Monday, 8 November 2010

BREAKING NEWS

Vice President Joe Biden called the U.S.-Israel bond "unbreakable" in a speech at the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America.
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations told JTA that "life might be easier" if the world body did not exist.
A mass grave of Jews killed by Romanian troops during World War II reportedly was discovered in northeast Romania.

A Jerusalem municipal committee has approved the construction of more than 1,000 Jewish homes in eastern Jerusalem.
Actress Pamela Anderson visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
The Indiana Department of Corrections violated federal law when it substituted vegan meals for kosher for its inmates, a federal judge ruled.
Two Jewish congressional hopefuls -- a Democratic incumbent and a Republican seeking his first term -- may have won seats by narrow margins.
Germany's foreign minister called on Israel to lift the blockade of Gaza and refused to meet with Hamas officials on a visit to the coastal strip.
Israeli artists and academics revived their call for actors to boycott a new theater in a West Bank town.
Free medical screenings and a clean-up day were part of a U.S. bridge-building group's third season of Muslim-Jewish "twinning" events.
A graphic photo exhibit chronicling the Nazi massacre of Jews at Babi Yar is on display at a meeting against anti-Semitism in Canada.
Rabbis in the haredi Orthodox Israeli city of Bnei Brak have issued a religious ruling forbidding residents to rent apartments to African refugees.
A Ukrainian-born Nazi SS guard serving a life sentence for murders committed during World War II has died.
Israel's Land Administration demolished a mosque built illegally in a Bedouin city.
Israel's Air Force struck what the military is describing as two "terror-linked" sites in southern Gaza in response to rocket fire on Israel.
The Israeli prosecutor's office has ordered Safed police to investigate anti-Arab leaflets that were distributed throughout the city.