Eric J. Greenberg
By Eric J. Greenberg
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News Fate of Rare Document Trove Remains Unclear as Iraq Regime Takes Charge
With political authority in Iraq now formally turned over to a fledgling local government, the fate of a cache of rare and historic Jewish documents rescued by American soldiers from destruction in Baghdad remains up in the air. “The final disposition is to be determined,” said Doris Hamburg, director of preservation programs at the U.S….
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News Nun Who Inspired Gibson Is Moved Toward Sainthood
If it weren’t for Mel Gibson, Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich might have remained an obscure figure, unknown to everyone but select Catholic scholars and a cult of the devoted. But Gibson’s inclusion of some of the 18th-century nun’s antisemitic visions in his controversial blockbuster “The Passion of the Christ” has placed her in a spotlight…
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Israel News Libya Invites the Jews Who Fled To Come Home
“Saturday Night Live” recently had some fun with the news that Libya is inviting Jews to return to the country where they were persecuted and killed before being forced to flee more than 30 years ago. SNL Weekend Update anchor Jimmy Fallon — doing his best Woody Allen impression, calling himself a “spokesman for Jews”…
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News ‘Passion’ Stirring Controversy Among Middle East Muslims
Just when you thought the issue had faded from view, Mel Gibson’s controversial film about the torture and death of Jesus again is causing conflict, this time in Arab Muslim countries. Again, the dispute revolves around the film’s depiction of Jews. As it did in the United States, Gibson’s bloody hit “The Passion of the…
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News Shock Jock, Old GOP Pal, Turns Basher Of President
Howard Stern, the radio shock-jock who delights in tweaking minorities, gays and women, is emerging as liberalism’s newest and most unlikely poster boy after unveiling his latest persona: dump-Bush militant. Stern, who has habitually endorsed Republicans and helped elect at least two Republican governors, announced his opposition to President Bush’s reelection earlier this month, protesting…
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News Bishops Slammed for Support of ‘Passion’
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is drawing harsh condemnations in some circles over its much-anticipated review of “The Passion of the Christ.” Using terms like “outrage” and “betrayal,” several Jewish and Catholic interfaith leaders are saying that in praising Mel Gibson’s film on Jesus’ last 12 hours, the bishops’ conference, the top Roman Catholic…
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News Gibson’s Jesus Film Triggers Worries Across the Globe
Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” is set to open in Brazil early next month — and Rabbi Henry Sobel is worried. Sobel, the religious leader of Brazil’s Congregacao Israelita Paulista, the largest synagogue in Latin America, fears that the film about Jesus’ death will inflame antisemitism in his country, where 95% of the…
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