Tuesday, 17 August 2010


FEATURED STORIES

Article fuels speculation, debate over possible strike against Iran

A recent article in The Atlantic is fueling speculation over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's thinking on Iran.
A recent article in The Atlantic is fueling speculation over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's thinking on Iran. ((Kobi Gideon/Flash90))
If the United States doesn't attack Iran's nuclear facilities within the next eight months or so, Israel probably will. So says journalist Jeffrey Goldberg in the September issue of The Atlantic magazine in an article that is fueling debate and speculation among many Middle East experts. Read more »

Jewish groups exhale after Congress extends Medicaid program

The Federal Medical Assistance Percentage will pump billions of dollars into organizations that rely on payment from Medicaid, saving Jewish groups $150 million to $200 million. Read more »

Op-Ed: The need for 'followership' programs

The past decade has witnessed the emergence of a new generation of programs in which the primary focus is on those who participate, not on those who lead. And the Jewish community could use more, writes the president of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation. Read more »

EDITORS' PICKS

From Jewish roots, a salsa star (N.Y. Times)

Larry Harlow, born Lawrence Ira Kahn in Brooklyn, is known in the Latin music world as "El Judio Maravilloso" ("the marvelous Jew") and has become one of the most important figures in the history of salsa.

Mosque controversy skips Pentagon (ABC News)

Anti-Islamists may be up in arms about a proposed mosque near the World Trade Center, but no one seems to care about the chapel used for Muslim prayer in the exact spot that one of the 9/11 planes hit the Pentagon.

Israel is no colonialist state (New Republic)

Those trying to paint Israel with a colonialist brush have been determined to conclude that the Jews came as an alien force to Palestine rather than see them as a people recovering their historical homeland, statesman Dore Gold writes.

Kosher maven at a Catholic hospital (The Record)

Introducing the Orthodox Jewish kosher food planner at the Catholic hospital in Passaic, N.J., the home of a large and growing Orthodox population.

EDITORS' PICKS

From Jewish roots, a salsa star (N.Y. Times)

Larry Harlow, born Lawrence Ira Kahn in Brooklyn, is known in the Latin music world as "El Judio Maravilloso" ("the marvelous Jew") and has become one of the most important figures in the history of salsa.

Mosque controversy skips Pentagon (ABC News)

Anti-Islamists may be up in arms about a proposed mosque near the World Trade Center, but no one seems to care about the chapel used for Muslim prayer in the exact spot that one of the 9/11 planes hit the Pentagon.

Israel is no colonialist state (New Republic)

Those trying to paint Israel with a colonialist brush have been determined to conclude that the Jews came as an alien force to Palestine rather than see them as a people recovering their historical homeland, statesman Dore Gold writes.

Kosher maven at a Catholic hospital (The Record)

Introducing the Orthodox Jewish kosher food planner at the Catholic hospital in Passaic, N.J., the home of a large and growing Orthodox population.


BREAKING NEWS

Shots reportedly were fired from inside the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv.
Harvard University said the sale of some of its investments in Israel was not politically motivated and it is not divesting from Israel.
A bomb scare closed streets near the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles.
A former Israeli soldier is being criticized for posting Facebook photos of herself with Palestinian prisoners.
Barclays Bank will pay $298 million to settle charges that it violated U.S. sanctions by conducting transactions with clients in Iran, Cuba, Libya, Sudan and Myanmar.
Israeli economic growth unexpectedly accelerated to its fastest pace in more than two years.
The United States imposed sanctions on three shipping companies in Malta that it said are fronts for Iran's national maritime carrier.
An Israeli soldier was lightly wounded and a Palestinian killed in a clash along the Gaza border.