Social networking sites present a new and dangerous medium for spreading anti-Semitism, panelists told a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee.\n
The Obama administration\’s tilt against Israel, its tacit acceptance of a nuclear-armed Iran and its weak approach to combating Islamic terrorism all pose a direct challenge to Jewish Americans.
In his official Memorial Day speech at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu described how, as a young soldier, two of his fellow soldiers, 19 years old, were killed during a lethal military operation, and how one of them, David Ben Hamu, died in his arms in the army car on the way to the closest hospital. The Prime Minister had been a member of the elite Sayeret Matkal unit, the same unit which his brother Yonatan, led during the Entebbe rescue, during which Yonatan died.
Among the hundreds of authors participating in the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at UCLA this weekend — April 24-25, 2010 — the ranking figure is Herman Wouk.
Rachel Lester might be the only candidate for a neighborhood council who finished off her written candidate’s statement with a happy-face emoticon :). But the youthful flair clearly didn’t hurt – Lester, 15, became the youngest person ever elected to a Los Angeles neighborhood council at the April 11 election for the South Robertson Neighborhoods Council (SoRo).
Whether or not he is found guilty of taking bribes in the Jerusalem Holyland corruption scandal, Ehud Olmert\’s political career is almost certainly over.
Some people don’t mind if Sholom Rubashkin gets life in prison and rots behind bars until he dies. Others are outraged at the harsh treatment being meted out to Rubashkin and ask in disbelief, “What’s going on?”
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