http://jreporting.com en-us Daily round up of Jewish news All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. visitingtortola.com/jreporting/images/logo_feed.gif http://jreporting.com jreportinghttp://feedburner.google.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/nBym2ySHLDM/1075210.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:168310 An 87-year-old Australian citizen accused of killing a Jewish teenager in his native Hungary in 1944 Tuesday lost his latest court battle to prevent extradition to face war crimes.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/nBym2ySHLDM" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:04:00 CST http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1075210.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/p3pFStQ2H8A/in-reversal-us-to-join-un-rights-council 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:168299 The United States will seek to join the U.N. Human Rights Council, reversing its policy of shunning the group and prompting concern among some Jewish organizations.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/p3pFStQ2H8A" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:04:00 CST http://jta.org/news/article/2009/03/31/1004147/in-reversal-us-to-join-un-rights-council http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/XN4IwmABXRs/SB123854102203575623.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:168300 On Feb. 10, Israel elected a new Knesset (or parliament) -- the 18th since the establishment of the state in May 1948. Like its predecessors, it consists of a hodgepodge of 12 different parties. The two largest parties, Kadima and Likud, won 23% and 21% of the vote, giving them 28 and 27 seats respectively -- a long way short of a majority.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/XN4IwmABXRs" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:04:00 CST http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123854102203575623.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/1yFfbez57ug/7977002.stm 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:168301 Israel&#039;s new ultra-nationalist foreign minister has said it is not bound by a US-sponsored 2007 agreement to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/1yFfbez57ug" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:04:00 CST http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7977002.stm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/PkYmF6Jv17Y/1068627.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:162939 The ex-wife of murdered dentist Daniel Malakov has denied hiring a hit man to gun down her husband on a Queens playground. Testifying for the first time Tuesday, Dr. Mazoltuv Borukhova said she had nothing to do with her husband&#039;s murder.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/PkYmF6Jv17Y" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sun, 8 Mar 2009 01:03:00 CST http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1068627.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/PkYmF6Jv17Y/1068627.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:137087 The ex-wife of murdered dentist Daniel Malakov has denied hiring a hit man to gun down her husband on a Queens playground. Testifying for the first time Tuesday, Dr. Mazoltuv Borukhova said she had nothing to do with her husband&#039;s murder.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/PkYmF6Jv17Y" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sun, 8 Mar 2009 01:03:00 CST http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1068627.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/JV575-RcPOo/Judge+denies+Rubashkin+s+anti-Semitism+claim+ 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:162940 A federal judge has brushed aside contentions that a former Postville meatpacking executive’s indictment was tainted by anti-Semitism.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/JV575-RcPOo" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sun, 8 Mar 2009 01:03:00 CST http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090306/NEWS/90306014/-1/NEWS04/Judge+denies+Rubashkin+s+anti-Semitism+claim+ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/5i0Mqx2Hz_g/ALeqM5jwYcf8XxmoIzFLp_35e9hfWfixvwD96OR8GG1 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:162941 One of four men accused of plotting terrorist attacks on Jewish and military targets in California has been sentenced to 16 years in federal prison.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/5i0Mqx2Hz_g" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sun, 8 Mar 2009 01:03:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jwYcf8XxmoIzFLp_35e9hfWfixvwD96OR8GG1 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/KRA0aZDpMtM/0,7340,L-3682515,00.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:162942 Jewish Agency says youths sustain mild injuries after being assaulted by man at Belgian city&#039;s Jewish quarter, attributes rise in anti-Semitism in country to Gaza offensive<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/KRA0aZDpMtM" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sun, 8 Mar 2009 01:03:00 CST http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3682515,00.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/JV575-RcPOo/Judge+denies+Rubashkin+s+anti-Semitism+claim+ 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:137088 A federal judge has brushed aside contentions that a former Postville meatpacking executive’s indictment was tainted by anti-Semitism.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/JV575-RcPOo" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sun, 8 Mar 2009 01:03:00 CST http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090306/NEWS/90306014/-1/NEWS04/Judge+denies+Rubashkin+s+anti-Semitism+claim+ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/5i0Mqx2Hz_g/ALeqM5jwYcf8XxmoIzFLp_35e9hfWfixvwD96OR8GG1 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:137089 One of four men accused of plotting terrorist attacks on Jewish and military targets in California has been sentenced to 16 years in federal prison.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/5i0Mqx2Hz_g" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sun, 8 Mar 2009 01:03:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jwYcf8XxmoIzFLp_35e9hfWfixvwD96OR8GG1 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/KRA0aZDpMtM/0,7340,L-3682515,00.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:137090 Jewish Agency says youths sustain mild injuries after being assaulted by man at Belgian city&#039;s Jewish quarter, attributes rise in anti-Semitism in country to Gaza offensive<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/KRA0aZDpMtM" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sun, 8 Mar 2009 01:03:00 CST http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3682515,00.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/fQyMnterOdw/ALeqM5iZQb2negfyNKgNesbro4mnMW1AHAD96OJFIG0 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:162943 A senior Iranian official and a delegation of Hamas and other Palestinian militants are visiting Sudan to support its wanted president, who is accused of war crimes in Darfur.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/fQyMnterOdw" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 6 Mar 2009 15:03:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iZQb2negfyNKgNesbro4mnMW1AHAD96OJFIG0 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/fQyMnterOdw/ALeqM5iZQb2negfyNKgNesbro4mnMW1AHAD96OJFIG0 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:132092 A senior Iranian official and a delegation of Hamas and other Palestinian militants are visiting Sudan to support its wanted president, who is accused of war crimes in Darfur.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/fQyMnterOdw" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 6 Mar 2009 15:03:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iZQb2negfyNKgNesbro4mnMW1AHAD96OJFIG0 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/NEIVoyPQTx4/2009-03-05_exwife_rabbi_israel_weingarten_halfnude_.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:162944 The ex-wife of a rabbi accused of molesting his daughter testified Thursday that she found them together in bed, and the teen revealed that she had been sexually abused.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/NEIVoyPQTx4" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:03:00 CST http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/03/05/2009-03-05_exwife_rabbi_israel_weingarten_halfnude_.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/NEIVoyPQTx4/2009-03-05_exwife_rabbi_israel_weingarten_halfnude_.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:131865 The ex-wife of a rabbi accused of molesting his daughter testified Thursday that she found them together in bed, and the teen revealed that she had been sexually abused.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/NEIVoyPQTx4" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:03:00 CST http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/03/05/2009-03-05_exwife_rabbi_israel_weingarten_halfnude_.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/bAAGE6UhEAM/ALeqM5hwOuLSvEg-dzVPGqO2HsIZ_yzutg 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:162945 Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and her Turkish counterpart Ali Babajan on Thursday sought to defuse the recent crisis between the allies sparked in the wake of Israel&#039;s offensive in Gaza.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/bAAGE6UhEAM" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:03:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hwOuLSvEg-dzVPGqO2HsIZ_yzutg http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/bAAGE6UhEAM/ALeqM5hwOuLSvEg-dzVPGqO2HsIZ_yzutg 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:131866 Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and her Turkish counterpart Ali Babajan on Thursday sought to defuse the recent crisis between the allies sparked in the wake of Israel&#039;s offensive in Gaza.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/bAAGE6UhEAM" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:03:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hwOuLSvEg-dzVPGqO2HsIZ_yzutg http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/6DdCV1IMt4A/2009-03-06_doubles_fault_davis_cup_tennis_shows_cow.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:162946 It will be to the great shame of sports tomorrow when a tennis player is forced to compete in a Davis Cup match in a stadium that&#039;s emptied of fans for the reason of his nationality.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/6DdCV1IMt4A" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:03:00 CST http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/03/06/2009-03-06_doubles_fault_davis_cup_tennis_shows_cow.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/6DdCV1IMt4A/2009-03-06_doubles_fault_davis_cup_tennis_shows_cow.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:131867 It will be to the great shame of sports tomorrow when a tennis player is forced to compete in a Davis Cup match in a stadium that&#039;s emptied of fans for the reason of his nationality.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/6DdCV1IMt4A" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:03:00 CST http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/03/06/2009-03-06_doubles_fault_davis_cup_tennis_shows_cow.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/bXYSeYJXKyE/ALeqM5iL8LPbOIE2vrwcz36byFm4LqJSaAD96OIGD00 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:162947 Israeli foreign ministry officials say the government of Mauritania is expelling the Israeli ambassador and his staff from the overwhelmingly Muslim West African nation.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/bXYSeYJXKyE" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:03:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iL8LPbOIE2vrwcz36byFm4LqJSaAD96OIGD00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/pxX3R2Qoaos/ALeqM5gbdxGddLvjAk3uDnoHQMJQIo_d1g 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:162948 Israeli leaders and military commanders deemed by Iran to be &quot;war criminals&quot; should be executed, a senior cleric said in a Friday prayer sermon broadcast live on state radio.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/pxX3R2Qoaos" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:03:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gbdxGddLvjAk3uDnoHQMJQIo_d1g http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/bXYSeYJXKyE/ALeqM5iL8LPbOIE2vrwcz36byFm4LqJSaAD96OIGD00 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:131868 Israeli foreign ministry officials say the government of Mauritania is expelling the Israeli ambassador and his staff from the overwhelmingly Muslim West African nation.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/bXYSeYJXKyE" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:03:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iL8LPbOIE2vrwcz36byFm4LqJSaAD96OIGD00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/pxX3R2Qoaos/ALeqM5gbdxGddLvjAk3uDnoHQMJQIo_d1g 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:131869 Israeli leaders and military commanders deemed by Iran to be &quot;war criminals&quot; should be executed, a senior cleric said in a Friday prayer sermon broadcast live on state radio.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/pxX3R2Qoaos" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:03:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gbdxGddLvjAk3uDnoHQMJQIo_d1g http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/NVTGltuAZXY/0,7340,L-3682162,00.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:162949 Religious students protest Haifa&#039;s Institute of Technology&#039;s decision to allow homosexuals to live in dorms designed for married couples<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/NVTGltuAZXY" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:03:00 CST http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3682162,00.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/NVTGltuAZXY/0,7340,L-3682162,00.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:131870 Religious students protest Haifa&#039;s Institute of Technology&#039;s decision to allow homosexuals to live in dorms designed for married couples<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/NVTGltuAZXY" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:03:00 CST http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3682162,00.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/IQrErEo2390/0,7340,L-3682057,00.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:162950 It&#039;s hard to believe that this question is being asked gain, but sadly, after 70 years it has emerged nonetheless: Is there room for Jewish existence in Europe? Can Jews continue living as a proud community, in 2009, in that same continent with the terrible memories?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/IQrErEo2390" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:03:00 CST http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3682057,00.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/IQrErEo2390/0,7340,L-3682057,00.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:131871 It&#039;s hard to believe that this question is being asked gain, but sadly, after 70 years it has emerged nonetheless: Is there room for Jewish existence in Europe? Can Jews continue living as a proud community, in 2009, in that same continent with the terrible memories?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/IQrErEo2390" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:03:00 CST http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3682057,00.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/cSfqpkgfoNU/the-crusade-to-defeat-oba_b_172417.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:162951 The effort to force President Obama to withdraw the nomination of Chas Freeman as chairman of the National Intelligence Council is getting creepy.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/cSfqpkgfoNU" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:03:00 CST http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg/the-crusade-to-defeat-oba_b_172417.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/VQUiaqpPcjc/italy-says-no-to-durban-ii 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:162952 Italy is pulling out of the Durban II U.N. anti-racism conference. Foreign Minister Franco Frattini disclosed the decision Thursday in Brussels, where he is attending a meeting of NATO foreign ministers.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/VQUiaqpPcjc" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:03:00 CST http://jta.org/news/article/2009/03/05/1003490/italy-says-no-to-durban-ii http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/cSfqpkgfoNU/the-crusade-to-defeat-oba_b_172417.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:131872 The effort to force President Obama to withdraw the nomination of Chas Freeman as chairman of the National Intelligence Council is getting creepy.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/cSfqpkgfoNU" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:03:00 CST http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg/the-crusade-to-defeat-oba_b_172417.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/VQUiaqpPcjc/italy-says-no-to-durban-ii 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:131873 Italy is pulling out of the Durban II U.N. anti-racism conference. Foreign Minister Franco Frattini disclosed the decision Thursday in Brussels, where he is attending a meeting of NATO foreign ministers.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/VQUiaqpPcjc" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:03:00 CST http://jta.org/news/article/2009/03/05/1003490/italy-says-no-to-durban-ii http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/v7KSlg16Nwo/1068585.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:162953 During a recent interview with the Forward, the Jerusalem-born director and activist Avigail Sperber described her new film, &quot;Halakeh,&quot; as a &quot;small story... through which one can understand the place of a woman in Jewish religious culture.&quot;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/v7KSlg16Nwo" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 6 Mar 2009 04:03:00 CST http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1068585.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/v7KSlg16Nwo/1068585.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:130363 During a recent interview with the Forward, the Jerusalem-born director and activist Avigail Sperber described her new film, &quot;Halakeh,&quot; as a &quot;small story... through which one can understand the place of a woman in Jewish religious culture.&quot;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/v7KSlg16Nwo" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 6 Mar 2009 04:03:00 CST http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1068585.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/EcLXr_bZaQc/7927484.stm 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:130133 The son of an expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls has been arrested in New York, accused of trying to discredit one of his father&#039;s academic rivals.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/EcLXr_bZaQc" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 6 Mar 2009 03:03:00 CST http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7927484.stm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/9rXpHt98Aqk/7926049.stm 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:128215 Israeli police have recommended that a third set of charges be brought against outgoing prime minister Ehud Olmert.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/9rXpHt98Aqk" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 5 Mar 2009 15:03:00 CST http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7926049.stm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/naaDgh5SLE4/05arts-ISRAELIDANCE_BRF.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:128216 The Brooklyn Academy of Music is bracing for protests of the Batsheva Dance Company, an Israeli troupe, this week. In recent weeks during a North American tour, Batsheva, which was to begin a run of performances on Wednesday night, has been dogged by small demonstrations and calls for a boycott over Israel’s actions in Gaza.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/naaDgh5SLE4" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 5 Mar 2009 15:03:00 CST http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/arts/dance/05arts-ISRAELIDANCE_BRF.html?ref=arts http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/IRxz7DfIp4E/palestinian-bulldozer-shot-israel-police 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:128217 Palestinian driver shot after injuring two officers and hitting empty bus in attack in Jerusalem<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/IRxz7DfIp4E" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 5 Mar 2009 15:03:00 CST http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/05/palestinian-bulldozer-shot-israel-police http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/YXmrAEgHSho/article 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:128218 Nearly nine months after they were arrested in a huge immigration raid at an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse, some of the workers have returned to their old jobs while they wait to testify as material witnesses against former managers.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/YXmrAEgHSho" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 5 Mar 2009 15:03:00 CST http://www.gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090304/NEWS/903049997/1006 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/0fhaY0aDZEs/britain-will-talk-to-hezbollah 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:128219 Britain will talk to Hezbollah, the country&#039;s Foreign Minister in charge of the Middle East announced. Speaking to lawmakers Thursday, Bill Rammell said the British government will authorize &quot;carefully selected&quot; contacts with the political wing of Hezbollah, which is represented in the Lebanese parliament. The Lebanon-based group&#039;s military arm will remain banned in Britain.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/0fhaY0aDZEs" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 5 Mar 2009 15:03:00 CST http://jta.org/news/article/2009/03/05/1003478/britain-will-talk-to-hezbollah http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/FWVgPPrF-_c/vatican-document-shows-pius-xii-saved-jews 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:128220 The Vatican has produced another document to bolster its assertion that Pope Pius XII worked behind the scenes to save Jews during World War II. Vatican Radio on Wednesday said a 1943 document found in a convent in Rome listed the names of 24 people who were to be sheltered by the nuns there in accordance with the pope&#039;s desire.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/FWVgPPrF-_c" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 5 Mar 2009 15:03:00 CST http://jta.org/news/article/2009/03/05/1003472/vatican-document-shows-pius-xii-saved-jews http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/HgXOC352cDU/ 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:128221 University campuses across Canada and around the world are bracing this week for a controversial annual event that Jewish groups and students say fuels hate.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/HgXOC352cDU" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 5 Mar 2009 15:03:00 CST http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/13111/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/hO_0I_BT9AY/40754017.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:128222 Rockford police are investigating vandalism at a local Jewish center. It happened outside the Jewish Federation of Greater Rockford, which housed in a synagogue off Guilford Avenue.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/hO_0I_BT9AY" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 5 Mar 2009 15:03:00 CST http://www.wifr.com/news/headlines/40754017.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/LhdnonRP_64/Satellite 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:126268 Israel is seriously considering taking unilateral military action to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, according to a report by top US political figures and experts released Wednesday<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/LhdnonRP_64" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 5 Mar 2009 03:03:00 CST http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1236103158937&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/Jmhb-cl2UGc/daily5.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:125724 The second jet on Qatar Airways’ new Houston to Doha direct route will bear the name “Gaza” as a show of solidarity with the people in that war-torn area.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/Jmhb-cl2UGc" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 4 Mar 2009 23:03:00 CST http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2009/03/02/daily5.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/DCRgHrkNwfE/British-embassy-in-Israel-cancels-move-over-Jewish-settlement-concerns.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:125725 The British embassy in Israel has cancelled plans to relocate to new offices because one of the owners is believed to be involved in building Jewish settlements, it was disclosed yesterday, as Hillary Clinton said Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem were of &quot;deep concern&quot;.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/DCRgHrkNwfE" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 4 Mar 2009 23:03:00 CST http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/4939102/British-embassy-in-Israel-cancels-move-over-Jewish-settlement-concerns.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/I-uyQTqyxLM/130242 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:124315 At least 77 Japanese policemen, customs inspectors and others will be called to testify in the State of Israel’s case against Ben-Tzion Miller, who is accused of enticing Hassidic youths to smuggle Ecstasy into Japan.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/I-uyQTqyxLM" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 4 Mar 2009 15:03:00 CST http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130242 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/Sj3G_Zkwu_0/130244 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:124316 Rabbi Yaakov Yosef has caused a stir in the rabbinic world, ruling that a watermark on Torah scrolls in the IDF renders them unfit for use. Other rabbis disagree.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/Sj3G_Zkwu_0" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 4 Mar 2009 15:03:00 CST http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130244 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/vxXcmQfpQoE/israeli-nobel-peace-prize-nominee-wants-be-removed-list-2134300 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:124317 Israeli nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu has asked to be removed from a list of nominees for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, reports said Tuesday.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/vxXcmQfpQoE" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 4 Mar 2009 15:03:00 CST http://www.topnews.in/israeli-nobel-peace-prize-nominee-wants-be-removed-list-2134300 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/Pr-fVRqpuOk/ 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:124318 Elianna Passentin says she moved from her native California to this settlement deep in the heart of the West Bank because she wanted to raise her six children in a place tied to Jewish history.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/Pr-fVRqpuOk" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 4 Mar 2009 15:03:00 CST http://www.slate.com/id/2212805/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/P6G6aMg8YgY/596172 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:124319 Education under occupation was the topic. While some 20 protestors waving Israeli flags stood quietly outside a University of Toronto building, about 100 people came to listen to the second night of lectures for Israeli Apartheid Week.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/P6G6aMg8YgY" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 4 Mar 2009 15:03:00 CST http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/596172 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/J_F_mlP9Diw/JER000064.htm 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:124211 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticised on Wednesday Israel&#039;s plans to demolish dozens of Palestinian homes in Arab East Jerusalem as a violation of its international obligations.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/J_F_mlP9Diw" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 4 Mar 2009 15:03:00 CST http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/JER000064.htm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/6ZliJuwTUVE/35052 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:123862 A record number of hate groups were active in the United States last year, their anger driven by fears of Latino immigration, a souring economy and the election of Barack Obama to the presidency, a report said Thursday.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/6ZliJuwTUVE" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 4 Mar 2009 13:03:00 CST http://www.ejpress.org/article/35052 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/yx62mSE5Ju0/35107 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:123863 Leaders of the European Jewish Congress will ask the European Union to boycott the upcoming United Nations Conference on racism, during a meeting on Wednesday with the Czech EU presidency in Prague.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/yx62mSE5Ju0" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 4 Mar 2009 13:03:00 CST http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/western_europe/35107 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/EewqCkZgCHc/ML-Jordan-Terrorism.php 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:123864 Jordan&#039;s military prosecutor has charged two men with plotting to kill an Israeli factory owner in the Jordanian city of Irbid<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/EewqCkZgCHc" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 4 Mar 2009 13:03:00 CST http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/04/news/ML-Jordan-Terrorism.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/Qp-OYO5nNuI/argentina-embargoes-more-irainan-properties 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:123865 Argentina seized five Iranian properties in the Buenos Aires area. Justice Minister Alberto Nisman, who is in charge of the special unit investigating the 1994 AMIA Jewish community center bombing, ordered the seizure Tuesday.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/Qp-OYO5nNuI" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 4 Mar 2009 13:03:00 CST http://jta.org/news/article/2009/03/03/1003423/argentina-embargoes-more-irainan-properties http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/fv4OAM6Y_rE/Satellite 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:123866 The German government&#039;s decision to not follow the US lead and withdraw from the Durban II UN anti-racism conference before its scheduled opening April 20 in Geneva drew sharp attacks this week from German and Israeli critics.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/fv4OAM6Y_rE" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 4 Mar 2009 13:03:00 CST http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1236103147361&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/HJP6sDqkNp8/ny-nysextrial0304,0,1839877.story 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:123867 A woman who says her ultra-orthodox rabbi father molested her for much of her youth confronted him Tuesday under tense circumstances: as he cross-examined her at his own sex-abuse trial.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/HJP6sDqkNp8" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 4 Mar 2009 13:03:00 CST http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nysextrial0304,0,1839877.story http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/c5xXgvhT6D0/Hillary-Clinton-puts-America-collision-course-Israel-pledges-press-Palestinian-state.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:120884 Hillary Clinton put America on a collision course with Israel today after pledging to press for a Palestinian state.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/c5xXgvhT6D0" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 3 Mar 2009 19:03:00 CST http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1158870/Hillary-Clinton-puts-America-collision-course-Israel-pledges-press-Palestinian-state.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/SB3ljdgWfEc/1067910.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:119047 Women are allowed to chant the Scroll of Esther on behalf of men if no competent men are available, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual leader of Israel&#039;s Sephardi community, ruled last week in a landmark decision liable to outrage many of his Ashkenazi counterparts.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/SB3ljdgWfEc" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:03:00 CST http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1067910.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/ftdQGT8S_C0/Article.asp 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:119048 Our favorite local scribe, Rabbi Itzhak Reisman, called us up last month with great news: “I acquired a Torah scroll, written on brownish parchment,” he reported. “The moment I saw it, I recognized it as a Spanish scroll, which means it had to be written before 1492. My estimate was about 1480.”<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/ftdQGT8S_C0" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:03:00 CST http://grandstreetnews.com/scripts/grand/paper/Article.asp?ArticleID=861 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/Mjq4lSGCHNc/ALeqM5hwk4DL6jdomOvIRUk70umN0B6ctg 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:119049 An Israeli soldier patrolling the border with Lebanon opened fire on Tuesday at a pro-Hezbollah mural painted on a wall at the entrance to a Lebanese village, the Lebanese army said.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/Mjq4lSGCHNc" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:03:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hwk4DL6jdomOvIRUk70umN0B6ctg http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/Ym3C919ZziI/ 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:119050 The Toronto school board is owed nearly $1 million in back rent by two Orthodox Jewish groups running schools in district buildings, documents reveal.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/Ym3C919ZziI" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:03:00 CST http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/03/02/Religious-schools_rent_behind_in_Toronto/UPI-50701236032062/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/yKULA0o7n1I/ 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:119051 Falling enrollment and a shrinking endowment are forcing the Jewish Community Day School in Providence to close its middle school program.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/yKULA0o7n1I" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:03:00 CST http://www.turnto10.com/jar/news/local/article/local_jewish_school_to_close/10590/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/Aq4FFG7-tYA/German-car-company-used-hair-from-Jews-murdered-at-Auschwitz.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:119052 The German government is in the embarrassing position of having to decide whether or not to bail out an industrial giant accused of using the hair from Jews murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz to make textiles at its factories in Nazi occupied Poland during the First World War.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/Aq4FFG7-tYA" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:03:00 CST http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/4930165/German-car-company-used-hair-from-Jews-murdered-at-Auschwitz.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/TLKqSEh8j-M/93065 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:119053 Hindus and Jews have welcomed the European Parliament´s (EP) new initiative &quot;calling for an overall strategy to integrate the Roma community into the European Union.&quot;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/TLKqSEh8j-M" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:03:00 CST http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/93065 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/HYMpqfhK1Mw/page.aspx 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:119054 he government commission on religious communities focused on Monday on the demand by the Jewish community for the return of their assets. The state has so far failed to form a position on the matter, the commission&#039;s chair and Minister for Slovenes Abroad Bostjan Zeks said.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/HYMpqfhK1Mw" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:03:00 CST http://www.cjp.org/page.aspx?id=195717 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/-R2u6e5G7x0/ALeqM5gWtr6heuJfhNhZgz0MDKJQmKfIkgD96MEKJ81 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:119055 Silwan, a ramshackle neighborhood in east Jerusalem, sits atop a site Israelis call the City of David, named for the biblical monarch who ruled a Jewish kingdom from the spot 3,000 years ago. Jews consider the site an essential link to their ancient history, and the government has designated it an archaeological park.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/-R2u6e5G7x0" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:03:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gWtr6heuJfhNhZgz0MDKJQmKfIkgD96MEKJ81 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/lmYbOvWNB4w/AR2009030301052.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:119056 Potentially sensitive engineering documents about one of two types of helicopters in the U.S. presidential fleet were found on a computer in Iran after they were inadvertently disclosed by an American defense industry executive last year, according to a private cybersecurity company.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/lmYbOvWNB4w" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:03:00 CST http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/03/AR2009030301052.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/gnbJjM9OsTQ/news 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:119057 Ruth Madoff said she owns a Manhattan apartment, $45 million in bonds and $17 million in cash that are “unrelated” to an alleged Ponzi scheme by her husband, Bernard Madoff.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/gnbJjM9OsTQ" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:03:00 CST http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a2_7qBYOay6w&refer=home http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/2cla4P4jLq4/2009-03-02_daughter_of_orthodox_rabbi_tells_court_o.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:119058 The 27-year-old daughter of an Orthodox rabbi tearfully described in Brooklyn Federal Court the day 18 years ago when her father began sexually abusing her.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/2cla4P4jLq4" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:03:00 CST http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/03/02/2009-03-02_daughter_of_orthodox_rabbi_tells_court_o.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/bpNhmofXlCo/Satellite 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:117046 Leaders of the Support Prophet Mohammed Organization, based in the Gulf state Bahrain, stressed on Sunday the need to establish a TV channel in Hebrew to teach Israelis about Islam&#039;s values, the Dubai-based newspaper Gulf News reported.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/bpNhmofXlCo" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 2 Mar 2009 15:03:00 CST http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1235898325366&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/GWzwWyREPuA/ 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:117047 Brooklyn’s first publicly funded Hebrew-English dual-language school is set to open in August, with 150 kindergarten and first grade students — and one principal who doesn’t speak Hebrew.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/GWzwWyREPuA" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 2 Mar 2009 15:03:00 CST http://nycitynewsservice.com/2009/03/02/principal-issues-at-hebrew-school/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/ExCMNEiBjh0/4204206.cms 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:117048 Dame Helen Mirren is leaving no stone unturned to perfect her role a Jewish secret agent in forthcoming movie ‘The Debt’, and hence the British actress is learning hebrew.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/ExCMNEiBjh0" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 2 Mar 2009 15:03:00 CST http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Entertainment/Now-Helen-Mirren-learns-Hebrew/articleshow/4204206.cms http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/oupIh8TOmek/israel-palestinian-territories 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:117049 &quot;I also advocate the creation of a viable Palestinian state,&quot; Avigdor Lieberman says nonchalantly in an article for the Jewish Week of New York.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/oupIh8TOmek" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 2 Mar 2009 15:03:00 CST http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/02/israel-palestinian-territories http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/TpJazUHsc48/a1f_cloughcol_0302.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:117050 The Stanford Financial scandal has affected a local philanthropic organization: The Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County in Boca Raton.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/TpJazUHsc48" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 2 Mar 2009 15:03:00 CST http://www.palmbeachpost.com/business/content/business/epaper/2009/03/02/a1f_cloughcol_0302.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/KIRuNrCmugE/ALeqM5i9QN5b3yfxQ0hYNvl-bRmv8jmM0g 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:117051 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Israel on Monday evening on her first visit to the Middle East since taking office.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/KIRuNrCmugE" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 2 Mar 2009 15:03:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i9QN5b3yfxQ0hYNvl-bRmv8jmM0g http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/9GoFN-E-aS0/new-zealand-cafe-owner-apologizes-to-israelis 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:116509 A New Zealand cafe owner who evicted two Israelis from his establishment during Israel&#039;s invasion of Gaza apologized.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/9GoFN-E-aS0" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:03:00 CST http://jta.org/news/article/2009/03/01/1003363/new-zealand-cafe-owner-apologizes-to-israelis http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/gV9e0VTrb9o/ukrainian-memorial-to-lubavitcher-rebbe-damaged 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:116510 Unidentified vandals damaged a monument erected in southern Ukraine in honor of the late Lubavitcher rebbe.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/gV9e0VTrb9o" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:03:00 CST http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/26/1003296/ukrainian-memorial-to-lubavitcher-rebbe-damaged http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/rclb2J-Z2lM/ 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:116511 Iran is calling for the arrests of 15 Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, on charges of war crimes in Gaza.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/rclb2J-Z2lM" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:03:00 CST http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/03/02/Iran.Israel.Arrests/?iref=mpstoryview http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/KGwziic3u0A/2009-03-02-voa17.cfm 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:116512 An anti-settlement Israeli group says Israel&#039;s Housing Ministry has plans that would nearly double the number of settlers in the West Bank.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/KGwziic3u0A" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:03:00 CST http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-03-02-voa17.cfm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/11KsNu3kxrE/StoryPage.aspx 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:116513 Hollywood singer-actress Lindsay Lohan is converting to Judaism to prove her devotion to her Jewish DJ girlfriend Samantha Ronson.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/11KsNu3kxrE" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:03:00 CST http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=HomePage&id=9008fe95-c1f9-4610-abde-7be9181c9e9a&Headline=Lindsay+Lohan+to+convert+to+Judaism http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/xGE4ks23YPQ/ALeqM5g30r70RX5f-vKf5J7XhRzcGy1XSg 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:116056 A Yemeni court on Monday ordered a man convicted of gunning down a Jewish father-of-nine to pay 27,500 dollars in blood money, sparing the man from a death sentence as he was &quot;mentally abnormal.&quot;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/xGE4ks23YPQ" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 2 Mar 2009 06:03:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g30r70RX5f-vKf5J7XhRzcGy1XSg http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/ZFXqUtbHwgw/1067912.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:116057 Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman is scheduled to meet today with leaders of right-wing, ultra-Orthodox parties in a bid to solve the rift between them over matters of state and religion.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/ZFXqUtbHwgw" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 2 Mar 2009 06:03:00 CST http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1067912.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/nY8icxkAKxE/study-compared-to-christians-f.php 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:116058 Jews are less likely than Catholics or Protestants to change faiths, though religious switching nationwide has increased since 1965, according to a study released this week by the American Jewish Committee.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/nY8icxkAKxE" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 2 Mar 2009 06:03:00 CST http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2009/02/study-compared-to-christians-f.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/s_bHj6FgUug/Israels-humiliating-discrimination-against-Arab-Jews.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:116059 Some years ago, on a visit to Jerusalem, I was struck by what seemed to me a significant sight. Three young men – a rifle-carrying Israeli soldier, a keffiyeh-wearing Palestinian, and a religious, Hasidic Jew dressed in black – were leaning against a wall, a yard apart from each other.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/s_bHj6FgUug" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 2 Mar 2009 06:03:00 CST http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/4838496/Israels-humiliating-discrimination-against-Arab-Jews.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/WInBxpj5q30/ALeqM5iNRhthy7BkbekaQhbAz2jxd45_HwD96LB2H00 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:116060 He had the stone inscribed with the last words of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl — &quot;My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish.&quot;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/WInBxpj5q30" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 2 Mar 2009 06:03:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iNRhthy7BkbekaQhbAz2jxd45_HwD96LB2H00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/-gJoXlwCL70/02iran.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:116061 Iran has arrested an Iranian-American reporter who worked for National Public Radio and other news organizations out of Iran, her father told N.P.R. on Sunday.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/-gJoXlwCL70" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 2 Mar 2009 06:03:00 CST http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/world/middleeast/02iran.html?ref=middleeast http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/vWGKlVgydcQ/main4833667.shtml 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:116062 But the proof that it happened can be found in the ruined lives of thousands of victims. The one person who knows the most and is willing to talk about it is Harry Markopolos, the man who figured out Madoff&#039;s scheme before anyone else.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/vWGKlVgydcQ" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 2 Mar 2009 06:03:00 CST http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/27/60minutes/main4833667.shtml?source=mostpop_story http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/NzHtpkWhEN0/Satellite 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:115345 An indictment may be on the way in one of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert&#039;s numerous criminal investigations, Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz announced Sunday evening after a final review of the so-called &quot;cash envelopes&quot; affair with State Attorney Moshe Lador.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/NzHtpkWhEN0" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sun, 1 Mar 2009 21:03:00 CST http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1235898317197&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/1eDAPozwY2k/Satellite 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:113942 After a two-month international manhunt, a fugitive rabbi who police consider to be the ringleader and &quot;spiritual mentor&quot; in one of the worst child abuse cases in Israeli history has been arrested by Brazilian police, Jerusalem police said Wednesday.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/1eDAPozwY2k" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sun, 1 Mar 2009 07:03:00 CST http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1212041476297&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/RWT9qPVkkrI/Sweden-bans-tennis-spectators-in-Gaza-protest.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:113943 A Swedish town has banned spectators from a Davis Cup match with Israel in an apparent protest at the invasion of Gaza.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/RWT9qPVkkrI" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sun, 1 Mar 2009 07:03:00 CST http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/daviscup/4864592/Sweden-bans-tennis-spectators-in-Gaza-protest.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/aqwcp20nDss/1067539.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:112851 Israel&#039;s right-wing Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has abandoned efforts to woo centrist Tzipi Livni into forming a broad coalition government, a spokeswoman said on Saturday.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/aqwcp20nDss" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:02:00 CST http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1067539.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/RVDsy9kBeGU/1067508.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:112852 The Israeli government joined American Jewish organizations in praising the Obama administration for its plan to boycott an anti-racism conference scheduled for April unless the final document is changed to drop all references to Israel and the defamation of religion, a senior U.S. official said Friday.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/RVDsy9kBeGU" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:02:00 CST http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1067508.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/rZifFfWy-Sk/ 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:112853 Jewish students and faculty at California universities fear for their safety on campus because of threats aimed at them over the Middle East conflict, the father of a slain Wall Street Journal reporter said Friday.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/rZifFfWy-Sk" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:02:00 CST http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/27/anti.semitism.campus/?iref=mpstoryview http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/Qdp1Zd20NHU/27charity.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:112854 Wealthy donors and the nonprofit groups they support were in an uproar over the Obama administration’s proposal to limit the value of deductions for charitable gifts, which was included in the budget the president presented to Congress.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/Qdp1Zd20NHU" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:02:00 CST http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/us/27charity.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/l8kOw_y6fJY/186982 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:112855 Iran now has enough low-enriched uranium to make one atomic bomb—at least theoretically. Independent analysts say that became clear after the U.N.&#039;s International Atomic Energy Agency issued its latest inspection report on Feb. 19, revealing the presence of 1,010 kilograms of the material Washington and the Europeans hoped would never exist<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/l8kOw_y6fJY" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:02:00 CST http://www.newsweek.com/id/186982 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/NGkM_hANJQo/1067280.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:112797 The event held in Jerusalem this month by the gay Orthodox group Havruta, to mark its first anniversary, seemed to many participants like a dream come true, a giant step for Israeli Orthodox society.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/NGkM_hANJQo" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:02:00 CST http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1067280.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/ZjEmgvYER6g/story.asp 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:109309 A New York City company has acquired the assets of a kosher cheese company in northern New York. Toobro LLC, owned by Menachem and Schneur Bistritzky, has purchased the assets of Ahava Food Corporation. Schneur Bistritzky says the Ahava plants in Ogdensburg and Lowville have great potential in the kosher world<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/ZjEmgvYER6g" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://www.wten.com/Global/story.asp?S=9916052 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/yax81APe_7s/0,7340,L-3678082,00.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:109310 The Jerusalem Municipality has replaced dozens of plastic garbage bins with noncombustible metal ones, this after recurring ultra-Orthodox riots in protest of the annual Gay Pride Parade have cost the city more than a million shekels over the past five years.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/yax81APe_7s" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3678082,00.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/JJ7Tacsz_TU/mumbai-terror-attacks-india 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:109311 Indian police have named a Pakistani colonel who they say was connected to November&#039;s Mumbai terror attacks which left 164 people dead.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/JJ7Tacsz_TU" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/26/mumbai-terror-attacks-india http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/OH1OTk8cswc/1067492.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:109312 Poland has appealed for international donations to preserve facilities and exhibits at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz where more than one million Jews perished during World War Two.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/OH1OTk8cswc" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1067492.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/wQ_-DxZphPQ/1067291.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:109313 U.S. President Barack Obama wants to create a new order in the Middle East, one based on diplomacy and dialogue, not on boycotts and bombs. Israel wants to shatter the threatening &quot;axis of evil,&quot; which is headquartered in Iran and has branches in Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, and is opposed to withdrawal from the territories. Syria wants to improve its relations with the United States and strengthen its control of Lebanon, without bowing to Israel<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/wQ_-DxZphPQ" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1067291.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/jFZsfk0DDFw/idUKTRE51Q2JT20090227 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:109314 The Vatican said on Friday that an apology by a traditionalist bishop who denied the Holocaust fell short of meeting the Holy See&#039;s demand for a full and public recanting of his position.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/jFZsfk0DDFw" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKTRE51Q2JT20090227 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/CUUqd0XNvsU/jewish-groups-criticize-change-in-charitable-deduction-in-obama-budget 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:109315 A trio of Jewish organizations criticized a proposed change in the charitable tax deduction included in President Obama&#039;s 2010 budget. The United Jewish Communities, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and the Orthodox Union all expressed concern about a provision in the budget that would lower the charitable deduction for taxpayers earning more than $250,000 to 28 percent from 35 percent. The groups said such a change would have a significant neagive impact on giving.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/CUUqd0XNvsU" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/27/1003335/jewish-groups-criticize-change-in-charitable-deduction-in-obama-budget http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/aPCrd6Uo7ps/hamas-pa-quashed-shalit-deal 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:109316 A Hamas official accused the Palestinian Authority of quashing a deal for the release of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/aPCrd6Uo7ps" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/25/1003264/hamas-pa-quashed-shalit-deal http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/v0m_q7oqc6s/Satellite 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:109317 A delegation of representatives from the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) will visit Israel and the Palestinian territories on Saturday with the view of boycotting, divesting from and imposing sanctions on Israel.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/v0m_q7oqc6s" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1235410730010&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/HBh1bdGmlnE/ou-budget-provision-would-harm-charities 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:109015 The Orthodox Union is expressing &quot;grave concerns&quot; over a provision in President Obama&#039;s budget that it says would be harmful to charities.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/HBh1bdGmlnE" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2009/02/26/1003309/ou-budget-provision-would-harm-charities http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/7s-biTZ0vyA/x-579-Food-Examiner~y2009m2d26-Is-kosher-meat-always-humanely-slaughtered-An-ugly-surprise 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:109016 For the non-Jewish consumer, the decision to buy kosher meat is often marked by the desire not only for quality but also by the need to know the animals that supply the meat were slaughtered humanely.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/7s-biTZ0vyA" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://www.examiner.com/x-579-Food-Examiner~y2009m2d26-Is-kosher-meat-always-humanely-slaughtered-An-ugly-surprise http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/eX8MB18r2Mo/0,2933,501305,00.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:109017 You&#039;ve heard of kosher salt? Now there&#039;s a Christian variety. Retired barber Joe Godlewski of Cresaptown, Md., says he got tired of hearing television chefs recommend kosher salt, so he did something about it.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/eX8MB18r2Mo" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,501305,00.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/DgzDnAYz-lk/Chabad-Rabbi-in-Holland-Officially-Inaugurated-as-Chief.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:109018 In an official ceremony earlier this week at the Arnhem Synagogue in Holland, Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs was formally given the title of Inter-Provincial chief rabbi with the responsibilities for Jewish life in 11 out of 12 of Holland’s state provinces<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/DgzDnAYz-lk" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2025642/Chabad-Rabbi-in-Holland-Officially-Inaugurated-as-Chief.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/my8pzKI9Jsg/0,7340,L-3678543,00.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:109019 Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani reiterated that his country&#039;s nuclear program was meant for peaceful purposes, and not for the development of nuclear weapons.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/my8pzKI9Jsg" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3678543,00.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/PR4fcnzf03M/idUSN2699620090226 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:109020 Calling accused swindler Bernard Madoff a &quot;crook, a thief, a scoundrel,&quot; Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel said on Thursday he could never forgive the man he says stole all of his foundation&#039;s money<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/PR4fcnzf03M" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://www.reuters.com/article/managementIssues/idUSN2699620090226 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/ANL3b4b3mfg/Satellite 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:109021 Are 25,000 Jews living happily and securely under the most repressive and anti-Semitic regime in the world? Apparently the answer is yes, if one is to believe New York Times columnist Roger Cohen, who in a February 23 op-ed reports that what he saw recently in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad&#039;s Iran demonstrated &quot;Iranian civility toward Jews.&quot;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/ANL3b4b3mfg" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1235410717966&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/FkE3U3O_zjw/p01s01-wome.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:109022 The Hagar bilingual kindergarten was founded as a rare cocoon from ethnic alienation for children and parents in Israel. But even this place of innocence and coexistence isn&#039;t immune to the deeper divisions between Jews and Arabs here that has followed the Gaza war.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/FkE3U3O_zjw" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0227/p01s01-wome.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/sb2WeW16xHU/hillary.clinton.israel.2.945238.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:109023 In a swift about face from her views as New York&#039;s senator, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is now hammering Israel over its treatment of Palestinians in Gaza.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/sb2WeW16xHU" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://wcbstv.com/national/hillary.clinton.israel.2.945238.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/0xYHbGMrHl0/1067028.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:107320 North American female rabbis from the Reform Movement stirred up controversy at the Western Wall Wednesday, when they defied Orthodox Jewish customs by praying and singing aloud while wearing prayer shawls and skull caps at the holy site.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/0xYHbGMrHl0" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:02:00 CST http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1067028.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/5UJcOwLBVWg/p09s01-coop.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:107321 The stereotype of the money-grubbing Jew goes back a long way. Zacchaeus was a greedy little tax collector. Fagin was a hideous creature who forced orphans into his organized network of pickpockets. And Shylock, perhaps the most infamous Jewish moneylender of all? Well his avarice ran so deep that he demanded a &quot;pound of flesh&quot; from an indebted Venetian merchant.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/5UJcOwLBVWg" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:02:00 CST http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0227/p09s01-coop.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/DbsNUeVIj-E/idUKTRE51P6D020090226 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:107322 A Roman Catholic bishop who caused an uproar by denying the scale of the Holocaust has apologised for his views in statements carried on a Catholic news agency website on Thursday.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/DbsNUeVIj-E" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:02:00 CST http://uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKTRE51P6D020090226 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/_uE-Woq4lXs/israel-eurovison-jewish-arab-duet 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:107323 Israel&#039;s entry for this year&#039;s Eurovision song contest, a rare pairing of a Jewish and an Arab singer, has sparked criticism from Arab artists at a time of tense relations in the wake of the Gaza conflict.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/_uE-Woq4lXs" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:02:00 CST http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/26/israel-eurovison-jewish-arab-duet http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/qHu2tGSt5mk/ALeqM5i-tQlL41BXF6SAuamhn5G-8UZHQAD96JGC8G1 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:107324 Representatives of Venezuela&#039;s Jewish population say a community center has been attacked by unidentified assailants who threw an explosive at the building.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/qHu2tGSt5mk" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:02:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i-tQlL41BXF6SAuamhn5G-8UZHQAD96JGC8G1 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/U9Nz-2zFdUU/obama-ties-israel-talks-to-new-era-of-engagement 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:106329 President Obama coupled his calls for expanded diplomatic outreach to his quest for peace for Israel and its neighbors.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/U9Nz-2zFdUU" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/24/1003258/obama-ties-israel-talks-to-new-era-of-engagement http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/8T47b8NgP04/jewish-groups-split-on-implications-of-summum-case 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:106330 Jewish groups are split on the implications of a Supreme Court decision involving the display of a religious monument.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/8T47b8NgP04" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/26/1003292/jewish-groups-split-on-implications-of-summum-case http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/dlRb37tzGEo/Satellite 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:106331 Israel&#039;s youngest couple ever to apply for a divorce was granted one by the Jerusalem Rabbinic Court this week.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/dlRb37tzGEo" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1235410718362&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/ZUXpEYUlfeA/ 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:106220 Over more than three decades, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has cultivated a reputation for tracking down Nazi war criminals, speaking out against antisemitism and teaching tolerance. Now, its plans to move forward with two massive building projects, in Los Angeles and Jerusalem, are sparking a barrage of criticism that the center is acting insensitively — just the type of accusation that could tarnish its carefully constructed image<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/ZUXpEYUlfeA" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:02:00 CST http://forward.com/articles/103384/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/EKqusYoiv9E/26towns.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:106221 The surprise wasn’t that a meeting envisioned as an informal conversation among about 10 people drew more than 300 from across Bergen County. It was that something like Raphael Bachrach’s modest proposal — and the fevered debate it has set off — didn’t happen sooner here or someplace else like it.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/EKqusYoiv9E" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:02:00 CST http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/nyregion/26towns.html?ref=nyregion http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/fsgeujWJnfM/SB123560389683776661.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:106222 Iran said it has begun a long-delayed test run of its first nuclear power plant, which Russia will provide the fuel for. The Obama administration said the collaboration makes a further case for Tehran to abandon its homegrown efforts at uranium enrichment.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/fsgeujWJnfM" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:02:00 CST http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123560389683776661.html?mod=loomia&loomia_si=t0:a16:g2:r4:c0.0389243:b0 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/cryiptEJqho/10803 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:104954 The Baltimore Jewish Council is in talks with Gov. Martin O’Malley’s staff about tapping into some of the federal stimulus money that is coming to Maryland.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/cryiptEJqho" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:02:00 CST http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/jewish_baltimore_competes_for_stimulus_dollars/10803 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/A4mASoCKgMU/ALeqM5ioi_0jtO9RjMwPNRoXNCndRPRq3gD96ISBBO0 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:104955 he rival Palestinian governments — U.S.-backed moderates in the West Bank and the Islamic militants of Hamas in Gaza — presented competing plans Wednesday for rebuilding war-ravaged Gaza, each seeking roughly $2.8 billion in foreign aid.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/A4mASoCKgMU" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:02:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ioi_0jtO9RjMwPNRoXNCndRPRq3gD96ISBBO0 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/EudjOVASytY/1066855.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:104605 Defense Minister Ehud Barak sounded a more urgent tone on Wednesday following reports that Iran had started testing its Russian-built nuclear power plant in Bushehr.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/EudjOVASytY" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:02:00 CST http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1066855.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/V5bKRoR87tI/920298.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:104606 Leonard Abess Jr., the Miami banker who quietly gave $60 million of his own money to his loyal staff, was hailed Tuesday night by President Barack Obama as a symbol of hope in uncertain times.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/V5bKRoR87tI" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:02:00 CST http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/920298.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/xKI48oJ9I6s/Appeal-Denied-Rabbi-of-Russias-Primorye-Region-To-Be-Deported.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:104607 A Russian district court on Wednesday, February 25, overturned an appeal and upheld its ruling to expel Rabbi Yisroel Silberstein, a U.S. citizen from Russia where he was serving the Primorye region&#039;s Jewish community.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/xKI48oJ9I6s" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:02:00 CST http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2025628/Appeal-Denied-Rabbi-of-Russias-Primorye-Region-To-Be-Deported.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/UwAdxcPdDE0/1066917.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:104608 A founding member of a left-wing terrorist group turned neo-Nazi was convicted Wednesday in Munich of Holocaust denial and sentenced to six years in prison after a judge accused him of using the courtroom to spread his message of hate.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/UwAdxcPdDE0" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:02:00 CST http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1066917.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/eyJuXZMfTTw/index.php 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:104539 Israel&#039;s Defense Ministry is reportedly worried President Obama will scale back military aid to Israel to protest continued Jewish construction in the biblical West Bank.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/eyJuXZMfTTw" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:02:00 CST http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89878 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/9Y4j7rKWNX8/palestinian-families-sue-britains-miliband 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:104540 Lawyers representing more than 30 Palestinian families are challenging Britain’s foreign secretary in a London court for failing to suspend arms exports to Israel<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/9Y4j7rKWNX8" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:02:00 CST http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/25/1003277/palestinian-families-sue-britains-miliband http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/-9VypSKCQ1k/french-cartoonist-acquitted-on-anti-semitism-charges 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:104541 A major figure in French satire, cartoonist Maurice Sinet, was acquitted of spreading anti-Semitism. A French court in Lyon ruled Tuesday that the cartoonist known as Sin? was innocent of “inciting racial hatred” in an article that said Jean Sarkozy, son of the French president, “would go far in life” for converting to Judaism and marring a Jewish heiress<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/-9VypSKCQ1k" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:02:00 CST http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/25/1003274/french-cartoonist-acquitted-on-anti-semitism-charges http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/SEKiBXoyR9w/ALeqM5h8uc-64oL5KEwXto9zc8iazdKy3g 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:104542 Amos Gilad was reinstated as Israel&#039;s pointman for Gaza truce talks on Wednesday after he apologised to Ehud Olmert for his sharp criticism of the outgoing prime minister.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/SEKiBXoyR9w" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:02:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h8uc-64oL5KEwXto9zc8iazdKy3g http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/mIcwa8C0Oj0/agriprocessors-and-other-rubashkin-companies-file-to-avoid-dissolution 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:104543 The Rubashkin family has filed paperwork with the state to stop possible administrative dissolutions of at least five corporate entities it owns, including the beleaguered Agriprocessors plant in Postville.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/mIcwa8C0Oj0" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:02:00 CST http://iowaindependent.com/11980/agriprocessors-and-other-rubashkin-companies-file-to-avoid-dissolution http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/A3n8QnFmc-w/story.aspx 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:103983 More than 90 years after the lynching of Jewish businessman Leo Frank, a television documentary is coming out about his story.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/A3n8QnFmc-w" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:02:00 CST http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=127313&catid=3 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/CqNOXwEP7Hs/0,7340,L-3677423,00.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:103926 Head of Palestinian Football Association Jibril Rajoub says international community should refrain from hosting Israeli athletes until Israel &#039;frees Palestinian sport from suppression and injustice&#039;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/CqNOXwEP7Hs" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:02:00 CST http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3677423,00.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/-rhVL9uOP34/sinful-city-buses-stoned-by-ultraorthodox-jews-1631370.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:103927 It is an all too familiar scene: the Israeli bus, travelling near predominantly Palestinian East Jerusalem, is pelted with stones that smash windows and startle passengers. Except this time the stone-throwers are not Arabs but Jews.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/-rhVL9uOP34" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:02:00 CST http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/sinful-city-buses-stoned-by-ultraorthodox-jews-1631370.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/ltcOItMa16A/39873847.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:103928 Playwright Matthew Lopez is neither black nor Jewish. But that |did not stop him from wading into the historical minefield of black-Jewish relations in his Civil War-era drama &quot;The Whipping Man.&quot;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/ltcOItMa16A" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:02:00 CST http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/onstage/39873847.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/7Hyw8IZur2M/2009225115416181643.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:103823 A British Roman Catholic bishop who caused outrage by denying the extent of the Holocaust has arrived in London after he was ordered to leave Argentina, where he had headed a seminary.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/7Hyw8IZur2M" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/02/2009225115416181643.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/rhgxSstAttQ/Oscars-2009-Holocaust-survivor-defends-Kate-Winslet-film.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:103717 The team behind Kate Winslet&#039;s film The Reader, which is up for several Oscars, have enlisted the support of a former Nobel Peace Prize winner to deny claims that it paints too sympathetic a portrait of Nazi war criminals.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/rhgxSstAttQ" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:02:00 CST http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/oscars/4742070/Oscars-2009-Holocaust-survivor-defends-Kate-Winslet-film.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/TESI4OdP2_A/26iran.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:103718 Iran started tests at its first nuclear power plant in the southern port of Bushehr on Wednesday, despite intense international pressure over its nuclear program.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/TESI4OdP2_A" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:02:00 CST http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/world/middleeast/26iran.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/9zkG3zgXAks/1066648.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:102390 Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the current African Union president, on Tuesday accused &quot;foreign forces&quot; including Israel of being behind the Darfur conflict<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/9zkG3zgXAks" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:02:00 CST http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1066648.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/WY17AqN_1ws/Speaker.Gives.Talk.On.Yiddish.Literature.African.Americans-3644863.shtml 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:102115 Using her experience with Yiddish literature, McCallum-Bonar explained how African-Americans were viewed through the eyes of Yiddish-speaking immigrants and how the two cultures came together through their mutual struggles in assimilating into American society.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/WY17AqN_1ws" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:02:00 CST http://media.www.kentnewsnet.com/media/storage/paper867/news/2009/02/24/News/Speaker.Gives.Talk.On.Yiddish.Literature.African.Americans-3644863.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/qHXGfiGGy54/1066653.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:102035 According to the U.S., the Israeli air strike in 2007 destroyed a nearly completed reactor that would have been able to produce plutonium once completed<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/qHXGfiGGy54" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:02:00 CST http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1066653.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/W36eJ_aBSRo/1066587.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:102036 The Anti-Defamation League on Monday blasted Amnesty International as denying Israel the right to defend itself after the human rights organization urged a global freeze on arms sales to Israel.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/W36eJ_aBSRo" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:02:00 CST http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1066587.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/F6lefemY1bg/Satellite 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101845 A Holocaust-denying bishop flew out of Argentina under a government expulsion order on Tuesday after scuffling with a reporter at the airport.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/F6lefemY1bg" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:02:00 CST http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1235410703946&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/S_lBrAAP56o/Satellite 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101846 A new anti-Israel Turkish television mini-series being broadcast throughout the Arab world depicts Israel supporting the Turkish mafia to spread prostitution and drugs throughout the predominantly Muslim country<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/S_lBrAAP56o" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:02:00 CST http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1235410704768&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/sTGezJdi0zk/0,7340,L-3677059,00.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101847 Senior official close to Abbas says given expected Israeli government, no serious progress can be made toward agreement on two-state solution<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/sTGezJdi0zk" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:02:00 CST http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3677059,00.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/MQKeORvd50Q/1066542.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101848 A memorial will be held Tuesday afternoon marking one Jewish calendar year since a terrorist attack at the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem killed eight yeshiva students. The memorial gathering will include a ceremony marking the conclusion of the work of scribes who are completing eight new Torah scrolls in memory of the eight victims.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/MQKeORvd50Q" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:02:00 CST http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1066542.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/KjbGM3J7bTE/ALeqM5hVCvxVIf2MA4ritV25Rq3rIP9VIA 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101849 srael is swearing in a new parliament dominated by hard-liners in the aftermath of the country&#039;s recent national election<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/KjbGM3J7bTE" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:02:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hVCvxVIf2MA4ritV25Rq3rIP9VIA http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/oK3wbACP4c8/200922418433313645.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101850 A Palestinian human rights group has filed a lawsuit at the High Court in London over the United Kingdom&#039;s continuation of trade with Israel following that country&#039;s offensive in Gaza<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/oK3wbACP4c8" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:02:00 CST http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/02/200922418433313645.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/BykZMr0FadU/dov-zigler-how-netanyahu-lost-the-election-but-won-the-game.aspx 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101682 Israel&#039;s elections concluded with an uncomfortable February surprise for the Israeli right wing: Benjamin Netanyahu and his free-markets-and-bomb-Iran Likud party, though ahead in the polls during the entire election campaign, finished in second place with 27 seats behind Tziporah Livni&#039;s Kadima party, which won 28 seats in Israel&#039;s 120-seat parliament.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/BykZMr0FadU" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:02:00 CST http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/02/24/dov-zigler-how-netanyahu-lost-the-election-but-won-the-game.aspx http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/twacuXtDOw8/ALeqM5iAN_kJguXDo47ZVFNkf8c86Sk5QwD96HQHN80 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101683 While a possible Israeli-Palestinian prisoner swap focuses on a famous Israeli soldier, the prisoner most likely to affect the direction of Mideast peace is a brash and chubby Palestinian long seen as a potential successor to his people&#039;s aging president.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/twacuXtDOw8" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:02:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iAN_kJguXDo47ZVFNkf8c86Sk5QwD96HQHN80 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/6QFdjVTqqKY/ballabon-joins-cbs-news 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101569 Conservatives have complained for years that there are too many liberals in the mainstream media. Starting Monday, though, they&#039;ll have at least one of their own at CBS News. Jeff Ballabon, an Orthodox Jew and political and communications consultant whom The Forward called &quot;the architect of Bush&#039;s 2004 re-election effort in the Orthodox community,&quot; is the new senior vice president for communications at CBS News.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/6QFdjVTqqKY" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:02:00 CST http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2009/02/19/1003145/ballabon-joins-cbs-news http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/UhlkyzwsGCM/new-york-mag-makes-up-madoff-as-a-monster 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101570 The headline of New York magazine’s cover story this week, “Bernie Madoff, Monster,” is sure to raise the anti-Semitism antennae of those furthest out on the Kosacks-are-coming-ledge.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/UhlkyzwsGCM" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:02:00 CST http://blogs.jta.org/philanthropy/article/2009/02/24/1003232/new-york-mag-makes-up-madoff-as-a-monster http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/_2lWM1kt2iE/content_10884016.htm 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101508 The Taliban Tuesday announced indefinite ceasefire in northwestern Pakistan&#039;s restive Swat valley, private TV channel Geo reported<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/_2lWM1kt2iE" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:02:00 CST http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/24/content_10884016.htm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/C5IhXYU3Lfo/content_10877001.htm 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101509 An Israeli delegation is set to visit Cambodia on March 16, hoping to forge agreements in agriculture and telecommunications, national media reported Monday.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/C5IhXYU3Lfo" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/23/content_10877001.htm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/PmGaTq-HNy4/index 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101510 As tempting as it is to get up on a high horse when a controversy like the recent Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships tempest blows through the sport, it&#039;s sometimes more enlightening -- and wiser -- to accept the facts and analyze whose ambitions were served, whose goals were met and how the parties involved ended up looking when the dust finally settled<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/PmGaTq-HNy4" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=3928512&name=bodo_peter http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/qIxolxs3fkg/ALeqM5iQ5uorZmfvIV7CciiDqgv3kXvuWgD96FTFBO0 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101511 Hamas official says he is the author of a letter to President Barack Obama asking the leader to treat Palestinians fairly and be open-minded in dealing with Hamas<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/qIxolxs3fkg" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iQ5uorZmfvIV7CciiDqgv3kXvuWgD96FTFBO0 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/uts4YhtGe84/story.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101447 Former First Nations leader David Ahenakew insists he’s not an anti-Semite, telling his hate crime trial on Thursday he doesn’t “hate the Jews but I hate what they do” -- and he still believes Jews started the Second World War<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/uts4YhtGe84" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Ahenakew+still+blames+Jews+world/1001469/story.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/vrkipp7Byos/sns-ap-ml-israel-dubai-tennis,0,6191946.story 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101448 Jewish American leaders are urging the Women&#039;s Tennis Association to punish the United Arab Emirates for barring an Israeli tennis player from entering the country for a tournament this week<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/vrkipp7Byos" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/sns-ap-ml-israel-dubai-tennis,0,6191946.story http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/Qkt0SCl7rpI/rabbi-forbidden-to-visit-nazi-death-camps 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101382 A prominent Zionist rabbi says it is forbidden to visit Nazi death camps. Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, head of the Ateret Cohanim yeshiva in Jerusalem&#039;s Muslim Quarter, urged Israeli schools to cancel their annual trips to the camps, saying they are forbidden since there is a halachic ban on leaving Israel and because they &quot;provide livelihood to murderers.&quot; Aviner made the statement in a religious journal in answer to a reader&#039;s question.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/Qkt0SCl7rpI" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:02:00 CST http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/24/1003231/rabbi-forbidden-to-visit-nazi-death-camps http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/pafJqrxRU78/doc49a37c288e42d654251106.txt 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101383 Welcome to the church-state battlefield, President Obama. Consider this hypothetical landmine: Would it be discrimination for a Christian AIDS hospice to refuse to hire a worker who believes AIDS is a sign of God&#039;s wrath?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/pafJqrxRU78" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:02:00 CST http://www.douglasdispatch.com/articles/2009/02/23/news/religion/doc49a37c288e42d654251106.txt http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/afXkjXmYe0A/hc-propline0224.artfeb24,0,1075291.story 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101384 Wintonbury Mall is your typical shopping center, built downtown in the late 1960s in the wave of urban renewal. It has seen its share of tenants come and go. Its newest occupant — a Messianic Jewish congregation — defies the usual classifications of a shopping center.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/afXkjXmYe0A" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:02:00 CST http://www.courant.com/business/realestate/hc-propline0224.artfeb24,0,1075291.story http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/lipYQFH1P0I/Address+by+President_Shimon_Peres_18th_Knesset_24-Feb-2009.htm 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101385 The newly elected Knesset counts twelve parties, but that does not mean that we have to be divided along those lines. The demands of the hour must unite us.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/lipYQFH1P0I" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:02:00 CST http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Speeches+by+Israeli+leaders/2009/Address+by+President_Shimon_Peres_18th_Knesset_24-Feb-2009.htm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/oHBFeF71zn8/24muse.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101386 The most haunting image in “State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda,” a major new exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum here, may be the first one you see after the introductory videos. At the end of a darkened corridor is a black-and-white photograph on a black background. Underneath, with unornamented simplicity, is a single word: Hitler.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/oHBFeF71zn8" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:02:00 CST http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/arts/design/24muse.html?ref=design http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/ZaqEbPuxkC0/srvc=home&position=recent 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101320 At a time when Catholic-Jewish relations have been strained by the Vatican’s decision to lift the excommunication of a Holocaust denier, Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley is reaching out to area Jewish leader<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/ZaqEbPuxkC0" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:02:00 CST http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2009_02_24_Boston_Catholic_leader_reaches_out_to_Jews/srvc=home&position=recent http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/WwRiwlQMHOg/idUSLO112124 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101321 Saudi authorities arrested at least nine Saudi Shi&#039;ite pilgrims after clashes in the holy city of Medina, Shi&#039;ite and security sources said on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia sees itself as the bastion of mainstream Sunni Islam and is worried about the rising influence of non-Arab Shi&#039;ite power Iran in the region.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/WwRiwlQMHOg" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:02:00 CST http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSLO112124 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/eB0ZqWGXQlI/yu-and-ou-enter-the-job-market 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101322 Looks like Yeshiva University and the Orthodox Union are getting into the headhunting business, as YU is holding a job fair Feb. 26, and the OU has started a job-posing board.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/eB0ZqWGXQlI" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:02:00 CST http://blogs.jta.org/philanthropy/article/2009/02/23/1003219/yu-and-ou-enter-the-job-market http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/svjANcmT6Gs/ALeqM5jiC2e1bnzFYciIBWGX0Q-VHWso2gD96HVSUG1 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101323 United States aid for the Gaza Strip&#039;s reconstruction will likely top $900 million, an official said, as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton prepared to make her first Mideast trip as America&#039;s top diplomat<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/svjANcmT6Gs" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:02:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jiC2e1bnzFYciIBWGX0Q-VHWso2gD96HVSUG1 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/rMELN1y2RiE/index.php 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101099 A young French tourist was killed and a further 25 people injured in a terrorist attack close to the Khan el Khalili market in the heart of the city. According to security forces, the explosion was caused by a bomb placed under a bench in front of the Hussein mosque. This morning police announced they had arrested three suspects.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/rMELN1y2RiE" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=14550&size=A http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/pFXHKNUgY5w/article5786611.ece 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101100 A barrage of rockets at the weekend and the recent arrests of alleged spies have exposed a deadly covert war waged between the Jewish state and Hezbollah, Lebanon&#039;s militant Shia organisation<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/pFXHKNUgY5w" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5786611.ece http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/PnyvTSZ33fA/ALeqM5jnkY-qDsZXArNq6qE4LrX_1MJyhw 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101101 A letter to President Barack Obama, reportedly from a top member of Hamas, is yet to be brought to the United States and is in the hands of US diplomats in Jerusalem, the White House said Monday<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/PnyvTSZ33fA" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jnkY-qDsZXArNq6qE4LrX_1MJyhw http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/auwExhgrkL0/new-study-looks-at-new-jewish-nonprofits 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101102 The Jewish Week and ejewishphilanthropy.com both have stories out about a study released last week by the Samuel Bronfman Foundation and Natan into the landscape of small, new Jewish organizations.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/auwExhgrkL0" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://blogs.jta.org/philanthropy/article/2009/02/23/1003216/new-study-looks-at-new-jewish-nonprofits http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/mbLQukGnY3U/sfl-flpveg0224feb24,0,4186519.story 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101103 Judy Lipman has learned it will take more than a kosher meat scandal to get Jews to change their eating habits.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/mbLQukGnY3U" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flpveg0224feb24,0,4186519.story http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/3iRbJqMS67o/news 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:101104 A bankruptcy trustee’s finding that Bernard Madoff didn’t trade any securities for more than a decade may show that the money manager couldn’t have acted alone in what the U.S. alleged was the largest Ponzi scheme in history.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/3iRbJqMS67o" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:02:00 CST http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aggq1e88xMPU&refer=us http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/jCEFLniMq3g/Satellite 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:100068 Texas-born bank tycoon Robert Allen Stanford, who faces unfolding fraud allegations surrounding his Antiguan investment banks, may end up filling a Bernard Madoff-like role for Latin American Jews and specifically the Mexico City community.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/jCEFLniMq3g" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:02:00 CST http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1235410695281&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/2xLVhT_hscg/1066218.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:100069 Prime Minister Ehud Olmert went on a rampage during yesterday&#039;s cabinet meeting, lashing out at targets as varied as tennis star Andy Ram, comedian Lior Shlein, Israeli rightists and the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/2xLVhT_hscg" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:02:00 CST http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1066218.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/5WLewPNPwTc/0,8599,1881346,00.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:99670 Fabled as the Shangri-la of fugitive Nazis, Argentina found itself dealing with old ghosts when it was revealed that a Holocaust-denying bishop, suddenly controversial in the Catholic Church, was living in the country. Richard Williamson had been living in a secluded seminary in the outskirts of Buenos Aires for five years when an international uproar erupted over the decision by Pope Benedict XVI to lift an excommunication order imposed upon him by the late Pope John Paul II. And so Argentina, already dealing with a worrisome resurgence of anti-Semitism, has decided to deport the prelate.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/5WLewPNPwTc" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:02:00 CST http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1881346,00.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/0yjmbeYUoII/1066361.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:99671 The Israel Antiquities Authority on Monday announced the discovery of a large building dating to the time of the First and Second Temples during an excavation in the village of Umm Tuba in southern Jerusalem<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/0yjmbeYUoII" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:02:00 CST http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1066361.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/DBrFOE_S5fw/1066369.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:99672 A hoard of jewels and coins, probably hidden by Jews fearing reprisals when the Black Death plague sweeping Europe was blamed on them, has gone on display in Britain for the first time.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/DBrFOE_S5fw" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:02:00 CST http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1066369.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/rzsQ7OXAzxE/BUSINESS04 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:99506 Jewish stereotypes likely influenced a grand jury’s decision to indict Sholom Rubashkin on 97 federal charges, a consultant hired by defense lawyers said today.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/rzsQ7OXAzxE" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:02:00 CST http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090223/NEWS/90223016/-1/BUSINESS04 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/NFUa3ecee_Q/ 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:99219 A leader of Canada&#039;s Jewish community said he was dismayed at protesters who compared the president of Ontario&#039;s university employee union with Adolf Hitler.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/NFUa3ecee_Q" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:02:00 CST http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/02/23/Jewish_leader_rejects_Hitler_comparison/UPI-88861235411287/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/y78AyVdm-4o/0,2933,498313,00.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:99220 Israel&#039;s Labor Party on Monday rejected Benjamin Netanyahu&#039;s appeal to join his future government, hindering the hawkish leader&#039;s efforts to create a stable, moderate coalition that would enjoy international support.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/y78AyVdm-4o" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:02:00 CST http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,498313,00.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/ZRVsXExdkV8/0,2933,498310,00.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:99154 Al Qaeda&#039;s No. 2 warned Palestinians in Gaza against accepting a truce with Israel in an audio message posted on extremist Web sites, an Internet monitoring service said Monday<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/ZRVsXExdkV8" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:02:00 CST http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,498310,00.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/lDJ22IOG9wA/committee-charged-with-revising-law-of-return 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:99096 A special committee was appointed to discuss revising Israel&#039;s Law of Return. The committee, appointed by Interior Minister Meir Steetrit, was charged Sunday with finding a way to stop granting citizenship to those with no connection to Judaism, Ynet reported.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/lDJ22IOG9wA" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:02:00 CST http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/23/1003205/committee-charged-with-revising-law-of-return http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/Lwmcznb52cQ/jewish-bones-in-rabat-are-ours 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:99097 The Jewish catacombs in Rabat were at the centre of controversy in recent days after Heritage Malta called in police when a Jewish religious delegation allegedly entered the site without authorisation<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/Lwmcznb52cQ" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:02:00 CST http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090222/local/jewish-bones-in-rabat-are-ours ttp://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=HomePage&id=e2e30491-4503-487e-9308-f75fa8f6be1f&MatchID1=4932&TeamID1=7&TeamID2=8&MatchType1=1&SeriesID1=1247&PrimaryID=4932&Headline=Leonardo+Di+Caprio+will+have+to+convert+to+Judaism+to 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:99098 Actor Leonardo Di Caprio will have to convert to Judaism if he wishes to make supermodel girlfriend Bar Rafaeli his wedded wife as her father is adamant that he won&#039;t let his daughter marry outside the faith.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/6UU8Ezpeja0" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:02:00 CST http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/oLspVgMKeec/130096 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:99099 raeli Facebook lovers will now be able to go Wall-to-Wall in their native language, thanks to the launch of its beta Hebrew version.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/oLspVgMKeec" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:02:00 CST http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130096 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/mK-wZKI6qQQ/aboriginal-leader-acquited-of-jew-hatred 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:99100 A judge in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan has acquitted a former aboriginal leader of willfully promoting hatred against Jews.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/mK-wZKI6qQQ" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:02:00 CST http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/23/1003208/aboriginal-leader-acquited-of-jew-hatred http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/CYxL5IINKGE/ 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:99101 Hampshire College has categorically denied that its recent decision to divest from a mutual fund was motivated by the fund&#039;s ties to Israel. Still, critics continue to denounce the move.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/CYxL5IINKGE" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:02:00 CST http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2009/02/22/decision_to_divest_draws_charges_of_anti_semitism_at_hampshire/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/oS63xF_tBlQ/german.4-435464.php 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:98900 The Central Council of Jews in Germany has criticized a meeting over the weekend by the former chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, who has repeatedly denied the existence of the Holocaust.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/oS63xF_tBlQ" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:02:00 CST http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/22/europe/german.4-435464.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/VDoA159aw8A/main4815552.shtml 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:98901 This is a story of survival - the incredible story of how a six-year-old Jewish boy survived the Nazis&#039; final solution and kept how he survived a secret for more than 50 years<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/VDoA159aw8A" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:02:00 CST http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/20/60minutes/main4815552.shtml?tag=cbsBroadcasts;cbsBroadcastsContent http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/vdais6aNEk8/israel-late-nit.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:98902 A comedy routine on Israeli TV has angered Christians all the way from the Galilee to the Vatican. Lior Shlein, a late-night satirist, joked that Mary was no virgin but a 15-year-old pregnant by a classmate. He expanded on that theme from there.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/vdais6aNEk8" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:02:00 CST http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2009/02/israel-late-nit.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/EvoWINzXgyQ/Satellite 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:98903 More than 300 Reform rabbis from North America will convene in Jerusalem this week for their annual rabbinical conference, seeking to bolster the tiny Reform Judaism movement in Israel. The six-day event, which opens Tuesday, aims to strengthen the liberal movement&#039;s ties with Israel and build bridges to its religious and secular communities<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/EvoWINzXgyQ" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304850051&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/qAq0oHMmgKY/Chabad-Lubavitch-Headquarters-Temporarily-Appoints-Representatives-to-Mumbai.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:98904 In the interests of maintaining activities in Mumbai for the benefit of Jewish residents and travelers, Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters has temporarily appointed the sister and brother-in-law of Rivky Hotlzberg, Rabbi Yakov Dovid and Sara Leiter from Israel, as emissaries to the city for a three-month period<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/qAq0oHMmgKY" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2025604/Chabad-Lubavitch-Headquarters-Temporarily-Appoints-Representatives-to-Mumbai.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/HklqV6FcWOw/Satellite 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:98828 Arnold (Arnie) Zaler, who fled to Jerusalem last March to escape 30 counts of fraud in Colorado, has flown back to the US and turned himself in after having allegedly scammed numerous Israelis during his 11 months here<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/HklqV6FcWOw" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304850063&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/KEmtZCKvQrk/ALeqM5j2qJJIM0muvr_Y5X80IOxiJO9wzA 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:98829 Hamas on Monday claimed Palestinian Authority agents collaborated with Israel during the Gaza offensive, including using Google Earth to pinpoint targets in the Islamist-run territory.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/KEmtZCKvQrk" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j2qJJIM0muvr_Y5X80IOxiJO9wzA http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/9KlI_dpcFxY/Recent-world-events-worry-Eastern-Connecticut-Jewish-leaders 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:98830 For Linda Simons and fellow Jewish leaders in Eastern Connecticut, global events the last several weeks regarding Jews worldwide and Israel itself have been cause for concern.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/9KlI_dpcFxY" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://www.norwichbulletin.com/lifestyles/spirituality/x898853986/Recent-world-events-worry-Eastern-Connecticut-Jewish-leaders http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/vWgx66W17Es/1066321.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:98589 Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday lambasted the Dubai tennis tournament, for having refused a visa to Israeli player Shahar Peer earlier this month and then granting one to Andy Ram. just a few days later Olmert proceeded to criticize Ram, who received his visa in the wake of the international outcry over Peer&#039;s exclusion and decided to use it.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/vWgx66W17Es" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:02:00 CST http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1066321.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/xs83DkH64JY/edcohen.php 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:98590 At Palestine Square, opposite a mosque called Al-Aqsa, is a synagogue where Jews of this ancient city gather at dawn. Over the entrance is a banner saying: &quot;Congratulations on the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution from the Jewish community of Esfahan.&quot;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/xs83DkH64JY" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:02:00 CST http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/22/opinion/edcohen.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/1Hx2Az7SyT4/olmert-fires-negotiator-gilad 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:98533 Israel&#039;s prime minister has fired Amos Gilad as chief negotiator with Egypt for a Hamas cease-fire and to free Gilad Shalit. Ehud Olmert made the announcement Monday. Gilad&#039;s removal comes a day after Olmert&#039;s office filed a disciplinary complaint with the Civil Services Commission against him in the wake of an interview published Wednesday in the daily Ma&#039;ariv in which Gilad criticized the government&#039;s decision to link Shalit&#039;s release with Israel opening its border crossings with Gaza.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/1Hx2Az7SyT4" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/23/1003194/olmert-fires-negotiator-gilad http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/_4aeokRZfuU/AR2009022201127.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:98534 Iran&#039;s first nuclear power plant will undergo a critical series of tests starting Wednesday before full-scale operation begins later this year, Iranian state radio reported Sunday<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/_4aeokRZfuU" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/22/AR2009022201127.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/7I0Osa_Fpd8/sns-ap-ia--kosherslaughterhouse-hearings,0,6264437.story 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:98535 A judge will hear motions on Monday regarding a former kosher slaughterhouse manager who has asked to have nearly 100 counts against him dismissed and his trial moved to Minneapolis or Chicago.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/7I0Osa_Fpd8" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://www.wqad.com/news/sns-ap-ia--kosherslaughterhouse-hearings,0,6264437.story http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/Bt-mPyRiwxo/1066097.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:96986 A group of Palestinian Christians has asked Pope Benedict XVI to call off his planned visit to Israel and the West Bank this coming May.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/Bt-mPyRiwxo" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:02:00 CST http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1066097.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/EsVjfB73Bpg/ 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:96930 U.S. financial investigators allege trader Bernard L. Madoff never invested his clients&#039; money in stocks listed on account statements dating back to 1993.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/EsVjfB73Bpg" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:02:00 CST http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2009/02/21/Report_Madoff_never_made_investments/UPI-49161235229336/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/42_VQy9wClg/1066207.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:96931 Labor Party Chairman Ehud Barak is lobbying the faction&#039;s central committee members and activists for support for a possible entry into a government led by Likud chief Benjamin Netanyahu, Channel 10 reported on Sunday.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/42_VQy9wClg" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:02:00 CST http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1066207.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/iTe6YSvpl70/1065933.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:95970 With all the talk about the anti-Arab rhetoric favored by our new kingmaker Avigdor Lieberman, too little attention has been paid to the challenge he poses for Israelis who have been hoping for a revolution in the moldy status quo of religion and state. But suddenly, it turns out that the principal obstacle to Yisrael Beiteinu&#039;s entry into Benjamin Netanyahu&#039;s coalition is its bitter dispute with Shas and United Torah Judaism.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/iTe6YSvpl70" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1065933.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/ZIfumuDiWkA/ 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:95971 U.S. officials are furious with the United Nations for its role in Hamas&#039; attempt to enlist U.S. Sen John Kerry to transfer a letter from the Palestinian militant group to President Obama during Kerry&#039;s trip to the Middle East, an official source told FOX News.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/ZIfumuDiWkA" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/21/hamas-face-political-fallout-letter-obama/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/8vP5ZgTweRU/1065924.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:95972 The principal suspect in a case involving alleged drug smuggling by Satmar Hasidim has been sent for psychiatric evaluation and may be declared unfit to stand trial.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/8vP5ZgTweRU" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1065924.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/HLDe2qGV5Fw/International 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:94619 In Israel, all eyes turned yesterday to Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, the chairwoman of the Kadima Party, after Israeli President Shimon Peres asked right-wing Likud Party chairman Benjamin Netanyahu to form Israel&#039;s next government.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/HLDe2qGV5Fw" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:02:00 CST http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090221.ISRAEL21/TPStory/International http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/XiRIpymAlZ0/story.asp 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:94620 The state agriculture department has shut down a troubled kosher cheese plant near New York&#039;s northern border. The action Friday was based on inspection of the Ahava plant and samples of its products, which showed excessive levels of bacteria. State inspectors have seized more than 25,000 pounds of cheese found unfit for human consumption.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/XiRIpymAlZ0" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:02:00 CST http://www.fox44.net/Global/story.asp?S=9882560 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/hsApOC8y5AI/ALeqM5gIGiMHBqDAAjSPWUmyVncR7wvnHAD96FVLFO0 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:94621 The United States and Syria are exploring the possibility of a new era of better relations after years of tension — but questions remain over just how much common ground exists between the two<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/hsApOC8y5AI" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:02:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gIGiMHBqDAAjSPWUmyVncR7wvnHAD96FVLFO0 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/6VMkSEMgOq8/ 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:94622 John and Joseph Rizzo were looking for an old-fashioned Catholicism when, fresh out of Weymouth South High School, they enrolled at a small schismatic seminary in Connecticut where Mass was in Latin and the modern era was viewed with suspicion.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/6VMkSEMgOq8" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:02:00 CST http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/02/20/bishops_vexing_beliefs_have_deep_roots/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/S-cQXY7cqd0/1065688.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:94623 There are many different theories about Turkey&#039;s increasingly harsh criticism of Israel and its treatment of the Palestinians.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/S-cQXY7cqd0" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:02:00 CST http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1065688.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/UM_HhZCmBYQ/ALeqM5j8EypMg-v0Vp6Y0zx7lLq4VfooQQ 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:94624 Israel shelled southern Lebanon on Saturday after a rocket slammed into its territory in a tit-for-tat exchange of fire across their tense border, sources on both sides said.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/UM_HhZCmBYQ" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:02:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j8EypMg-v0Vp6Y0zx7lLq4VfooQQ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/0o1YwIq3da4/idUSHAF142289 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:94625 Visiting former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder criticised on Saturday Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for casting doubt over the Holocaust, saying the slaughter of 6 million Jews by Nazis was a fact.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/0o1YwIq3da4" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:02:00 CST http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSHAF142289 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/klSkBaNLokg/chabadorg-in-financial-trouble 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:89525 It seems that Chabad.org, the de facto global publicity arm of Chabad-Lubavitch, is having some financial difficulty. Though Chabad.org is not a chabad outpost, it is run like one, and like all other outposts is responsible for its own fund raising.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/klSkBaNLokg" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://blogs.jta.org/philanthropy/article/2009/02/19/1003133/chabadorg-in-financial-trouble http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/Vu6R-74lGnM/0,7340,L-3674863,00.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:89316 Former MP Sergey Kirichenko launches wild anti-Semitic campaign as part of bid to replace Kherson&#039;s Jewish mayor. &#039;Jews stole all our wealth and are destroying Slavic nation from within,&#039; he says in interview. Rabbinical Centre of Europe urges Ukrainian authorities to take immediate action<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/Vu6R-74lGnM" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:02:00 CST http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3674863,00.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/yfNNr0p9GZ0/ 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:89317 A school district in New Jersey may become the first in the nation to create a Hebrew-language immersion track in a public school — and to supplement it with voluntary after-school religious classes paid for by parents in space rented from the district.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/yfNNr0p9GZ0" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:02:00 CST http://forward.com/articles/103172/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/79Rx44cOkgg/ml_israel_politics 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:89318 Benjamin Netanyahu appealed to his moderate rivals Friday to join him after the hard-liner was formally tapped to put together Israel&#039;s next ruling coalition — an alliance that would dilute the power of nationalists bent on derailing Mideast peace talks.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/79Rx44cOkgg" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:02:00 CST http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090220/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_politics http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/Nb47zWJaeHs/ml_israel_musical_politics_3 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:89319 Israel is sending a Jewish-Arab duo to represent it with a song of peace at Europe&#039;s best-known song competition at a particularly fraught moment for relations between the country&#039;s Jews and Arabs.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/Nb47zWJaeHs" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:02:00 CST http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090220/ap_en_mu/ml_israel_musical_politics_3 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/XPl5TfOBRKQ/ujc-clarifies-overseas-funding-situation-at-florida-meetings 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:89206 In a series of high-level closed-door meetings in Florida, leaders of the Jewish federation system adopted several recommendations for streamlining operations and refining its overall mission -- and also appeared to defuse a potentially divisive debate regarding overseas funding.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/XPl5TfOBRKQ" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:02:00 CST http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/16/1003033/ujc-clarifies-overseas-funding-situation-at-florida-meetings http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/1ZbKIhslHQg/op-ed-new-administration-brings-chance-to-redeem-un 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:89207 In allowing U.S. representatives to attend consultations this week in Geneva, in a serious attempt to detoxify the Durban Review Conference in April, President Obama has taken one of his first concrete steps to show the world that the United States is not afraid to engage and on our own terms.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/1ZbKIhslHQg" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:02:00 CST http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/18/1003099/op-ed-new-administration-brings-chance-to-redeem-un http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/nBkBFJR0uIc/Spy-Investigation.php 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:89208 An Orthodox Jewish Army engineer who was cleared of spying for Israel sued the U.S. Defense and Justice departments Thursday, saying they made false security claims to prevent him from seeking compensation.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/nBkBFJR0uIc" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:02:00 CST http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/20/america/Spy-Investigation.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/5h8W0oRPhS0/AR2009021900887.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:89209 MEMBERS OF BETH EL CONGREGATION in Baltimore come see Rabbi Steven Schwartz for all sorts of reasons: to discuss their faith or a problem they&#039;re having at work or at home. More frequently than one might imagine, they come to say: &quot;Rabbi, I&#039;d like to meet someone. Do you have anyone in mind?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/5h8W0oRPhS0" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:02:00 CST http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/19/AR2009021900887.html?hpid=smartliving http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/niDhOO8N-n0/ALeqM5ibDb_9CBXd2-bJBKeIFS149kTKlQ 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:89210 Israel&#039;s president Shimon Peres was on Friday seeking to convince the top two vote-earners from last week&#039;s elections to join forces and form a &quot;broad and stable&quot; government coalition.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/niDhOO8N-n0" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:02:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ibDb_9CBXd2-bJBKeIFS149kTKlQ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/hwTI1Gpy7eM/madonna-ritchie-divorce-200209.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:89211 Madge apparently wants her two sons Rocco, eight, and David, three, to follow her Kabbalah faith, a form of Jewish spiritualism and insists they eat kosher food and worship at synagogues on Fridays and Saturdays. The court case will take place in New York.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/hwTI1Gpy7eM" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:02:00 CST http://entertainment.oneindia.in/music/international/2009/madonna-ritchie-divorce-200209.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/y4OrwPaCriw/Satellite 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:89148 Palestinian gunmen on Friday morning fired 10 mortar shells at IDF troops who were operating near the Kissufim crossing to the Gaza Strip.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/y4OrwPaCriw" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:02:00 CST http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304834760&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/C60n3iSBUGM/20nuke.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:89149 In their first appraisal of Iran’s nuclear program since President Obama took office, atomic inspectors have found that Iran recently understated by a third how much uranium it has enriched, United Nations officials said Thursday.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/C60n3iSBUGM" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/world/middleeast/20nuke.html?hp http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/PmNH6Tb_VSg/madoff.php 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:89150 About 70 percent of Banco Santander&#039;s clients hurt by Bernard Madoff&#039;s alleged fraud have signed compensation agreements with the bank, lawyers told a U.S. court here Thursday.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/PmNH6Tb_VSg" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:02:00 CST http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/19/business/madoff.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/WKF8dGc7YJU/1065575.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:87902 Hundreds of Israelis who arrived at the Azrieli towers shopping center in Tel Aviv on Thursday really believed for a brief moment that money could potentially fall from the sky.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/WKF8dGc7YJU" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:02:00 CST http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1065575.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/6Ar3XwW4LGw/news 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:87903 Sonja Kohn, who used her relationship with Bernard Madoff to help build a Vienna private bank, was doing what she is known for at a Dec. 9 reception in Zurich: promoting her investment record. Swiss investment adviser Hans Kaufmann liked what he heard over goulash soup.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/6Ar3XwW4LGw" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:02:00 CST http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=awdJ9s8sXCT4&refer=home http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/ei2lIIvW76E/1065121.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:87904 Leaders of the Bratslav Hasidic community in Safed have been covering up instances of physical and sexual abuse of children at school in the community, ostracizing anyone who wants to deal with the issue, several community members said recently.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/ei2lIIvW76E" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:02:00 CST http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1065121.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/WaPYtWdYTDM/Satellite 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:87791 In an effort to prevent a deterioration in military relations with Turkey, Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi spoke this week with his Turkish counterpart to apologize for critical remarks made last week by OC Ground Forces Command Maj.-Gen. Avi Mizrahi, The Jerusalem Post learned on Thursday.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/WaPYtWdYTDM" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:02:00 CST http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304830948&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/0_a-ip4-MTM/0,7340,L-3674653,00.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:87792 Rockets hits open areas near southern Israeli towns, no injuries or damage reported. Earlier the IAF attacked targets in Rafah<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/0_a-ip4-MTM" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:02:00 CST http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3674653,00.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/Fna22ztryGA/0,7340,L-3674482,00.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:87793 Jerusalem haredi group launches alternative bus line from religious neighborhoods to Western Wall, put pressure on Egged to accept initiative by protesting in streets, throwing stones at bus<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/Fna22ztryGA" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:02:00 CST http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3674482,00.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/j1H0VPSk67g/Prominent-Jews-accuse-Royal-Court-play-of-demonising-Israelis.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:87794 In a letter published in today&#039;s Daily Telegraph, they claim the production of Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza reinforces &quot;false stereotypes&quot; by portraying Israeli parents as &quot;inhuman triumphalists&quot; who teach their children that &quot;Arabs must be hated&quot;.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/j1H0VPSk67g" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:02:00 CST http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/4691647/Prominent-Jews-accuse-Royal-Court-play-of-demonising-Israelis.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/ekcIHIsIoeA/ 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:87795 When President Obama rolled out his faith-based office earlier this month, he avoided making a decision on the initiative&#039;s most contentious issue.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/ekcIHIsIoeA" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:02:00 CST http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/18296/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/8a4-mp_fizQ/1065464.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:87547 &quot;Today the foundation was laid for an extreme right-wing government led by [Likud Chairman Benjamin] Netanyahu. This is not our way, and there is nothing for us in such a government,&quot; Kadima leader Tzipi Livni told party members on Thursday<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/8a4-mp_fizQ" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:02:00 CST http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1065464.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/Qz4TCr6P67c/ALeqM5hHTQIvSDxNgBho-JYJB8gbYupKhgD96ES3CG1 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:87478 The Argentine Interior Ministry is ordering Holocaust-denying Bishop Richard Williamson to leave the country within 10 days.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/Qz4TCr6P67c" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:02:00 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hHTQIvSDxNgBho-JYJB8gbYupKhgD96ES3CG1 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/1naxRT98-O4/1065587.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:87479 Egypt suspended commercial cooperation talks with Israel on Thursday in what was thought to be protest over Israel&#039;s cabinet decision on Wednesday not to open its border crossings with the Gaza Strip until Hamas agrees to release abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/1naxRT98-O4" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:02:00 CST http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1065587.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/QCtmr8Q_19E/Satellite 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:87082 The sudden shift in policy toward kidnapped soldier Gilad Schalit and a cease-fire with Hamas brought into the open on Wednesday a deep split between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Amos Gilad, the Defense Ministry&#039;s diplomatic-military bureau chief who has been leading the negotiations with Egypt.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/QCtmr8Q_19E" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:02:00 CST http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304821697&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/cXnq2lDxfms/news03.txt 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:87083 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rabbi Stephen Wise and other American Jewish leaders &quot;failed miserably&quot; in their response to the Holocaust, Rabbi Dr. David Ellenson, president of Reform Judaism&#039;s Hebrew Union College, said at the recent national conference of the David Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in New York City.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/cXnq2lDxfms" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:02:00 CST http://www.jewishledger.com/articles/2009/02/04/news/on_the_cover/news03.txt http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/kOlUkXqyvFg/2009219135025156298.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:87084 The US will not change its stance towards Hamas, John Kerry, the former democratic US presidential candidate, has said during a tour of Gaza.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/kOlUkXqyvFg" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:02:00 CST http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/02/2009219135025156298.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/wBNMmos6I7E/iran-nuclear-watchdog-united-nations 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:87085 The UN&#039;s nuclear watchdog will report that Iran is continuing to obstruct its investigation into allegations of past work on nuclear weapons, but the country&#039;s uranium enrichment programme was expanding more slowly than expected.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/wBNMmos6I7E" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:02:00 CST http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/19/iran-nuclear-watchdog-united-nations http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/TFlOjli3_TY/2009-02-19_minimadoff_swindled_by_real_madoff_lied_.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:87086 Allen Stanford, the Texas financier accused of cheating thousands of customers out of about $8B, was ripped off by Bernard Madoff, the Times Online reports.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/TFlOjli3_TY" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:02:00 CST http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/02/19/2009-02-19_minimadoff_swindled_by_real_madoff_lied_.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/lPP-prF097k/NEWS04 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:86815 A federal judge agreed today to allow an outside review of the confidential grand jury hearing that led to charges against a former Postville slaughterhouse executive.The decision was a victory for Sholom Rubashkin, a former vice president at Agriprocessors Inc. who faces 97 federal charges for alleged bank fraud, immigration-related crimes and other offenses.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/lPP-prF097k" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090218/NEWS/90218058/-1/NEWS04 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/C2q6s9Bu834/19lebanon.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:86814 For 25 years, Ali al-Jarrah managed to live on both sides of the bitterest divide running through this region. To friends and neighbors, he was an earnest supporter of the Palestinian cause, an affable, white-haired family man who worked as an administrator at a nearby school.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/C2q6s9Bu834" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/world/middleeast/19lebanon.html?hp http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/YeB9AJQCoQw/2009-02-16-elie-wiesel_N.htm 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:86813 The Elie Wiesel Foundation has reported that it is among "the victims" of Bernard Madoff, having lost nearly all its assets in what may be the largest investment fraud in history.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/YeB9AJQCoQw" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2009-02-16-elie-wiesel_N.htm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/xvm6bGk-L2I/1065526.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:86812 The Jewish family of 10 is set to immigrate to Israel from Yemen on Thursday in a covert operation carried out by the Jewish Agency.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/xvm6bGk-L2I" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1065526.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/I3HrWDJUXNw/New_York.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:84544 In this economic crisis, the leaders of Satmar, who defiantly never went to college, are running rings around their more modern brothers and sisters who have advanced degrees and invested with Bernie Madoff. Mainstream Jews are debating hot to steer Jewish education through the crisis, perhaps with tax credits, or the creation of Hebrew-emphasis public charer schools, like the Arabic public school in Brooklyn. Meanwhile, Satmar, who figured this out 15 years ago, scored $6.3 million from the stimulus bill for Kiryas Joel’s all-Jewish public school.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/I3HrWDJUXNw" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c36_a14903/News/New_York.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/A5uP_dBoOxw/Satellite 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:82449 The US and American Jewish leaders should not interfere in the makeup of the next Israeli government, the head of the umbrella organization of American Jewish groups said Sunday.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/A5uP_dBoOxw" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304788814&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/ktGqShgc_zE/1064789.html 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:82395 Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshal on Tuesday accused Israel of thwarting Egyptian efforts to reach a truce in the Gaza Strip by adding conditions to the deal at the last minute.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/ktGqShgc_zE" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:02:00 CST http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1064789.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/g3LabDmMO2M/gaza.reprisal.killings 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:68435 Amnesty International has accused Hamas militants in Gaza of kidnapping, killing and torturing fellow Palestinians they accuse of spying for Israel, the organization announced Tuesday.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/g3LabDmMO2M" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:02:00 CST http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/10/gaza.reprisal.killings http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/jHIBrGjtOts/7880981.stm 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:68434 Israeli Arabs put up banners discouraging voting Some posters have been urging Israeli Arabs not to vote The Arabic press contains widespread scepticism that the general election in Israel will offer any impetus for change in regional relations, irrespective of the result.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/jHIBrGjtOts" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:02:00 CST http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7880981.stm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jreporting/~3/gZhIM5eSy38/ 0DB3043C-1483-4482-B87A-CDD7EC01BE33:68432 Christians, Muslims, Jews and Atheists alike are helping fuel the robust market for kosher foods, according to a new report by market research firm Mintel. In a consumer survey of adults who purchase kosher food, Mintel found that the number one reason people buy kosher is for food quality (62%).<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jreporting/~4/gZhIM5eSy38" height="1" width="1"/> anonymous Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:02:00 CST http://www.hospitality-industry.com/index.php/news/comments/3_in_5_kosher_food_buyers_purchase_for_food_quality_not_religion/