Read more Jewish stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/20855/jewish.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 11:46:38 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72872/no-motive-yet-in-la-synagogue-shootings.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLAPD officers are still searching for the gunman who shot two men on their way to a prayer service at a North Hollywood synagogue this morning. The gunman approached one of the victims in the underground parking lot of the synagogue, and "without any words" shot both him and a...http://www.newser.com/story/72872/no-motive-yet-in-la-synagogue-shootings.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 29 Oct 2009 15:54:53 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70994/ahmadinejad-is-not-jewish.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe bombshell claim that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's family is Jewish is false. The assertion was based on the fact that the family changed its last name from Sabourjian shortly before the Iranian leader's birth, and the "fact" that Sabourjian means "weaver of the sabour," which the Telegraph said was the Iranian...http://www.newser.com/story/70994/ahmadinejad-is-not-jewish.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 05 Oct 2009 17:23:36 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70893/ahmadinejad-is-jewish.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHolocaust denier Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be hiding Jewish roots. A close look at his identity card—which he held up to the media during Iran's presidential campaign—reveals that his family changed its name from Sabourjian shortly after his birth, the Telegraph reports. That's a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver—...http://www.newser.com/story/70893/ahmadinejad-is-jewish.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 03 Oct 2009 10:57:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68969/israeli-lost-jews-ad-sparks-outrage.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn Israeli outreach group has dumped an ad campaign that sparked controversy by portraying assimilated Diaspora Jews as “lost,” the Jerusalem Post reports. Prominent American Jewish voices slammed the campaign, which many took as a slight to intermarried Jews. An intermarried Israeli critic called it “racist,” pointing out that his...http://www.newser.com/story/68969/israeli-lost-jews-ad-sparks-outrage.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 09 Sep 2009 12:23:32 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67489/ahmadinejad-taps-fugitive-for-iran-cabinet.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s pick for Iran’s defense minister is wanted in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Argentina, the Guardian reports. Eight-five were killed and 150 injured in the attack, the worst on a Jewish target outside Israel since World War II; Ahmad Vahidi was at...http://www.newser.com/story/67489/ahmadinejad-taps-fugitive-for-iran-cabinet.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 21 Aug 2009 21:35:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67240/woman-to-pro-health-reform-jewish-guy-heil-hitler.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn the latest health care-related video to go viral, a woman at a Las Vegas town hall on health care shouted “Heil Hitler!” at an Israeli man as he spoke to a local TV station about Israel’s “fantastic” national health care program, ThinkProgress reports. “Did you hear this? She say...http://www.newser.com/story/67240/woman-to-pro-health-reform-jewish-guy-heil-hitler.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 19 Aug 2009 10:39:42 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65754/roseanne-poses-as-hitler-cue-controversy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRoseanne Barr, always good for a controversy, recently dressed up as a “Nazi domestic goddess” for Jewish magazine Heeb , causing quite a flap. “Yes, the story of this infamous satirist/Jewish grandmother pulling a tray of burnt ‘Jew cookies’ out of an oven has been making its way around the Internet,...http://www.newser.com/story/65754/roseanne-poses-as-hitler-cue-controversy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 31 Jul 2009 7:55:46 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65235/jon-leibowitz-stop-hiding-your-real-name.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMichael Jackson’s transformation from black to white makes Ron Rosenbaum of Slate think of Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz—the guy you may know as Jon Stewart. Just as Jackson was probably responding to racism that’s now much less prevalent, the Daily Show host’s stage name “is just so 20th-century, a relic...http://www.newser.com/story/65235/jon-leibowitz-stop-hiding-your-real-name.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 24 Jul 2009 12:44:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65124/nj-mayors-ny-rabbis-busted-in-corruption-probe.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn a huge corruption bust, FBI agents arrested 30 people today, including the mayors of Hoboken and Secaucus, the deputy mayor of Jersey City, a New Jersey assemblyman, and several Brooklyn and New Jersey rabbis, the Star-Ledger reports. The arrests stem from a 2-year money-laundering probe centered on New York’s...http://www.newser.com/story/65124/nj-mayors-ny-rabbis-busted-in-corruption-probe.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 23 Jul 2009 9:34:27 CDT