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Angela Merkel named recipient of highest German Jewry honor

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Chancellor Angela Merkel was Friday named the recipient of a top award of German Jewry, the Leo Baeck Prize.

The Central Council of Jews in Germany singled out Merkel for her "continuous and credible commitment in the area of rapprochement between Jews and non-Jews as well as between Germany and Israel."

The chancellor, who was this week named the world's most powerful woman by the U.S. magazine Forbes, will receive the award at a ceremony in Berlin on November 6.

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The award is named after Rabbi Leo Baeck, a former concentration camp inmate who later became chairman of the World Union of Progressive Judaism. He died in 1956.

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1.	Congrads Angela!	19:47	\|	Paul	31/08/07

2.	tanakh prophecy-in the end time the assyrian shall come	20:14	\|	de sterix	31/08/07

3.	re: Tanakh Prophecy	20:49	\|	Leor	31/08/07

4.	Tough woman, good Pres.	22:03	\|	Lynn	31/08/07

5.	Gentile Heros	22:37	\|	Peter	31/08/07

6.	re:#3 leor	22:51	\|	de sterix	31/08/07

7.	Leor- I think it was a joke	23:22	\|	Man	31/08/07

8.	re:#6 no joke-serious stuff-to bear false witness-penalty death	23:59	\|	de sterix	31/08/07

9.	#3	01:46	\|	Alex	01/09/07

10.	While she`s at it....	05:01	\|	JDross	01/09/07

11.	#10 Ignorance Half Israelis from arab lands	07:57	\|	Semsem	01/09/07

12.	Why does Germany Trade with Iran? Absurd Prize	07:59	\|	Laila	01/09/07

13.	Angela Merkel	10:03	\|	Walt	01/09/07

14.	Laila	11:12	\|	christoph	01/09/07

15.	# 12 laila	11:29	\|	Axel	01/09/07

16.	Axel as faithful soldier to Merkel	12:03	\|	christoph	01/09/07

17.	# 16 christoph	14:42	\|	Axel	01/09/07

18.	#2 de sterix	15:04	\|	Krauts	01/09/07

19.	Angela Merkel	15:13	\|	Leser	01/09/07

20.	Axel (#17)	16:26	\|	christoph	01/09/07

21.	Merkel a puppet of German industry	17:29	\|	Jonathan S	01/09/07

22.	#15 Don`t Trust Germany / Europe / Iran Supporters	18:21	\|	Laila	01/09/07

23.	re: #18 krauts--you are right about the iranians having same root	18:27	\|	de sterix	01/09/07

24.	check out this cartoon	19:02	\|	Gisele	01/09/07

25.	Jonathan S, embarrassed again ...	19:07	\|	Axel	01/09/07

26.	# 21 laila	20:28	\|	Axel	01/09/07

27.	Made in Germany	21:36	\|	Jonathan S	01/09/07

28.	to Axel	00:24	\|	Bernd	02/09/07

29.	to 27 jonathan,made in germany	00:42	\|	Bernd	02/09/07

30.	Bernd and the fairy tale about the German subs	13:45	\|	Jonathan S	02/09/07

31.	# 30 dear jonathan	20:51	\|	Bernd	02/09/07

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