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Kyrgyz Jews hold breath amid upheaval

A police truck burns in front of the presidential palace in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on the day opposition protesters overthrew the government, April 7, 2010. (Svobodanews.ru)

As the capital of Kyrgyzstan erupted in violence Wednesday, members of the Central Asian nation's small Jewish community held their breath and sat tight. Read more »

Israel pulls gag order on Kamm case

Israel's defense establishment agreed to lift a months-long gag order over an Israeli journalist's secret house arrest. Read more » Shoah week on PBS The Public Broadcasting Service will offer U.S. television viewers a concentrated history lesson during Holocaust Remembrance Week, with seven films and documentaries on Jewish death and defiance in the past and on the genocides of the present. Read more » Filmmakers wonder: 'What does this seder mean to me?' Eleven filmmakers offer their interpretations of the Haggadah. Read more » EDITORS' PICKS Terms of Endearment (Weekly Standard) One day after news leaked that President Obama is considering imposing the terms of a Mideast peace settlement, Elliott Abrams describes why such an approach is wrongheaded and bad for Israel. Holocaust fatigue (L.A. Jewish Journal) The Holocaust might have been a plot point in several blockbusters in the past year, but despite its ubiquity, the public has largely moved on, Jon Kean writes. Cutting U.S. aid to Israel (Bloomberg News) Rep. Steve Rothman (D-N.J.) says US. aid to Israel gives America jobs, intelligence and a military edge. Columnist Celestine Bohlen argues that the aid hides the true price of Israel's policies, costs America money and fuels the perception that the United States cannot be an honest broker in the Middle East. Know your heroes (Kyiv Post) An English-language newspaper in Ukraine profiles the local origins of one of the country's most illustrious daughters: Golda Meir. President Obama issued waivers allowing the transfer of funds to the Palestinian Authority and extending the the stay of the PLO office in Washington. BREAKING NEWS President Obama issued waivers allowing the transfer of funds to the Palestinian Authority and extending the the stay of the PLO office in Washington. A bar of soap that its owner claims was made from Jewish corpses during the Holocaust has been seized by police for tests. Israeli police arrested six men from northern Israel accused of being involved in an organ trafficking ring. A commission has been set up to erect a memorial to Jewish and Roma Holocaust victims from the city of Brno, in the Czech Republic. A street in Ramallah has been named after a Palestinian terrorist responsible for the deaths of dozens of Israelis. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has gotten involved in a "shaimos" site -- a burial site for Jewish religious artifacts -- on private property, which contravenes state law. The corruption trial of Ehud Olmert has been postponed for a month after the arrest of the ex-prime minister's former aide. Gatorade, the popular sports drink company, received kosher certification for two of its beverages.