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April 7, 2011

Prodded by Danon, U.S. lawyers set to sue Goldstone

A group of American Jewish lawyers is set to file a civil lawsuit against Richard Goldstone initiated by Israeli lawmaker Danny Danon. The class action suit against the author of the Goldstone Report, a United Nations document about Israel\’s conduct during the monthlong Gaza war in the winter of 2008-09, is set to be filed next week in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan by attorney Steve Goldberg, according to a statement issued Wednesday from Danon\’s office.

Electricity cut to Rambam’s tomb

Visitors to the tomb of Jewish scholar and philosopher Moses Maimonides have been left in the dark. That\’s because the rabbis who manage the site in the Israeli city of Tiberias neglected to pay the electric bills over a long period of time.

Russian billionaire planning a ‘Jewish Al Jazeera’

A Russian-Jewish billionaire said he plans to create an international news network that will present \”real information\” about Israel. Alexander Mashkevich on Wednesday announced his intention to found a \”Jewish Al Jazeera\” during an address at the Keren Hayasod-United Israel Appeal conference in Washington, D.C.

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