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Thursday, June 25, 2009

First Jewish speaker for Britain's House of Commons

Ha'aretz
Britain's parliament got its first ever Jewish speaker of the house this week, with the election of Conservative MP John Bercow .... In 2001, he visited Israel on the invite of a Jewish friend from the Conservative party. Full story