Monday, 31 October 2011

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Trick or tweet (the Anthony Weiner mask)

Costumes of the disgraced congressman are big business this Halloween season. Bernie Madoff masks, not so much. Read more »

This Anthony Weiner costume, with a not-for-kids below-the-belt accessory, is a hit. Meanwhile, the Bernie Madoff mask is slumping this year.

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Jerusalem hilltop at the center of international controversy

Plans for a new neighborhood on a Jerusalem hilltop have drawn anger from Palestinians and concern from the site's handful of current Jewish residents, Jessica Steinberg reports for JTA.


BREAKING NEWS

The United Nations cultural agency has granted the Palestinians full membership.
Former Israeli soldier Anat Kamm, who turned classified military documents over to a reporter, was sentenced to 54 months in jail.
The German government has threatened to halt delivery of a Dolphin submarine to Israel in protest of its settlements policy, a German newspaper has confirmed.
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Rockets from Gaza continued to hit southern Israel as a second cease-fire in less than 24 hours was scheduled to go into effect.
Supporters of jailed kosher meat executive Sholom Rubashkin who signed an online petition on the White House's We the People website received a reply saying the government cannot get involved.
An Arab-owned restaurant in Jaffa was torched and graffiti pointing to a price-tag attack was spray-painted on its walls.
A member of Saudi Arabia's royal family has offered a $900,000 reward for the capture of an Israeli soldier.
Some 20,000 people gathered in Tel Aviv for Israel's first social protest in two months.
A youth group adviser from California has brought a class-action suit against her employer, the Orthodox Union.
An Israeli citizen who lives in Brooklyn was convicted of organ trafficking.
The president of Kent State University decried the behavior of a professor who shouted "death to Israel" during a lecture given by a former Israeli diplomat.
Marla Gilson, a Capitol Hill presence for decades with stints working for Hadassah, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and several Democratic Party campaigns, has died.
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