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March 31, 2011
Food flight: Perusing American Jewry’s past and present
Two relatively new books tell the story of American Jewry, weaving together its past and present by examining tradition and making it relevant to today’s reader. Where Sue Fishkoff’s \”Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s Food Answers to a Higher Authority\” (Schocken, 2010) is robust and detailed, Leah Koenig’s \”The Hadassah Everyday Cookbook: Daily Meals for the Contemporary Jewish Kitchen\” (Universe, 2011) is spacious and adaptable.
Turkey to UN: We seized illegal Iran arms shipment en route to Syria
Turkey has informed a UN Security Council panel that it seized a cache of weapons Iran was attempting to export in breach of a UN arms embargo, according to a document obtained by Reuters on Thursday. Security Council diplomats said the report of the seizure from an Iranian cargo plane reflected positively on Turkey, which some U.S. and European officials say has taken a lax approach to implementing international sanctions against Iranian financial institutions.
Palestinian group slams storing rockets in civilian areas
A Palestinian human rights group in the Gaza Strip condemned the storage of rockets used against Israel in civilian populated areas. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights in a statement posted on its website Tuesday called on the Hamas-controlled government in Gaza to investigate three incidents of homemade rockets exploding in densely populated civilian neighborhoods, causing heavy property damage and injuring six Palestinians, including a baby.
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