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Featured Stories Hollywood gets hot for Israel Nina Tassler, right, president of CBS Entertainment, talks to Israeli actress Leor Hashin at a master class on film and television in Tel Aviv on July 23, 2009. (Dina Kraft) With the Emmy-nominated "In Treatment," adapted by HBO from an Israeli show, and other recent successes in TV and film, Israel is making a name for itself in the entertainment industry. Read more » Sadness and disbelief engulf Syrian Jewish enclave A tightly knit Syrian Jewish community in New Jersey tries to come to grips with the arrests of four rabbis in a money-laundering operation. Read more » Breaking News A spokesman for Benjamin Netanyahu denied that the Israeli prime minister used the term "self-hating Jews" to describe two top aides to President Obama. A New Jersey political consultant charged with accepting a bribe in last week's corruption arrests was found dead. The Lebanese army has declared a state of high alert on its border with Israel and moved tanks to the area, Lebanese media are reporting. Jewish comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has increased his security detail after a Palestinian terrorist group threatened him. The Israeli military will give more detailed warnings to Palestinians before launching future airstrikes. An Ottawa university has removed a sociology teacher accused of playing a key role in the 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue. An Israeli military court convicted a former aide to Yasser Arafat of financing a boat carrying advanced weapons to Gaza. Two Israeli doctors detained in Romania after being accused of human egg trafficking were arrested. Israeli police dismantled two outposts near Hebron. Protests continued outside a home at the center of a legal dispute between Jews and Arabs in eastern Jerusalem. Pauline Krakowsky, a lifelong resident of Passaic, N.J., has died at the age of 105. A Jerusalem court approved the extradition to the United States of Israeli senior mob figures. The Jewish community in a western Ukrainian city buried the fragments of 221 damaged Torah scrolls recently returned by the state. Israel's prime minister directed the Health Ministry to order swine flu vaccines for all Israeli citizens. The Jewish community of Naples has raised funds to help rebuild the bell tower of a church damaged in an earthquake. Banned by a court in Hungary, the extreme-right Hungarian Guard has resurfaced in neighboring Romania. The foreign ministers of Spain and Venezuela visited a Caracas synagogue attacked earlier this year.