<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Judaism: News &amp; Videos about Judaism - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Judaism</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Judaism from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:12:21 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Judaism: News &amp; Videos about Judaism - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Judaism</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Judaism from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>'New Jews' stake claim to faith, 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overeating</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/11/religious.diets.kosher.halal.healthy/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/11/religious.diets.kosher.halal.healthy/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The temptation to eat a lot during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting, is great, but Saiful Khandker makes a conscious effort to not overdo it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ancient synagogue found in Israel</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/11/jerusalem.synagogue/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/11/jerusalem.synagogue/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>In what was slated to be the site of a new 122-room hotel, archaeologists say they have discovered one of the world's oldest synagogues in Northern Israel.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mayors, rabbis arrested in corruption probe</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/23/new.jersey.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/23/new.jersey.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The New Jersey officials and their associates charged in a federal probe of public corruption exchanged hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in parking lots, restaurants, boiler rooms and bathrooms, an acting U.S. attorney said Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:37:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Authorities hope court deal will end ultra-Orthodox protests</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/17/israel.riots/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/17/israel.riots/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Jerusalem authorities said Friday they hoped a court ruling would end three nights of protests by Israel's ultra-Orthodox community.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israeli settlers wary, defiant in West Bank</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/12/israel.settlers/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/12/israel.settlers/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Many Jewish settlers in the West Bank believe the land was promised to them in the Bible by God.</description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A black woman's journey to the rabbinate in North Carolina</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/05/21/north.carolina.black.rabbi/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/05/21/north.carolina.black.rabbi/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>When Alysa Stanton officially becomes a rabbi in June, she'll be walking into history.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:34:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Suspects in alleged synagogue bomb plot denied bail</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/21/ny.bomb.plot/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/21/ny.bomb.plot/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Four men accused by prosecutors of being "eager to bring death to Jews" were ordered held without bail Thursday, accused of trying to bomb two New York synagogues and planning to fire surface-to-air missiles at U.S. military planes.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 01:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Religion and money: The price of faith</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/12/pf/religion_jewish_family.moneymag/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/12/pf/religion_jewish_family.moneymag/index.htm</guid><description>Ask Abbi Perets about financial pain, and she starts talking about grape juice. 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Israel, the focus for Pope Benedict XVI shifts from Catholic/Muslim ties, which were at the heart of his three-day visit to Jordan, to relations with Judaism.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 16:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Jews celebrate Blessing of the Sun</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/04/08/blessing.of.sun/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/04/08/blessing.of.sun/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>At dawn Wednesday, Jews around the world celebrated the Blessing of the Sun, an event that happens once every 28 years.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pope to skip Holocaust museum on trip to Israel, envoy says</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/03/10/pope.visit/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/03/10/pope.visit/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Pope Benedict XVI will not visit Israel's Holocaust museum when he makes his first trip to the region as pope in May, though he will visit a memorial that is part of the site, his ambassador to Israel said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A wunderbar welcome in Austria and Germany</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/getaways/03/05/austria.germany.travel/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/getaways/03/05/austria.germany.travel/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Many sights in Germany and Austria have been renovated in the last year or two to better display this region's rich heritage, making 2009 a good time to visit.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:26:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Tracing my Jewish roots in Cuba</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/08/20/cuba.roots/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/08/20/cuba.roots/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Cuba is more than a thousand 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after the Vatican rehabilitated a bishop who denied the Nazis had intentionally murdered 6 million Jews.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:53:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Venezuela synagogue vandalized</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/31/venezuela.synagogue/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/31/venezuela.synagogue/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Armed men forced their way into a Caracas synagogue, defacing its administrative offices with anti-Semitic graffiti and vandalizing an interior room where the Torah is kept, officials said.</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:52:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>In Mumbai, a festival of light rekindles Jewish hope</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/25/mumbai.hanukkah/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/25/mumbai.hanukkah/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Hundreds gathered 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Wall Street, moreover, is constitutionally predisposed to overdo things. The stereotype imagines a Wall Street populated by bulls and bears. In reality, the Street itself is neither bull nor bear but shark, constantly shifting direction in an eternal search for food. This feeding process involves massive shifts of capital, which inevitably, is sometimes misallocated.  - J. 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</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1826734,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1826734,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A prayer note placed by the presidential hopeful in Jerusalem's Western Wall is removed and published in Israel
</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Online Dating's Real-Life Matchmakers</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1826644,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1826644,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>An Orthodox-Jewish singles site has humans, not algorithms, work the Web to find the perfect partner</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Man Who Bought a Resurrection</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1821076,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1821076,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Ten years ago, David Jeselsohn bought a curious artifact. Now it's the talk of both theology and biblical scholars</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Was Jesus' Resurrection a Sequel?</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1820685,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1820685,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A controversial relic suggests that the story of a messiah who died and rose after three days was extant three decades before the birth of Christ</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israel's Messianic Jews Under Attack
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1812430,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1812430,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A small group of Jews who believe in Jesus   have sparked outrage among some orthodox groups who view them as traitors</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>At synagogue, pope seeks 'bridges of friendship'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/04/18/pope.fri/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/04/18/pope.fri/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The sight was jarring Friday: Pope Benedict XVI at the Park East Synagogue just before the start of the Jewish Sabbath.</description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Death Comes for Israel's Seminarians</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1720222,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1720222,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A massacre at a birthplace of Jewish religious nationalism threatens to further inflame the Israeli-Palestinian conflict</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Jews and the Vatican: A New Clash
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1710822,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1710822,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The Pope has revised a section of the old Latin liturgy that castigated the Jews. But it still calls for their conversion. Jewish leaders are up in arms</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>All About: Religion and the environment</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/27/eco.about.religion/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/27/eco.about.religion/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Whether we are actively religious or not, religious belief permeates the very fabric of our existence. Namely, it influences -- if not directly shapes -- our legal systems; and therefore our constitutions; and therefore our nations' policy choices, both at home and abroad. </description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:09:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iranian Jews slam 'emigrant stunt'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/12/26/iran.israel.jews/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/12/26/iran.israel.jews/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The well-publicized landing of 40 Iranian Jews in Israel on Tuesday spurred glee among some Israelis and the immigrants themselves and drew public scorn from a surprising quarter in Iran -- two officials from its centuries-old Jewish community.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:44:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>New Ideas from a Jewish Dreamer</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1673745,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1673745,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>First, Rodger Kamenetz took his fans on journeys into eastern mysticism, now he's urging them to travel their own dreamscapes</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Christians, Jews in Holy Land alliance</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/08/17/jews.christians/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/08/17/jews.christians/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sondra Oster Baras is an Orthodox Jew doing an unorthodox job.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Last Jews of Baghdad</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1647740,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1647740,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Only eight remain, according to an Anglican cleric, and they are frozen with indecision about what to do amid the desperation of Iraq</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Today's Buzz stories</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/03/19/showbuzz/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/03/19/showbuzz/index.html</guid><description>The reunion of the Ronnie James Dio-fronted version of Black Sabbath has been a long time coming. 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presidential spokeswoman said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2004 22:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>showbuzz</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/05/20/showbuzz/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/05/20/showbuzz/index.html</guid><description>Black Sabbath will reunite for Ozzfest, which begins July 10 in Hartford, Connecticut, according to the Ozzfest Web site.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2004 17:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Greatest metal guitarist' tells all</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/27/tony.iommi/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/27/tony.iommi/index.html</guid><description>The dark stars of Black Sabbath can probably claim to have exerted a more powerful gravitational pull on their particular corner of rock's universe than any of their peers.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Report: Spain's Jews terror target</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/04/13/spain.jewish.targets/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/04/13/spain.jewish.targets/index.html</guid><description>A Jewish cemetery and cultural center on the outskirts of Madrid were targets for suspected Islamic terrorists linked to the Madrid train bombings last month, a Spanish newspaper reported Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2004 15:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israeli army kills Palestinian suspected in settler's death</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/03/mideast/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/03/mideast/index.html</guid><description>Israeli troops Saturday shot and killed an armed Palestinian suspected of entering a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, killing an Israeli man, and wounding his daughter.</description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2004 15:29:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Protest at Jerusalem holy 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