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Zionist rabbis back rebellious soldiers By MATTHEW WAGNER Religious leaders oppose releasing terrorists for Schalit. Jewish Agency may 'borrow' government money to avoid deficit By HAVIV RETTIG GUR But the agency won't fundraise directly. 'Why Israel' film canceled after violent German leftist protest By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL 'Shoah' director terms demonstration 'anti-Semitic'.

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Sex and the shtetl By SUE FISHKOFF / JTA The steamy side of the late nineteenth century Yiddish world. Coke and confiscation By EDWIN BLACK Did Coca-Cola benefit when the Nasser regime seized an Egyptian Jew's beverage plant? Mumbai still vulnerable 1 year after terror attack By ASSOCIATED PRESS Failure to beef up national security blamed on weak-willed politicians; once popular Chabad House has yet to bounce back

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Ask the Rabbi: 'Passive euthanasia' By SHLOMO BRODY What is the halachic view of the recently proposed assisted-suicide bill? Parashat Toldot: To continue, not to imitate By SHLOMO RISKIN Parents mustn't try to mold children in their own image, and children mustn't try to be their parents. Tradition Today: Are we really one? By REUVEN HAMMER Certainly we can no longer expect that all Jews believe in one God that is the core of Jewish tradition.