasis on integrating Torah with Technology. Nearby Troy Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni Ray Tomlinson first invented the @ email exchange in 1971.Ray Tomlinson’s message put ...

Alaska: That Great Big Jewish Land

The 49th state was built by Jewish people, Jewish money and Jewish know-how. And although their numbers are small, Jews are still disproportionately prominent in commercial and public life.In 1938, as the Nazis laid plans to annihilate European Jewry, a few desperate Jews dreamed of escaping to the other side of the world: Alaska. Joachim Hein, from Breslau, Germany, was ...

Alan Gross’ Lawyer: He is Not Healthy

The lawyer for U.S. contractor Alan Gross, who is in jail in Cuba, rejected on Thursday claims by Havana that he is in good health and renewed allegations by the man’s relatives that his condition is worsening, AFP reported.On Wednesday, a Cuban foreign ministry official, Josefina Vidal, insisted that the 63-year-old Gross, who has spent nearly three years in prison, is in ...

Alan Dershowitz: Goldstone needs to do teshuva

Judge Richard Goldstone’s recent acknowledgement that “civilians were not intentionally targeted as a matter of policy” by Israel during Operation Cast Lead could be a game changer — if Goldstone continues to do the right thing.After reassessing his conclusions, Goldstone now has a responsibility to report them to the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and to other officials ...

Al Qaeda’s hardmen: New York terror suspect is wannabe model who worked as MAKE-UP salesman at Saks

One of the terror suspects arrested for allegedly planning to attack New York synagogues dressed as a Hasidic Jew used to work as a make-up salesman for Saks Fifth Avenue, it emerged today.27-year-old Ahmed Ferhani, who quit his job to try to become a male model, was caught with taxi dispatcher Mohammad Mamdouh, 20, on Tuesday night in a dramatic police sting ...

Al Qaeda plotters at large in UK after ‘Mumbai-style’ massacre across Europe is foiled

Islamic extremists who plotted to launch murderous Mumbai-style attacks in British cities remain at large in the UK, it emerged today.Intelligence sources have revealed that militants based in Pakistan, thought to be linked to al Qaeda, were planning simultaneous strikes on London and other European cities.Read more: @ dailymail.co.ukYou might also like:9/11 families’ fury as Obama compares BP oil spill to ...

Al Gore A “Crazed Sex Poodle?”

In a bizarre statement to police, the Oregon woman who claims that Al Gore fondled and groped her during a massage session described the former Vice President as a giggling “crazed sex poodle” who gave a “come hither” look before pouncing on her in a Portland hotel suite. In a taped January 2009 interview with cops, the 54-year-old woman, a ...

Al and Tipper Gore decide to separate

Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, have sent an e-mail to family friends announcing a mutual decision to separate, a longtime family friend told CNN. “We are announcing today that after a great deal of thought and discussion, we have decided to separate,” the message said. “This is very much a mutual and mutually supportive decision that ...

AJC program engages Christian leaders in Jewish study

A yearlong interfaith program conducted by the American Jewish Committee in conjunction with the Shalom Hartman Institute will draw to a close on Thursday, following 13 months of study and travel by a group of Christian leaders and academics from the US.The 13 members of the Christian Leadership Initiative who began the course back in July 2010 have been in ...

A’jad monster’s ball

It was a strange week for the loony strongman from Iran.President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s six nights in New York featured a secret sit-down with militant minister Louis Farrakhan, heckling in a hotel bar, and a fear of being rubbed out that bordered on paranoia.The president shared a hush-hush meal with Farrakhan and members of the New Black Panther Party Tuesday at ...