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NATION | PHYLACTERIES MISTAKEN FOR BOMB
PHILADELPHIA — If there's any upshot to a misunderstanding that grounded a small aircraft in Philadelphia — and most likely scared the wits out of two Jewish teenagers — it's that the general public might now know a bit more about tefillin. full story >
NATION | TED KENNEDY
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) is being remembered in the Jewish community for his huge impact on domestic issues such as education and health care, but also as a giant in the Soviet Jewry movement. full story >
NATION | JEWISH LEADERS MEET WITH OBAMA
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Top Jewish organizational leaders expressed support for President Obama's Middle East peace strategies at a White House meeting but said the president must do a better job of showing he expects hard work from all sides, not just Israel. full story >
LOCAL | MILESTONES
The first African-American woman rabbi in the United States was ordained last weekend. Cleveland native Alysa Stanton, 45, was one of 14 rabbis ordained Saturday, June 6 at the Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati. She is a graduate of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, which is affiliated with the Reform movement. full story >
WORLD | MIDEAST
(JTA) -- Reiterating his call for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, President Obama called on each side to see the conflict through the eyes of the other. full story >
NATION | REMEMBERING THE SHOAH
SKOKIE, Ill. (JUF News) -- The opening of the new Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center marks the completion of a 10-year odyssey. First imagined by local Holocaust survivors, the Skokie, Ill., museum stands as a testament to the choices survivors made "of life over loss; of hope over heartbreak," Museum Capital Campaign Chairman J.B. Pritzker told an audience of 10,000 people at the Museum's official opening on Sunday."The stories told here are not just Jewish stories, or gay and lesbian stories, or Catholic stories," Pritzker said. "They are the stories about mankind in all its dimensions." full story >
NATION | YESHIVA UNIVERSITY AFFECTED
NEW YORK — The securities fraud of Bernard Madoff has rocked the Jewish nonprofit world — and the worst may be yet to come. Madoff, the founder of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, was arrested Dec. 11 after admitting to his board that a hedge fund he ran was essentially a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. full story >
LOCAL | JEWISH FEDERATION
Jewish Federation of St. Louis reassured the public that the agency's investments were not affected by the Bernard Madoff scandal. full story >
NATION | DECISION 2008
In recent weeks, John McCain's advisers have said that Israeli-Palestinian talks would not be a priority, but in Thursday's Vice Presidential Debate Sarah Palin sounded a different note. full story >
NATION | IRAN PRESIDENT's VISIT TO UN
NEW YORK (JTA) – With speeches, fiery rhetoric and protestations of one sort of another, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his opponents in the United States faced off against each other during his latest visit to New York. full story >
NATION | AGRIPROCESSORS
NEW YORK — The filing of criminal charges against the owners of Agriprocessors has prompted the Orthodox Union, one of the meat company's kosher certifiers, to promise it will suspend its kosher supervision unless new management is hired. full story >
NATION | DECISION 2008
WASHINGTON — Joe Biden, all wrong on Israel? Sarah Palin, a Jewish woman's worst nightmare? Republicans and Democrats campaigning for the Jewish vote have flipped the traditional role of the vice-presidential candidate from "attack dog" to fresh meat. full story >
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