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Iran’s state-run news network blames ‘Israeli death squads’ for Sandy Hook shooting – Washington Post, USA

21 Dec 2012 Iran’s state-run media outlet ‘PressTV’, which broadcasts in English, has carried a story blaming Israel for the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary.  READ MORE »

Jewish soprano still singing in Vienna at the age of 95 – Associated Press, USA

21 Dec 2012 Early in her career, Nazi sympathizers tried, and failed to derail Hilde Zadek’s budding career. READ MORE »

Jewish community security group urges ‘tabletop’ attack simulations – JTA, USA

21 Dec 2012 The security arm of two American Jewish community groups is urging communities to run ‘tabletop’ exercises simulating attacks in the wake of last week’s deadly assault on a school in Connecticut. READ MORE »

Israel and Cyprus to cooperate on civil protection – Cyprus Mail

21 Dec 2012 Cyprus and Israel have signed a memorandum of understanding concerning bilateral cooperation and mutual assistance in the field of disaster management and civil protection.  READ MORE »

Israel says it will build settlements in East Jerusalem neighborhoods – CNN, USA

21 Dec 2012 A day after the US State Department strongly condemned Israel’s plans to build a 1,500-unit settlement in East Jerusalem, Israel announced it would continue a plan to build settlements in other neighborhoods of the Israeli capital. READ MORE »

Lost tombstones recovered from destroyed Jewish cemetery in Greece- Associated Press, USA

21 Dec 2012 In a find that local Jewish groups have described as highly significant, Greek police said Thursday that hundreds of marble headstones and other fragments from Jewish graves destroyed during the Nazi occupation in World War II have been recovered.  READ MORE »

Lyn Julius: How Algeria lost its Jews – Times of Israel

20 Dec 2012 The issue has been neglected by France because the 130,000 Jews were subsumed into the great mass of pied noirs – the 800, 000 French settlers who fled Algeria. READ MORE »