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March 16, 2010

How investigators used modern tools and sleuthing to show who killed the Hamas leader

Jewish Journal March 16, 2010

He had a few minutes to call his brother in Gaza before his flight took off from Damascus, Syria. A cousin got on the line, too, and shared gossip from the Jabalya refugee camp, say family members. He told them to jot down the name of his hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He would be there for only a few days, in case the family needed anything. If he continued on to China after, or Iran, he said, he would let them know.

A new twist on spring break in Florida: Volunteering

Jewish Journal March 16, 2010

Spending spring break is a tradition of sorts for college students, but rather than partying, 57 Hillel members from seven campuses headed to Miami last week to volunteer at a youth center in the downtrodden Overtown district.\n\nInstead of swimming and sunning on the beach or getting soused in bars, they spent a week engaged in community service projects working with underprivileged communities.\n\nThe Overtown Youth center, built by former Miami Heat star Alonzo Mourning, is located downtown in one of the city’s worst neighborhoods. The 20-block area, which was founded as a segregated, black neighborhood because of Jim Crow laws, once was the center of black culture in Miami. Now it is overridden with drugs and has the highest rate of violent crimes rate in the southern Florida city.

Israeli defense company awarded Australian contract

Jewish Journal March 16, 2010

An Israeli defense company won a $300 million contract to develop a cutting-edge command and communications system for the Australian Defense Force.\n\nThe Haifa-based Elbit Systems, one of the world’s largest defense electronics manufacturers, won the international tender, Australian Defense Personnel Minister Greg Combet said Tuesday.

Groups to White House: What about Palestinian incitement?

Jewish Journal March 16, 2010

In response to the Obama administration’s stepped-up criticism of Israeli building plans in Jerusalem, Jewish groups are slamming the White House for failing to speak out more against Palestinian incitement.

It’s not about settlements, stupid, it’s about trust

Jewish Journal March 16, 2010

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Interior Minister Eli Yishai did more to harm U.S.-Israel relations than all of Israel’s detractors around the world ever could when they decided it is more important to build 1,600 houses in East Jerusalem than to have good relations with one house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.\n

A welcome or a wall?

Jewish Journal March 16, 2010

Oy!\n\nIn the Knesset, there is an attempt to bar any non-Jew who ever visited Israel from claiming Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return, if they convert to Judaism subsequent to their visit.\n\nApart from the obtuseness of jeopardizing ties with the vast majority of the Diaspora, precisely at a time when those links are more important than ever for Israel, there is the sheer insensitivity of such a move.

American Jewry behaving like teenagers

Rob Eshman March 16, 2010

First, let’s establish that what Israel did by announcing the construction of 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem during the visit of Vice President Joseph Biden was dumb. Dumb, dumb, dumb. It was dumb because it shifted the focus of the United States and Israel from the most immediate existential threat Israel and the entire Middle East face — Iran — to one of lesser importance, the settlements.

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