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Posted: 5/25/2013 12:40:41 PM EST
An Israel Antiquities Authority employee works on fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem on Friday, May 10, 2013. Written mostly on animal skin parchment about 2,000 years ago, the manuscripts are the earliest copies of the Hebrew Bible ever found, and the oldest written evidence of the roots of Judaism and Christianity in the Holy Land. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
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Posted: 2/26/2013 3:53:31 AM EST
In this photo provided by Les Films d'un Jour, a still from the documentary “Tinghir-Jerusalem: Echoes from the Mellah,” shows Aicha Elkoubi, left, and Hannah Schmouyane, Moroccan Jews who immigrated to Israel, reminisce about the old days in Yavne, south of Tel Aviv. Once home to some 300,000 Jews, the largest population in the Arab world, Morocco is increasingly taking a fresh look at its long history with Judaism and is spurning the flat rejection of all things Hebrew found in so many other Arab countries. (AP Photo/Les Films d'un Jour)
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Posted: 2/26/2013 3:53:31 AM EST
In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, Zhor Rehihil, the curator of the Museum for Moroccan Judaism, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the museum in Casablanca, Morocco. Once home to some 300,000 Jews, the largest population in the Arab world, Morocco is increasingly taking a fresh look at its long history with Judaism and is spurning the flat rejection of all things Hebrew found in so many other Arab countries. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)
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Posted: 2/26/2013 3:53:31 AM EST
In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, Zhor Rehihil, the curator of the Museum for Moroccan Judaism, stands in front of an exhibit of a synagogue pulpit at the museum in Casablanca, Morocco. Once home to some 300,000 Jews, the largest population in the Arab world, Morocco is increasingly taking a fresh look at its long history with Judaism and is spurning the flat rejection of all things Hebrew found in so many other Arab countries. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)
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Posted: 2/11/2013 10:23:26 AM EST
Wrapped in Jewish prayer shawls, Rabbi Susan Silverman, second left, the sister of comedian Sarah Silverman, not seen, along with her teenage daughter Hallel Abramowitz, second right, are detained by police officers in Jerusalem's Old City, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. The head of the Women of the Wall organization, a liberal Jewish women’s group, said 10 women were detained for wearing religious garb which Orthodox Judaism reserves for men only. About 300 people gathered at the Western Wall Monday to protest the Orthodox Jewish control of the site. (AP Photo/Tali Mayer)
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Posted: 12/21/2012 1:48:24 PM EST
Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, speaks during a news conference, with other religious leaders to remember the lives lost in Newtown, Conn., at Washington National Cathedral on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. Interfaith religious leaders brought together by the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and Washington National Cathedral, to honor the lives of those lost in Newtown, Conn., by insisting that Congress and the President continue to act swiftly to end the national epidemic of gun violence. Standing with McCarrick is Rabbi Julie Schonfeld. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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Posted: 10/25/2012 3:23:45 AM EST
In this Oct. 12, 2012 photo an Ultra-orthodox Jewish man blows a trumpet to announce the starting of the Sabbath, Judaism's biblically-mandated day of rest, at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. Though most Israelis are secular, Israel’s founding fathers gave Judaism a formal place in the country’s affairs and Ultra-Orthodox rabbis strictly govern Jewish practices such as weddings, divorces, and burials. The Ultra-Orthodox are also perennial kingmakers in Israeli coalition politics, though they make up only ten percent of the country’s population. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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Posted: 10/25/2012 3:23:45 AM EST
In this Oct. 12, 2012, photo an Ultra-orthodox Jewish man blows a trumpet to announce the starting of the Sabbath, Judaism's biblically-mandated day of rest, at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. Though most Israelis are secular, Israel’s founding fathers gave Judaism a formal place in the country’s affairs and Ultra-Orthodox rabbis strictly govern Jewish practices such as weddings, divorces, and burials. The Ultra-Orthodox are also perennial kingmakers in Israeli coalition politics, though they make up only ten percent of the country’s population. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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Posted: 4/29/2012 1:55:46 PM EST
Socialist presidential candidate for the upcoming presidential election Francois Hollande stands by the wall engraved with the names of the 76,000 Jews deported from France as part of the Nazi plan to exterminate Judaism in Europe, during a visit to the Shoah Memorial in Paris, Sunday, April 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacky Naegelen, pool)
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Posted: 4/29/2012 1:55:46 PM EST
Socialist presidential candidate for the upcoming presidential election Francois Hollande, right, listens to Memorial director Jacques Fredj as he stands by the wall engraved with the names of the 76,000 Jews deported from France as part of the Nazi plan to exterminate Judaism in Europe, during a visit to the Shoah Memorial in Paris, Sunday, April 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacky Naegelen/Pool)
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Posted: 4/29/2012 1:55:46 PM EST
Socialist presidential candidate for the upcoming presidential election Francois Hollande, left, listens to Memorial director Jacques Fredj as he looks at the wall engraved with the names of the 76,000 Jews deported from France as part of the Nazi plan to exterminate Judaism in Europe, during a visit to the Shoah Memorial in Paris, Sunday, April 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacky Naegelen,pool)
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Posted: 12/16/2011 3:59:40 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama takes the stage to speak at the 71st General Assembly of the Union for Reform Judaism at National Harbor in Maryland December 16, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)
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Posted: 12/16/2011 3:54:26 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama takes the stage to speak at the 71st General Assembly of the Union for Reform Judaism at National Harbor in Maryland December 16, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)
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Posted: 12/16/2011 3:27:06 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama takes the stage to speak at the 71st General Assembly of the Union for Reform Judaism at National Harbor in Maryland December 16, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)
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Posted: 12/16/2011 3:25:20 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the 71st General Assembly of the Union for Reform Judaism at National Harbor in Maryland December 16, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS HEADSHOT)
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Posted: 12/16/2011 3:23:37 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the 71st General Assembly of the Union for Reform Judaism at National Harbor in Maryland December 16, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)
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Posted: 12/16/2011 3:21:55 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the 71st General Assembly of the Union for Reform Judaism at National Harbor in Maryland December 16, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)
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Posted: 12/16/2011 3:19:31 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the 71st General Assembly of the Union for Reform Judaism at National Harbor in Maryland December 16, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)
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Posted: 12/16/2011 3:09:52 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the 71st General Assembly of the Union for Reform Judaism at National Harbor in Maryland December 16, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION)
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Posted: 12/16/2011 2:59:51 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the 71st General Assembly of the Union for Reform Judaism at National Harbor in Maryland December 16, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)
