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• Swastikas drawn on campaign posters

  September 1, 2008 9:00am

  Swastikas were scrawled on campaign posters for a Jewish candidate running for the New York state Senate.

• Soldiers shoot mentally challenged Palestinian

  September 1, 2008 9:00am

  Israeli soldiers shot and critically injured a mentally challenged Palestinian man.

• Pelosi: Hitting Iran counterproductive

  May 19, 2008 9:00am

  Military strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities would be counterproductive, Nancy Pelosi said.

• Bin Laden: Break Gaza blockade

  May 19, 2008 9:00am

  A recorded message purportedly from Osama bin Laden called on Muslims to break the Israeli-led embargo on Gaza.

• Barak: Labor should prepare to beat Kadima

  May 19, 2008 9:00am

  Israel’s Labor Party should prepare to challenge Kadima for the national leadership within months, Ehud Barak said.

• Postville a clarion call

  May 18, 2008 9:00am

  As Jews, it is our obligation to advocate for fair treatment of the 390 detainees in Postville and the millions of other undocumented workers nationally, who are “strangers in a strange land,” HIAS President Gideon Aronoff writes.

• Abbas said to be weighing resignation

  May 18, 2008 9:00am

  Mahmoud Abbas told an Israeli lawmaker that he could resign if there is no progress in talks on founding a Palestinian state.

• Will Elder, Mad artist, dies

  May 18, 2008 9:00am

  Will Elder, the Mad Magazine artist who helped introduce Yiddishisms and Borscht Belt humor into the American lexicon, has died.

• London cars rally to Israel

  May 18, 2008 9:00am

  A road rally starting in London will end in Jerusalem, where two participants will make aliyah.

• Jewish culture awards announced

  May 18, 2008 9:00am

  An Israeli choreographer and an American professor of performance studies will receive Jewish Cultural Achievement Awards.