Monday, 26 September 2011

BREAKING NEWS

American Jews approve and disapprove of President Obama's performance in equal numbers, according to a new poll by the American Jewish Committee.
A list of 174 Israeli soldiers and commanders involved in the May 2010 raid on the Mavi Marmara ship as it attempted to break the Gaza blockade was given to Turkish prosecutors.
Spain recognized Israel as the Jewish homeland for the first time and called for a peace deal that does not affect its Jewish majority.
The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to discuss the Palestinians' bid for statehood.
Top White House officials briefed Jewish community leaders about a Quartet statement urging Israelis and Palestinians to return to talks with no preconditions, a key Israeli demand.
President Obama reportedly approved the delivery of 55 bunker-busting bombs to Israel.
Israeli police said the cause of a West Bank car crash last week that killed an Israeli man and his infant son was a terrorist attack.
Israelis have been barred from entering Egypt's Sinai Peninsula via the Taba crossing due to serious and credible terror threats.
A Jerusalem court has convicted the leader of a Palestinian terrorist cell for the murder of an American hiker near Jerusalem.
A California jury found 10 Muslim students guilty of misdemeanors for disrupting a 2010 campus speech by Israel's ambassador to the United States.
Thousands of Palestinians gathered outside the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah to greet P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas upon his return from the United Nations.
One-third of Israel's Jewish population does not consider Arab citizens of the country to be Israelis, according to a newly released survey.
New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner has resigned from the speaker's bureau of a Jerusalem-based public relations firm amid charges of conflict of interest.
Israeli actress Ayelet Zurer will portray Superman's Kryptonian mother in the Superman movie sequel.
Israel has pledged $1 million to help preserve Auschwitz.
Dozens of Ukrainian nationalists protested the annual pilgrimage of Jews to the grave of a Chasidic rabbi in Uman.
Artwork by Palestinian children illustrating the Gaza War was shown in an outdoor venue after a California children's museum canceled the display under pressure from the community.
Internet users can now view the Dead Sea Scrolls online.
An online petition in support of jailed kosher meat executive Sholom Rubashkin calls on President Obama to order an investigation into judicial misconduct in his financial fraud trial.
Hitler look-alike dolls are for sale in 7-Eleven stores in Taiwan.