Global News Archives

April 2008

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Bahrain may appoint Jewish woman US ambassador	Debate about alleged Syrian nuclear facility	German Jewish leader wants ‘Mein Kampf’ ban ended

25

Syrian leader indicates readiness for peace talks	UN anti-racism conference might be held in Geneva	Israel’s UN ambassador calls Jimmy Carter “a bigot”

24

Libyan envoy’s Holocaust comparison provokes UN walkout	Switzerland freezes assets of Iranian companies and persons	Belarusian Holocaust memorial vandalized

23

Clinton threatens to obliterate Iran if it attacks Israel	Alleged WWII war criminal loses Australian extradition case	Jerusalem approves non-Orthodox Jewish cemeteries

22

Carter says Hamas prepared to accept Israel’s existence	Outgoing Italian government supports new Iran sanctions	UN human rights chief says no repeat of failed conference

18

Pope Benedict meets religious leaders, visits synagogue	UK prime minister calls for tougher sanctions against Iran	Peres makes emotional speech before the Polish parliament

17

Obama pledges to be a friend of Jews and Israel	Belarus rejects call for Holocaust remembrance day	Olmert says Iran will not become a nuclear power

16

Polish and Israeli presidents honor Warsaw Ghetto fighters	Jimmy Carter meets Hamas, but is shunned by Israel	Ukrainian president wants action against xenophobia

Native leaders to meet with Canadian Jewish Congress	Iranian army threatens to wipe out Israel if attacked	Seattle Jewish Federation shooting trial begins

14

Teenagers arrested for attack on Norwich Jewish center	Rome’s Jewish community elects new president	Orthodox list wins Argentine Jewish community elections

11

Berlin Jews protest over "Train of Commemoration”	German Church reveals extent of forced labor during WW II	FBI investigate vandalism at synagogue in Norwich, NY

10

Hungarian intellectuals protest against anti-Jewish newspaper	US State Department says new forms of anti-Semitism emerging	Former US president Carter to meet with Hamas leader?

09

Israel boycotts UN official after Holocaust comparison	Polish prime minister begins visit to Israel	Historian Saul Friedlander awarded Pulitzer Prize

08

Iran calls for boycott of Dutch products over film	Israeli restaurants may sell leavened bread at Pessach	Israel, United States coordinating efforts on Durban II

Shimon Peres to mark Warsaw Ghetto Uprising	Inter-Religious prayers at desecrated French cemetery	Arab representative to address Jerusalem Shoah conference

07

Muslim graves in French military cemetery desecrated	Rebels in Yemen destroy Jewish houses	European Union to strengthen relations with Israel

04

Iran believed to have more than 3,000 nuclear centrifuges	Jewish schools in England in cash-for-admissions row	Effort to ban German neo-Nazi party faces more delays

03

Pope ready to issue clarifications on Latin Mass prayer	Canadian Jews criticize return of anti-Semitic Native leader	Reform Jewish leader distances himself from radical pastor

02

Israel and Iran most negative players in world affairs	Congress recognizes rights of Jewish refugees from Arab lands	US Treasury official calls Iran “central banker of terrorism”

01

Swiss foreign minister defends relations with Iran	Russia calls on Iran to drop resistance to nuclear talks	Jewish Confederation of Ukraine wins anti-Semitism lawsuit