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• St. Patrick's Day With the Irish and the Jews
• Danish artist dresses her baby as Hitler, exploring the meaning of evil
• WATCH: Egypt president shown on TV for first time since surgery
• Icons of Britain's Jewish past now back on display
• Did Germany help Eichmann escape to Argentina?

St. Patrick's Day With the Irish and the Jews Posted: 16 Mar 2010 10:37 AM PDT The first time Mick Moloney visited America, he fell in love with a library. "God almighty!" Moloney said when remembering it in a 1993 interview with Steve Winick of Dirty Linen magazine. "I couldn't leave it. I used to stay up all night reading these books." The library belonged to Kenny Goldstein, then chair of the University of Pennsylvania Folklore and Folklife Department. After enticing Moloney back to the States in 1972 to enroll in the University of Pennsylvania's folklore program, Goldstein served as Moloney's mentor, advocate, and friend, guiding him to international acclaim as a folklorist and musician. Thirty-six years after meeting Goldstein, Moloney noticed a trend: ?Nearly all the significant partnerships I've had with people professionally have been with Jewish people." ...

Danish artist dresses her baby as Hitler, exploring the meaning of evil Posted: 16 Mar 2010 10:30 AM PDT Exhibit by Nina Maria Kleivan also includes her daughter in costumes depicting Mussolini, Milosevic and Stalin.

WATCH: Egypt president shown on TV for first time since surgery Posted: 16 Mar 2010 10:29 AM PDT Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was shown on television on Tuesday sitting and chatting to doctors at a German hospital, the first pictures of him since he had surgery 10 days ago. ...

Icons of Britain's Jewish past now back on display Posted: 16 Mar 2010 10:19 AM PDT They are icons of Britain: a Victorian-era statesman, a World War I soldier-poet, fish and chips. ...

Did Germany help Eichmann escape to Argentina? Posted: 16 Mar 2010 10:18 AM PDT BERLIN - Germany's Federal Court of Justice is set to decide whether to release 4,500 pages of classified documents relating to Adolf Eichmann's escape to Argentina and his subsequent capture by Israeli agents. ...

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