Earthquake centered near Haifa
Jewish Journal
April 12, 2010
A mild earthquake rocked the Haifa area.
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April 12, 2010
Medvedev: An Israeli strike on Iran could cause a global catastrophe
Jewish Journal
April 12, 2010
An Israeli strike of Iran\’s nuclear facilities could spark a nuclear conflict, which could spiral to a global catastrophe, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told ABC on Monday, adding that he supported what he called \”smart\” sanctions on Tehran as part of attempt to make it abandon its nuclear program.
Conan O’Brien moves to TBS for his new late-night home
Jewish Journal
April 12, 2010
Late-night mainstay Conan O\’Brien is headed to TBS to resume his comedic duties with a talk show expected to debut in November, the network says.
Journalist stole IDF documents to expose alleged war crimes
Jewish Journal
April 12, 2010
The former IDF soldier currently indicted for espionage told an Israeli court that she took classified documents to expose war crimes, Haaretz reported.\n\n Anat Kam, an Israeli journalist and former soldier, passed off classified documents she had access to during her military service in the office of the GOC Central Command, to Haaretz reporter Uri Blau.\n
Easy to forget, Sharansky tells March
Jewish Journal
April 12, 2010
Former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky, who now heads the Jewish Agency for Israel, led more than 10,000 people in the March of the Living in Poland on Yom Hashoah.\n\n\”We have come here today to remember. But it is easy to forget,\” Sharansky said at the beginning of the march at the Auschwitz concentration camp on Monday, Holocaust Remembrance Day. \”It is easy to say that the lessons of Auschwitz have been learned. It is easy to say those two magic words: Never again. The hard part is giving those words meaning. That is our challenge. That is your challenge.\”\n
Poland’s tragedy is our tragedy
Jewish Journal
April 12, 2010
When the plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and dozens of other officials crashed in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk, Russia on Saturday, this immense disaster was also a personal tragedy.\n
Rightward swing in Hungarian elections
Jewish Journal
April 12, 2010
A far right party, Jobbik, won 26 seats in Hungarian parliamentary elections Sunday, to the dismany of Hungarian and European Jewish leaders.\n\nThe winner in Sunday\’s election was the conservative Fidesz party and its ally the Christian People’s Party, which together took 206 seats in the 386-seat Parliament. Fidesz now has until June to form a government.
Eugene Ribakoff, former JDC head, dies
Jewish Journal
April 12, 2010
Eugene Ribakoff, a philanthropist and businessman who headed the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee for eight years, died last Friday at the age of 84.
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