Monday, 28 March 2011

REAKING NEWS

Facebook will monitor a page calling for a third Palestinian uprising against Israel but will not remove it.
Jimmy Carter is scheduled to visit Jewish leaders during a trip to Cuba, which is leading to speculation that the former U.S. president will ask the Cuban government to release jailed American contractor Alan Gross.
Israel may cancel a visit by Argentina's foreign minister following a report that the South American country told Iran it would stop investigating two bombings of Jewish targets in exchange for better trade relations.
Bank Leumi has agreed to pay nearly $37 million to the heirs of Holocaust victims and to projects that help Israeli survivors.
Pope Benedict XVI visited the mass grave of the victims of a Nazi massacre near Rome.
The Obama administration and France reportedly nixed a visit by U.S. Sen. John Kerry to Syria.
A symposium on caring for Holocaust survivors will bring together specialists from around the world.
The United States is not ready to send troops to Syria, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said.
Geraldine Ferraro, the first female vice presidential candidate in U.S. history, was being remembered as a defender of human rights and a friend of Israel.
The son of a leader of a West Bank Jewish human rights group was sentenced to prison for the kidnapping and assaulting of a Palestinian teen.
Interfaith dialogue between Jewish and Muslim religious leaders in Israel has been suspended until terror attacks on Israel are denounced.
A winter resident of a predominantly Jewish condominium complex may not use a second condo to hold daily prayers, a Florida magistrate ruled.
Andres Spokoiny, the CEO of the Montreal Jewish federation, has been tapped to lead the Jewish Funders Network.
Six terrorists failed in their attempt to blow up a pipeline carrying natural gas to Israel and Jordan from Egypt.
Canada's Parliament passed a bill to establish a national Holocaust monument, just hours before the government fell.
Israel's military deployed the Iron Dome anti-rocket system in southern Israel for the first time following a week of increased rocket attacks from Gaza.
An Israeli medical team carrying medical supplies and humanitarian aid left for Japan.
Israel's Cabinet approved a program to assist new immigrants from Tunisia arriving in Israel in the wake of the country's recent revolution.