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Dec 3, 2009

Israeli Mob Attacks L.A. Shul

 



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Looking to reinvigorate, Conservative synagogue leaders set for parley

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Editors' Picks

Breaking with the right

Longtime pro-Israel blogger Charles Johnson of the popular Little Green Footballs site explains why he's now calling himself an independent.

Bad economy good for aliyah (Wall Street Journal)

The slumping world economy is boosting immigration to Israel and the Palestinian areas of the West Bank.

The sound of Yiddish (N.Y. Jewish Week)

Jonathan Mark reviews a new/old collection of Yiddish music (that also includes an actual Sholom Aleichem reading).

Who spiked the Chanukah donuts? (Ynet)

Israeli alcohol importers have added a new ingredient to a holiday snack: vodka.

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Breaking News

France's chief rabbi said Europe must change its attitude about Islam.
Israeli sales of Coca-Cola drinks have dropped dramatically following a recall of bottles with contents that smelled of sulfur.
Several dozen pro-Palestinian supporters protested a speech in Sydney by an Israeli government official.
A video circulating on the World Wide Web shows an Israeli settler driving a car over a Palestinian who stabbed the man's wife.
A Ukrainian philosophy professor said that Israel has brought thousands of Ukrainian children into the country to harvest their organs.
Orthodox leaders commended and Reform leaders condemned the New York State Senate's vote to defeat a measure legalizing same-sex marriage.
A mainstream Swiss political leader is calling for a ban on separate Muslim and Jewish cemeteries.
Israel approved the construction of 84 buildings in West Bank settlements.
Scott Rothstein, the disbarred South Florida lawyer accused of running a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, has pleaded not guilty to U.S. charges of wire fraud and conspiracy.
The Lebanese army fired on at least four Israel Air Force planes flying over southern Lebanon.
A documentary about a Brazilian Righteous Gentile will be produced in Brazil.




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