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May 12, 2011
Clinton: Syria’s brutal crackdown on protests is a sign of weakness
In some of her strongest remarks yet on Syria, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham said Thursday the brutal crackdown against protesters demonstrated the government\’s weakness, though she stopped short of saying President Bashar Assad must quit.
‘House’ cast gets taste of Israeli medicine
On television Lisa Edelstein, a star of the hit Fox show “House,” and her fellow actors work medical miracles every episode. But at an Israeli hospital she stumbled trying her hand at simulated arthroscopic surgery. “I’m so glad this is not a living person,” she said Wednesday, shifting the controls over a robotic dummy, eyes fixed on a computer screen that revealed her would-be patient’s internal organs. “I think I just mangled its liver.”
Reform Judaism must move beyond ‘personal choice’
Change is afoot in American Reform Judaism. A new president of the Union for Reform Judaism has been selected. The movement has launched a series of nationwide public forums to discuss its future. Hundreds of Reform rabbis have endorsed a plan toward achieving greater efficiency in the movement’s institutions.
Report: Bin Laden’s journal urged al-Qaida to hit Los Angeles, not just New York [VIDEO]
He was well aware of U.S. counterterrorist defenses and schooled his followers how to work around them, the messages to his followers show. Don\’t limit attacks to New York City, he said in his writings. Consider other areas such as Los Angeles or smaller cities. Spread out the targets.
Iran executed Jewish woman and her husband, State Dept. says [UPDATE]
A Jewish woman and her Armenian Christian husband were executed in Iran for undisclosed reasons, a top State Department official said. Michael Posner, the assistant secretary of state for human rights, testified Wednesday at a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Iran\’s human rights.
‘Obama’s grandmother receives death threats from al-Qaida’ [VIDEO]
U.S. President Barack Obama\’s grandmother has received death threats from the African branch of al-Qaida, prompting stepped up security around her home in Kenya, ABC News reported on Thursday.
U.S. Congress members to Turkey’s Erdogan: Stop Gaza flotilla
Members of the U.S. Congress issued a letter to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday in which they urge Turkey\’s premier to stop the departure of another flotilla to the Gaza Strip.
Report: Iran nuclear plant fully operational within weeks
Iran\’s Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant will be fully operational within weeks, local news agencies quoted a senior Russian diplomat as saying on Thursday.
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