Thursday, May 16, 2013

Suspected Merah accomplices arrested in Toulouse

JTA

Two men suspected of being accomplices of Islamist terrorist Mohammed Merah were arrested near Toulouse.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Modern slavery: Answering the cry

by Elissa Barrett and Kevin Kish

Modern slavery is everywhere, and women principally are its victims.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Turkey’s Erdogan to push Obama on Syria after bombings

by Nick Tattersall, Reuters

Turkey's prime minister will push President Barack Obama for more assertive action on Syria during a visit to Washington this week, days after car. . .

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Venezuelan president: My grandparents were Jewish

JTA

Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro, denying that his government has an anti-Semitic bent, said his grandparents were of Sephardic Jewish descent.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Russia’s Putin warns against aggravating Syria crisis

Reuters

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday it was important to avoid actions that might aggravate Syria's civil war, a veiled warning against. . .

Friday, May 10, 2013

Assad and Nasrallah threaten new front line in Golan

by Dominic Evans, Reuters

Threats from Damascus and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah to turn the Golan Heights into a "resistance front" against Israel could end nearly four. . .

Friday, May 10, 2013

Calls to destroy Israel heard at Muslim brotherhood’s Cairo rally

by Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA

Calls for Israel’s destruction were heard in Cairo at the first anti-Israel rally organized by the Muslim Brotherhood since the movement’s. . .

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Assad vows ‘strategic revenge’ on Israel, modeled on Hezbollah

JNS.org

Syria will “give Hezbollah everything” in recognition of its support and will follow the terror group’s model of “resistance” against. . .

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Turkey’s prime minister set to visit Gaza

by Steve Dorsey, The Media Line

Political observers in Turkey expect Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to reaffirm his support for Palestinians with a visit this month to Gaza,. . .

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Assad: Syrian army can handle Israel

JTA

Syria's army is ready to deal with Israel, Syrian President Bashar Assad told an Iranian official on Syrian state television.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Amid rising Islamism in Africa, Israel-Senegal ties still flourishing

by Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA

Struggling to be heard over a flock of bleating sheep, Israel’s ambassador to Senegal invites a crowd of impoverished Muslims to help themselves to. . .

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Syrians angry at Israel

by Michel Stors, The Media Line

Khalil Sharif wants everyone to stay out of his country’s business.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Oil-rich Qatar pushing to make its name as a Mideast peace broker

by Ron Kampeas, JTA

When it comes to the latest Arab peace initiative, two questions are circulating in Washington: Why Qatar? And why now?

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Accused Auschwitz guard, 93, arrested in Germany

JTA

Hans Lipschis, reportedly one of the 10 most wanted Nazis, was arrested in Germany.

Monday, May 6, 2013

Syrian rebels increasingly frustrated

by Michel Stors, The Media Line

Gazing out at the rubble, which was all that remained of a four story apartment complex in the city of Azaz just south of the Turkish border, 41 year. . .

Monday, May 6, 2013

Kenya jails two Iranians for life for plotting attacks

by Humphrey Malalo, Reuters

Two Iranian men were sentenced to life in prison by a Kenyan court on Monday for planning to carry out bombings in Nairobi and other cities last year.

Monday, May 6, 2013

Few options for Syria’s Assad to strike back after Israeli raids

by Dominic Evans, Reuters

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has few good options for military retaliation after Israel's air strikes over the weekend but the attacks could. . .

Monday, May 6, 2013

Russia, China express alarm after Israel hits Syria

by Dan Williams and Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Reuters

Russia and China expressed alarm on Monday over the regional repercussions of two Israeli air raids on Syria, while Israel played down strikes which. . .

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Israel strikes Syria, says its targeting Hezbollah arms

by Dominic Evans and Oliver Holmes, Reuters

Israeli jets devastated Syrian targets near Damascus on Sunday in a heavy overnight air raid that Western and Israeli officials called a new strike. . .

Friday, May 3, 2013

China offers to broker Abbas-Netanyahu meeting

JTA

China offered to broker a meeting between Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

Friday, May 3, 2013

Scottish church says Jews have no scriptural claim to Holy Land

JTA

The Church of Scotland published a paper denying that "scripture" provides a basis for Jewish claims to Israel.

Friday, May 3, 2013

Jewish burial site restored off African coast

by Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA

A Jewish burial plot in the island state of Cape Verde was rededicated with help from the king of Morocco.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Dresden to get first rabbi from city in 75 years

JTA

The Jewish community of Dresden is installing its first hometown rabbi since 1938.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Polish politician Wladyslaw Bartoszewski receives U.S. Holocaust museum’s highest honor

JTA

Polish politician and historian Wladyslaw Bartoszewski was scheduled to receive the Elie Wiesel Award from the United States Holocaust Memorial. . .