Wednesday, 24 December 2008

Breaking News

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will deliver an alternative Christmas message on British television.
Amnesty International has written to a government official in Yemen urging the country to protect its Jews.
Southern Israel was bombarded with at least 60 rockets and mortar shells that struck homes, factories and a playground.
The Jewish Funders Network is developing a comprehensive plan to help nonprofits hit hard by Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme that includes bridge funding.
The parents of slain Chabad emissary Rivkah Holzberg will light Chanukah candles in Mumbai.
A posthumous pardon was granted to a man who provided planes and weapons to Israel's armed forces during its 1948 War of Independence.
U.S. Secretary of State-nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton reportedly has tapped two Jewish deputies for the State Department.
Tens of thousands of Christians have gathered in Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas.
A hearing in the investigation of one of Ehud Olmert's alleged fraud scandals was scheduled for February.
The Ukrainian Jewish Committee is challenging the non-traditional interpretation of the word anti-Semitism in a new government bill.
Nearly 200 rabbis urged Condoleezza Rice to continue to press for the arrest of a Sudanese leader on genocide charges.
The owner of a satellite television company pleaded guilty to aiding Hezbollah by broadcasting the terrorist group's Al-Manar station.
A major American medical technology company purchased an Israeli start-up for $300 million.