Britannia Radio

Who's ruining Israel -- leftists or rightists? The contentious performance of a Beersheba theater group in the new cultural center of Ariel, a Jewish city in the West Bank, went to the heart of a bitter argument between left and right over which side can claim to be today's true Zionists. JTA's Leslie Susser reports.

8,000 more Falash Mura In giving the green light to up to 8,000 more immigrants from Ethiopia, did the Israeli government take a step toward ending mass Ethiopian aliyah or did it open the floodgates even wider? JTA's Uriel Heilman reports. BREAKING NEWS Roger Ailes, the Fox News Channel chief, called National Public Radio executives "Nazis" and said "left-wing rabbis" make it difficult to use the term "Holocaust" on air. Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives elected Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) their majority leader in the next Congress. A Boston-area synagogue canceled an appearance by J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami after objections by shul members. The case against New Zealand's ban on kosher animal slaughter will be heard in the High Court in Wellington later this month. Native-born Ugandan Rabbi Gershom Sizomu is running for the country's national Parliament. Government allocations favoring the Orthodox, extra legal protection to Jewish holy sites and Orthodox hegemony over life-cycle events are among Israel's religious freedom violations highlighted in a U.S. State Department report. A group linked to al-Qaida released a threat in Hebrew threatening to avenge Israel's assassination of two Gaza terrorists. The chief rabbi of the northern Israeli city of Safed may be suspended for calling on Safed's Jews not to rent apartments to non-Jews. The U.S. focus on "dialogue, engagement and sanctions" in dealing with Iran is the right focus for now and military force remains an option "in the future," the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff said. A senior Gaza terrorist who was planning to kidnap Israelis vacationing in the Sinai was killed in an Israeli military operation. A Holocaust survivor who teaches children the value of citizenship is among those who will be honored by President Obama with a Medal of Freedom.