Top Stories for Monday Oct. 27, 2008
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Kadima Party leader Tzipi Livni asked Israeli President Shimon Peres for new general elections in a meeting on Oct. 26, 2008 at the President's Residence in Jerusalem.
Livni's failure to build coalition
could help or hurt in new elections
With Israel headed for new general elections supporters and opponents of Tzipi Livni are putting a very different gloss on her failure to form a governing coalition. More »
Obama's uphill battle for Jewish support
In response to a sustained GOP campaign to discredit him on Israel, Barack Obama has touted a growing roster of pro-Israel stalwarts who support him, repeatedly insisted that Israel's security is "sacrosanct," defended Israeli military maneuvers and vowed to do everything in his power to block Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons. More »
Op-Ed: Will financial crisis encourage anti-Semitism?
A fake article on the Lehman Brothers situation featured on a hate Web site begs the question of whether such falsehoods will gain traction or join a long list of short-lived canards. More »
JTA Blogs & Elsewhere in the Media
Political Tidbits
Palin's exchange with Sallai Meridor. Caroline Glick fears an Obama-Livni partnership. Cynthia McKinney lands an endorsement from Roseanne for her Green Party candidacy for president. Why is Obama gaining among Jews? (read more)
Iran's underground
Western intelligence experts believe that Iran's nuclear facilities are so deep underground that it would be difficult for Israel to wipe them out or significantly damage them, Newsweek reports. (read more)
Holocaust enters Pennsylvania election politics
Pennsylvania Jews are in an uproar after a Republican e-mail suggested that a vote for Obama could cause another Holocaust. (read more)
Covenant Foundation celebration
The Covenant Foundation, one of America's preeminent supporters of Jewish education initiatives, will celebrate their 18th anniversary tomorrow with a conference that will be broadcast live on JTA's The Telegraph blog. (watch live tomorrow morning)
Breaking News
- Israel will hold new general elections, President Shimon Peres confirmed.
- A pro-McCain letter e-mailed to Pennsylvania Jews suggested that a vote for Barack Obama could bring another Holocaust.
- Israelis would elect John McCain over Barack Obama for president of the United States, a poll found.
- A German economist compared the recent criticism of bank managers with the anti-Semitism of the 1930s in Germany.
- Some Jewish residents of the West Bank went on a rampage after an illegal outpost near Hebron was evacuated.
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is suffering from exhaustion, a close associate told the state news agency.
- Sarah Silverman elicited puzzlement and praise with her debut on German television.
- Damascus condemned a U.S. helicopter attack inside Syria that killed eight.
- A former German soldier is on trial in Munich for Nazi-era atrocities.
- Yukiko Sugihara, who encouraged her diplomat husband to issue the visas that saved thousands of Jews, has died.
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