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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Rubashkin plans appeal, but facing additional trial for immigration violations

By Eric Fingerhut , JTA

Facing a prison sentence of up to 1,250 years following his conviction last week on 86 of 91 fraud charges, Sholom Rubashkin is hoping his exoneration will come on appeal.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Pro-Israel fliers confiscated at campus speech

JTA

Fliers distributed by Binghamton University Jewish students outside a campus speech by a critic of Israel were collected and confiscated by event organizers during the event.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

ADL: Anti-government hostility sweeping U.S.

JTA

A "current of anti-government hostility" has swept across the United States in the year since Barack Obama was elected president, a new Anti-Defamation League report found.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Maryland divests from company that invests in Iran

JTA

Maryland divested $38.3 million from the British company Royal Dutch Shell for investing in Iran's petroleum industry.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Residents of retirement home sue B’nai B’rith

JTA

Residents of a former B'nai B'rith retirement community near Pittsburgh have filed a lawsuit to recover hundreds of thousands of dollars in entrance fee deposits.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Orthodox students are embracing social action

by Amy Klein, JTA

A few months after Hurricane Ike hit Galveston, Texas, in September 2008, Yeshiva University student David Eckstein went to the devastated area with 32 other students to help rebuild homes.

Friday, November 13, 2009

Top U.S. official: We won’t accept partial settlement freeze

HAARETZ.com

The United States does not accept continued Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank, a senior U.S. state department official has said, adding that Jerusalem's commitment to restrain settlement activity is not enough.

Friday, November 13, 2009

U.S. rejects Ahmadinejad call to choose between Israel and Iran

HAARETZ.com

The United States rejected on Friday a call by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for it to choose between supporting Israel or Iran.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Sholom Rubashkin convicted on 86 charges

JTA

A jury convicted Sholom Rubashkin, the former owner of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse, of 86 out of 91 fraud charges.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Military prosecutors charge Fort Hood shooter with premeditated murder

JTA

Military prosecutors charged the alleged Fort Hood shooter with 13 counts of premeditated murder.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

ADL to GOP: ‘Forcefully’ condemn Holocaust imagery

JTA

The Anti-Defamation League is urging Republican congressional leaders to "condemn forcefully the invocation of Holocaust imagery" at last week's rally against health care reform.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Chabad shabbaton attracts hundreds

JTA

Hundreds of Jewish students from around the world attended a shabbaton organized by Chabad in New York.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Vandals strike California synagogue, Florida JCC

JTA

Anti-Semitic messages and symbols were painted on a Sacramento-area synagogue.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

U.S. accuses Iran of illicit weapons shipments to Hezbollah

HAARETZ.com

The United States accused Iran on Tuesday of illicit arms deliveries to Hezbollah guerrillas, during a session of the United Nations Security Council, endorsing charges by Israel following its seizure of a ship in the Mediterranean last week.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Obama shifts into Israel’s corner, but tries not to show it

By Uriel Heilman, JTA

When the White House chief of staff took to the podium at the federations’ General Assembly to call for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations without preconditions, he sounded almost exactly like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a day earlier.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

White House pushes negotiations without preconditions

JTA

Rahm Emanuel urged Palestinians and Israelis to launch negotiations without preconditions, echoing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's call.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Ari Teman wins Jewish Community Hero award

By Jacob Berkman, JTA

After weeks of deliberation and more than 600,000 votes, the Jewish Federations of North America has named its first Jewish Community Hero: Ari Teman.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Jewish Republicans, Democrats debate results of ‘09 vote

By Eric Fingerhut , JTA

After playing an active role in both the New Jersey and Virginian gubernatorial races, Republican and Democratic Jews joined their respective partisans in debating the meaning of last week's election results.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Netanyahu: Restart peace talks now

JTA

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for the immediate resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Obama out at GA, to meet Bibi

JTA

President Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu will meet, officials said a day after Obama canceled a scheduled appearance before the Jewish federations' General Assembly.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Health care bill passes in the House, moves on to Senate

CNN.com

President Obama on Sunday praised the "historic" House vote to pass a bill overhauling the nation's ailing health care system, and said now it is time for the Senate to "take the baton" and complete its work.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Alleged Fort Hood shooter has West Bank relatives

JTA

The alleged Fort Hood shooter is a conservative Muslim, not an extremist, says an uncle who lives in the West Bank.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

President Obama needs to revisit Israel

By Danny Danon, JTA

In the year since President Obama visited Jerusalem as Candidate Obama, much has changed.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Netanyahu heads to U.S., under threat of Palestinian statehood declaration

HAARETZ.com

Concerns are growing in Israel's government over the possibility of a unilateral Palestinian declaration of independence within the 1967 borders, a move which could potentially be recognized by the United Nations Security Council.