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100-year-old Holocaust Survivor To Light Chanukah Menorah Saturday Night In Columbus Ohio

Weinrib has been meeting with students at Olentangy Liberty High School to share the lessons of his six years in ten concentration camps as a young man.

(COLUMBUS) - The festive menorah lighting to mark the beginning of Chanukah on Saturday evening, will be bittersweet for Columbus resident Abe Weinrib.

Canada`s Official Whitewash of its own Genocide Exposed

Participants in the "Truth and Reconciliation" Forums tell their Experience of Fraud, Shutdown, Cover-up.

(VANCOUVER, B.C.) - Two participants at Canada's expensive "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" (TRC) forums went public today to expose the corrupt proceedings.

Survivors describe in the enclosed interviews a regime of silencing and intimidation at the TRC...

TLHRC Press Conference - Defending Freedoms Project

The aim of the initiative is to increase attention and support for human rights and religious freedom through a focus on prisoners of conscience around the world.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The Defending Freedoms project is a new initiative spearheaded by the TLHRC.

The aim of the initiative is to increase attention and support for human rights and religious freedom through a focus on prisoners of conscience around the world.

Islamabad High Court Judgment in Rimsha Case Historical for Pakistan

Now the Rimsha case is over and her lawyer is passionate to solve other cases as well.

(ISLAMABAD, Pakistan) - November 20th was the historical day for Pakistani Christians when Islamabad High Court (IHC) dismissed blasphemy charges against Rimsha, a Christian teenager girl whose case prompted international outrage.

Iqbal Hameed-ur-Rehman, honorable Chief Justice (IHC) found that the accusations against Rimsha were legally unsound.

Pakistan`s Blasphemy Laws Don`t Protect Religious Harmony

Social and Political leadership express concern about the IHC decision in the Rimsha case.

(ISLAMABAD, Pakistan) - Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday, 20th November, 2012 dismissed blasphemy charges against Rimsha, a Christian teenager girl whose case prompted international outrage.

Islamabad High Court found that the accusations against her were legally unsound, said Abdul Hameed Rana, one of the Rimsha’s lawyers. She is a free woman now, like any other Pakistani citizen, he added.

Are Israel`s Jews, Some of Them, on Their Way to Becoming Nazis?

The headline was provoked by the announcement that Netanyahu is joining forces with Yisrael Beiteinu, the ultra-nationalist group led by Avigdor Lieberman...

(LONDON) - Some and perhaps many will regard my headline question as offensive but I make no apology for asking it.

I take comfort from the fact that my decision to pose it is fully supported by one of my very dear Jewish friends - Nazi holocaust survivor Dr. Hajo Meyer.

Man Accused of Qur`an Burning Dies in Police Custody

Nobody knows the reality or what the real factors are behind this death - LEAD's Chief and President PCC Lahore Advocate Sardar Mushtaq M. Gill

(NANKANA SAHAB, Pakistan) - On 22 November 2012 Mr. Nadeem, 22 years old, was accused of Qur'an burning by residents of Mohala Usmani Khoo Nankana Sahab.

He died in the custody of Police at the Warburton police station.

Cleveland Anarchist Bomb Plot Aided and Abetted by the FBI

It was another set up...

(LONDON The Guardian) - On 20 November, district court Judge David D Dowd Jr sentenced three anarchists with the Occupy Cleveland movement to prison terms ranging from 8 to 11.5 years for attempting to bomb a highway bridge last spring.

US Attorney Steven Dettelbach trumpeted the successful prosecution: "These defendants were found to have engaged in terrorist activities..."

In Israel, Some Rebel Against Circumcision

"The main issue which still troubles me a little is the social one, that one day he may come to me and say 'Mom, why did you do that to me? They made fun of me today'" - Gali, a nursing mom in Israel

(TEL AVIV ) - Circumcision is one of Judaism's most important laws and for generations of faithful it has symbolized a biblical covenant with God.

But in Israel, more and more Jewish parents are saying no to the blade.

CAIR Repudiates Egypt `Blasphemy` Death Sentences

CAIR had previously called on Muslims in the Middle East to ignore the distribution of the "trashy" anti-Islam film...

(WASHINGTON DC) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations, today repudiated death sentences handed down by an Egyptian court for charges linked to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims" that attacked the Prophet Muhammad.

An Egyptian court reportedly found the defendants, most of whom live in the US, guilty of harming national unity...