2010年10月29日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


Chicago Jewish groups on alert for odd packages (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:27 PM PDT

Emergency personnel work near a grounded UPS cargo jet as the plane is searched by law enforcement officials at Philadelphia International Airport October 29, 2010. Two suspicious packages being flown from Yemen to the United States were found in Britain and Dubai on Friday after a tip prompted authorities to search cargo planes on both sides of the Atlantic. The packages spurred searches and investigations of jets arriving at New York's JFK Airport, Newark International Airport in New Jersey and the airport in Philadelphia. Authorities are investigating reports the parcels were bound for a synagogue and Jewish community center in Chicago.  REUTERS/Tim Shaffer (UNITED STATES - Tags: TRANSPORT CRIME LAW)AP - Leaders of Jewish institutions in Chicago put their staffs on alert Friday following the overseas discovery of U.S.-bound packages aboard cargo jets that contained explosives.


Historic German Jewish children's book goes on sale (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 09:14 AM PDT

Reuters - Six and a half decades after the Holocaust, the first Jewish publisher of children's books in Germany will issue its inaugural title on Monday.

Navajo lawmakers turn to prayer amid investigation (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:34 AM PDT

In this Oct. 21, 2010 photo, spectators gather outside of the Navajo Nation Council chambers in Window Rock, Ariz., . Tribal lawmakers were in executive session to debate the implications of criminal complaints issued in a probe of the council's discretionary funds.(AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)AP - At least 77 current delegates to the 88-member Navajo Nation Tribal Council are charged with offenses including theft and fraud in the use of tribal funds. So when the lawmakers convened the last day of their fall session with customary prayer, the ritual quickly deepened into a quest for protection and purification.


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