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EJC Bi-Weekly Newsletter from 03.08.09 to 05.08.09

News

    Europe-Israel Relations
    
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to London and Berlin at the end of the month for talks on the Middle East peace process, his office announced on Monday...
Tuesday,August 4,2009
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    European Union
    
The European Union hit out Monday at Israel's "unacceptable" eviction of two Palestinian families from a neighbourhood in east Jerusalem at the weekend...
Tuesday,August 4,2009
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In an exclusive interview with EJP, Michal Kaminski, chairman of the new anti-federalist political group of European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) in the European Parliament, rejects what he calls "false accusations" of anti-Semitism brought against him by his opponents and acknowledges that some Poles have been involved in the WWII anti-Jewish pogrom of Jedwabne...
Monday,August 3,2009
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    Holocaust Memory and Education
    
African refugees, mostly from Sudan's troubled Darfur region, visited Monday the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, commemorating the the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II...
Wednesday,August 5,2009
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    Iranian Threat
    
The Obama administration is talking with allies and Congress about the possibility of imposing an extreme economic sanction against Iran if it fails to respond to President Obama's offer to negotiate on its nuclear program: cutting off the country's imports of gasoline and other refined oil products.
Tuesday,August 4,2009
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With a mass trial of more than 100 alleged dissidents under way, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was formally endorsed Monday as Iran's leader for a second term. But several of his most prominent opponents, who have called his re-election fraudulent, stayed away from the event, news reports said...
Monday,August 3,2009
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    Health and Science
    
Two Israeli companies - medical device company Medigus and specialty foundry company Tower Semiconductor - have announced their collaboration on the world's smallest medical video camera...
Tuesday,August 4,2009
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Updates from our Communities

France
    
France's Chief Rabbi Gilles Bernheim blessed 220 French Jews before they left Paris and flew to their new home of Israel last Tuesday on a special El Al flight. The next day, they followed other groups in a ceremony at the Western Wall (Kotel), where they received their Israeli identity cards, certifying their citizenship. Newly elected Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky, former prisoner of Zion, Interior Minister Eli Yishai (Shas) and Minister of Immigrant Absorption Sofa Landver (Yisrael Beiteinu) were on hand to welcome them...
Monday,August 3,2009
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Germany
    
Police commandos in Lower Saxony raided a hotel occupied by neo-Nazis on Tuesday morning after hearing shots fired on the premises...
Wednesday,August 5,2009
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Norway
    
Norway has opened a museum and unveiled a postage stamp to celebrate the 150th birthday of Norwegian Nobel literature prize laureate and Nazi sympathiser Knut Hamsun, provoking cries of outrage from a Jewish group...
Wednesday,August 5,2009
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United Kingdom
    
The House of Lords agreed on Monday to allow an appeal from a Jewish school deemed by the British High Court of Appeal to have "discriminated unlawfully" in its admissions policy...
Tuesday,August 4,2009
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Jewish World

    Link Project
    
How many young Jewish students found themselves in the situation of giving a talk about Israel in schools, Universities and in the context of the interfaith dialogue and having to prepare every time a new a presentation from the start..?
Monday,August 3,2009
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    Sports
    
Gal Nevo equaled the best ever finish by an Israeli at the swimming World Championships on Sunday, ending the 400-meter individual medley final in Rome in sixth position...
Monday,August 3,2009
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    Miscellaneous
    
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu welcomed a planeload of olim on Tuesday at Ben Gurion Airport, telling them "we're close to a tipping point"...
Tuesday,August 4,2009
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Chief Rabbinate says appalled at 'unthinkable, vile crime' that left two dead. Gay Orthodox rabbi calls on public leaders to denounce attack...
Monday,August 3,2009
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EJC Israeli Press Review

    
- Lieberman: Tibi more dangerous than Hamas and Jihad combined - Hezbollah said stockpiling 40,000 rockets - Bethlehem residents have no water because of congress
Wednesday,August 5,2009
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- Abbas: We choose peace, but reserve right to resistance - Hamas blocks 50 from leaving Strip - 'Starving mother' charged with abuse
Tuesday,August 4,2009
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- Knesset passes controversial ILA reform and 'Mofaz Law' - Lieberman: If I'm indicted for corruption I will resign - MK on anti-gay shooting: Society must come out of the closet
Monday,August 3,2009
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