OPINION - Menachem Z. Rosensaft: The sins of Pat Buchanan - Jewish Week, USA 22 Feb 2012
MSNBC’s decision to oust Patrick Buchanan as its arch-conservative political commentator last week was long overdue. read more »
Oliver Stone's son says Iran's Ahmadinejad is "a little bit misunderstood" - Hollywood Reporter, USA 22 Feb 2012
Sean Stone, who is making a documentary in Iran and announced last week he has converted to Islam, says the president of Iran hasn't really denied the Holocaust. read more »
UN inspectors denied access to key military site in Iran, IAEA says - Daily Telegraph, UK 22 Feb 2012
UN inspectors probing suspected nuclear weapons activities in Iran have been denied access to a key military site, the IAEA said on Wednesday. read more »
Austrian Jewry gets new leader - Jerusalem Post, Israel 22 Feb 2012
With Oskar Deutsch to succeed Ariel Muzicant as president of Austria’s Jewish community, a new generation will take over the reins. read more »
Israel’s constitutional court strikes down law exempting religious students from military service 22 Feb 2012
The Israeli Supreme Court has ruled that a law that exempts Jewish religious students from the mandatory military service is unconstitutional and can therefore not be extended after it expires next August. read more »
Yad Vashem honors Righteous Among the Nations from Ukraine - European Jewish Press, Belgium 21 Feb 2012
Yad Vashemn, the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, are to posthumously honor Vladimir Chaikovski and his parents Pavel and Teofila Chaikovski from Ukraine for saving Jews during the Holocaust. read more »
Students clash during Israel Apartheid Week at London School of Economics - Jewish Chronicle, UK 21 Feb 2012
Jewish students have clashed with anti-Israel protesters during a scuffle at the London School of Economics after demonstrators had erected a mock 'Israeli apartheid wall'. read more »
US Jewish author releases alarming account of anti-Semitism in Germany - Haaretz, Israel 21 Feb 2012
After spending six months traveling throughout Germany and visiting close to 40 cities, writer Tuvia Tenenbom, has released a book revealing his scathing impressions of the anti-Semitism that continues to exists there today. read more »
Sages' tombs in Israel draw hundreds of thousands of Jews seeking miracles - Associated Press, USA 21 Feb 2012
Pilgrims are part of a growing phenomenon in Israel, where hundreds of thousands of people from starkly different backgrounds flock to the tombs of ancient Biblical figures or modern-day rabbis, seeking blessings and claiming they have witnessed miracles. read more »
100 Jewish group leaders to meet Jordanian king in Amman - Jerusalem Post, Israel 21 Feb 2012
Nearly 100 leaders of US Jewish organizations will travel to Jordan Tuesday to meet King Abdullah II and show support for his sponsorship of last month’s low-level Israeli-Palestinian talks. read more »
Greek Jews worried as two far-right politicians join mainstream party 21 Feb 2012
Jewish leaders in Greece have expressed concern over the switch by two senior members from the far-right LAOS movement to the country’s New Democracy party. read more »
A Jewish hockey player at History’s indelible crossroad - New York Times, USA 20 Feb 2012
Evan Kaufmann has became one of the few Jews to represent Germany in elite international sports since World War II read more »
Iran raid seen as a huge task for Israeli jets - New York Times, USA 20 Feb 2012
Should Israel decide to launch a strike on Iran, its pilots would have to fly more than 1,000 miles across unfriendly airspace, refuel in the air en route, fight off Iran’s air defenses, attack multiple underground sites simultaneously - and use at least 100 planes. read more »
Matthias Küntzel: Iranian Holocaust denial and the internet - Israel Journal on Foreign Affairs 20 Feb 2012
Although Iran’s policies now lie at the center of world politics, far too little attention is being paid to the unique ideological atmosphere that makes the Iranian nuclear weapons program so dangerous. Holocaust denial is the cruelest aspect of this ideology. read more »
Yoel Sher - Hatikva Returns to the Vltava: Václav Havel (1936–2011) - Israel Journal on Foreign Affairs 20 Feb 2012
It is still difficult to gauge Václav Havel’s personal contribution to the process that led to the collapse of the Soviet bloc, and then of the Soviet Union itself, but there is no question that he led his country from the depths of totalitarianism to democracy. read more »
Police arrest 18 Muslims in Temple Mount unrest - Jerusalem Post, Israel 20 Feb 2012
Israeli police arrested 18 Muslims on Sunday during unrest on the Temple Mount in the capital, after 50 protesters pelted tourists and officers with stones. read more »
Obama chief of staff reaches out to Jewish leaders - Politico, USA 20 Feb 2012
White House chief of staff Jack Lew, the first Orthodox Jew to hold that position, met with a group of New York Jewish leaders. read more »
Jewish community regrets German president’s resignation - JTA, USA 20 Feb 2012
Germany's top Jewish leader met the resignation of German President Christian Wulff with "respect, appreciation and regret." read more »
WJC ANALYSIS - Haniyeh vs. Mashal: Hamas calls for new crusade on Jerusalem 20 Feb 2012
Gaza-based Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh spread conflicting messages during his recent tour of the Middle East. In order to garner support from both Sunnite and Shiite Muslims, Haniyeh is using an external enemy: Israel. read more »
Jewish groups decry "anti-Semitic" Venezuelan state media article - CNN, USA 20 Feb 2012
Two Jewish organizations are calling on Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to stop what they say are anti-Semitic attacks by his government's media. read more »
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Israel's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Danny Ayalon explains the historical facts relating to the issue of refugees in the Israeli Palestinian conflict
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