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• American Jewry kicks off annual conference, but guest star Obama cancels
• Hamas rejects Mofaz call to talk as 'Zionist vulgarity'
• Neo-Nazis desecrate Dresden synagogue ahead of Kristallnacht anniversary
• Thousands of Palestinian rally in Hebron urging Abbas not to quit
• Hitler bypasses Apple censors: Mein Kampf for your iPhone

American Jewry kicks off annual conference, but guest star Obama cancels Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:53 AM PST WASHINGTON, D.C. - The annual General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America kicked off this year in an autumnal American capital with the disappointing news that the guest star, President Barack Obama, canceled at the last minute to attend a memorial service for the victims of a shooting at an army base in Texas last week. The president's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, will be taking his place as keynote speaker on Tuesday. ...

Hamas rejects Mofaz call to talk as 'Zionist vulgarity' Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:28 AM PST The Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip said Sunday that they would never negotiate with the "Zionist enemy", hours after Kadima MK Shaul Mofaz presented a plan to hold talks with the group and establish a Palestinian state in 60 percent of the West Bank within one year. ...

Neo-Nazis desecrate Dresden synagogue ahead of Kristallnacht anniversary Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:17 AM PST The synagogue in the eastern German city of Dresden was desecrated with swastikas, ahead of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, German police said on Sunday. ...

Thousands of Palestinian rally in Hebron urging Abbas not to quit Posted: 08 Nov 2009 08:42 AM PST Thousands of Palestinians turned out in Hebron on Sunday to urge Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to run for re-election. ...

Hitler bypasses Apple censors: Mein Kampf for your iPhone Posted: 08 Nov 2009 06:49 AM PST An iPhone application that recently made its way into the Apple App Store has sparked some controversy - a digital version of Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf translated to Spanish. The application comes complete with a swastika icon. ...

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