Monday 8 March 2010

Breaking News

Israeli lawmakers debated a conversion reform bill sponsored by the Yisrael Beiteinu party, averting a coalition crisis for now.
A senior operative of the al-Qaida terrorist organization called on U.S. Muslims to take up arms against America.
U.S. lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill that strengthens U.S. sanctions against Iran.
The body of a Jewish man from Canada reportedly was pulled from the rubble of the Haiti earthquake.
Orthodox boxer Yuri Foreman's first title defense appears to be a go for Yankee Stadium on June 5.
DNA tests on the Lemba tribe of central Zimbabwe and northern South Africa show that they are of Jewish or Semitic origin, the BBC reported.
An obscure group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis has banned smoked salmon because of the presence of a parasitic worm.
New York Gov. David Paterson approved a plan to give $500,000 in state money to help identify and treat sex abuse victims in New York s Orthodox Jewish community.
Hadassah: The Women's Zionist Organization of America and the director general of its hospital in Jerusalem have reached what both sides are describing an "amicable agreement" about the doctor's future.
A synagogue in the ancient Jewish quarter of Cairo opened after a two-year government-sponsored restoration.
The Israeli Embassy in Madrid likened a recent meeting in Barcelona of well-known anti-Zionists as a "lynching."
Turkey turned down Israel's offer of aid following an earthquake in the east of the country.
Israel's Ministry of Defense authorized the construction of new apartments in a West Bank settlement despite a construction freeze.
Several thousand Palestinians and left-wing activists protested in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah against the eviction of Palestinian families from their homes.
U.S. Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell began meeting with Israeli officials as the Palestinian leadership agreed to start U.S.-brokered indirect peace talks.
Israeli police lifted restrictions on Muslim worshipers at the Temple Mount two days after Arab youths hurled rocks down on Jews praying at the Western Wall.
Tel Aviv University and Rome's Sapienza University signed a wide-ranging cooperation agreement at a ceremony in which the mayor of Rome censured Israel Apartheid Week.

Posted by Britannia Radio at 20:49