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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Israel Herald.com http://www.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/10/id/eca75446a1a10a7a/ en-us Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:38:07 -0400 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:38:07 -0400 30 There is no concrete evidence that Iran is attempting to develop nuclear weapons, incoming International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano said Friday, in his first public comments on Iran's nuc... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25860513/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:09:30 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25860513/ The European Union decided Friday to summon Iranian ambassadors across the 27-nation bloc in a joint protest against the detentions of staff at the British Embassy in Teheran. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25860514/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:09:25 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25860514/ A Palestinian woman carrying a suspicious object was moderately wounded by IDF fire on Friday morning near the Bekaot checkpoint in the Jordan Valley, north of Jericho. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25857032/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:00:19 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25857032/ Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is making a mistake in not explicitly endorsing the road map, with its monitored sequence of phases toward Palestinian statehood, and risks placing Israel in a situat... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25852604/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:11:11 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25852604/ The defense establishment is concerned at intensifying legal campaigns in foreign courts that aim to deter Israel from using force against Hamas and Hizbullah. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25850580/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:12:18 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25850580/ David Cameron drew on his experiences caring for his disabled son Ivan when he officially opened a new Norwood residential centre, which he described as "a model of best practice". At its... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25848088/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:40:25 -0400 Totally Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25848088/ Community leaders David Frei of United Synagogue and Liberal Judaism's Rabbi Danny Rich discuss the issues surrounding last week's ruling declaring JFS must alter its admissions policies http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25848087/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:40:24 -0400 Totally Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25848087/ As swine flu continued to spread apace across Britain, Jewish News has learnt that a pupil at JFS was being tested for the virus while a Jewish nursery in the capital was also hit by a scare. The... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25848089/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:40:23 -0400 Totally Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25848089/ In the current hullabaloo surrounding settlement construction, one side issue forced center stage is whether the US and Israel ever had tacit agreements on the matter. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25848086/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:40:20 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25848086/ S. PETERSBURG, Russia – This week, the Jewish community of S. Petersburg held a celebration for the third anniversary of the STARS Jewish youth education program. Students in the STARS program assem... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25848090/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:36:59 -0400 FJC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25848090/ ODESSA, Ukraine – Jewish kids from the southern Ukrainian port city of Odessa have embraced summer with the commencement of the camp season. The camp is based on the territory of the Lustdorf Health... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25848091/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:36:59 -0400 FJC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25848091/ The Board of Deputies cautioned yesterday that a Court of Appeal ruling last week, which would force JFS to accept pupils who aren't recognised as halachically Jewish by the United Synagogue, cou... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25845613/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:08:44 -0400 Totally Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25845613/ What happens when you put a Muslim imam, a Christian priest, a rabbi and a Buddhist monk in a room with 10 atheists?Turkish television station Kanal T hopes the answer is a ratings success as it prepa... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25844627/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:56:32 -0400 Haaretz http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25844627/ Prosecutors said that ex-Nazi camp guard John Demjanjuk, accused of herding 29,000 Jews to their deaths, is fit to be tried in what could be Germany's last major Nazi case. The 89-year-old native of ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25845611/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:47:58 -0400 ABC Australia http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25845611/ After a long hiatus, the Israeli Navy has returned to sailing through the Suez Canal, recently sending one of its advanced Dolphin-class submarines through the waterway to participate in naval maneuve... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25845612/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:10:03 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25845612/ A photographer who documents Jewish communities around the world has been banned from photographing Australian synagogues because of security concerns from local Jewish authorities. Jono David, an Osa... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25842006/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:31:46 -0400 Haaretz http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25842006/ Jerusalem - Jews and Arabs should not live next to one another, the Jerusalem Post on Friday quoted Housing and Construction Minister Ariel Attias as saying. "We can all be bleeding hearts, but I t... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25841131/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:06:21 -0400 IOL http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25841131/ Many trips promise “The Real Israel.” But the Israelis who met the teen advocacy group Write On for Israel, co-sponsored by The AVI CHAI Foundation and the Cleveland Jewish News, really de... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25839807/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:08:31 -0400 Cleveland Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25839807/ The Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland unanimously approved allocations for the 2009/2010 fiscal year at its June 29 board of trustees meeting. For the first time in more than a decade, it is a ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25839808/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:08:29 -0400 Cleveland Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25839808/ When Maxine (Solomon) Margolis watches the newly released movie “Public Enemies,” the scene featuring John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson in their final bloody shootout will be more than a... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25839809/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:08:28 -0400 Cleveland Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25839809/ A newly formed Iranian Jewish Federation made up of emigrants from the Iranian city of Mashad will meet next week in Jerusalem in an effort to promote and preserve their heritage. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25838116/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:03:44 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25838116/ Meeting in New York were representatives of the US Catholic Bishops and two associations of Orthodox Jews. Discussed were Jewish concerns over prosyletism, as well as Catholic fears about the "Child V... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25835630/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:41:15 -0400 Spero News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25835630/ Victor Smorgon's family are deeply saddened by his passing away peacefully in the early hours of this morning at the age of 96.Victor adored his family, particularly his wife of 72 years, Loti, his ch... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25835643/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:24:49 -0400 AJN http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25835643/ AJN staff Aura Lipski (right) with Israeli choreographer Yoram Sasson.Photo: Danny WeinstockA MELBOURNE woman's rendition of Yerushalayim shel zahav has inspired a renowned Israeli choreographer to cr... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25835644/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:24:48 -0400 AJN http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25835644/ AJN staff INDUSTRIAL entrepreneur and philanthropist Victor Smorgon died on Friday morning aged 96.Born in 1917 in Ukraine during a time of serious political upheaval and pogroms against the Jewish po... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25835645/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:24:47 -0400 AJN http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25835645/ American engineers who serve as consultants for the Egyptian military have recently informed Israel that Hamas has succeeded in digging 60-meter deep smuggling tunnels to avoid detection and destructi... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25835646/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:47:04 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25835646/ Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein told an FBI interviewer before he was hanged that he led the world to believe that his country had weapons of mass destruction because he did not want to appear w... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25835648/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:47:00 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25835648/ Concerned that exacting kosher stringencies have pushed meat and poultry prices beyond the reach of many poor haredi families, a group of rabbis is out to prove that a cheap, Glatt kosher chicken is n... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25835647/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:46:57 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25835647/ Mozart was not Jewish - that's been said before. But the fact that Michael Jackson wasn't Jewish either is too mortal a blow to our national prestige. Nu, all right, he was almost Jewish. His best fri... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25830102/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:04:35 -0400 Haaretz http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25830102/ Due to rising production costs, the Israel Navy is shelving a long-held plan to purchase the Lockheed Martin-built Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) in favor of a German-designed and Israeli-built corvette. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25833107/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:03:26 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25833107/ Results of an Opinion Poll President Obama's Visit to the Middle East Publication Date: 1 July 2009 Field work: 12-14 June 2009 Sample Size: 1200 Palestinians in the West Bank & Gaza Margin of er... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25831100/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:44:56 -0400 IMRA http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25831100/ An author has used statistical analysis to predict that Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers will retire as the third-greatest Jewish baseball player ever http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25822773/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:37:10 -0400 Taipei Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25822773/ Several thousand people crowded into Central Park’s Naumburg Band Shell Sunday to celebrate Tel Aviv’s 100th birthday on a makeshift beach, dancing to Israeli reggae music and enjoying the... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25824791/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:34:11 -0400 The Jewish Week http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25824791/ German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday called on Israel to end settlement construction, saying it jeopardized efforts toward a two-state solution. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25819475/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:14:37 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25819475/ A view of metropolitan Algiers, the capital of Algeria. Photo: Courtesy The establishment of the association is in accordance with a 2006 law on non-Muslim religions, which mandated that all non-Mus... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25819476/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:14:35 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25819476/ The 18th Maccabiah Games will take place in Israel July 13-23. Sometimes referred to as the “Jewish Olympics,” the competition is held every four years in the Jewish state, drawing 7,000 athletes ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25818184/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:59:50 -0400 Cleveland Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25818184/ Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: Here is what they came up with: "After examining the issue with the Chief Military Rabbi, it appears as though he does not carry a position stating that women should not se... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25817349/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:51:36 -0400 IMRA http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25817349/ VIENNA - Kurt Elias vividly remembers the day in 1938 when the Nazis barred him from entering the University of Vienna because he was Jewish. "I had to send someone else in to get my dissection kit ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25815441/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:27:30 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25815441/ JERUSALEM, Jul 2, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Members of Israel's parliament called for the ouster of the army's chief rabbi who reportedly said women should not have to serve in the military. Maariv... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25815440/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:27:30 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25815440/ WASHINGTON - The defeat of incumbent Norm Coleman in the drawn-out Minnesota Senate race leaves U.S. Republicans without a Jewish senator for the first time in half a century. Coleman's departure co... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25815445/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:27:29 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25815445/ ROME - Rome has given honorary citizenship to an Israeli soldier kidnapped by militants linked to Gaza's militant Islamic Hamas group three years ago. Sgt. Gilad Schalit's father, Noam Schalit recei... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25815444/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:27:29 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25815444/ RAFAH, Egypt - An Egyptian security official says border guards shot and killed two African migrants trying to cross the border into Israel near the town of Rafah. Many Africans seeking political as... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25815446/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:27:29 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25815446/ JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is warning that the world order could break down if tyrannical regimes obtain weapons of mass destruction. The Israeli leader also said Wednesda... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25815443/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:27:28 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25815443/ BERLIN - Germany's governing parties agreed Wednesday on a blanket measure to overturn Nazi-era verdicts convicting people of treason, nearly 65 years after the end of World War II, and it will go bef... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25815442/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:27:28 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25815442/ Kurt Elias vividly remembers the day in 1938 when the Nazis barred him from entering the University of Vienna because he was Jewish."I had to send someone else in to get my dissection kit and coat," s... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25813725/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:24:53 -0400 Haaretz http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25813725/   Istanbul's Neve Shalom synagogue is tucked away on a winding street near the Galata Tower. The synagogue isn't as easy to spot as the landmark turret with its panorama of the city's iconic mos... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25811049/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:13:02 -0400 MSNBC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25811049/ In response to a 105-page Amnesty International report published Wednesday accusing Israel of the reckless use of weapons and wanton destruction during Operation Cast Lead, the IDF said it was surpris... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25812105/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:09:58 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25812105/ The Jewish Museum in New York is hosting a new art exhibit on ritual in Jewish life, it was announced this week. "Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life," which opens Septe... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25809084/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:36:49 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25809084/ BAKU, Azerbaijan – During his historic first state visit to Azerbaijan, President of Israel Shimon Peres met with leaders and members of the country’s Jewish community. Upon arriving at the main B... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25809086/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:43:35 -0400 FJC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25809086/ Suspicion: Palestinians burned holy Jewish books at Homesh Dozens of Talmuds, bibles, prayer books defaced at unauthorized yeshiva located in evacuated West Bank settlement; Minister Edelstein deman... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25807348/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:31:35 -0400 IMRA http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25807348/ IDF chief rabbi says women shouldn't serve By Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz Correspondent Last update - 03:35 02/07/2009 www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1097235.html Women ought not to serve in the Israel D... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25807672/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:31:34 -0400 IMRA http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25807672/ IN November 1998, during Binyamin Netanyahu’s first term as prime minister, Israel went ahead with the construction of the Jewish neighbourhood of Har Homa in East Jerusalem, situated between Kibbut... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25806378/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:11:03 -0400 AJN http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25806378/ Israel would lose nothing, and potentially gain everything, by agreeing to a temporary moratorium on construction in the settlements for a short period of time, Congressman Robert Wexler, a close poli... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25806379/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:32:35 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25806379/ Romanian Jewish leaders met in Bucharest on Wednesday to address allegations that medical students have been using the remains of Holocaust victims for research. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25806380/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:32:31 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25806380/ A JEWISH photographer attempting to document synagogues around the world has criticised Australia’s community security institutions for “inflexible and underhanded” policies.Jono David is a Japa... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25803661/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:48:33 -0400 AJN http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25803661/ While more than 100 people protested outside, the trial of 12 residents of Shfaram, seven of whom are charged with attempted murder, began on Monday in Haifa District Court with the reading of the ind... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25803662/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:10:41 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25803662/ Six weeks after authorities foiled an alleged bomb plot against two Bronx synagogues, the Department of Homeland Security has allocated $1.83 million to boost safety at Jewish institutions in another ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25800063/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:20:20 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25800063/ A new venture being launched Thursday aims to perpetuate connections forged on Taglit-birthright trips and provide professional assistance for young Jews looking to begin their careers in business and... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25800935/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:20:17 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25800935/ ' } ] PageVars.set('title', escape("GOP Loses Jewish Representation in Senate - CBSNews")); PageVars.set('description', escape("The defeat of incumbent Norm Coleman in the drawn-out Minnesota Sena... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25800936/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:48:02 -0400 CBS News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25800936/ After spending a month planning a tour to photograph every synagogue and Jewish cemetery in Australia, as well as other aspects of Jewish life, freelance documentarian Jono David has been denied permi... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25797242/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:36:26 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25797242/ In the wake of an official Vatican statement on the fate of Holocaust-era Jewish children the offices of Yad L'Achim, a haredi anti-missionary organization, said Wednesday they had been flooded with i... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25797243/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:36:24 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25797243/ According to a sociological study of the children of Holocaust survivors by a lecturer at Haifa University, the majority of survivors' descendants don't learn about their parent's wartime experiences ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25793691/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:36:22 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25793691/ BOCA RATON - A charity that teaches children about racial and religious tolerance needs $60,000 by Aug. 15 or it likely will close, its executive director said today. The moribund economy has pushe... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25793833/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:06:44 -0400 Sun-Sentinel http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25793833/ The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The defeat of incumbent Norm Coleman in the drawn-out Minnesota Senate race leaves U.S. Republicans without a Jewish senator for the first time in half a century. ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25797250/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:31:21 -0400 CTV http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25797250/ In a formal statement issued on Wednesday evening, the IDF said it respects the High Court's order to press harsher charges against an officer and soldier over the shooting of a bound and blindfolded ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25797245/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:44:10 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25797245/ Other settlements were later erected deeper in Judea and Samaria for ideological reasons, in an effort by religious Zionists to put down Jewish roots again in such biblical places as Shiloh, Beit El a... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25797249/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:44:02 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25797249/ The Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation has launched a 10-year, $50 million fundraising effort to accelerate breakthroughs in cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cures. The Cancer http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25790382/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:59:16 -0400 Business Journal http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25790382/ As the Iranian authorities warned the opposition on Tuesday that they would tolerate no further protests over the disputed June 12 presidential elections, a report emerged of the hangings of six suppo... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25793082/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:13:27 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25793082/ An MK from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's own Likud Party called Tuesday on his fellow legislators to boycott the annual American Independence Day celebration at US Ambassador James Cunningham's ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25788774/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:45:55 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25788774/ JERUSALEM, Jul 1, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit's father plans to appear before The International Court of Justice in The Hague or Brussels, a published report said... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783970/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:49:31 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783970/ NEW YORK - Israel is considering what it can do to enable a full-fledged Mideast peace process and Palestinian-Israeli negotiations to take off, including instituting a temporary freeze on settlements... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783972/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:49:31 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783972/ JERUSALEM - The president of France advised Israel's prime minister to fire Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, two senior Israeli government officials said Tuesday. The officials spoke on condition... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783978/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:49:29 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783978/ JERUSALEM, Jul 1, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Israel's defense minister says settlement building should not block peace negotiations. Israeli media Wednesday reported Ehud Barak made the remark at a m... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783971/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:49:32 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783971/ NEW YORK -- After hailing Bernard Madoff's 150-year prison sentence, some of his former investment clients intensified criticism of what they termed an equally tough adversary -- the government system... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783974/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:49:30 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783974/ PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Jun 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A document signed by 46 countries urges them to pay or return property seized from Jews by Nazis during World War II, officials said Tuesday.... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783976/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:49:29 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783976/ GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The Israeli navy intercepted a ship carrying foreign peace activists trying to break a blockade of Gaza on Tuesday and forced it to sail to an Israeli port, the military said. ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783975/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:49:29 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783975/ MADRID - A Spanish court on Tuesday shelved a judge's investigation of an Israeli air force bombing in Gaza in 2002 that killed a suspected Hamas militant and 14 civilians, siding with prosecutors who... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783979/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:49:28 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783979/ WARSAW, Poland - For the second time in two years, Polish officials began building a new museum of Jewish history in Warsaw on Tuesday that they hope will become a major cultural landmark. An earlie... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783977/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:49:28 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783977/ Jun. 30--She was a young woman then, and they were heady times in Havana. President Fulgencio Batista was gone, and a charismatic new leader promised Cuba a new start. The day the revolutionary sold... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783980/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:49:27 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783980/ Stephanie Halio of Boca Raton, Fla., said her biggest fear after the sentencing Monday of Bernard Madoff to 150 years in prison is that "we will be forgotten." http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783966/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:07:39 -0400 The Jewish Week http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783966/ Accustomed as he is to public speaking here and around the country, David Harris, the executive director of the American Jewish Committee, can read an audience as well as anyone. Lately, he says, he i... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783967/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:07:35 -0400 The Jewish Week http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783967/ The remembrance of things past came back to Kornfeld, 66, recently at the posh W Hotel in Times Square. Warner Brothers was hosting a party to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Woodstock and, not coin... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783968/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:07:33 -0400 The Jewish Week http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783968/ With his back to the wall in his dealings with Washington, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly weighing the possibility of broadening his government to give him more flexibility in anticip... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783969/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:07:29 -0400 The Jewish Week http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25783969/ TORONTO -- The Canadian Jewish Congress is urging Ontario's Attorney General to review the "corrosive" Internet postings of a Toronto-area man to decide whether they qualify as hate crimes.In a statem... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25778516/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:06:07 -0400 National Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25778516/ Vote While philanthropies everywhere struggle to pry dollars loose from communities reeling from the recession, Baltimore's Jewish federation is celebrating what in these times qualifies as an ou... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25779284/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:49:12 -0400 Baltimore Sun http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25779284/ Israel satisfied with outcome of Holocaust Era Assets Conference A new institute was set up in Terezin to follow up on the progress of property restitution, Holocaust education, and the fight agains... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25778759/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:17:10 -0400 IMRA http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25778759/ Why would the Israelis want to control the world when they are having a hard enough time trying to control themselves? Still, it's a question worth pondering especially in the age of the Internet and ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25777262/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:10:57 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25777262/ The prosecuting counsel in the trial of a gang of French youth accused of brutally murdering a young Jew recommended a sentence of life imprisonment Tuesday for the group's ringleader and 20 years eac... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25777263/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:10:54 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25777263/ With its decision in favor of comedian Al Franken, the Minnesota Supreme Court has given the US Senate its first veteran of "Saturday Night Live" - and left the chamber with no Jewish Republican membe... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25777264/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:10:41 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25777264/ World But after the four-hour meeting, Barak would not commit to a temporary settlement freeze. Asked whether Israel would agree to a freeze of perhaps three to six months, Barak replied: "I thin... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25774669/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:49:54 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25774669/ ULYANOVSK, Russia – At the initiative of the chief rabbi of Ulyanovsk Yosef Marozov, the local Jewish community has established a Board of Trustees comprised of community members who are able to fin... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25774670/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:45:44 -0400 FJC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25774670/ An IDF Navy unit took over a ship that was en route to breaking the naval closure on the Gaza Strip, the IDF said in a statement Tuesday afternoon. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25771849/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:25:06 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25771849/ The IDF on Tuesday questioned the credibility of a Human Rights Watch report which claimed that Israeli attacks with guided missiles fired from aerial drones killed civilians during Operation Cast Lea... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25771850/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:25:00 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25771850/ Israel expressed satisfaction that a Spanish court on Tuesday closed a judge's investigation of the 2002 IAF bombing in Gaza City that killed leading Hamas terrorist Salah Shehadeh, his deputy, and 13... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25771851/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:24:54 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25771851/ Pop legend Michael Jackson's life was full of contradictions, and his relationship to Jews and the Jewish community was no exception.From speculations that the singer had committed himself to Kabbalah... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25767455/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:43:55 -0400 Haaretz http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25767455/ During the recent uprisings in Iran following the June 12th elections in that country, I have been approached by dozens of individuals asking me what is going on in Iran's Jewish community today. The ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25767188/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:43:53 -0400 Haaretz http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25767188/ LA TROBE University Vice Chancellor Professor Paul Johnson and senior university officials have pledged to make the university campus a more welcoming place for Jewish students. Prof Johnson, student ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25768766/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:36:33 -0400 AJN http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25768766/ Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Michael Jackson friend, calls him "tortured soul" Jackson was wonderful father, Boteach says, but was lost amid fame In one instance, Jackson saw doctor before speakin... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25766887/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:30:34 -0400 CNN http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25766887/ Staff Writer When Peter Barland was applying to medical schools 54 years ago, his choices were severely limited — most top universities still capped their Jewish admittances through strict quot... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25765729/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:04:01 -0400 The Jewish Week http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25765729/ There was a sea in landlocked Cambria Heights on Sunday. A sea of kvitlach.In the open space in front of the gravestone of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch chasidic move... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25765733/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:03:53 -0400 The Jewish Week http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/25765733/