Top Stories for Thursday Oct. 23, 2008
Brian Hendler
Israeli President Shimon Peres met with Tzipi Livni, the prime minister-designate, on Oct. 20, 2008. Peres has Livni's ear when it comes to a new regional approach to Middle East peacemaking.
Israel eyes regional peace
push, U.S. talks with Iran
With the governments in Jerusalem and Washington set to change, Israeli leaders are reassessing policy in two key areas. They are considering a new, regional approach to Arab-Israeli peacemaking and preparing for the day when the U.S. president opens a dialogue with Tehran. More »
Are you a 'Cool Jew'?
"When you're a Heebster, you don't have to work hard to be cool, you just have to be proud to be a Jew," says journalist Lisa Alcalay Klug, the author of the new how-to book "Cool Jew." More »
Op-Ed: Palestinian statehood not the answer
Only when the Palestinians demonstrate acceptance of Israel as a Jewish state will negotiations produce peace, not bloodshed. More »
JTA Blogs & Elsewhere in the Media
Political Tidbits
Obama breakthrough with Florida Jews? Is the Conference of Presidents promoting McCain? Will American-Israeli voters swing the election in key states? Could Wyoming have a Jewish member of Congress? (read more)
Dept. of Unsolicited Endorsements
What does it mean when a terrorist endorses a presidential candidate? (read more)
Tough Jews
Edward Zwick's new feature film, "Defiance" -- about a band of Jews who hide out in the Belarusian forest for much of the Holocaust, holding off the German army -- is also a family film about the Bielskis, writes Adam Gopnick in The New Yorker. (read more)
Let there be G-dcast
From the mind of Jewish T-shirt maven Sarah Lefton (Jews for Jeter, Yo Semite) comes G-dcast, a new animated series of Torah commentaries told by a different Jewish celebrity each week. The first episode features Rabbi Lawrence Kushner. (watch)
Al-Dura hoax
Philippe Karsenty, the French media watchdog who claims the iconic Mohammed al-Dura shooting in September 2000 was a hoax, presses his case in an interview with the Middle East Quarterly. (read more)
Breaking News
- Iran will target Israel if there is a U.S. attack on the Islamic state's nuclear facilities, a senior Iranian official said.
- Bush administration officials have met with Hamas officials, a figure in the terrorist group said.
- An Israeli civilian was killed and a policeman wounded after a young Palestinian was stopped for a security check in Jerusalem.
- Egypt is not to blame for failed negotiations to release kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, Hosni Mubarak told Shimon Peres.
- The German town of Goerlitz is refusing to allow its Jewish community to hold its own ceremony marking Kristallnacht.
- A Kassam rocket launched from Gaza by Palestinian terrorists landed near Ashkelon.
- An appearance in Israel by Cat Stevens was canceled for security reasons.
- An Israeli military plane crashed in southern Israel, killing a pilot-in-training and his flight instructor.
- Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that it is possible to build relations with both Israel and Arab states, as well as Iran.
- A student from Vienna has uncovered a suspected Nazi war criminal in Germany as a result of his research for a university project.
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