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US cuts military aid to Israel by 5 percent – Times of Israel 21 Jun 2013 Washington will reportedly cut US$ 175 million from its annual military aid package to Israel as part of across-the-board budgetary spending cuts. READ MORE »

Hoenlein: We need to engage Jews like Zuckerberg – Jerusalem Post 21 Jun 2013 American Jewish leader says US Jews have failed to educate youth in a way that can ensure communal continuity.  READ MORE »

Alan Gil: Why Jewish life is thriving in today’s Poland – Fox News 21 Jun 2013 22 years after the fall of communism and more than 70 years after the Nazis annihilated three million Jews, Polish Jews are embracing their identity and faith in inspiring and frankly unbelievable ways. READ MORE »

Israeli man killed by security guard at Western Wall – Israel Hayom 21 Jun 2013 A 46-year-old Israeli Jewish man died on Friday after being shot by a security guard at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City. The man had apparently yelled „Allahu akbar!” and motioned to pull an object out of his pocket, READ MORE »

Israeli chief rabbi suspected of bribery and fraud – Jewish Chronicle

21 Jun 2013 Police raided the house of Israeli Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger. He is suspected of bribery, fraud and money laundering. READ MORE »

Italian once praised for saving Jews now seen as Nazi collaborator – New York Times 20 Jun 2013 Giovanni Palatucci, a wartime police official, has been honored around the world, and Pope John Paul II declared him a martyr. Now, new evidence suggests that he was an enthusiastic Nazi collaborator involved in the deportation of Jews to Auschwitz.  READ MORE »

Jewish educator who survived Soviet gulag dies – Associated Press

20 Jun 2013 Rabbi Moshe Greenberg, a religious educator who survived a brutal Gulag in Siberia and secretly taught Judaism under an oppressive Soviet regime, has died in Israel. He was 84. READ MORE »