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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 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:43:23 -0400 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:43:23 -0400 30 A REGIONAL Victorian lobby group has removed a poster from its website that compared Premier John Brumby to Adolf Hitler.An apology to the Jewish community was also issued on the ‘Plug the Pipe’ w... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17301646/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:38:10 -0400 AJN http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17301646/ An author who fabricated a best-selling memoir about surviving the Holocaust by living with wolves asked a judge Thursday to affirm a $32.4 million jury award in her favor. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17299451/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:59:17 -0400 Gadsden Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17299451/ A number of people I spoke with, including attorney Jon Steiger, said they had received e-mails lambasting Obama.Lenore and Harry Koppel, married 57 years, frequently cancel each other’s vote: L... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17300474/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:54:48 -0400 Cleveland Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17300474/ The Greater Cleveland Chapter of Hadassah has elected new officers for its board of trustees, including board president Alice Cahen.Cahen has previously held a number of lay and professional positions... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17300475/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:54:44 -0400 Cleveland Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17300475/ On Sunday, Aug. 24, while riding his bike in Bellefaire JCB’s 13th annual Biathlon & Walk fundraiser, Kevin Karn, 40, of Cleveland, collapsed; he was taken to South Pointe Hospital in Warrensvil... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17300480/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:54:42 -0400 Cleveland Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17300480/ A week before their candidate was to accept his party’s nomination in Denver, the Obama Jewish Community Leadership Committee of Cleveland welcomed over 100 Jews to its first event.The gathering... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17300477/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:54:43 -0400 Cleveland Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17300477/ Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland officials made it clear this week that they intend to move their headquarters to Beachwood, despite a fevered campaign urging them to stay downtown at 1750 Euc... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17300476/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:54:46 -0400 Cleveland Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17300476/ May the best rib win! That’s the battle cry when the Gross Schechter Totally Kosher Rib Burnoff fires up on Mon., Sept. 1.“This year’s burnoff is going to be the best yet,” pro... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17300479/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:54:41 -0400 Cleveland Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17300479/ Ellen Schur Brown , CJN family editor, won second place in the Children’s Issues category for her story, “Mitzvah Makers,” about 13-year-olds who use their b’nai mitzvah gifts ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17300478/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:54:40 -0400 Cleveland Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17300478/ Barring a doomsday scenario, Israel may be forced to concede to Washington at least some of its freedom to make independent decisions aimed at militarily neutralizing or even delaying the Iranian nucl... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297861/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:22 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297861/ Despite its encouraging title, there are two Holocaust tragedies in “Reclaimed: Paintings From the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker,” an often-stunning book about the recovery of artworks looted ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297854/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:27 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297854/ America’s political conventions may not be the pivotal moments of decision that they once were, but for all their staged predictability, they are still capable of making history. So it was in Denver... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297857/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:24 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297857/ ‘Tropic Thunder” — this summer’s Ben Stiller-directed hit about a motley crew of mega-stars who get more than they bargained for when they enlist in a big-budget Vietnam War flick — has offe... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297855/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:25 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297855/ In his new book, “Why Faith Matters” (HarperOne), David J. Wolpe, the rabbi at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, trumpets the value of religion in the modern world. Using his personal journey with fait... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297848/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:33 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297848/ Los Angeles — The most powerful Orthodox Jewish umbrella group has thrown its support behind a ballot initiative that aims to overturn California’s historic decision to legalize same-sex marriage.... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297865/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:18 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297865/ I know, I know: The Summer Olym-pics were then, the Democratic Convention is now. But I find it hard to let go of the Olympics, and not just because of my flickering fantasy of yet becoming a gymnast.... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297859/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:24 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297859/ One of the first images in Jennifer Callahan’s documentary “The Bungalows of Rockaway” is a close-up of a woman’s wrinkled face wearing an expression of amazement and delight. The face belongs... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297846/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:32 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297846/ Denver — Jewish voters had much to be proud of in 2000. So did the state of Connecticut. The state’s senator, Joe Lieberman, the first American Jew nominated to a major political party’s preside... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297863/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:20 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297863/ Religion and national culture can make for strange bedfellows. And as evidenced by the availability of items like the political-themed yarmulkes the McCippah and the Obamica, American Jews have come a... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297847/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:33 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297847/ If pre-convention polls are to be believed, John McCain enters the convention poised to pull in a greater percentage of the Jewish vote than any Republican candidate in the past two decades. There are... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297866/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:18 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297866/ More often than not, young professionals in the non-profit world “do” what they “are.” In the Jewish communal world, this is constantly evident: The professionals who work in our communities a... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297860/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:23 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297860/ , a thief? And if so, how did Chaucer know of such a word, since there were no Jews then in England?” My first reaction to the suggestion that gnof might come from ganef was one of skepticism. In t... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297850/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:30 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297850/ Denver — As Democrats work to shore up support of Jewish voters, and Republicans do all they can to tear it down, Iran is emerging as a pivotal foreign policy issue in the presidential campaign, and... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297864/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:19 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297864/ On June 9, Ken Griffey Jr. became the sixth Major League Baseball player to hit 600 home runs. However, a less noted milestone was reached earlier in the season. On May 26, Texas Rangers All Star seco... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297853/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:26 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297853/ In a case that has captivated Germany and reignited public debate on criticism of Israel and on antisemitism, a German court is expected to rule in early September on a defamation lawsuit brought by a... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297868/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:17 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297868/ Tel Aviv — Israel’s latest fair-housing campaign is not aimed at changing the fact that some towns are considered Jewish and others Arab, nor that some neighborhoods are religious and others secul... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297856/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:20 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297856/ The next president will help set the national agenda on a wide range of issues of importance to the Jewish community. While our collective concern for the well-being of Israel has featured prominently... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297862/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:21 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297862/ Los Angeles - Every day, at 7 a.m., Rosa Cohanzad tunes in to a Farsi-language radio broadcast that gives her the latest news on Israel and Iran. A 54-year-old Iranian Jew who moved to America nearly... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297867/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:17 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297867/ After surviving the German occupation of Italy during the Second World War by hiding with his parents and brother and sister in the home of non-Jews, Vittorio Volterra immigrated to Israel in 1952, wh... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297851/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:28 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297851/ Not much remains to be said about Agriprocessors, the giant kosher meat company whose Iowa slaughterhouse has been the object of so much public scrutiny. Allegations were made — credible ones, we be... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297858/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:25 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297858/ Jonathan Sarna, the Brandeis University scholar known best as a historian of American Jewry, departs from his usual field in his book “A Time to Every Purpose: Letters to a Young Jew,” set for rel... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297852/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:27 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297852/ Denver — Former president Jimmy Carter’s controversial views on Israel cost him a place on the podium at the Democratic Party convention in late August, senior Democratic operatives acknowledged t... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297870/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:16 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297870/ Thomas Dine spent years transforming the American Israel Public Affairs Committee into a Washington powerhouse, but now he has embarked on a very different mission: building a bridge between the Unite... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297869/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:16 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297869/ Denver — Opening up the Democratic convention, a Muslim imam offered a prayer in the name of “all the Prophets and Messengers of God.” A Reform rabbi invoked the Book of Leviticus’s admonition... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297871/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:15 -0400 Jewish Daily Forward http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17297871/ by amanda pazornikstaff writer While thousands of teen athletes swarmed basketball courts, baseball diamonds, swimming pools and countless other venues during the JCC Maccabi Games, a smaller group o... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17293394/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:12:17 -0400 Jewish News Weekly http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17293394/ Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday that he rejects the idea that Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon might be forced to stay there permanently. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17293396/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:12:02 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17293396/ by yuras karmanauthe associated press When Georgian rockets began falling on Tskhinvali, the sleepy capital of the breakaway province of South Ossetia, Zemfira Tibilova and her neighbors ran to a cen... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17293395/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:11:56 -0400 Jewish News Weekly http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17293395/ "Thank you for doing what is in your heart. For coming home. This is your home," Benjamin Netanyahu told the sea of new immigrants assembled amongst blue and white flags, balloons, banners, relatives,... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17289134/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:08:00 -0400 Totally Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17289134/ A revolutionary robotic suit being tested at Tel Aviv's Sheba Medical Centre will transform the lives of paraplegics worldwide - allowing those paralysed from the waist down to stand, walk and ev... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17289132/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:07:58 -0400 Totally Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17289132/ The MP for Hendon yesterday pledged to raise the issue of race-hate material being sold online in parliament after the Jewish News discovered that some of the most virulently anti-semitic texts ever w... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17289133/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:07:59 -0400 Totally Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17289133/ He may have famously sung about A Hard Day's Night, but Sir Paul McCartney yesterday spoke of his hopes for a "great time and a great evening" in Israel next month when he plays his fir... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17289131/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:07:57 -0400 Totally Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17289131/ Barack Obama stepped triumphantly into history Wednesday night, the first black American to win a major party presidential nomination, as thousands of Democrats transformed their convention hall into ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17289127/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:45:14 -0400 365gay http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17289127/ Washington Correspondent Denver - The rumors and outright slurs that continue to affect Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s standing with Jewish voters have been spread at lightning ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17289129/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:21:38 -0400 The Jewish Week http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17289129/ In one of his most explicit attacks on US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to date, Republican candidate Sen. John McCain challenged his opponent's ability to handle security threats, im... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17289130/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:11:44 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17289130/ HE has yet to be spotted at the MCG, and he hasn’t opened his wallet, but Chabad identity and businessman Joseph Gutnick and the Melbourne Football Club have made their peace.A bitter Gutnick sta... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17284046/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:30:59 -0400 AJN http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17284046/ Jerusalem - Scientists in Israel are taking digital photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls with the aim of making the 2 000-year-old documents available to the public and researchers on the Internet. ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17284023/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:17:02 -0400 IOL http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17284023/ General Claudio Graziano from Italy, Commander of UNIFIL in south Lebanon. Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski Graziano, an Italian general, commands the expanded UNIFIL force stationed in Lebanon under Sec... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17284047/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:58:27 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17284047/ AT Spiritshul in Caulfield, sushi has replaced herring at the kiddush, there are beanbags among the regular seats, and the chazan sings Rosh Hashanah melodies in reggae.Another factor that distinguish... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17279033/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:56:16 -0400 AJN http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17279033/ Chantal Abitbol JEWISH Sydney artist Val Landa has been selected as a finalist in Australia’s top religious art prize with her painting Is He Coming?, which touches on the theme of the Messiah’s c... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17279034/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:56:14 -0400 AJN http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17279034/ The University and College Union (UCU) member who posted a link on the union's Web site to an anti-Semitic article on the Web site of former Klu Klux Klan leader, David Duke, has been banned indefinit... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17279036/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:24:46 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17279036/ VICTORIAN Parliamentarians are up in arms over a poster issued by a protest group that compares Premier John Brumby with Adolf Hitler.The poster, which appears on the ‘Plug the Pipe’ website asks ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17275121/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:05:38 -0400 AJN http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17275121/ Two boats full of international activists that were allowed to sail into Gaza's harbor on Saturday may be detained by the navy on Thursday as they set sail back to Cyprus, this time with 14 Palestinia... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17275122/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:33:40 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17275122/ As the US and Russia sent military vessels to dock at different Georgian ports on Wednesday, Israel continued to tread carefully, issuing no statement regarding Russia's recognition of the breakaway G... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17275123/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:33:37 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17275123/ The human rights organization Gisha - Legal Center for Freedom of Movement on Wednesday appealed against a refusal by the Israel Broadcasting Authority to air a paid radio ad protesting the government... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17268678/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:07:06 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17268678/ OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel has published tenders for the construction of 1,761 illegal housing units for Israeli settlers in Occupied East Jerusalem alone, according to the Israeli rights group Peace ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17261483/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:56:22 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17261483/ An Iranian cleric accused President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of betraying the people and called on reformers to unite to defeat him in next year's elections, according to an interview in a German newspaper... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17264855/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:18:24 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17264855/ A senior United Synagogue leader was this week remembered for his "passion for the Jewish community" and his dedication to family life after he died suddenly on Monday. Michael Rosen, who... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17259935/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:16:43 -0400 Totally Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17259935/ Editor And Publisher On the eve of the first anniversary of his inauguration as chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Arnold Eisen remains optimistic about the movement, acknowledging its pr... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17259934/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:19:46 -0400 The Jewish Week http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17259934/ sponsored by the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) and as Democratic leaders tried to spin a more positive story by deploying a phalanx of Jewish lawmakers to make the candidate’s case. ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17259933/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:19:50 -0400 The Jewish Week http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17259933/ An Israeli swimmer who stayed in the Olympics despite the sudden death of his father set a national record.Alon Mandel finished the 200-meter butterfly in one minute, 59.27 seconds Monday, which despi... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17259931/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:04:16 -0400 Cleveland Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17259931/ Former Clevelander Stacey Palevsky, a staff writer for J, The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, received a Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism at the American Jewish Pres... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17258128/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:04:15 -0400 Cleveland Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17258128/ Dell Jewish Community Campus at a cost of about $20 million. The 40-acre campus in Northwest Austin plans to add 207,000 square feet of new facilities to its existing 124,000 square feet in two atta... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17256184/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:57:09 -0400 Business Journal http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17256184/ Manasherov, the community’s leader and a local emissary for the Jewish Agency for Israel, said he fled to the Georgian capital of Tbilisi with a wave of 200 Jews, leaving fewer than a dozen comp... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17259929/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:04:18 -0400 Cleveland Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17259929/ JAFI camps introduce Russian youth to Judaism, insist visiting counselorsNatalya Nefedyeva and Leonid Fridman reflect Russia’s hopeful Jewish future: two dynamic young leaders working to grow th... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17258129/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:04:16 -0400 Cleveland Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17258129/ BEIJING (JTA) n Jason Lezak’s stirring anchor leg lifted the U.S. men’s 4x100-meter relay swimming team to the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics and a world record.Lezak and another ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17259930/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:04:15 -0400 Cleveland Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17259930/ MARILYN H. KARFELD Senior Staff ReporterU.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, 58, five-term congresswoman from Cleveland's East Side who represented the largest number of Jews in the state, died Wednesday ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17258127/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:04:14 -0400 Cleveland Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17258127/ Cleveland Public Library phased out all VHS tapes at the end of June.The library has been moving gradually in this direction for the last several years. Removing the VHS tapes will facilitate an expan... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17258126/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:04:13 -0400 Cleveland Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17258126/ The Democratic National Convention kicks off Aug. 25 in Denver, Colo., and Cleveland Jewish News board member Susan Levine will be there.Levine, who is a member of the DNC Credentials Committee, will ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17258125/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:04:11 -0400 Cleveland Jewish News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17258125/ (JTA) —YouTube removed a video showing a teenager urinating on the Holocaust memorial in Rhodes. The video, which was removed Tuesday, shows a boy urinating while his face is hidden by an Israel... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17254048/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:27:04 -0400 The Jewish Week http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17254048/ (JTA) — Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney will perform in Israel 43 years after government officials banned the Fab Four. His Sept. 25 concert in Tel Aviv’s HaYarkon Park is expected to be one of t... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17254050/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:27:03 -0400 The Jewish Week http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17254050/ (JTA) ­— Vandals painted swastikas on Berlin’s Holocaust memorial. Eleven red and black swastikas were painted Saturday on seven of the 2,700 gray columns that make up the memorial. Fe... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17254051/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:27:01 -0400 The Jewish Week http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17254051/ (JTA) — An animal rights group is calling for a New York state investigation into kapporos in Brooklyn. For the second year, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has complained about the ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17254052/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:27:00 -0400 The Jewish Week http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17254052/ With many issues now surfacing in the US presidential campaign, few are more important than the next president's position on "Palestine." To date, neither candidate has been open on this issue. Would ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17254053/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:16:53 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17254053/ JERUSALEM, Aug 27, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Israel granted amnesty Tuesday to 45 Palestinians to give a boost to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Ynetnews.com reported. The news agen... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17249261/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:58:07 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17249261/ JERUSALEM - Israeli police say they are continuing the search for a French child missing since May by deploying divers and tracker dogs around a river in central Israel. The prime suspect in the cas... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17249262/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:58:06 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17249262/ BEIRUT, Lebanon - Egyptian officials are trying to ease tension between Lebanon and Israel that has risen over an exchange of threats. Israel's prime minister warned last week that his country would... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17249263/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:58:05 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17249263/ JERUSALEM - Israel's national broadcast authority has rejected radio ads criticizing the government for stranding Palestinian university students in the Gaza Strip. The authority says the ads are to... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17249260/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:58:07 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17249260/ JERUSALEM, Aug 26, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Tuesday urged restraint in the latest debate over Israeli housing construction on the West Bank. Speaking at a ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17249266/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:58:04 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17249266/ Aug. 26--Real estate developer Cohen Development and Industrial Buildings Ltd. (TASE: CDEV) is the latest company to join the energy market. The Petah Tikva-based company yesterday announced the launc... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17249265/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:58:03 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17249265/ Israeli pro-Palestinian activist Jeff Halper was arrested in Sderot on Tuesday for illegally entering Hamas-ruled Gaza, police said. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17249259/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:17:48 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17249259/ Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice discussed the situation in the Caucasus and its implications for the Middle East on Tuesday, the same day Russia formally recogniz... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17249258/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:17:47 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17249258/ ceremonies of Israel defence force (IDF) conscripts, who are either just beginning their compulsory service, or coming to the end of their tours of duty. Their presence, and the efforts they have made... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17238263/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:48:58 -0400 The Guardian http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17238263/ Sen. Barack Obama waded into the Agriprocessors controversy this week, referring to the embattled kosher meatpacking plant as “taking advantage of undocumented workers” at a stop Monday in... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17241029/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:16:01 -0400 The Jewish Week http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17241029/ Editorial Intern They could have been sitting by the pool or shopping at the mall, but 67 high school students from across the country were in Midtown on a sweltering late-July day working on busines... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17241028/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:15:59 -0400 The Jewish Week http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17241028/ A judge on Tuesday ordered the release of key secret grand jury testimony in the atomic spy trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, citing its value to historians in the debate over national security ver... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17241025/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:50:25 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17241025/ counselors in pedagogy, Israeli culture and Israel-diaspora relations, and then sets them off to run two-and-a-half-week day camps in Dimona and Yerucham for the local high school students. Most of th... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17241033/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:15:55 -0400 The Jewish Week http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17241033/ heart slows down, your blood pressure drops and you faint. I lost a month of work because of this,” R. said.Although R. was at high risk of developing pneumonia and other complications from whoo... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17241031/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:15:57 -0400 The Jewish Week http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17241031/ Special To The Jewish Week They crawled through the high grass of the Catskills in the late-July heat, hiked for miles with loaded gear, and learned the proper posture for firing a gun. They received... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17241030/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:16:03 -0400 The Jewish Week http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17241030/ or Saturday night.As far as is known, the shomer Shabbat schedule will be the first in Manhattan for a non-Jewish theater at the Off-Broadway or Broadway level.“It’s OK with me,” Rot... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17241032/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:15:53 -0400 The Jewish Week http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17241032/ August 21 was a landmark day in Middle East politics: Israel and Syria agreed to high-level peace talks; Hamas and Fatah formed a unity government, which immediately exchanged captive soldier Gilad Sc... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17226345/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:59:24 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17226345/ Text of report in English by Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs website on 26 August [MFA Newsletter: "Behind the Headlines: Israel Releases Palestinian Prisoners"] On 25 August 2008, Israel re... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17220316/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:03:13 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17220316/ Cairo (dpa) - Israeli Defencse Minister Ehud Barak arrived in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria on Tuesday, to continue talks with the Egyptian president Hosny Mubarak. Talks are to focus on... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17220318/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:03:11 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17220318/ Jerusalem (dpa) - Israeli settlement construction in the occupied West Bank has nearly doubled this year, with 2,600 housing units being built in settlements, the Peace Now group said in a report T... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17220320/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:03:10 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17220320/ Text of report by privately-owned Nepalese eKantipur.com website on 26 August Kathmandu, 26 August: After a gap of 15 months, the government has resumed granting permission to Nepali job aspirants... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17220319/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:03:11 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17220319/ Tel Aviv (dpa) - Israel will not accept a nuclear Iran and would rule out no options in dealing with it, Defence Minister Ehud Barak told visiting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Monday night... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17220323/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:03:09 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17220323/ JERUSALEM - Israeli police say they have arrested a suspected mob kingpin after receiving an extradition request from the United States. Police officials say Yitzhak Abarjil was arrested over the we... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17220321/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:03:08 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17220321/ Aug. 25--Waste water treatment technology company AqWise Water Technologies Ltd. will supply its technology to a major waste water treatment facility to be built at Kibbutz Meizer in the southern sect... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17220322/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:03:08 -0400 MJCC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17220322/ US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived Monday for a 24-hour visit, using language indicating she had abandoned hope of getting the Israelis and Palestinians to produce a document before the mi... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17220315/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:09:12 -0400 Jerusalem Post http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17220315/ When I was a child my grandmother used to tell me that while the United States was a good place to make money, its society was morally and spiritually bankrupt. "In America", she would say, "if you fa... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17209865/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:43:23 -0400 Haaretz http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/eca75446a1a10a7a/id/17209865/