Monday 1 November 2010

BREAKING NEWS

More mail bombs like those that were mailed to synagogues in Chicago may be out there, a top U.S. security official told news shows.
A Chabad House serving Northwestern University in suburban Chicago was vandalized.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with Vice President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the General Assembly of The Jewish Federations of North America.
A high school where a group of students played a highway chase game called "Beat the Jew" will study a new tolerance curriculum.
Israel is seen as "a central threat to Turkey" in a policy paper written by Turkey's National Security Council.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the decision of a United Nations body to define the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb as Palestinian "absurd."
A Statement on Civility in national political discourse is set to be unveiled by the Jewish Council for Public Affairs .
A Christian group is warning against blaming Jewish settlers for a possible arson attack against a church in downtown Jerusalem.
Graves were desecrated in a small Jewish cemetery in northeastern France.
A Jewish leader wants to know "who cares," after an attempted arson on a new synagogue in the German city of Mainz.
An Israeli movie took the grand prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
Conductor Daniel Barenboim was awarded a German peace prize for his efforts to bring Israelis and Palestinians together.
Israeli police arrested a foreign worker accused of being employed illegally by Defense Minister Ehud Barak's wife.
An Israeli soldier was sentenced to prison for posing for a photo showing him pointing a loaded weapon at a blindfolded and handcuffed Palestinian prisoner.
Australia’s foreign minister will lead the largest-ever parliamentary delegation to Israel.
A Torah scroll stolen from a Phoenix synagogue was returned.
The peace lobby will prevail over the enemies of peace, Israeli President Shimon Peres said at a rally in memory of Yitzhak Rabin.
A graphic novel rooted in the Holocaust won the grand prize at an international cartoon and comics festival.