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Arutz Sheva spoke with Prof. Dina Porat, Head of the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and the Moshe Kantor Database for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University. Prof. Porat presented Sunday the annual anti-Semitism report. The summary of this report is as follows: Following two years of decline, a considerable escalation in the level of violent and vandalistic acts against Jews was recorded in 2012. The combined number of 686 such acts represents an increase of 30% over the 2011 figure of 526. They include 273 attacks on persons of all...

Some dogs may look like their owners, but all dogs imitate their human companions If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, dogs often shower us with praise. New research has just determined dogs automatically imitate us, even when it is not in their best interest to do so. The study, published in the latest Proceedings of the Royal Society B, provides the first evidence that dogs copy at least some of our body movements and behaviors in ways that are spontaneous and voluntary.

Code: ZE05031805Date: 2005-03-18Pope Advises Priests to Live What They PrayIn Annual Holy Thursday LetterVATICAN CITY, MARCH 18, 2005 (Zenit.org).- John Paul II's annual letter to priests gives them very personal advice: to live the words they say when celebrating the Eucharist. The Pope's letter, signed March 13 and published today, begins: "My thoughts turn to you, dear priests, as I spend this time recuperating in hospital, a patient alongside other patients, uniting in the Eucharist my own sufferings with those of Christ. In this spirit, I want to reflect with you on some aspects of our priestly spirituality." "The priest...