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                   August 2007

 

Friday, August 31, 2007
 Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations details critiques of controversial book and TV show on Middle East

 ADL expresses dismay to Ban over U.N. conference

 Elad Shalev: Female combat doctor becomes an Israeli legend
StandWithUs urges followers to fax Sarkozy letters concerning death of Mohammed al-Dura

U.S. to focus on the 'what ifs' during National Preparedness Month

 President Bush and Rep. Barney Frank indicate bipartisanship agreement on mortgage problems

 NJDC mourns passing of former Rep. Charles Vanik

 Democrat Carl Levin salutes Republican John Warner on announcement of his retirement
Rabbi Baruch Lederman: We are all teachers; in fact, teachers of teachers

Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal: No feeling of inner peace when one leaves Israel
Jewish Grapevine

 Donald H. Harrison SDSU's Weber scorns academic boycott of Israel

Astor Judaica Library now has full print and e-version editions of Encyclopedia Judaica


Ari Alexenberg: A summer when baseball players were all pioneers
 

 J*Company to present Disney-themed play season

 Dov Burt Levy: A book to read backward and forward   


 


 

Thursday, August 30
 Draft GAO reports shows Iraq government not meeting benchmarks
Israel inveighs against terrorists' use of children

 U.N. official says micro-loans helping Palestinian businesses during especially tough economic times
Horev named chief of Israel's Atomic Energy Commission

 Middle East on Bush-Sócrates agenda Sept. 17
Ahmadinejad blames Zionists for cartoon insult
to the Prophet Muhammad in a Swedish newspaper


Chabad opens center in Berlin, first since Shoah

NJDC accuses Republicans of double standard in dealing with homosexual and heterosexual offenders

ADL and CAIR engage in a war of words

 Text of CAIR's Open Letter to the ADL

Amid the tents and rubble, JDC workers and Israeli medical workers bring relief and hope

Qantas investigates anti-Semitic flight attendant
Garry Fabian: Tick of Approval for citizen test; Jewish leaders slam outspoken Bethlehem mayor
Jewish Grapevine
Exhibit on Holocaust survival coupled with klezmer concert to tour 3 county libraries
 Israel's junior judo team meets with Olmert

 Donald H. Harrison: Do powerful people become sexy, or vice versa?
Wednesday, August 29

Sderot schools may reopen without fear, Israel   Security Cabinet is told by Maj-Gen. Gershon
When Palestine is created as a state, it will be the home to which refugees can return, not Israel—Tzipi Livni

 'Guardedly optimistic' there will be peace between Israelis and Palestinians—U.N. envoy Williams

 Israel mourns its former UN Ambassador Yaacobi

Ira Sharkansky: Rabbi Ovadia again embarrasses Israel

Shoshana Bryen: Washington Post columnist misses Mideast nuances


Rabbi Marvin Hier of Wiesenthal Center
tells objections to CNN's 'God's Warriors'

 Cardin urges legislation to curb fraud and abuse in the spending of billions of U.S. dollars in Iraq
Forum
 Letter writer contends Wilson polarizes people

Jewish Grapevine
News Sleuths
Sports
 Bet Shemesh ace signs contract with Atlantic League
 


Tuesday, August 28

President Bush warns American Legion of threats by 'Sunni extremists' and 'Shia extremists'

 Israelis, Palestinians authorize joint meetings of|
 various agencies to foster wide-ranging cooperation

Sarkozy speaks out against nuclear Iran, 'Hamastan'

 Israel to begin new settlements inside Green Line

 Dutch refuse Palestinian troupe's request that Israel dancers be banned from international dance festival

 Israel arranging a laptop for every teacher

 Search and rescue cadets perform in surprise drill

 ADL-Israel condemns statement by Rabbi Ovadia

 Peres confers with Martin Luther King III

Israeli authorities arrest California fraud suspect
European Socialists join in protest of Magyar Garda
Polish bishops divided over leadership of Rydzyk

 Wiesenthal Center urges EU to withhold funds from
radio group while its headed by Tadeusz Rydzyk

AJCongress urges Bush appoint 'non-partisan' AG

 Columbus, Ohio, policewoman posts anti-Semitic videos; Anti-Defamation League makes protest

 NCJW says Katrina recovery far too slow

 Dr. Alex Grobman: A eulogy for Rabbi Judah Nadich, chaplain who interceded for Jews in displaced person's camp

Jewish Grapevine

News Sleuths
Back-to-school barbecue at Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School: food, fun, and sign-ups

 Chabad of University City will have Selichot concert, then music by three cantors over the High Holidays

 Eileen Wingard, family to give Selichot concert
Norman Manson: It's the story of Kaiser Permanente—or is it?

 Dorothea Shefer-Vanson: Dorel Golan is a pianist you'll be hearing fro
Monday, August 27
Israel's cabinet briefed on Hamas' arms buildup in Gaza; terrorist attack anticipated

 Hizballah has more rockets than before last war

 Karin Kloosterman: Smokestack emissions now a good source for growing algae as a biofuel, Israeli company shows

Magyar Garda members sworn in next to presidential palace in Budapest; Jews, Roma protest

 German Jews protest Nazi messages on YouTube

Donald H. Harrison: Resignation of Atty. General Alberto Gonzales welcomed by Jewish members of Congress

 Homeland Security delaying visas for Austrian volunteers to work in Holocaust museums
Shoshana Bryen: Accolades for NYPD's study of 'sudden jihad syndrome'

Sheila Orysiek: Writer objects to use of   term 'demagogues'
News Sleuths

Jewish Grapevine
JFS creates programs for cancer patients and kin
Donald H. Harrison: San Diego baseball player, back from Israel, gets ready to play winter ball in Australia
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Rocket fire from Gaza rattles Sderot residents

 Shahar Hay: New commander of Kfir Brigade, biggest in the IDF, relaxes with the troops in a sports day

 Israel Museum provides online catalogue of Nazi-looted, unclaimed art works now in its safekeeping

Jewish Museum in Prague celebrates the centennial of its library; it has 136,000 volumes
Holocaust Memorial Museum receives millions of records, awaits action by France, Italy and Greece

Spertus Institute hires new CFO as November 30 opening for its new museum building approaches
Jewish Grapevine
Donald H. Harrison: 'Racist label' simply does not fit Pete Wilson

 Joe Naiman: Kinsler has own record in Rangers' 30-run game
New York's Jewish Museum to offer important exhibit on the impressionism of  Pissarro Sept. 16
 

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Terrorists die in cross-border attack at Erez

 Leukemia researchers target receptor that enables  blood cells to turn off self-destruct mechanism

 Technique for building machines with artificial  intelligence may aid Alzheimer's research

Weizmann Institute researches find memories require ongoing flow of enzymes to be sustained
Research group finds Keeloq not full-proof
Technion's math camp attracts group of geniuses

 Ben-Gurion University professor briefs Knesset committee on solar energy's potential for Israel
Joint Distribution Committee establishes youth village in Rwanda modeled on Yemin Orde

Noted Beth Din leader appointed Yeshiva U dean

 Phil Witte cartoon on Holocaust claims payments
Jewish Grapevine
American Jewish University exhibits human figure sculptures by Annette Bird and Dan Van Clapp

 Ritual objects of Susan Dehan Felix showcased at museum of Hebrew Union College in New York
 

Friday, August 24, 2007

U.N. Security Council extends Lebanese peacekeeping force

 Rocket from Gaza hits roof of home in Sderot

Approaching conference on Israel and Palestine continues to generate controversy over its real aims
Turkish Jews say Armenian killings not genocide

 Dov Burt Levy: ADL has disappointed on Armenian question


 Spanish police arrest fugitive neo-Nazi Honsik

ADL supports legal rights of detainees held by U.S. at Guantanamo Bay; files amicus brief


Israeli medical team treats hundreds in Peru

Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal: Some reasons why we don't yoke a donkey and an ox

 Rabbi Baruch Lederman: Finding a way to reconcile two marriage partners

Jewish Grapevine
UJF combines two major functions September 6
to take advantage of Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit
 


 Thursday, August 23
 

Feinstein calls for resignation of Iraq's Al-Maliki

 Lieberman, without mentioning Feinstein by name, defends Al-Maliki; says Al Qaeda waiting in wings

Israel releases a chronology of rocket firings,
military skirmishes since Hamas took over Gaza

Israel's Foreign Ministry calls on other countries to
share in the resettlement of Darfur refugees

 Excavations yield glassware, imprint of Roman sandal, at site on plateau east of the Sea of Galilee

Alternative energy from the sea is goal of new School of Marine Sciences at University of Haifa

 Hartzi Halevi takes command of Israel's paratroopers

 Ira Sharkansky: Mideast rhetoric has little or no sense of proportion

 U.S. says Iran's agreement with IAEA a delaying tactic rather than a step towards arms limitation
Jewish Grapevine
.Jewish Family Service provides programming for people who suffer from different mood disorders

Arts & Entertainment
 Natasha Josefowitz: Do you actually need to keep that paper?
 



 Wednesday, August 22
Sen. Sanders expresses concern that President Bush may be planning for war against Iran
Bush compares Middle East opponents to  Imperial Japan of old—vanquished and later transformed

 Biden calls Bush's argument  'fundamentally flawed'

 U.N. envoy meets with Israeli and Palestinian leaders
Since Hamas' takeover of Gaza, 121 missiles fired at Israel; 1,964 since Israel pulled out
'Yael' is Israel's Harvard for combat water transport

 Peres cautions van der Linden on oil sales to Iran

 Appeal made for bone marrow donors who just might be able to save bar mitzvah boy's life

 Reform Jews mourn Yazidi victims; urge protection for other minority groups

 Israeli commentator sees radical and moderate realignment politically reshaping Middle East

 Israel's new volunteer corps will provide non-military opportunities for service to the country
Nazi document copies sent to Holocaust museums

 Attack on foreigners in Germany raises question whether xenophobia and racism are increasing

American Jewish Committee urges a year of voluntary service for Americans between ages of 18 and 25
Jewish Grapevine

Donald H. Harrison: Filner made a mistake by letting story drag on
Sheila Orysiek: Duberman has written an exhaustive biography of Lincoln Kirstein, whose life was at full throttle
Tuesday, August 21
 

Israel declines to take any more Darfur refugees

 Emanuel urges Israel to reconsider refugee decision

 Dalia Itzik apologizes for neglect of Shoah survivors

 Jewish evacuees from Gaza prone to PTSD

Military court sentences terrorist to life in prison

 United Nations renews warnings about  deteriorating economic conditions in Gaza

 Feinstein welcomes Iran's release of Esfandiari
Lauder, Kantor ask action against Magyar Garda

 German police arrest 4 for cemetery vandalism
Israel sends medical supplies for Peru quake victims
ADL renews challenge to CAIR to denounce terror
David A. Harris: Truth and Consequences: Armenians, Turks and Jews
ADL revises its stand: it was a 'genocide'

Jewish Grapevine
Second Avenue Klezmer Ensemble concert to help Adat Shalom usher in Selichot with a Sept. 8 concert
Tikkun Olam projects win prizes for Amanda Haworth of La Jolla, Justin Sachs of Carlsbad
Norman Greene: Spending a 38th anniversary in search of a blasted winery


 Monday, August 20
.Israeli company develops monitoring device to alert caregivers of an epileptic seizure

 Levin and Warner say surge somewhat successful but new unity government in Iraq may be necessary

Calls to worship 'all reach heaven together'—Shimon Peres
Czech police concerned by far right website's labeling of politicians whom they consider Jews
Evangelical Lutherans urge 'consideration' of Israel boycott

 Attorneys research civil rights issues for ADL

Lautenberg presents Congressional Gold Medals to four members of the original Tuskegee Airmen

Jewish Grapevine
Jewish Community Foundation appeals for financial contributions for Peru quake, Sderot rocket victims
Yoni Peres: Baseball making slow inroads among Israelis, but
expatriate Americans are very pleased to have it
Eileen Wingard: Looking back on the 8th Jewish Musical Festival

Sunday, August 19
 

Olmert announces comprehensive benefits pact between Israel government and Shoah survivors
Livni meets with Muslim leaders from India

 Hundreds of rabbis complete military training, are commissioned as officers, assigned to units

 U.S. State Department will train Palestinians in how to protect diplomats and other VIPs
Jewish Grapevine
Donald H. Harrison: Joseph 'Chickie' Glickman so pleased with his stroke therapy, he builds clinics in Israel so others may benefit
Andrew Wilson: Bet Shemesh, always in first place, now are officially the inaugural year Israel Baseball League champions

 Rodriguez and Raymundo named first season's most valuable players by Israel Baseball League

Carol Davis: Starlight's Beauty and the Beast  a real beauty
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson: Editor tells back story of book on adventurous uncle
Things our Jewish mothers might have told them

Saturday, August 18
IDF soul-searches over Dahariya shooting
Secretary General Ban praises Dutch decision to host special tribunal on Lebanese assassinations
Prevented by Holocaust from attending Hebrew University, survivor receives a refund 68 years later

 Minnesota and Israeli researchers find Sharon goatgrass
can resist the spreading stem rust fungus attacking wheat

 Technion President Yitzhak Apeloig awarded Wacker Prize organosilicon chemistry research

Study finds world media turned against Israel after air attack on Qana during the 2nd Lebanon War
Brandeis University conducts successful security drill

JTS names Mittleman chair of Jewish Philosophy
Nine women receive YU's Scheiber scholarships to study  at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Solomon, Levy, Angel family archives donated to HUC-JIR
Jewish Grapevine

 Sunbelt Publications donates discovered volume
to Jewish Historical Society for its archives

Hebrew classes offered for tykes—and their parents


 Friday, August 17
Democrats meet Israel's leaders, tour borders

 Hamas can bring harm to Gazans, or try to help them
Peres receives report on Holocaust victims' compensation

 United Nations names Saudi, Abdulaziz Arrukban, as envoy for coordinating Middle East relief efforts
Will world leadership pass from the U.S. to another power?

Israeli Arab teenagers teach first aid in Turkey

Intra-Palestinian fighting dangerous for Israel

Israel offers help to Peru in the wake of quake

Davis bill risks making partisan issue of UCMJ
 

How a simple kindness foiled an anti-Semitic plot

 God cares more about our deeds than our thought
Jewish Grapevine
SDJA secular teachers taught basics of Judaism

 Beth Am plans for Labor Day picnic, shmoozefest
Injury-ridden semis leave Bet Shemish, Modi'in to vie for IBL's inaugural championship game Sunday
Novel on Jews of Iran under ayatollahs praiseworthy
Thursday, August 16

Israel, U.S. sign arms deal memorandum

Family of soldier missing 10 years posts appeal

 Netanyahu's margin over Feiglin was 3-1 in Likud contest
European Jewish Congress' meetings with Israeli officials focus on ways to deal with the Iran threat

U.N. climate change conference will include workshop on Jordan River and the Arava

Young Judaea diversifies year-long course offerings in Israel and Diaspora as number of enrollees increases


AJC praises Polish boycott of anti-Israel conference

 Kids from Sderot enjoy safety of JDC-Lauder camp in Hungary, get to know children from many countries
Joint Distribution Committee begins campaign to provide earthquake relief to stricken in Peru

Iran accuses Argentines who investigated the AMIA bombing of working against its security; issues summons for testimony

Schneider tapped as new WJC secretary-general

Republican Jewish Coalition joins debate over propriety of NYC Arab-language school
Jewish Grapevine
JCF's Endowment Leadership Institute's first class graduates; a second class is now underway

 Dumanis joins other DAs opposing early prison release
Petach Tikva, Ra'anana eliminated from playoffs

IBL players help JNF plant trees in Israel
Book reviewer announces his work on Kabbalah


Wednesday, August 15
State Department reportedly mulls 'terrorist' designation for Iran Revolutionary Guards

 State Department officially silent on IRGC action
House Foreign Affairs Chair Lantos welcomes report

 IDF sends force into Gaza, engages terrorists

 Livni: Europeans should realize way to peace is through P.A., not with Hamas

Prodi assures Olmert that Italy's Hamas policy the same

 U.S.-Israel arms pact may be signed this week

 Five Rwandan children arrive in Israel for heart surgery

 Indian Muslims make goodwill visit to Israel

 U.N. says its recreational centers easing lot of adolescents in both Gaza and the West Bank

 Japanese investments will help peace project

Lone Muslim in Congress joins caucus fighting anti-Semitism

HIAS issues critique of Bush immigration plan

 ZOA hails report of Giuliani opposing Palestinian state
Jewish Grapevine

Project SARAH's game day will be Oct 25 at Congregation Beth Israel
Home run derby closes out IBL's regular season; playoffs begin
Zayde, the maestro, conducts a Boardwalk concert

 The future ain't what it used to be
Tuesday, August 14
Soldiers' remains identified from Israel's 1948 War

 Israel, Palestine Authority sign Hebron extension

 AJC's Blaustein Institute provides briefing on
Sudanese refugees trying to enter Israel from Egypt

 Peres urges terrorism be added to EJC agenda

Wiesenthal Center renews call to prosecute those who abet
suicide bombings for  'crimes against humanity'
Isaac Yetiv: Commentary: Time to install a benevolent dictator in Iraq

 U.N. official decries political stalemate in Lebanon


 Wiesenthal Center seeks Belarus action against hate vendors

Anti-Semitic incidents increase 40% in Argentina
Man who attacked Elie Wiesel apologizes in court

ADL questions legitimacy of 'Hungry for Justice' coalition defending accused Holy Land Foundation
Holocaust, Wiretapping and anti-Semitism are issues on which our writing-readers focus

Holocaust scholar Lipstadt responds to Grobman
Jewish Grapevine

News Sleuths
In times of soaring heat, check on elderly neighbors

Hadassah unit will focus on scrolls August 28
Yoni Peres: Shamsky  man of baseball 'Miracles' in U.S.A. and Israel

Tel Aviv wins game and a bye for IBL playoffs
Kirshenblatt, American Jewish folk artist, to have first traveling exhibition, beginning at Magnes


Monday, August 13
 

Rice freezes assets of Fatah al-Islam, Palestinian group in Lebanon, in anti-terrorism move

Livni tells visiting Congressional delegation Palestine statehood would include Gaza, but await effective control

 Hizbollah land purchases may augur new war

 Syria installs dense missile system
IDF pays tribute to Druze community

Peres joins the cause of the Four Mothers
Nicky Blackburn: Israel-Jordan artificial reef stirs worldwide interest

 Ira Sharkansky: Videos refute Arab version of Jerusalem gunfight

Boycott Israel movement losing steam in Britain

 Russian seeks to blame spy fight with UK on Jews

 New chair says HIAS must be alert, on guard, for Jewish refugees from Iran and Venezuela

 Possible NYC mayoral candidate Lenora Fulani repudiates her past anti-Semitic comments

Wiesenthal Center 'deplores' Lutheran resolution on Israel

 Florida congressional representatives urge  universities to oppose Israel academic boycott
Shoshana Bryen: Behind the scenes in the wiretapping debate
Jewish Grapevine

News Sleuths
Andrew Wilson: From 1-7 deficit, Tigers went to 7-7 against Lightning, and then the lights went out

Fred Reiss: Rabbi Judah Loew's Prague-matic creation
Sunday, August 12
 Israel, PA to sign renewal of Hebron agreement

Japan's Foreign Minister Aso heading for Israel
Livni escorts Lantos, Ellison on tour of border areas

 Ministers' agreement sets Israel's defense budget

 Dov Burt Levy: Sheer craziness to sell arms to Saudis
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky says 1,001 U.S. civilians also have  died during the Iraq conflict


Davis seeks $1 billion in grants for nation's preschools
Jewish Grapevine
San Marcos district names elementary school in memory of  teacher whose parents donate $6 million

 Rancho Bernardo BUNWC plans tea and fashions September 19
Davis directs $11.5 million in military spending to San Diego; allocations still need Senate passage
Bet Shemesh nails down top IBL playoff seed; Modi'in Miracle and Tel Aviv Lightning fight for second place
Carol Davis: Fireflies told the dramatic story of Terezin's children


 Saturday, August 11
Weizmann scientists discover a key to controlling metastasis

 Brandeis experts offer insights on Islam, Iraq, Iran

Ben Gurion University names business building for Los Angeles donors Diane & Guilford Glazer
Garry Fabian: Australian government debates best ways to aid Jewish community pay the costs of its security
Donald H. Harrison: Whether 'Jewish' or 'Cinema,' Brin is a Heritage man
Our ears are open;  we're interested..
Jewish Grapevine
Humanist Shabbat to focus on Essenes Aug. 18

 Lynne Thrope: Mmm-mmm—things you can do with salmon besides smoking it and spreading it on a bagel
Friday, August 10

Bush proposes 26-point immigration plan; it immediately draws HIAS, Feinstein fire

 Feinstein says administration plan a mere 'band-aid'; faults it for not solving agricultural worker crisis

Donald H. Harrison: HIAS executive expresses disappointment over Bush's 26-point plan; it 'ignores so many problems

 Sheila Orysiek: Commentary: Some proposed parameters for U.S. immigration

GOP Dep. Whip Eric Cantor lashes Palestinian P.M. Fayad for paying Hamas salares in Gaza

Which U.S. college presidents have opposed the proposed academic boycott of Israel? Here's list

 Hamas will remain isolated until it changes its ways—Peres

 Peres urges investment in joint Israel-Palestinian projects
Ira Sharkansky: U.S. may need to accept Iraqi, Afghan refugees

Poland's President Kaczynski condemns desecrations

 Hate defendant objects to Jewish judge; is convicted by another

 Anti-Semitic web message writer tours Holocaust museum in Australia in ADC education project

 Rabbi Baruch Lederman: Law demands that a poor person not be turned away
We know you're out there...
Jewish Grapevine

 SDJA adds rabbi, administrator, journalist to roster

 JFS University City Senior Center to move Oct. 1 from Chabad to larger facilities at Congregation Beth Israel
Nathaniel Edelstein: After Brito, the tie game was finito; Lightning struck|
Thursday, August 9
 Livni and Levey consult on anti-Iran sanctions
Donald H. Harrison: Al-Salah Society designated as terrorist front group for Hamas

 IDF will honor the bravest of the brave
Yad Vashem gains NGO observer status at the United Nations' Public Information Department

U.N. issues new appeal for openings of Gaza crossings

Lagging IDF enlistments worrisome to Peres
ADL calls Tancredo's rhetoric 'unAmerican'
America's Immigration Debate—A New Proposal
News Sleuths: U.S. 'cannot live with' Iran's policy calling for the destruction of Israel—President Bush

 Jewish Grapevine

ADL to students: Schools may not pressure you to attend classes during the High Holidays
Nathaniel Edelstein: Clutch single increases Bet Shemesh IBL lead to 3.5 games

 Natasha Josefowitz: In performance-based society, maybe sensitivity to rejection is logical, if unhealthy, reaction
Cynthia Citron: Stand-up comic—playwright finds humor in death


 Wednesday, August 8
 Olmert's office tells details of meeting with Abbas

 United Nations'  Food and Agriculture Organization helps Lebanese farming resume

Israeli experts assisted in 108 countries in 2006
More than 50,000 tons of aid goods go to Gaza

 Avi Benayahu new IDF spokesman and general

 ADL condemns attack on mixed Druze-Christian couple
Peres' meeting with Norway's FM Store is detailed

Field trip right on target for cancer patient

U.S. Hispanic leaders on AIPAC tour of Israel
Hitler privately listened to Jewish musicians

Kaliningrad new haven for old scourge of Nazism

Benedict XVI meets with Tadeusz Rydzyk

ADL seeks papal denunciation of Father Rydzyk

 Wiesenthal Center hopes Pope will tell what
transpired at last Sunday's meeting with Rydzyk

 New West End Synagogue cited as historic building
Garry Fabian: Anti-Semitic web posting roils cricket world

 Garry Fabian: Extradition trial date moves closer for Zentai
Garry Fabian: U.S. Jewish teens camp and tour Australia
Forum #1 A protest and the letter; did NJDC help or harm?
Forum #2 Removal of Jewish residents from Hebron
Forum # 3  Holocaust history and the Bergson group
SD Jewish World announces new readers' forum
IBL sets August 19 for open tryout date

Esequier Pie hurls his second IBL no-hitter

Tuesday, August 7
 

Norway severs its Hamas diplomatic ties 

Terrorist rocket falls on children in Gaza

U.S. university presidents say to British academics:
If you boycott Israel, you should boycott us too

Ira Sharkansky: Israeli media frenzied over negotiations about
Palestinian state, Holocaust pensioners

Christian mosaic found in ancient Jewish town

Peres praises joint water projects with India
Anti-Semites deface Jewish cemetery in Poland
Holocaust historian Hilberg dies at 81

 State Department self-interviews on Middle East

 State Department agrees to revise its background
 materials on Germany to better reflect Holocaust

Weiner renews call for clemency for Pollard
Intensive ADL program teaches Holocaust to Catholics

Ner Tamid Synagogue will salute JWV Aug. 11

 Nataniel Edelstein: Netanya's Kerfeld out-threw Thew of Ra'anana

 El Viaje exhibit focuses on Latin Jewish artists
Monday, August 6
Livni lectures Norway's FM on danger of Hamas

 Wiesenthal Center praises UN on resolution calling for release of kidnapped Israeli soldiers
Olmert denounces survivor protests against stipend
More on the Shimon Peres visit with Condoleezza Rice

 Jewish-born French Cardinal Lustiger dies at 80

 University of Cambridge opposes Israel academic boycott

Diplomat who denies Armenian genocide by Turks is withdrawn as nominee for ambassadorship
Resolutions censuring Bush, Cheney and Gonzales simultaneously introduced in Senate and House

 AJC salutes Defense report on proselytizing
Brazil-Syria cooperation pact draws strong criticism

 D.A, Sheriff team up to offer citizen's academy

 Davis tells of vote against warrantless wiretapping

 Game and home run derby won by Miracle

 Donald H. Harrison: Baseball league may help Israelis fight stress
Sunday, August 5
 Technion scientist develops theoretical time machine: it would help travelers from future come to our time

 IDF Class, including women, begins Artillery Corps training
European Socialists to be briefed on Middle East
Hebrew University reaches agreement to market drug for epilepsy, other neurological disorders

 Tel Aviv University announces device to improve gas mileage on trucks traveling at highway speeds

Genes to 'broadcast' their 'news' via MRI readings
Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind is now a tzedakah project for bar and bat mitzvah students
News sleuths

 Nathaniel Edelstein: Lightning batters fan 11 times, yet still win 3-2

Sheila Orysiek: The disciplines of Torah.... and of the ballet

 Cynthia Citron: Margulies' Sight Unseen should not be left unseen


Saturday, August 4

 Ira Sharkansky: The Middle East is not the American Midwest
ZOA says it is 'shocked' by Tibi editorial in Al-Quds

 Donald H. Harrison: Bonds, Muslims and Scrolls—An editor's views

Sheila Orysiek: After Five Hundred Years – A Daughter Returns
Yoni Peres: Burgers and prayers: Scenes at IBL All-Star game



 Friday, August 3
Bangladeshi journalist facing death for resisting radical Islam receives AJC tributes

 UN agency for Palestinian refugees condemns Israeli incursion into southern Gaza school

U.S. House seeks Interpol arrests in AMIA bombing
ADL calls for release of Korean hostages; expresses solidarity with families and friends
Chabad now has its own news website
Rabbi Baruch Lederman: A parable of the donkey trapped in the well
Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal: Now, Israel has different kinds of milk and honey
Blue Sox sock Miracle 8-0

 Yoni Peres: Restless lawyer, editor, stockbroker Feingold now a pitcher for Israel Baseball League's Tigers
Thursday, August 2
 Rice: Olmert and Abbas should 'deepen' dialogue;

Abbas: Hamas must restore status quo ante

 One hundred fourteen Congress members oppose Saudi arms deal in letter to Bush

 U.S. to block the assets of any person or group
found to be attempting to destabilize Lebanon

Olmert to Saud: Israel also interested in 'serious and meaningful' discussions at international meeting

Peres Diary: President visits Jewish, Arab communities in Galilee

 U.N. says Gaza economy continues to deteriorate

Bill inspired by 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut would permit victims to sue terrorist nations

 Israel to help Macedonia battle wildfires

Touring Jews break into Majdanek, pay damages
Davis co-sponsors legislation to encourage American students to learn Chinese
NJDC slams Romney for praising Hezbollah

 Hadassah will cosponsor 'stem cell summit'

JINSA advisor to head JFK Airport security

 AJC says high fuel efficiency requirements are necessity for promoting  energy independence

Reform Judaism's Saperstein, NCJW  press Senate to pass bill providing children's health coverage

 National Council of Jewish Women praises House vote
News Sleuths: Rice sees 'a new kind of hope' in Middle East


Jewish Grapevine

Local Christians, Jews contribute to repair of Israeli schools

In midst of Vick case, Rep. Ackerman offers legislation to toughen dog fighting penalties

 Congresswoman Berkley says investigation should continue into Tillman's death circumstances

 Natahaniel Edelstein: Tel Aviv's Prebble shuts out Bet Shemesh Blue Sox
David Strom: Book Review: What turned Adolf Eichmann into a murdering Nazi?


Wednesday, August 1
 Rice in Israel: 'We are not going to abandon the people of Gaza to Hamas

Substantive' Israeli-Palestinian conference would be likely to attract serious interest from Saudis

U.S. House adopts bill authorizing states and local governments to pass Iran divestment laws

 Peres invites President Bush through Secretary Rice to come to Israel for the celebration of its 60th anniversary next year

 Peres calls Iran's Ahmadinejad 'an unbelievable joke'; says Lebanon's Nasrallah 'acts stupidly'

Dor Blech: President Peres surprises IDF recruits with visit

House unit passes bill affirming Lebanese sovereignty and U.S. aid to resist overthrow

Bar Ben-Ari:Israeli women accepting IDF combat roles
Shoah survivors call $22 monthly increase  'disgraceful'

 Wiesenthal Center protests Danish decision on award to Holocaust denier Erik Haaest

 Israeli sponsored exhibit on anti-Semitism opens in Berlin
Foreign ministries of Israel, Sri Lanka swap notes
Garry Fabian: South Australian scandal threatens its kashrut

Garry Fabian: JNF Australia backs land bill in Knesset

 Garry Fabain: New president for National Council of Jewish Women-Australia
NCJW applauds passage of bill fighting pay discrimination against women

Education Committee names Yarmuth as 'Outstanding New Member' of the Congress
Jews in the News

News Sleuths

Jewish Grapevine

Norman Greene: Five years later, Marla Bennett's spirit lives on

With help of Modi'in, Bet Shemesh widens lead over Tel Aviv

Merle Fischlowitz: 'Journey to the Copper Age' exhibit proves to be a fascinating leap back into time