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- With Obama mostly silent on Gaza, Dems move to fill void: U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman, right, with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Sderot on a solidarity trip on Jan. 4, 2009, says he would be "upset and surprised" if President-elect Barack Obama "wasn't maintaining silence" on the Gaza situation. (Spencer Tucker / Office of the Mayor) Read more »
Soldier killed as Gaza op continues
An Israeli army officer was killed in central Gaza just hours before Israel suspended fighting for another humanitarian pause. Read more »
D.C. rally for Israel attracts 1,000
About a thousand people packed a Washington synagogue for a community pro-Israel rally. Read more »
Despite split on cease-fire, E.U.-Israeli ties stronger than ever
Despite public disagreements over the need for an immediate cease-fire, Israeli and European officials appear to be forging improved relations on several fronts. Read more »
Denial of bail to Rubashkin fueling legal controversy
Two organizations are protesting efforts by U.S. prosecutors to deny bail to a plant manager at Agriprocessors on the grounds that he poses an added flight risk because as a Jew he could acquire Israeli citizenship. Read more »
Captured soldier Shalit a pawn in Gaza operation
Two days into Israel's operation in the Gaza Strip, Arab media outlets began reporting that captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit had been wounded in an Israeli airstrike. Read more »
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Updated 01/08/09 @ 10:08AM EST
- A bipartisan resolution circulating in the U.S. Senate calls for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip that would guarantees an end to Hamas rocket attacks.
- Demonstrators in European capitals came out to show their support for Israel's operation in the Gaza Strip.
- Protests against Israel's operation in Gaza have come to the sports arena.
- A Sydney Jew was attacked during a pro-Palestinian rally and a major Melbourne synagogue was painted with anti-Israel slogans.
- A New Zealand newspaper editorial slammed a Catholic priest for his desecration of the memorial to Yitzhak Rabin.
- Senate resolution would back cease-fire
- Pro-Israel rallies held in London, Brussels
- Israel protested in sports venues
- Anti-Semitic incidents cross Australia
- Editorial rips priest for defacing Rabin memorial
- Jewish women protest in Toronto’s Israeli Embassy
- Palestinian trying to set gas station alight is killed
- Soldier killed as Gaza op continues
- Madoff scandal rocks Jewish philanthropic world
- California foundation forced to close
- D.C. deals with Madoff losses
- Blagojevich arrest could send Jewish rep to Senate
- Madoff fraud forces Lappin foundation to close
- Yeshiva University hit hard by Madoff fraud
- Liberals push criticism of Israel’s Gaza strikes
- Hadassah loses $90 million in Madoff scheme
