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Published: 04/27/11

Mitzvah Tanks Take Synagogues to the Streets

By  Susanna Baird - AOL News
Mitzvah Tanks Take Synagogues to the Streets

Passover ends and they're back on the streets: the mitzvah tanks, synagogues on wheels offering New York City Jews an unexpected, curbside opportunity to pray. "We invite them in the tank, to have something to eat, something to drink, and we have a blessing," tank driver Yishai Eliefja told the New York Times' Cityroom blog. "Instead of going to the synagogue, we bring the synagogue to you." The Chabad Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Judaism, headquartered in Brooklyn, runs the mitzvah tanks. Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson started the program in 1974. As American synagogue populations ...

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Published: 10/5/10

US Denies Entrapment at NY Bomb Plot Trial

By  Lauren Frayer - AOL News
US Denies Entrapment at NY Bomb Plot Trial

(Oct. 5) -- Four men accused of plotting to bomb New York synagogues and fire heat-seeking missiles at U.S. military planes were ready and willing to do things "ordinary people wouldn't even dream of," a prosecutor said during closing arguments in their trial. The men from Newburgh, N.Y., were caught in a sophisticated FBI sting in May 2009 that involved a paid informant posing as a representative from a Pakistani terror group. Over more than six weeks of testimony, the informant, Shahed Hussain, spent 13 days on the witness stand, describing the defendants' alleged willingness to help him ...

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Published: 09/29/10

Should a Synagogue Be Built at 'Muslim Ground Zero'?

By  Paul Wachter - AOL News
Should a Synagogue Be Built at 'Muslim Ground Zero'?

(Sept. 29) -- For all the controversy surrounding Park51, the so-called "ground zero mosque," do you think there would be a similar uproar were Jews to erect a synagogue close to where a member of their faith slaughtered Muslims? It's not a hypothetical. It's already happened in Hebron, a city in the West Bank, Slate's William Saletan points out. "The reason you haven't heard about its new synagogue is that there has been no outcry," he writes. "Apparently, the rule about keeping houses of worship at a respectful distance from scenes of terrorism is for Muslims only." South of Jerusalem in ...

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Published: 01/15/10

The Jewish-Catholic Crisis: How Bad is it -- and Why?

By  David Gibson - Politics Daily
The Jewish-Catholic Crisis: How Bad is it -- and Why?

Pope Benedict XVI is set to visit the synagogue of Rome on Sunday, just across the Tiber River from the Vatican. Yet this short trip also represents one of the most grueling treks he has taken. Nearly five years after Joseph Ratzinger, who grew up in Bavaria as an eyewitness to the rise and fall of Nazism, was elected pope, Jewish-Catholic relations have sunk to perhaps their lowest point in the last 50 years. Much of that deterioration, critics say, can be traced to many of Benedict's own actions. In previous meetings with Jewish groups, and most notably during a 2006 address at the Auschwitz ...

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