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Daily Briefing

Thursday, August 11, 2011

FEATURED STORY After Norway and before 9/11 anniversary, U.S. answers questions about homegrown threats With the Norway attacks fresh in mind and the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks fast approaching, are U.S. authorities paying attention to the right kinds of threats?Read more » EDITORS' PICKS Confronting Shariah conspiracy theories Americans must be careful to distinguish between true threats to our freedoms and phantom threats that don't really exist, writes Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, in a JTA Op-Ed. Taking security seriously Empowered by knowledge, all Jews can play a role in creating a more secure environment across the American Jewish community, writes Jerry For Bergson Group, an overdue recognition It's important that the 1940s rescue activists known as the Bergson Group are finally receiving the recognition they deserve, writes Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, in a JTA Op-Ed.

BREAKING NEWS

Susan Rice, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations, offered the strongest sign yet that the Obama administration is seeking the removal of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

U.S. Reps. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), who is Jewish, and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), who is Muslim, joined to urge the Netherlands' upper house not to affirm a ban on ritual slaughter.

President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed peace and security issues a day after the State Department reprimanded Israel on new housing in Jerusalem.

Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, told Jewish Democrats that Israel needs “all hands on deck” ahead of a Palestinian push for statehood.

Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti said worldwide protests will result from a U.S. veto of a Palestinian state at the United Nations.

Israeli rescue specialists have joined the search for a 21-year-old Jewish man from Munich who may have fallen into the Pastaza River in Ecuador.

The Israel Lands Administration Council has approved a plan to offer more affordable housing to some Israelis.

Israel's interior minister gave final approval to a project to build 1,600 housing units in a Jewish neighborhood of eastern Jerusalem.

New York State's revised kosher law is constitutional, a federal judge ruled.

Jewish institutions in Uruguay have planned a demonstration against statements denying the Holocaust made by the Iranian ambassador to the country.

Israeli Holocaust survivor leader Noach Flug, who in his younger days was part of the Lodz Ghetto underground, died in Israel at the age of 86.

Israel's Foreign Ministry issued a travel advisory for citizens visiting Britain.

Joan and Sanford Weill of New York have committed $10 million to Haifa's Rambam Medical Center to expand the children's cancer ward and facilitate its treatment of Palestinian children.