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    Shalom my Gantseh Megillah family, and friends. Welcome to issue #284 of the Weekly Gantseh Megillah.

    As promised, the Weekly Megillah is back.  It is our sincere desire to publish our Weekly edition each week.  We thank our entire Megillah family for your loyalty, loving concern and support during my current medical situation. You are our primary motivation to work as hard as we do in order to keep the Megillah online, as we have for the past 11 years.

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    Enjoy the news stories we have selected for your reading pleasure this week.

    Much love to all of you,

    Michael

    Read how the Moscow City Court outlawed one of Russia's largest ultra-nationalist, neo-Nazi groups in the Buffalo News:

    http://tinyurl.com/298s6du
     

    BBC Trust apologises over Frankie Boyle's Jew joke. The Independent offers these details:

    http://tinyurl.com/264wdqd

    The head of the Los Angeles Roman Catholic Church condemns Arizona's Nazi and Communist techniques. The Jewish Community Alliance reports:

    http://tinyurl.com/2dql58l

    Time Magazine reports that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is quietly abandoning the expansion of Jewish homes in Jerusalem despite his protestation to the opposite. Arutz Sheva offers these details:

    http://tinyurl.com/2e6cvq5

    Happy Birthday, Oskar Schindler, Keeper of  the “List” that saved 1,200 Jews. Finding Dulcinea offers this profile and remembrance:

    http://tinyurl.com/ckvucz

    JNF Canada is helping the ‘21st Century Zionism’ movement. The Canadian Jewish News describes these efforts:

    http://tinyurl.com/2dbzp5m

    The Jewish Hospital in Tangiers is torn down. Arutz Sheva explains:

    http://tinyurl.com/2b49khy

    Republicans see the rift between Obama and Netanyahu as a way to woo Jews to their party. The Washington Times offers this explanation:

    http://tinyurl.com/25pyo34

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