Home
June 2007
News Summaries and Links
July 2007
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Saudi arms deal opponents organize for joint resolution of disapproval
U.S.,
Egypt, Jordan, Gulf States announce
joint positions on Israel, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon
Zionist Organization of America says proposed U.S.-Saudi arms deal 'deeply
mistaken'
Donna Miles:
En route to Middle East, defense official lays out case for arms sales to Saudis
Norman Sarkin: Museum in Holon enables visitors to learn to
navigate the world as if they were blind
New
religious council agrees all holy sites need protection
Ira Sharkansky:
Pensioners,
Palestinians and politics
Israel's ambassador seeks Polish
condemnation of
'greedy Jews' characterization by Polish radio priest
Twenty three Jewish gravestones vandalized
Jews of São Paulo
donate coats for the poor
Reform Jews congratulate House on Darfur divestment bill passage
Bronfman Foundation to expand community learning
NCJW magazine garners three national awards
Jews in the News
News Sleuths
Jewish Grapevine
Insurance Commissioner Poizner praises GEICO
Congresswoman Davis wins educators' award
Overnight, tennis schedule turns partners into rivals
Nathaniel
Edelstein:
Darkness overcomes Lightning and Express,
leaving the two IBL teams tied 5-5 after seven
Israeli conceptual artist Dorit Feldman opens show
Natasha
Josefowitz:
Natasha, your editor
really enjoyed this column
Monday, July 30, 2007
Rice tells of U.S. military assistance plans for Israel, Gulf States, Saudi
Arabia and Egypt
Burns conducts telephone news conference to sell proposed Middle Eastern arms
deals
Nadler and Weiner announce opposition to arms deal in front of Saudi Arabian
consulate in NYC
Shoshana Bryen:
JINSA expresses wariness over Saudi arms deal
Ayatollah: U.S. and Israel biggest enemies
Anti-terror bill included provision for stepped-up security cooperation between
U.S. and Israel
House Appropriations Committee approves upgrade of U.S.-Israel Arrow
anti-missile system
AJC praises $30 billion Israel component of Bush administration's Middle East
arms sales plan
Over 10,000 scholars, including 32 Nobel prize winners, protest proposed British
academic boycott of Israel
New British Minister Balls opposes Israel boycott
Olmert pledges Israel funds for Shoah
survivors
Nancy Blackburn: High tech line of Israeli encapsulated skin care products about
to burst on the global market
Ira Sharkansky: Christian Zionists are welcome visitors in Israel
Open Nazi archives, Congress members urge Europe
Wiesenthal Center praises Argentina's Defense Minister for dropping 'religion'
from personnel files
Group education projects win national Hadassah honors
Jews in the News
News Sleuths
Jewish Grapevine
Davis announces appropriations for police, juveniles
Jewish-Muslim Doubles Partners win Bank of the West tournament
Feinstein eulogizes 49er Coach Bill Walsh
Nathaniel Edelstein:
Israel Baseball All-Stars visit Schneider Hospital
Becky Gutin's urban tree will grow at JCC
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Israel Cabinet approves Security budget proposal
Israelis
demonstrate belief all are equal before law
Jews in the News
Jewish Grapevine
Israel Baseball League holds first-ever All Star game
Youkilis a great hitter, but not so terrific a goniff
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Weizmann Institute and
Princeton scientists team
to develop doping process for molecular electronics
Ira Sharkansky:
Now,
with Abbas talking peace, comes the hard = part
Dov Burt Levy:
A Hit Movie with
Unpopular Actors?
U.S. House Resolution honors British lord who
helped save European children from Nazis
Restaurant with family flavor opens in La Mesa
Carol Davis:
Too much
mishegass in The
Deception at La Jolla Playhouse
Tsuris bedevils Jewish players in baseball, tennis
Nathaniel Edelstein: Late inning Lightning strike
lacks enough zap
U.S. Sen. Russell Feingold plans two resolutions to censure President Bush
First the baseball league, and now the souvenir cards
Hebrew University completes digitalization of Jewish film library for
viewing on the Internet
Ben Gurion U researcher believes Israel may be due for an earthquake of 6.25
magnitude or more
Miracle douses Lightning twice in IBL action
Four thousand rally at
U.N. for kidnapped Israelis
Children of Survivors seek German-paid therapy
ADL finds increases in anti-Semitism in
6 nations
AJC urges Federal Bureau of
Prisons to revise policy that limits number of religious books in prison
libraries
Home run
balls dropping all over central Israel
Jewish
Grapevine
Jewish Grapevine
Congressman Klein takes case of three kidnapped Israeli soldiers to floor of
House of Representatives
Eileen Wingard:
A Dead Sea Scrolls lecture reunites San Diego family with an old friend
Jewish Grapevine
Bush says continued U.S. presence in Iraq vital for Israel and rest of
Middle East
Ehud Olmert:
Israel's prime minister reflects on his Jewish identity
Dianne Feinstein eulogizes Lady Bird Johnson, former U.S. First Lady, in Senate
statement
Tuesday, July
10, 2007
8.
Israeli MDs help stave off blindness for Darfur refugees
11. Wiesenthal Center petitions for the removal of Polish
priest Tadeuscz Rydzyk for anti-Semitism 4.
Australia's Foreign Minister Alexander
Downer explains support for Israel
21)
Carol Davis: Juxtaposing time and science in Arcadia
Friday, July 27, 2007
U.S. State Department
provides fact sheet
on new Palestinian investment program
Peres appeals for Arab help in recovering kidnapped soldiers
Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal: Tales of a shaliach, a muralist, and spices
Judy Lash Balint:
American
immigrant starts dog wash in Israel
Rabbis protest
construction atop Jewish cemetery
Poland's prosecutors investigating old regime communists who instigated
anti-Semitism
Rulings expand class of Nazi victims entitled to compensation
Anti-Defamation League pleased
by Munley's ruling overturning local immigration ordinance
HIAS says Hazleton ordinance was
'mean-spirited'
Lautenberg praises Hindu prayer at U.S. Senate, denounces protesters for
display of 'intolerance'
Morton A. Klein: Brandeis
University fosters anti-Israel academics
Jews in the News
Jewish Grapevine
Boxer says $30 million in bill for Salton Sea
Carol Davis: Could some 'shmaltz'
help Hay Fever?
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Kristen Silberberg:
State Department official criticizes U.N. Human Rights Council as a forum
for Muslims' anti-Israel propaganda
Both sides express pleasure over Arab
ministers official visit to Jerusalem
Israel's President recounts meeting
with Tony Blair
Russian
firm reports Iran nuclear plant delay
Weißensee graveyard lacks funds to
become heritage site
Feingold, Feinstein and Schumer join campaign
to appoint special counsel to investigate Gonzales
Father of Senator Coleman dies of cancer
Hinchey to introduce resolutions mirroring Feingold's to
censure Bush and Cheney
Republican Jewish Coalition criticizes Obama
for his willingness to negotiate with rogue states
Rep. Susan Davis sponsors bill to give
Armed Forces personnel right to Supreme Court appeals
Shoshana Bryen:
Seeking 'agreement in principle' with Palestinians premature
Jews in the News
News Sleuths
Jewish Grapevine
House approves bills for local veterans, buses
Gail Feinstein Forman: Visit ancient Qumran and
never ever leave your seat
That kind of day: it clicked for Green, soured for Youkilis
Nathaniel Edelstein:
Bet Shemesh and Tel Aviv win; only one gamenow separates two leaders in IBL inaugural season
IBL announces All-Star game
day schedule
The Jewish Horse
Wednesday, July 25,
2007
Foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan, bearing Arab League peace initiative,
meet with Israel's leadership
U.N. Envoy Michael Williams expresses optimism over renewed Middle Eastern peace
process
Explosion kills UN peacekeeper at Israel-Lebanon border
Olmert offers his congratulations to Turkey's P.M Erdogan on his party's
victory; invites him to Israel
Sarkozy vows efforts in behalf of captured Israelis
Wiesenthal Center rejects apology by Polish priest
Rep. Berkley visits Kazakhstan, sees Jewish community
Garry Fabian:
State funeral for former Cabinet member;
Police, Jews dine on friendship;
Gillard
shares migrant tale with Jewish women
Jewish Claims Conference appropriates $67 million for victims
U.S.-Israel alternative energy pact advances in Senate
Engel urges tougher economic sanctions on Iran
Catholic-Jewish dialogue over Mass continues
Jews in the News
News sleuths
Jewish Grapevine
The things Brad Ausmus and Mike Lieberthal had in common
Bet Shemesh recovers early season form; defeats Ra'anana 10-1 and holds onto
first place in IBL
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Rice to visit Egypt, Saudi Arabia,
Israel, and PA
Livni briefs Blair on Middle
Eastern situation
Wounded vet kvells over son's IDF enlistment
Radio priest wins backing in his denials of anti-Semitism
Rep. Rothman honors high school Holocaust essay winner who wrote about when
'humanity looked away'
ADL says its position on Mass
was well-researched
Judy Lash Balint:
Peaceful Tisha B'Av
march recalls national tragedies
Jews in the News
News Sleuths
Jewish Grapevine
Museum of Man schedules 7 Sunday lectures probing the mysteries of Copper Age
humanity
JFS starts group for cancer patients and families, and for people in process of
divorcing or separating
A good offensive and defensive day for Kevin Youkilis
Eileen
Wingard:
Rotary and San Diego Youth Symphony program fosters
good will, good music
Monday, July 23, 2007
Olmert says Syria sets 'impossible threshold' for conducting peace talks; Golan return demanded
Researcher sees development of
'Israedi' identity in which Jewish-ness is subsumed by Israeli-ness
Karen Kloosterman:
Biblically inspired cinnamon extract may
ward off various types of viral infections
ZOA denounces decision by
Tamir to let Arabs
teach 'Naqba' version of Israel history in schools
Never forget the Holocaust, France's PM urges
Ukraine's President helps dedicate memorial to
prisoners of Flossenbürg concentration camp
Founder of Humanistic Judaism
killed in car crash;
San Diego memorial service scheduled August 4
Cantor
Debby Davis:
A personal tribute to Rabbi
Sherman Wine
Rabbi Wayne Dosick: On Tisha B'Av: The deeper meaning of summer camp songs
Sheila Orysiek:
The Rose
Adagio and the Torah
Jews in the News
News Sleuths
Jewish Grapevine
Ohr Shalom to sing in the Shabbat on Mission Bay
Family celebrates third generation return to barbecuing with a grand opening celebration
Youkilis, Feldman and Ausmus have productive Sunday
Nathaniel Edelstein: 3-Way Race developing for IBL championship
Heather Zeiden:
Warmth, texture characterize Israeli photographer's portraits of stone
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Contemporary Jewish
Museum in San Francisco will have 63,000 square feet of Libeskind-space
Chicago will have
$55 million Jewish cultural center
Larger
site in the works for the National Museum of American Jewish History in
Philadelphia
New York's Jewish Museum describes the major
themes of its permanent
28,000-piece collection
Jews in the
News
Is Brad Ausmus in training as a baseball manager?
Who is in National Jewish
Sports Hall of Fame?
Nathaniel Edelstein: Israel TV audience witnesses a
2-1 pitchers duel
Carol Davis:
Who killed the Samurai? You can be the jury
Sheila Orysiek:
ABT's theatrical new Sleeping Beauty
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Weizmann Institute announces scholarships to help women scientists in
their careers
U.S. confers 'Women of Courage' award on Israeli women's rights advocate
Ruth Halperin-Kaddari
Brandeis University sets fundraising record
Hadassah honors Mayor Bloomberg—in absentia
Jews in the News
Jewish Grapevine
Their leagues consider Vicks and Bonds innocent until proven guilty in
dog-fighting, steroid probes
Friday, July 20, 2007
Bipartisan congressional coalition, including Christians and
Jews, protest Saudi Arabia's
boycott of Israeli goods
Killer of six soldiers receives
eight life sentences
Jordan's
King Abdullah II visits White House July 24
Border closures have multiplier effect on Gaza economy
Ira Sharkansky:
Knesset votes to
restrict JNF lands to Jews only
Tony
Blair and Quartet meet the press
The Peres Diary: Communications with
Presidents of France and Brazil, Meeting with European Union's
Javier Solana
Garry Fabian:
The Jews of Down Under:
Phone solicitation rules
nettle Jewish fundraisers;
Orthodox Jews consider creating
new suburban towns
Tisha B'Av the time to end unwarranted grudges
Jews in the
News
Jewish Grapevine
House approves funding for senior safety, disadvantaged students and brain
trauma programs in San Diego
Remember the playground chant: 'Everybody hits'? Mets did
First Israel All-Star Game rosters announced
Nathaniel Edelstein: Tel Aviv
and Modi'in now tied for second in tightening race in the Israel Baseball
League
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Quartet backs Bush's call for Mideast conference
Donald H. Harrison: The 'Hamas question' snaps at Rice's heels
Livni and Solana
conferred, met press in Jerusalem
before Solana went to Quartet meeting in Lisbon
Civil Marriages for non-Jews okayed in Israel
Ackerman says Middle
East situation is worse in
'scale, scope and degree' since Bush took office
ADL
applauds Vatican's willingness to restudy wording of Good Friday Prayer
concerning conversion of Jews
Mikulanis concludes AJC,
ADL heads failed
to read the initial statement by Benedict XVI
Large rally on AMIA bombing
anniversary attracts
president, first lady and other leaders of Argentina
American Jewish
Congress supports bill to apply habeas corpus to terror suspects held
by U.S.
Michael Rosen: Saving Israel's Private Ryans
UJF combines two major fundraising dinners
Sept. 6 for special Dead Sea Scrolls program
Maybe they shoulda stayed in bed
Nathaniel Edelstein: Tel Aviv Lightning Zaps
Modi'in Miracle, 3-2
Irv Jacobs:
Swimming the channel: father tells his son's saga
Jim Madaffer: City Councilman invites
residents to TICO concert
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Iran computer game imagines breaking diplomats
and nuclear scientists out of secret Israeli prison
The Peres Diary—Israel's President meets his staff, confers with Iceland's
foreign minister and pays a condolence call
BBC declines to remove 'Iron Naz' web posting
Ukrainians commemorate Nazi massacre
On 13th Anniversary of AMIA bombings, Israel goes on diplomatic offensive
against Iran terror
Argentina's FM Taiana vows AMIA investigations
Wiesenthal Center says Iran concocts 'Zionist conspiracy' theory to explain
accusations in the AMIA bombing case
Garry Fabian: A concise history of Australia's Jewish community
Jews in the News
News Sleuths
Jewish Grapevine
Susan Davis pleased that San Diego will receive $16.1 million in Homeland
Security funding
Lieberthal has great day at plate, but so did ex-teammates
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Donald H. Harrison: Many details undecided for Bush's Mideast confab
Israel to
release 256 Palestinian prisoners
ZOA President Morton Klein offers his point-by-point rebuttal to President Bush
House passes Ackerman bill requiring regular reports on efforts to bring Gaza
killers to justice
AJCongress President Gordon presses PA Prime Minister Salaam
Fayyad on security
President Peres' first day at the office
Hamas leader calls Holocaust an
exaggeration
Austria offers reward
for capture of Nazis Heim and Brunner
AJC urges Latin America
to unite against terror
Lieberman delivers half political speech, half Torah lesson to Christian
Zionist group
Shoshana Bryen:
Bush far too trusting of Palestinian leadership
Jews in the News
Jewish Grapevine
Brandes Foundation to fund SDJA scholarships
The Well, a Christian church, schedules three survivors of the Shoah in evening
lecture series
Dan Schaffer:
Journey to a time that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob would have considered to be
in the far-off past
Monday,
July 16, 2007
President Bush in new Middle East peace initiative
Jewish organizations react to Bush speech
Iceland's Foreign Minister on 3-day visit to Israel
U.N. official appeals to Arab League for Gaza aid
Germany investigating companies that may have exported parts for Iran's nuclear
program
Israeli researchers find way to hype up immune system with new drug to fight off
cancers
Survivors commemorate Buchenwald's 70th anniversary
David Bitner:
Little old synagogue of Madison, Wisconsin
Jews in the News
In
Chicago, is the answer—as Bob Dylan said—blowin' in the wind?
IBL's
Bet Shemesh hangs onto first place; Tel Aviv and Modi'in both 1 1/2 games
out
Yoni
Peres:
Getting acquainted: Israeli tells what he has learned about his neighbors,
the baseball players, and their fans from the United States
Gotthelf
Art Gallery announces Jewish exhibits
Carol
Davis:
Tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight
Sunday,
July 15, 2007
President Peres promises to be the unifier of Israel ... and its dreamer
Peres family thrilled and moved
as 'Aba' becomes president
What the media had to say about the inauguration
Once again, Israel takes symbolic steps for peace
U.S. State Department advisory: Avoid travel to Gaza, delay travel to West
Bank, be cautious when traveling in Israel
Shuckburgh theorom:
'Moderates are
always at a discount'
Jews in the News
Clutch-hitting Shawn Green propels Mets 2-1 victory over Reds
Six homers enliven Modi'in-Bet Shemesh slugfest
NYC Jewish Museum presents six
portraits of colonial Jewish family
The
Diggers
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Donald H. Harrison: My daughter's front-row seat to Israeli history
Research on 1,800 women
with breast cancer shows little differences in survival rates
For Hebrew U students,
it will be G-mail for life
No accident that Shinar
tapped as head of road safety
Boxer and Feinstein back
legislation to name U.S. post office branch for singer Buck Owens
Senator Sanders will
oppose nomination of Dr. Holsinger as next U.S. surgeon general
Natasha Josefowitz: Far
better to be a 'coach' than to be a 'rescuer'
Jews in the News
Jewish Grapevine
Debra Kain: 'Junk DNA'
better described as 'DNA punctuation'
Green and Schoeneweis
fare better than rest of the Mets
Carol Davis: Avenue
Q: 'Sesame Street' for grown-ups
Friday,
July 13, 2007
Nepal's Foreign Minister Pradhan visits Israel; announces plans to open embassy
IDF Staff Sergeant Arbel Raich killed during raid on Bureij Refugee Camp in
central Gaza
Gun battle at Tul Karm checkpoint: IDF kills Islamic Jihad member Muhammed Diab
Ban Ki-moon calls for immediate reopening of Gaza crossings; will attend
next Quartet meeting
Dov Burt Levy:
My
Shimon Peres story
U.S. House condemns British academic boycott of Israel; vote for Murphy bill is
unanimous
Britain's journalists union drops Israel boycott
26 Bronfman Youth Fellows for 2007 named
PETA denounces practice at kosher slaughterhouse
Norman & Roberta Greene: At the very least, vegan food is kosher
Argentina to mark AMIA bombing's
13th anniversary
Alex Grobman: Why numbers matter in discussing the Shoah
Rabbi Baruch
Lederman: When
two businessmen took in a Silent Partner
Jews in the News
News Sleuths
Jewish owners making more news than players
Lightning strikes Blue Sox, pennant race tightens
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Transcript of Olmert's candid Al Arabiya interview
Lautenberg, Schumer, Clinton, Menendez vow to block confirmation of
ambassador to Libya
Austria's President and chancellor to attend burial of Leon Zelman, founder
of Jewish Welcome Service
Holocaust memorial in Berlin vandalized
HIAS
applauds House vote to protect SSI benefits for blind, elderly and disabled
refugees in the U.S.
Michelle K. Gross: Why we object to the
'Bodies' Exhibit at UTC
Jews in the News
News Sleuths
Jewish Grapevine
UJF cites 90,000 good reasons to implement its strategic plan
Fred Reiss:
A history and philosophical examination of the Kaddish
Bud Selig should take Rev. Jesse Jackson's advice about Barry Bonds
Home run derby shows ADL's Abe Foxman how they settle a tie game
in Israel Baseball League
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Senate vote puts Iran on notice its
anti-American military actions are unacceptable and being monitored
Levin amendment
seeks certain withdrawal date of U.S.forces from Iraq; Clinton, Obama are
co-sponsors
Olmert to Syria: Let's
negotiate a peace deal
Current
Mideast climate likened to year of Kristallnacht
Ira Sharansky: At least
sexual escapades of politicians provide Israelis a break from forecasts of
possible war
Mathematical formula
identifies which genes are under responsible for sicknesses caused by viruses
U.S. Rep. Gary
Ackerman calls on Ghana to
change its anti-Israel ways at United Nations
Jewish liaison group to
Vatican asks Pope Benedict XVI to clarify what Latin (Tridentine) Mass will say
about Jews
U.S. Rep. Susan
Davis advances legislation to permit
returning Armed Forces personnel to defer loan
Isaac Yetiv: Time for a Jordanian-Palestinian confederation
Jews in the News
News Sleuths
Jewish Grapevine
Taking stocks of Bonds: will Bud Selig be there for 756?
Moish Lewis' speed on the base path carries Modi'in to 8-7 victory over Petach
Tikvah
Broadway's
Susan Egan performs here Sept. 29
'Jewzapalooza' Sept. 9 concert to
launch NYC's Oyhoo Festival
1.
Outsiders may trigger
new Israel-Lebanon war, U.N.Secretary-General fears
2.
Shoshana Bryen: Syria threatening
guerrilla warfare against Israel
3.
Olmert, Prodi discuss Iran and Palestinians
4.
IDF arrests Tanzim 'operative' in Nablus raid
5.
Border restrictions crippling Gaza economy, U.N. Undersecretary John Holmes reports
6.
University of Haifa researcher foresees this conversation: 'Get off your
cell phone!' 'But mom, I'm studying my math!'
7.
Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal: San Diego rabbi describes congregational
trip to Israel: educational, fun and extremely busy
9. Darfur
refugees to be housed at Ibim student village
10.
Catholic radio magnate reportedly blasts Poland's
president over Holocaust compensation to Jews
12.
House members urge France to add
Hezbollah to terrorist organization list
13.
Bruce Kesler:
An index for those who think political pork is unkosher
14.
Bronfman Foundation's "Why
Be Jewish Conference" will bring some top Jewish thinkers to Park City, Utah, July 29
15.
Israeli diplomats in U.S.
to drive hybrid vehicles
16.
Judith Apter Klinghoffer: Will the
world be returned to the Dark Ages?
17.
Jews in the News
18.
Jewish Grapevine
19.
News Sleuths
20.
AJE schedules Tastes of Melton July 17 & 19
21.
Tifereth Israel sets 'Pray in the Park' Shabbats Aug 3 & 31
23.
Jewish Sports Fan
24.
Kaufman inaugurates Tel Aviv's Sports Tek Theatre
with a Lightning one-hitter over the Netanya Tigers
25.
SiCKO is a movie that fits
tikkun olam tradition
Monday,
July 9, 2007
1.
Livni and Fayyad conduct first
official meeting
3.
UNIFIL commander meets with Lebanese, Israeli officials
4.
Sarkozy meets with families of 3 kidnaped Israelis
5.
Olmert
participates in earthquake preparations
6.
Stem cell donor and recipient share
emotional reunion at Ezer Mizion's Oranit Guest Home
8.
Jewish-Christian pact reached in Switzerland
9.
Society of Saint Pius X concerns of Wiesenthal Center added to Jewish
community debate over reinstitution of old Mass
10.
German Jews renew call for National Democratic Party ban
11.
American Jewish Committee delegation meets with Portugal's Secretary of State
Antues and former President Sampaio
12.
13.
Morton A. Klein:
Terrorists, like doctors who tried to blow up
Glasgow airport, often well-off economically
14.
Jews in the News
15.
News Sleuths
16.
Jewish Grapevine
17.
Shabbat 'under the stars' planned July 20, Aug. 17
18.
Lieberthal's so-so day outdid those of other Jewish batters
19.
Pitcher fans 13 batters,
maintaining his ERA at 0.00 after three games;
Blue Sox teammate meanwhile bats .471. They are 10-1.
20. J*Company
announces cast call for Disney musical
Sunday, July 8, 2007
1.
Israel to carry its story directly to Iranian
public with new Persian website
2. Italy's Prime Minister Prodi, China delegation are
official visitors to Israel
3.
IDF's Givati Brigade captures 8 Qassam
missile launchers in Gaza search
5. Alex Grobman:
Holocaust denial
paves way for anti-Israel war
6. Jews in the News
7. Jewish Grapevine
8.
6 + 21 + 48 + 81 not Gematria but where four Jewish major leaguers placed
in batting and pitching statistics
9.
Tel Aviv Lightning snaps Bet Shemesh Blue Sox undefeated streak at 9 games on Pribble's
pitching
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Poll: Palestinians more scared of each other than of Israelis
Board member, professor and student provide reasons for
Tel Aviv U to kvell
University of Haifa names
Arab VP for research
Monsignor Mikulanis provides
documentation
on what Pope Benedict XVI really did
Ira Sharkansky: Dissecting Jimmy Carter's
Palestinian propaganda
Alex
Grobman:
The myth of
American Jewish silence during the Holocaust
Jews in the News
Jewish Grapevine
Irv Jacobs: Which was worse: idol worship
or public fornication?
That's the kind of goniff who makes us all proud
Kurtzer tells playoff sequence for determining championship
Amos Oz is
2007 Prince of Asturias Awardee
Friday, July
6, 2007
1)
ADL says revised Catholic mass sets back relations with the Jews nearly 40 years
2)
Mikulanis says ADL jumped gun, got its facts wrong
3)
20 British MPs want negotiations with Hamas
4)
Violence in Gaza during Israel's incursion source of deep concern to
Secretary-General
5)
Wiesenthal
Center condemns Hugo Chavez for pro-Iran, anti-U.S., anti-Israel rhetoric
6)
Judy Lash Balint: Last Jews of Libya her first selection at film
festival
7)
Moscow mayor and council change minds about City Center location for new
Sephardic synagogue
9)
Activated military would receive refunds of their college tuition under Susan
Davis bill
10)
Joe Lieberman, in Wall Street Journal op-ed, declares Iran is waging
'proxy war' against U.S.
11) Alex Grobman: Arab rhetoric often sounds very familiar
12)
Jews
in the News
13)
News
Sleuths
14) Jewish Grapevine
15)
SDMNH seeks Dead Sea Scrolls
volunteers
16)
Etz Rimon enrollment opens for Hebrew School
17) Rabbi Baruch Lederman:
They both knew what time it was.
18)
Irvin
Jacobs, MD:
A primer on the 'documentary hypothesis' of Torah
19)
Youkilis climbs the easy way in AL standings for batters
20)
A Lightning 5-3 victory before the onset of Shabbat
Thursday, July 5, 2007
1.Wexler
vows resolution of censure against President Bush for Libby commutation
2.Donald
H. Harrison: Libby furor disproves one piece of Arab propaganda
3.
IDF completes 5-day exercise on Golan Heights
4.
Olmert shuffles ministers in his coalition
5.EU Parliament President Pottering seeks new Madrid-style Mideast peace
conference
6.
Sarkozy, Brown chat by phone with Olmert
7.
Tzipi-Benaissa talks included status of holy places
8.
Latin American legislators converge on
Jerusalem for
seminars, tours
9.
French officials welcome
American Jewish Committee
10.
Latvia's president dedicates Holocaust memorial
11.
Weiner announces committee hearing to grill U.S. National Park Service on why
Lady Liberty's crown remains closed
12.
Alex Grobman:
Rationalizing the irrational: the excuse Jews make to avoid acknowledging Arab
hatred
13Jews in the News
14. News Sleuths
15. Jewish Grapevine
16.
Perhaps Shawn Green was inelegant, but he told the truth
17.
Israeli children with cancer experience the joy of baseball with players of
Ra'anana Express
18.
Raymundo ringleader as Bet Shemesh beats up Modi'in, 18-5
Wednesday,
July 4, 2007
1.Hadassah
says freezing ova can preserve fertility of chemotherapy patients
2.
British professors,
others seek affiliations with U of Haifa
3. Grandparents who take
care of grandchildren
likely to have favor returned, research shows
4.
Alex Grobman:
Rabbi Abraham Klausner was a chaplain
whom Holocaust survivors called 'one of us'
5. Neo-Nazis attack concert
goers in Siberia
6. Amsterdam mulls monument
to local Holocaust victims
7,
Remembering Entebbe on
rescue's 31st anniversary
8
David Harris:
The Larger Meaning of our Nation's Birthday
9.
Bruce Kesler:
Independence and Tolerance
10.
Candye Kane: 'Not
a real patriot,' singer reflects on USA she loves
11. Bay Ray day
A-okay for Kevin Youkilis
12.
IBL pitchers Benson, Eagle
celebrate USA's independence by pitching teams to victory
13.
Dov Bear
Levy: A hidden
Sudanese Christian becomes Israeli in a well-done new film, Live and Become
14.
Lynne Thrope: Among
other reasons to serve wine: Proverbs 31:6-7
Tuesday,
July 3, 2007
1)
Republican Jewish Coalition director says House GOP members ultimately will
support Israel aid
2)
Olmert visits Modi'in, marvels over growth
3)
Solana hints Iran link to Hamas
takeover in Gaza
5)
True United Church of Christ position on Israel now a matter of controversy—
Wiesenthal Center
6)
Auschwitz has new, longer,
official name
7)
Genghis Khan and
the 4th of July
8)
9)
Jewish Grapevine
10)
JFS sets programs for people living with cancer
12)
Modi'in has its miracle, but Bet Shemesh still is undefeated
Monday, July 2,
2007
2) Israel announces arrests of 11 Hamas
members in Jerusalem following lengthy investigation
3) Joseph Lieberman:Iran fighting proxy war against U.S in Iraq; urges Iran be confronted
4) Wiesenthal Center asks Arlington burial
for 1st Jewish chaplain to reach Dachau
5) Return to old Catholic mass raises Jewish
concerns
6) Israel sympathizers protest in Madrid
against Iran
7) Bureaucracy jeopardizes
elderly, disabled refugees
8) George W. Bush: President explains
commuting Libby's sentence
9) Bush's decision on Libby criticized by
Jewish Democrats
10) ADL praises Aryan Brotherhood indictments
11)
Shoshana Bryen:
A warning to Western policy makers
12) Morton Klein:
ZOA chief voices concern over Tony Blair
13)
Jews in the News
14) News Sleuths
15) Jewish Grapevine
16)
Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal: On Israel tour with Tifereth Israel Synagogue of San Diego
17) Jews in Sports
Sunday, July 1,
2007
1.
Israel
provides background on its aerial attacks in Gaza
2. Israelis help
Cyprus fight Troodos Mountains fires
3.
Avraham Hirschon, accused of corruption, resigns as Israel's finance minister
4.
Ira Sharkansky: Katzav's troubles may continue beyond resignation
5.
Jews in the News
6.
Jewish Grapevine
7.
Edward Zeiden: Copper Scroll from Jordan is a treasure
hinting of locations of more treasures
8.
Norman Manson: Jewish
stories everywhere? This one takes place in Zimbabwe
9.
Carol Davis:
True
West
a treat for true theater lovers
10.
Jews in sports