Thursday, 16 February 2012

BREAKING NEWS

Police in New Delhi have arrested five suspects in connection with a bombing attack that wounded the wife of an Israeli diplomat.
The sheriff's deputy who arrested actor Mel Gibson and was the subject of his anti-Semitic rant is settling a religious discrimination case against his department.
The Anti-Defamation League issued a security alert to U.S. Jewish groups in the wake of a series of attempted bombings allegedly targeting Israelis and Jews overseas.
Ethan Bronner, the Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times, is stepping down from his position.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told a Senate committee that he does not believe Israel has decided definitely to attack Iran's nuclear infrastructure.
Iran has begun loading domestically made nuclear fuel rods into a research reactor in Tehran.
A Jerusalem committee approved a tourist center in eastern Jerusalem amid criticism from residents and left-wing groups.
Following an increasing demand for kosher food in Poland, 17 Polish Jews graduated from a seminar certifying them as kashrut supervisors.
A delegation from Israel's Defense Ministry visited Turkey to dedicate a student village built with Israeli assistance.
Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, spoke to a Chabad synagogue in Florida.
The Hillel director at Tel Aviv University, Pnina Gadai Agenyahu, is the first Ethiopian Jew appointed to Israel's Council for Higher Education.
Journalist Gal Beckerman won the 2012 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for his first book.
Holocaust survivor and partisan Vitka Kovner, who was active in the Vilna Jewish underground, has died in Israel.