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Analysis: the corruption of Ehud Olmert
Jerusalem PostJun 13, 2008
JERUSALEM In 1988, reporting on a visit by then-prime minister Yitzhak Shamir to the US, then Jerusalem Post Washington correspondent Wolf Blitzer noted:...
Obama’s ‘united Jerusalem’: no barbed wires
JTAJun 13, 2008
By Hillary Leila Krieger, JTA JERUSALEM — Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama did not rule out Palestinian sovereignty over parts of Jerusalem...
Kosher Meat shortage
Sue Fishkoff, JTAJun 13, 2008
NEW YORK — Jacqueline Lankry doesnt know how she’s going to fill her orders. Owner of her own kosher catering firm in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Lankry orders...
Tommy Lapid, brash political figure, dies
Roy Eitan, JTAJun 06, 2008
TEL AVIV Yosef Lapid, among the most politically incorrect figures of Israeli politics, died of cancer Sunday, June 1, 2008. He was 77. Known to friends and foes...
Slaughterhouse owner decries ‘lynching press’
Ben Harris, JTAJun 05, 2008
NEW YORK Aaron Rubashkin, the owner of the embattled kosher slaughterhouse Agriprocessors, denies he has engaged in unethical labor practices and blames the failure...
An Obama-Clinton lovefest at AIPAC
JTAJun 05, 2008
By Ami Eden, JTA WASHINGTON — After months of seeking to paint each other as opposites on Middle East policy, US Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were on the...
Was Olmert bribed? Talansky testifies
JTAMay 29, 2008
JERUSALEM After weeks of legal limbo and widespread speculation about his role in Prime Minister Ehud Olmerts latest corruption scandal, American Jewish businessman...
Will Israel return Golan Heights? Olmert gives mixed messages
JTAMay 29, 2008
JERUSALEM The skepticism that greeted Ehud Olmerts announcement that Israel and Syria are renewing peace talks underscores the domestic challenges the prime...
Amidst Bush’s visit to Israel, rocket attacks
JTAMay 23, 2008
JERUSALEM Fifteen people were wounded, including four seriously, by a Grad-model Katyusha rocket that scored a direct hit on a shopping center in Ashkelon on May 14...
Iowa copes with fall out from raid
Ben Harris, JTAMay 23, 2008
WATERLOO, Iowa In a makeshift courthouse at a cattle exhibition center here, Angela Noemi Lastor-Gomez appeared before a federal magistrate judge on charges that she...
