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| |  | Breaking News | The secret documents released by WikiLeaks will not negatively affect Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. | | The decision by New Zealand's agriculture minister to ban kosher slaughter was made to preserve the island nation's profitable meat trade with Muslim countries and his own investments, a newspaper alleged. | | Canada will boycott the third U.N. conference against racism, citing the charged anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric at its predecessors. | | The Israeli police officers who fired a tear gas canister that caused American protester Emily Henochowicz to lose an eye were cleared following an Israeli police investigation. | | A Knesset committee approved a bill to protect Israeli soldiers who have converted to Judaism through military conversion courts from having their conversions annulled. | | A Swedish neo-Nazi leader who organized the theft of the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from Auschwitz reportedly will spend nearly three years in prison. | | A Facebook page in memory of a Jewish pilot who was killed when his plane crashed in California has amassed more than 100 messages, as well as photos and videos. | | Rocks were thrown through the windows of two Jewish centers at Indiana University. | | Iran has accused Israel of attacks on two of the country's nuclear scientists. | | A dual Jordanian-American citizen was sentenced to more than two years in prison for mailing a bomb threat to a Jewish day school in Chicago. | | A Chasidic man wearing traditional clothing was beaten in New York in what appears to be a hate crime. | | Iran's first nuclear power reactor will go online in late January, according to Iran's Atomic Energy Organization. | | A Jewish woman has been appointed to Bahrain's main legislative body. | | A Jerusalem municipal building committee approved the rezoning of eastern Jerusalem land for the construction of 130 housing units. | | For the first time, Jews in Germany have elected a representative, Dieter Graumann, born after the Holocaust. | | Israel's Cabinet approved a plan to build a detention center for illegal migrants who infiltrate Israel's southern border. | | Serbia has requested the extradition of an American citizen accused of committing genocide and other crimes as a Nazi officer during World War II. | | A publisher does not have to pay writer Misha Defonseca for her false memoir about surviving the Holocaust with the help of wolves, a Massachusetts appeals court ruled. | | The Netherlands has issued an arrest warrant for convicted Nazi war criminal Klaas Faber. | | Israel will set up a permanent trauma and emergency center in Haiti. | | Irene Klass, publisher of The Jewish Press weekly newspaper, has died. | | | | | 
| Today's Daily Briefing Sponsored by: Nefesh B'Nefesh Ride along with eight Olim as they travel to eight locations across Israel lighting Hanukkah candles, in NBN's new music video "Eight Days". Happy Hanukkah from Nefesh B'Nefesh To make your announcement, click here right here! | Featured Story The Reform movement is soliciting grass-roots input in an 18-month self-assessment as it tries to reposition itself for 21st-century North American Jewry. Read more » | Editors' Picks | Middle East leaders speak about their powerful neighbor with a directness seldom, if ever, heard in public; their statements are revealed in secret documents made public by WikiLeaks and published in The New York Times. | | Five years after announcing a controversial outreach initiative, the Conservative movement seems generally more welcoming to the children of intermarried parents, JTA's Sue Fishkoff reports. | | Chanukah celebrations are focused on children, but there's a place for adults in the holiday as well, Suzanne Kurtz writes for JTA. | | The Forward looks at where jobs in the Jewish world have been lost -- and where they are to be found. | | Give of yourself this Chanukah season on each night of the holiday, Jewish life-cycle consultant Dasee Berkowitz suggests in a JTA column. | | When Rabbi Meir Muller receives his doctorate in early childhood education next month from the University of South Carolina, his scholarly pursuits will match his real world experience as a day school principal, The State newspaper reports. | | Unpaid life insurance claims from European companies are creating conflict for Holocaust victims and the United States, the Miami Herald reports. | | | | JEWISH IDEAS DAILY Sponsored Content The processes of international law, abetted by so-called human-rights organizations, are increasingly being exploited to attack the legitimacy of Israel. | |
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