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Saturday May 17, 2008

A purported recorded message from Osama bin Laden marks Israel's 60th anniversary with a vow to join the Palestinians in their fight.

Nancy Pelosi led a bipartisan congressional delegation to Israel to mark its 60th birthday.

Rescuers in New Zealand found the body of a missing Israeli tourist.

A bomb detonated next to a Christian school in the Gaza Strip.

U.S. lawmakers from south Florida expressed support for a local university's efforts to keep open its Holocaust center.

Open conflict with Iran would be a defeat for Israel, an Israeli government spokesperson said in Dublin.

Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann resigned in the wake of a sexual harassment scandal.

Six U.S. lawmakers marked Jewish-American Heritage Month with a tour of the national Jewish military museum.

A bill introduced in Congress would penalize plaintiffs who use looser libel laws overseas to bring frivolous lawsuits

Nearly two-thirds of Germans think of Israel as just another country, a new survey shows.

An exhibit at a Sydney library on Palestinian refugees was canceled the morning of its scheduled opening.

Russia has asked Israel to return a Russian Orthodox site in the center of Jerusalem to its control.

Australia is preparing to take Iran's president to the International Court of Justice for "incitement to genocide" and Holocaust denial.

A scheduling clash means Sydney's Jews and Palestinians will gather at the same place for fuctions on the same night.

Four synagogues were vandalized in two London neighborhoods.

The Claims Conference increased 2008 allocations to needy Holocaust survivors by $4 million.

The U.S. kosher slaughterhouse raided by federal immigration agents has launched its own investigation.


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