Shanghai to Honor Its Jewish Legacy
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SHANGHAI -- Saul Marmer, a retired Cincinnati shoe retailer, peeled away from his tour group the other day to reflect on a special moment in Shanghai's long and eventful history. As summer rain bathed the city, and its residents raced about in their relentless drive to accumulate wealth, Marmer, 79, ducked into the Ohel Moishe Synagogue.
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RAMALLAH (dpa) - The Palestinian Authority is considering creating a museum commemorating Yasser Arafat who died last week in a Paris hospital, the Israeli Itim news agency reported Tuesday.
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Survivors and relatives of the victims of the Paddington rail crash are to attend a memorial on Tuesday.
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LONDON, ENGLAND.- For the first time in 350 years of Jewish life in Britain, the Jewish community has a dedicated agency to care for its cultural heritage.
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LONDON: Thousands of Palestinians poured onto the streets to mourn Yasser Arafat on Thursday while world leaders praised him as an icon of his people whose death could nonetheless pave the way for a new Middle East peace drive.
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A ceremony is held in Berlin to mark the laying of the last of several thousand slabs as part of a memorial to Holocaust victims.
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Overshadowed by China, Taiwan built the world's tallest skyscraper. But Shanghai has plans to take that honor.
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BEIRUT: As Yasser Arafat&#39;s health deteriorates in a suburban Paris hospital and he fades away from the political scene, his legacy for Palestine and the Arab world offers important lessons
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Top leaders of Armenia, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Moldova have paid homage to late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
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Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax are already in the Hall of Fame. The other 141 Jewish major leaguers will get their due this month. The Cooperstown, N.Y., shrine will host &quot;A celebration of Jews in baseball&quot; Aug. 29-30. It will be the first kosher dinner in the Hall.
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CHARLOTTE, NC -- Charlotte&#39;s Palestinian community remembered Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat Saturday. The Palestine Right to Return Coalition held a memorial ceremony at Marshall Park in uptown Charlotte.
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OSWIECIM, Poland  - World leaders and survivors  stopped to remember the horror of the Holocaust on Thursday at  a snow-swept ceremony in Auschwitz-Birkenau on the 60th  anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp.
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Relatives of one of the most contentious Jewish figures from the Holocaust era are hoping that archives they turned over will clear the name of the man both praised and vilified for bargaining with the Nazis for the lives of Jews.
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Thousands of people in Hong Kong paid  tribute to China's purged leader Zhao Ziyang at a candlelight  vigil on Friday, the largest gathering yet on Chinese soil to  mourn his death.
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There will be many tributes that focus on the accomplishments of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who died Wednesday, but he is responsible for the deaths of thousands
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With name after name engraved on pale stone walls, a new monument in Paris' Jewish quarter pays tribute to the 76,000 Jews rounded up in France during the Holocaust and sent to Nazi death camps.
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World champion Michael Schumacher arrived in Shanghai yesterday, along with a host of other Formula One stars, saying he looks forward to evaluating the challenges of the city&#39;s brand new circuit.