Monday, 18 October 2010

Breaking News

A Jewish organization is on the Anti-Defamation League's top 10 list of anti-Israel groups in America.
A searchable database of more than 20,000 Nazi-looted art objects has gone online.
The Orthodox Union issued a statement saying women may not lead Friday night Kabbalat Shabbat services if men are present.
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Thousands of Israeli Jews and Arabs demonstrated in Tel Aviv against a proposed loyalty oath for new non-Jewish citizens.
A group of North American rabbis has launched an online campaign to support women who want to pray at the Western Wall with Torahs and prayer shawls.
Attorneys for Jonathan Pollard filed a new petition for clemency, The Jerusalem Post reported.
An Israeli father and daughter were found dead in their home in Mexico City amid signs of violence.
Australian unions have joined the international campaign to boycott Israeli goods from the West Bank.
Los Angeles is the site of the United States' newest Holocaust Museum.
Negotiations to release captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from Hamas have resumed, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
An Israeli soldier who stole electronic equipment from an intercepted ship bound for Gaza was sentenced to jail.
A New York man accused of stabbing his parents to death was returned to New York after fleeing to Israel.
A leading Modern Orthodox synagogue in New York City has halted construction on its new building due to financial problems.
Palestinian officials said Israel's announcement of the construction of 240 new units in eastern Jerusalem was a further blow to renewed peace talks.
The wife of an American citizen of Pakistani origin who pleaded guilty to participating in the Mumbai terrorist attacks reportedly warned U.S. authorities less than a year before the attacks.
Israel's Air Force hit a squad of Gaza Palestinians that Israel's military said was preparing to launch rockets from northern Gaza into Israel.
A new Jewish community center opened in Romania.
An Argentine Jewish umbrella organization awarded its highest honor to the American Jewish Committee.
Two Israeli scientists have been chosen to receive the U.S. National Medal of Science.
Novelist Belva Plain, the author of 20 books about several generations of Jewish-American families, has died.

Posted by Britannia Radio at 18:53