Israel/Mideast
Misc. news from Israel and the Middle East
JTA: Woman wearing tallit arrested at Western Wall
Jerusalem police arrested a woman praying at the Western Wall for wearing a tallit, according to JTA. The woman, who...
White House 'dismayed' by Israel's planned expansion of neighborhood in East Jerusalem
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs issued a statement on Tuesday expressing official disapproval of plans to build 900 additional units...
U.S.-born West Bank settler admits to role in attacks against Palestinians, Jews
Yaakov Teitel admitted to planting pipe bomb that wounded left-wing professor Ze'ev Sternhell last year With the recent lifting of...
White House corrects its own official on treatment of Goldstone report on war crimes in Gaza
JTA reported on Wednesday that the Obama administration would quash action on the Goldstone report, which found both Hamas and...
Israel boycott groups draw a bead on Leonard Cohen
The international movement to boycott, divest and sanction (BDS) — which evokes the sexual practices known as bondage and discipline...
Haaretz: Release of Gilad Shalit could happen before Rosh Hashana
Haaretz reports today that a prisoner swap deal for the release of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier abducted by Hamas in 2006,...
Mystical rabbis conduct anti-H1N1 prayer flyover
Video on BBC showed Jewish mystics attempting to ward off H1N1 in Israel during a flyover. First, religious Israelis refer...
Haaretz: Israeli national police recommend that FM Lieberman be indicted for bribery, money laundering
Haaretz reports that the Israeli police's National Fraud Squad recommended Sunday that Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman be indicted "for serious crimes...
Demonstrations spread across Israel after murderous rampage at gay and lesbian center in Tel Aviv
JTA reports that demonstrations took place in a number of Israeli cities, after the Saturday shooting attack at the gay and...
Haaretz: Netanyahu calls Obama's aides 'self-hating Jews'
Haaretz correspondent Barak Ravid reports today that an "atmosphere of permanent crisis has surrounded"Â Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bureau since...
