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Edouard Cukierman to Haaretz: Israel’s economic improvement is crucial to strengthening the country, integrating immigrants and improving Israel’s image abroad; I have known from a very young age, this is where I belong.

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Susan Sarandon - AFP - October 18, 2011
ADL slams Susan Sarandon for calling the pope a Nazi

Sarandon reportedly said that when she was working on her 1995 film ‘Dead man walking’, she sent a copy of the book the movie is based upon to the pope, clarifying that it was to ‘the last one, not this Nazi one we have now.’

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Ivanka Trump - AP
Trump heiress celebrates Sukkot in style

Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner take two-month old daughter Arabella to temple for Sukkot, with Kushner carrying the family’s lulav while walking down the streets of Manhattan.

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Paul Shatz
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The family of Boris Schatz is donating money to cover tuition of three students as well as a prize for an outstanding project that focuses on community involvement.

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Ben Stiller - AP - October 2011
Ben Stiller has ‘Jewish food hallucination’

Ben Stiller embarks on an SNL journey to a Jewish food paradise - complete with matzah balls and pickles.

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Albert Einstein
Einstein letter goes on auction

The letter, written on embossed Princeton stationary, congratulates New York businessman Hyman Zinn on the 'splendid work' he undertook on behalf of European refugees.

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Haredi couple
Yiddish sign urges 'precious Jewish daughters' of Brooklyn to make way for men

Plastic signs, posted throughout ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn neighborhood, read: 'Precious Jewish daughters, please move over to the side when you see a man come across.'

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Sukkot, Jerusalem - AFP
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Jews make strong showing among 2011 Nobel Prize winners

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Country singer Hank Williams Jr. compares Obama to Hitler

Williams criticizes Speaker of the House John Boehner for playing golf with Obama, saying that it would be like Hitler playing golf with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Pedestrian crossing.
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British Foreign Secretary William Hague
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Jewish Voice for Peace
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Members of Young, Jewish and Proud, the youth wing of Jewish Voice for Peace, demand a just solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

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FaceGlat, hackers
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Israel baseball
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