Thursday, 14 April 2011



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Is Germany still "a great friend" of Israel? A sober assessment of the German-Israel relationship would have to come to a different conclusion.

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FBI records say the agency believed the Jewish Defense League extorted money from rappers by threatening violence.
A spokesman for Justin Bieber told JTA that the pop star is not meeting with children from Israel's rocket-beset South because of logistics, not politics.
Three members of the United Nations fact-finding mission on the Gaza war say they stand by the report.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said he has no cause for concern following an announcement that he would be indicted on graft charges.
A decision by Toronto's city manager would permit city funding for the Toronto Pride Parade regardless of the participation of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid.
A rabbi is suing the District of Columbia Board of Elections for running an election on the last day of Passover.
Rep. Shelley Berkley, a pro-Israel stalwart in the U.S. House of Representatives, will run for a U.S. Senate seat in Nevada.
A couple in Israel was married in a civil union for the first time.
Iran reportedly is considering providing material assistance to groups backing the Syrian government and anti-government groups in Yemen and Bahrain.
A Jewish group is seeking hate crimes charges against a Toronto-based Muslim website that featured a video address by former U.S. Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
German companies are drawing criticism for their plans to take part in an oil industry trade show in Tehran.
Some 650 rabbis from the Chabad-Lubavitch movement will conduct communal Passover seders in 58 countries.
A top Iranian nuclear official is boasting of advances in the country's nuclear program.
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons have been detained for 15 days while the country's prosecutor general investigates corruption allegations.
Spice giant McCormick has agreed to stop selling its spices to Iran, following the efforts of a Baltimore Jewish activist.