Tuesday, 23 December 2008



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With new rocket barrages, Gaza dilemma returns

This Kassam rocket landed in Sderot on Nov. 16, 2008. With the Hamas-Israel truce officially over, Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli towns have intensified.
This Kassam rocket landed in Sderot on Nov. 16, 2008. With the Hamas-Israel truce officially over, Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli towns have intensified. (Robert A. Cumins )
As the Israeli government debates options to respond to the rocket fire from Gaza, Ehud Barak is intent on not repeating the mistakes Israel made with Hezbollah in the 2006 war. Read more »

Breaking News

Israel's foreign minister will meet in Cairo with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at his invitation.
A Greek newspaper in a front-page headline called Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme "The Jewish Connection."
A prominent New York House Democrat compared Caroline Kennedy to Sarah Palin.
Rome's mayor favors granting honorary citizenship to the eternal city to captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
Israeli voters will be able to ask candidates for national elections questions via YouTube.
Some 16,500 Jews from around the world have made aliyah in 2008, a 16 percent drop from the previous year.
An out-of-uniform Israeli soldier fired gunshots in the air during the evacuation of a disputed building in Hebron, a video shows.
Due to the difficult economic times, Israel's Knesset members will waive a 2009 pay raise.
A U.S. buyer purchased a pair of rare silver Torah crowns amid a dispute in Australia over the sale of valuable Judaica.
Neo-Nazi protesters disrupted a Chanukah celebration in Budapest.
The British foreign secretary hosted a Chanukah candlelighting ceremony.

Editors' Picks

Tracking the Madoff fallout

The Fundermentalist rounds up the latest news in the Madoff scandal: Big Jewish donors hold meeting to discuss the situation. Y.U. students wrestles with the controversy in their classes. Money manager explains the red flags he saw with Madoff. N.J. state lawmaker loses entire life's savings.

'All Jews' on trial

Phyllis Chessler warns that Jews need to realize that they are all on trial over Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

Let our meat producer go

Shmuley Boteach, writing in the Jerusalem Post, wants to know why Sholom Rubashkin is languishing in an Iowa jail while Bernard Madoff gets confined to his Park Avenue pad.

War wounds

Balkan Insight explores how war tore the heart out of the Bosnian Jewish community.