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Obama brings Passover ritual to White House

March 25, 2013 18:45
US President Barack Obama marked the start of the Jewish celebration of Passover on Monday, a ritual he began on the campaign trail when his own bid for the White House was in trouble. Obama, the first US president to observe the Passover Seder at the White House, hosted the small gathering only two days after returning from a Middle East trip featuring a visit to Israel.

UPDATE 2-Israel rattled by mysterious Australian prisoner-ABC

February 13, 2013 10:30
(Adds Australian government comment, former intelligence officer, paragraphs 12-16, 22-24) LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - An Australian man committed suicide in a high-security Israeli jail in 2010 after being held for months in great secrecy, Australia's ABC channel said on Tuesday, throwing new light on a case that has rattled Israel.

Yiddish paper gives 'dying' language new life

February 1, 2013 22:00
It'll be computer scrolling, not ancient scrolls, for Jewish culture lovers when the world's most famous Yiddish newspaper relaunches its website Monday in a bid to stave off extinction. Forverts, founded in 1897 when Yiddish-speaking Jews from Eastern Europe were pouring into America, has been shrinking relentlessly in recent decades as new generations of immigrant families abandon their ancestral language.
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