Thursday, 14 October 2010


Daily Briefing


BREAKING NEWS

European leaders must intervene to save small Jewish communities from an anti-Semitic onslaught, the head of the European Jewish Congress said.
Hate crimes charges were filed against three teens for allegedly painting anti-Semitic graffiti on a Jewish high school in Washington State.
A Solomon Schechter high school in New Jersey has received a $15 million matching gift and will be renamed.
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The United States sees as legitimate Israel's demand that Palestinians and other Arab states recognize Israel's Jewish character, a State Department spokesman said.
Former White House correspondent Helen Thomas told an Ohio radio station that she knew her job would not survive her quote telling Jews to "get the hell out of Palestine."
A coalition of Jewish organizations in California is waging a campaign against a ballot proposition they say would hurt efforts to wean the United States off foreign oil.
Turkey reportedly will boycott a regional tourism conference next week in Israel.
The American Jewish Committee called on Israel to exercise caution in enacting a measure that would require non-Jewish citizens to swear loyalty to Israel's Jewish character.
Israel has agreed to sell spy drones to Russia in a $400 million deal.
A New York man accused of stabbing his parents to death reportedly has fled to Israel.
Israel is prepared to resume negotiations with the Palestinians without pre-conditions, Israel's foreign minister said.
Israel should be prosecuted for war crimes committed during the interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla, lawyers told an international court.
American businessmen reportedly are trying to establish a professional baseball league in Israel.
Two Israeli Arabs who sailed with a flotilla of ships attempting to break Israel's naval blockade of Gaza each received a second subpoena to appear before the Israeli commission probing the incident.
Israeli settlers clashed with Palestinians after Israeli police and soldiers razed several structures at a West Bank outpost.
Argentina's economics minister apologized for using Holocaust imagery in a complaint against two journalists.
A ministers' group has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate a sponsor of the National Prayer Breakfast for receiving money from a group that funds terrorism.

Posted by Britannia Radio at 19:20