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LDS Church posthumously baptized slain Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl

Last updated Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 4:31pm

In yet another public relations embarrassment for the LDS Church, a Utah researcher has discovered that slain Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl was posthumously baptized last year in a serious breach of church protocol.

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Claim surfaces of Anne Frank baptism by Mormons

Brian Skoloff, Michelle Riddles The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 11:31pm

SALT LAKE CITY — A new claim has surfaced that the Mormon church has posthumously baptized a Holocaust victim, this time Anne Frank.

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FILE - In this July 31, 2006 file photo, Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy James Mee speaks to a reporter, as he arrived at his home in Calabasas, Calif. Attorneys for Mee, the deputy who arrested actor Mel Gibson in 2006, settled their discrimination suit pending approval of a $50,000 payment by the county. The law enforcement official claims he suffered workplace discrimination after arresting the actor-director for DUI in 2006. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

Deputy who arrested Mel Gibson reaches settlement in lawsuit

Robert Faturechi Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 6:12pm

LOS ANGELES -- The deputy who arrested Mel Gibson in 2006 for drunken driving has tentatively settled his lawsuit against the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for $50,000, attorneys said.

Deputy James Mee alleged his supervisors retaliated against him because he resisted requests to remove the actor's anti-Semitic slurs from an initial arrest report.

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LDS Church apologizes for posthumous Jewish baptism

Jennifer Dobner The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 4:41pm

SALT LAKE CITY — LDS Church leaders apologized to the family of Holocaust survivor and Jewish rights advocate Simon Wiesenthal after his parents were posthumously baptized in a Mormon temple ritual.

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'Kosher Jesus' book raises furor

Mitchell Landsberg Los Angeles Times

Last updated Sunday, February 12, 2012 - 8:32am

For an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, Shmuley Boteach has a deeply unorthodox streak.

The best-selling author and TV host has written books on "Kosher Sex," "Dating Secrets of the 10 Commandments" and his relationship with the late pop star Michael Jackson.

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Former student files hazing suit against Jewish fraternity

Sam Stanton The Sacramento Bee

Last updated Friday, November 11, 2011 - 9:35am

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The communications major was on the dean's honor list at the University of California, Davis, a student in good health who liked working out at the gym and playing the guitar.

He also was a non-Jewish pledge of the Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi, and that is where his troubles began in the fall of 2008, he claims in a newly filed federal lawsuit against the university.

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Residents inspect damage caused by an arson attack on a mosque in the Bedouin Arab village of Tuba-Zangariyye, northern Israel, Monday, Oct, 3. 2011. Arsonists torched a mosque in an Arab village in northern Israel early Monday, setting off protests by villagers who later clashed with police. Graffiti sprayed at the site suggested Jewish radicals, suspected in other recent mosque fires, were involved. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Radical Jews suspected of burning mosque in Israel

Amy Teibel The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, October 3, 2011 - 10:28am

JERUSALEM -- Arsonists torched a mosque in an Arab village in northern Israel Monday, setting off protests by residents who clashed with police. Graffiti sprayed at the site suggested Jewish radicals, suspected in other recent mosque fires, were involved.

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David Gerbi gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in Tripoli, Libya, Monday, Oct. 3, 2011. A Libyan Jewish man who returned from exile to try to restore Tripoli's main synagogue says he has been blocked from the building a day after knocking down the wall that was blocking its entrance. Gerbi says he went to clean garbage from the synagogue on Monday only to be told by men at the scene that they had warnings he would be targeted by violence. Gerbi, who fled with his family to Italy in 1967, says he was surprised because he had permission from the local sheik. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid al-Fergany)

Libyan 'revolutionary Jew' to restore synagogue

Kim Gamel The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, October 3, 2011 - 9:57am

TRIPOLI, Libya -- An exiled Libyan Jew fulfilled his lifelong dream by starting the ambitious project of restoring Tripoli's main synagogue on Sunday, crying as he broke down a concrete wall blocking the entrance and surveyed the damage.

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Mel Gibson plans to produce film on Jewish hero

Christy Lemire The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, September 9, 2011 - 2:23pm

LOS ANGELES -- Mel Gibson, who reportedly made anti-Semitic remarks during a drunken driving arrest five years ago, is now producing a film about the life of Jewish hero Judah Maccabee.

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PJ Library sends Jewish-theme books to families

Raja Abdulrahim Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, January 21, 2011 - 4:48pm

LOS ANGELES -- At a Passover Seder years ago, Harold Grinspoon noticed with surprise that the younger attendees were absorbed in holiday children's books.

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