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HIAS CEO Gideon Aronoff resigns

uheilman@jta.org Citing personal reasons, Gideon Aronoff, the CEO of HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, is resigning.... [Link]

Iranian Revolutionary Guards to Hezbollah: Hands off Israel

uheilman@jta.org An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander reportedly ordered Hezbollah not to attack Israel.... [Link]

Anti-Israel group setting up battle with plans to rejoin Toronto gay pride parade

uheilman@jta.org The activist group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid is planning to return to the gay pride parade in Toronto, setting up another battle with Jewish groups and the city.... [Link]

Amid new Iran nuke rumors, Barak and Panetta to meet

uheilman@jta.org Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak will meet with his U.S. counterpart, Leon Panetta, in Washington amid reports that Iran may have achieved the capability to build a nuclear bomb.... [Link]

Paul winds down campaign but keeps delegates

uheilman@jta.org Ron Paul has effectively given up his presidential campaign but will not yet give up his delegates to Mitt Romney.... [Link]

Society of St. Pius bishop blames Jews for antagonism

uheilman@jta.org A bishop for a traditionalist Catholic breakaway group said the relationship between Jews and Christians is a fundamentally antagonistic one.... [Link]

Arno Lustiger, historian and Holocaust survivor, dies at 88

uheilman@jta.org Arno Lustiger, a Holocaust survivor and historian who put a spotlight on Jewish resistance against the Nazis, has died.... [Link]

Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld oldest to receive British fiction prize

uheilman@jta.org Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld became the oldest person to win the coveted Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.... [Link]

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