Judaism Archive

  • By John Thomas Didymus A researcher at the Hebrew University has published results of genetic research studies which show that Palestinians and Jews have a common ancestry in the Kurdish population of Iraq...

    New research says that Jews and Palestinians have close genetic links

    By John Thomas Didymus A researcher at the Hebrew University has published results of genetic research studies which show that Palestinians and Jews have a common ancestry in the Kurdish population of Iraq...

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  • Despite Rift With Israel, Community Feels Strong Bond to Homeland Getty Images Standing Firm: Turkey’s chief rabbi speaks at Istanbul’s Neve Shalom Synagogue after it was bombed by terrorists. Despite...

    Turkish Jews Voice Wary Confidence About Future

    Despite Rift With Israel, Community Feels Strong Bond to Homeland Getty Images Standing Firm: Turkey’s chief rabbi speaks at Istanbul’s Neve Shalom Synagogue after it was bombed by terrorists. Despite...

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  • For Turkey and Israel, sports are the only remaining relations that are intact. Noga Tarnopolsky There are no Jews in Jordan and possibly a dozen Jews in Egypt, once the...

    Tension rises for Jews in Turkey

    For Turkey and Israel, sports are the only remaining relations that are intact. Noga Tarnopolsky There are no Jews in Jordan and possibly a dozen Jews in Egypt, once the...

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  • “Chapter 7 – The Coming World Crisis [...] Before the nations of the world ultimately embrace a system of global government, they must first have a reason to do so....

    The Coming World Crisis

    “Chapter 7 – The Coming World Crisis [...] Before the nations of the world ultimately embrace a system of global government, they must first have a reason to do so....

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  • Opinion: 9/11 a decade later: Viewed from Istanbul, ‘a milestone in history’ Wednesday, September 7, 2011 BY AYDOGAN VATANDAS AYDOGAN VATANDAS IS AN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST AND THE MEDIA REPRESENTATIVE OF...

    a milestone in history

    Opinion: 9/11 a decade later: Viewed from Istanbul, ‘a milestone in history’ Wednesday, September 7, 2011 BY AYDOGAN VATANDAS AYDOGAN VATANDAS IS AN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST AND THE MEDIA REPRESENTATIVE OF...

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  • By: Raffi Bedrosyan (Armenian Weekly)–The Turkish government recently announced  that real estate assets confiscated by the State, which once belonged to Armenian, Greek, and Jewish charitable foundations, would be returned...

    Special Report: What is Turkey Returning to Armenians?

    By: Raffi Bedrosyan (Armenian Weekly)–The Turkish government recently announced  that real estate assets confiscated by the State, which once belonged to Armenian, Greek, and Jewish charitable foundations, would be returned...

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  • How a Panoply Sounds Scattered to a New Diaspora By Alexander Gelfand Published September 01, 2011, issue of September 09, 2011. ‘It’s really changed.” My wife, Ingrid, and I were...

    Lost Music of Istanbul’s Sephardic Jews

    How a Panoply Sounds Scattered to a New Diaspora By Alexander Gelfand Published September 01, 2011, issue of September 09, 2011. ‘It’s really changed.” My wife, Ingrid, and I were...

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  • By Costas Iordanidis In yet another striking gesture, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that the state will return properties confiscated from religious minorities since 1936. The decision,...

    Property returns. What now?

    By Costas Iordanidis In yet another striking gesture, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that the state will return properties confiscated from religious minorities since 1936. The decision,...

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  • Greeks in Istanbul welcomed Erdogan’s decision to return confiscated property to minorities, with tears of joy in their eyes. As the representative of minority institutions under the General Directorate for...

    Greeks in Istanbul Cry Tears of Joy for the Return of their Properties

    Greeks in Istanbul welcomed Erdogan’s decision to return confiscated property to minorities, with tears of joy in their eyes. As the representative of minority institutions under the General Directorate for...

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  • (JTA) — The Turkish government announced it will return property confiscated from Jews and Christians over the past seven decades. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday told the...

    Turkey to return confiscated Jewish property

    (JTA) — The Turkish government announced it will return property confiscated from Jews and Christians over the past seven decades. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday told the...

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  • By SEBNEM ARSU ANKARA, Turkey — The Turkish government said it would return hundreds of properties that were confiscated from religious minorities by the state or other parties over the...

    Turkey to Return Seized Property to Religious Minorities

    By SEBNEM ARSU ANKARA, Turkey — The Turkish government said it would return hundreds of properties that were confiscated from religious minorities by the state or other parties over the...

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  • By Elizabeth H. Prodromou and Nina Shea (USCIRF) - 08/26/11 10:12 AM ET The recent resignation of Turkey’s military high command, along with reports that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

    Religious freedom for Turkey?

    By Elizabeth H. Prodromou and Nina Shea (USCIRF) - 08/26/11 10:12 AM ET The recent resignation of Turkey’s military high command, along with reports that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

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  • JPost.com > Opinion > Op-Ed Contributors By BARRY LEFF For the people of a religion that places a huge premium on peace, we need Turkey more than Turkey needs us. Why should Israel apologize...

    It’s not easy to say ‘I’m sorry’

    JPost.com > Opinion > Op-Ed Contributors By BARRY LEFF For the people of a religion that places a huge premium on peace, we need Turkey more than Turkey needs us. Why should Israel apologize...

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  • By Ron Kampeas · July 25, 2011 The liberal blogo/Twitterspheres have, legitimately, been making mincemeat of a meme emerging from sectors of the right wing that Anders Behring Breivik, the...

    Blaming imagined tormentors for violence, in Oslo and in Istanbul

    By Ron Kampeas · July 25, 2011 The liberal blogo/Twitterspheres have, legitimately, been making mincemeat of a meme emerging from sectors of the right wing that Anders Behring Breivik, the...

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  • By Linda Tucker “A trip to a cemetery in Prague to the grave of Rabbi Loew?” Leah muttered angrily on her way to the bookstore. She had just left her...

    Seeds of the Pomegranate – Part I

    By Linda Tucker “A trip to a cemetery in Prague to the grave of Rabbi Loew?” Leah muttered angrily on her way to the bookstore. She had just left her...

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  • Ynet special: Jews in tough spot ahead of elections, with Israel-Turkey ties at all-time low Aviel Magnezi Just over 10,000 Jews throughout Turkey – a number almost too insignificant to...

    How will Turkey’s Jews vote?

    Ynet special: Jews in tough spot ahead of elections, with Israel-Turkey ties at all-time low Aviel Magnezi Just over 10,000 Jews throughout Turkey – a number almost too insignificant to...

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  • VERCİHAN ZİFLİOĞLU ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News The mausoleum of Abraham Salomon de Kamondo, an Ottoman Jew who made pioneering contributions to urban development and banking in Istanbul, is to...

    Historical Jewish tomb in Istanbul to be renovated, turned into museum

    VERCİHAN ZİFLİOĞLU ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News The mausoleum of Abraham Salomon de Kamondo, an Ottoman Jew who made pioneering contributions to urban development and banking in Istanbul, is to...

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  • Ex-dean of Washington press corp: ‘Everybody is in pocket of Israeli lobbies’   By Drew Zahn © 2011 WND Helen Thomas, the former “dean” of the White House Press Corps who lost...

    Helen Thomas tells Playboy: Jews ‘control’ White House

    Ex-dean of Washington press corp: ‘Everybody is in pocket of Israeli lobbies’   By Drew Zahn © 2011 WND Helen Thomas, the former “dean” of the White House Press Corps who lost...

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  • By JONAH MANDEL 05/04/2011 04:11 Clergymen to meet with influential Turkish preacher; Rabbi, Catholic priest, Druse kadi, Beduin sheikh will spend 3 days with Adnan Oktar. An interdenominational delegation from...

    Interfaith delegation travels to Istanbul

    By JONAH MANDEL 05/04/2011 04:11 Clergymen to meet with influential Turkish preacher; Rabbi, Catholic priest, Druse kadi, Beduin sheikh will spend 3 days with Adnan Oktar. An interdenominational delegation from...

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  • Dub Lausanne Treaty as “outdated” DUBAI (Alarabiya.net) While Turkey plans to replace its current constitution with a new civilian one, non-Muslim Turkish nationals seek to guarantee the protection of their...

    Turkey’s non-Muslims eye a modern civil constitution

    Dub Lausanne Treaty as “outdated” DUBAI (Alarabiya.net) While Turkey plans to replace its current constitution with a new civilian one, non-Muslim Turkish nationals seek to guarantee the protection of their...

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