http://www.newser.com/2008 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorThu, 20 Nov 2008 3:32:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43131/israel-target-in-syria-likely-nuclear-site-un.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe Syrian facility Israel bombed last year looks a lot like a nuclear reactor, UN inspectors said today, though they stopped short of calling it one. The independent investigation found manipulated uranium and features like large cooling pumps that are hallmarks of a nuclear site, the Washington Post reports. Syria denies the claim and suggests the uranium came from Israeli weapons.http://www.newser.com/story/43131/israel-target-in-syria-likely-nuclear-site-un.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 19 Nov 2008 14:37:49 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42597/first-jewish-president-delights-chicago-faithful.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThough there was doubt during the campaign of broad Jewish support for Barack Obama, the Chicago Jewish community didn't share it, Haaretz reports. “I said with a smile that he will be the first Jewish president,” said one community leader and who traveled with Obama to Israel in 2006. “He also has a deep understanding of issues that confront Israel and the Jewish community.”http://www.newser.com/story/42597/first-jewish-president-delights-chicago-faithful.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 13 Nov 2008 11:45:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42364/jerusalem-votes-in-bizarre-race-for-mayor.html?refid=rss_all_defaultJerusalem went to the polls to elect a mayor today, and the selection of candidates is nothing if not eccentric, Time reports. Sure to capture the Orthodox Jewish vote is Meir Porush, a rabbi with a visage so imposing his campaign uses a cartoon on its posters. Vying for the secular Jews who fear Porush's extreme religiosity are former venture capitalist Nir Barkat and Jewish-Russian billionaire Arkady Gaydamak, enigmatic owner of Jerusalem’s Beitar soccer team.http://www.newser.com/story/42364/jerusalem-votes-in-bizarre-race-for-mayor.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 11 Nov 2008 14:31:12 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/41952/bush-wont-see-mideast-deal-during-term.html?refid=rss_all_defaultIsrael and the Palestinians won’t likely reach a peace agreement by the 2009 deadline set at the Annapolis negotiations a year ago, the White House said today. The Bush administration began to question the feasibility of the deadline when a corruption scandal ousted PM Ehud Olmert and set the stage for a new leader to be chosen in February, AP reports.http://www.newser.com/story/41952/bush-wont-see-mideast-deal-during-term.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 06 Nov 2008 16:15:43 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/41768/israel-launches-raid-on-gaza.html?refid=rss_all_defaultIsraeli tanks have attacked Hamas positions in Gaza in the first armed incursion into the region since a truce negotiated in June. At least six Hamas militants have been killed, reports the BBC. Fighting broke out after Israeli troops uncovered a tunnel along the Gaza border which they claim was going to be used to abduct Israeli soldiers.http://www.newser.com/story/41768/israel-launches-raid-on-gaza.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 04 Nov 2008 21:12:58 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/39938/syria-formalizes-lebanon-ties.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSyria today established formal diplomatic relations with Lebanon for the first time since the nations won independence in the 1940s, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Bashir al-Assad’s regime sent its first-ever ambassador to Iraq yesterday, moves one expert says show Syria “wants to play ball with the world.” Beirut welcomed today's news, saying relations with Damascus are “more brotherly than ever.”http://www.newser.com/story/39938/syria-formalizes-lebanon-ties.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 14 Oct 2008 13:25:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/39515/riots-in-n-israeli-city-mar-yom-kippur.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe Israeli city of Acre descended into rioting today after a group of Jewish youths attacked an Arab man who was driving on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. The young men allegedly shouted anti-Muslim epithets at the driver before several younger Arabs came to his defense. As news spread of the altercation, Jewish and Arab gangs took to the streets and destroyed dozens of cars and shops, Haaretz reports.http://www.newser.com/story/39515/riots-in-n-israeli-city-mar-yom-kippur.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 09 Oct 2008 4:48:06 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/39434/sarah-silverman-you-dont-get-jewish-voters.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSarah Silverman may be urging young Jews to persuade their bubbies in Florida to vote for Barack Obama, but older Jews are right to be uneasy with the Democrat, writes Anat Hakim in the Los Angeles Times . Much of Obama’s history has Jews feeling that “something is just not right” with him, and worrying “that Obama will, to put it charitably, not serve Israel well.”http://www.newser.com/story/39434/sarah-silverman-you-dont-get-jewish-voters.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 08 Oct 2008 8:11:46 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/39286/french-fm-mistakenly-says-israel-can-eat-iran.html?refid=rss_all_defaultA slip of the "h" landed France's foreign minister in hot water yesterday, Reuters reports. Bernard Kouchner told an Israeli newspaper that a nuclear weapon would not protect Iran "because you will eat them before." France shot off a quick statement explaining that Kouchner, like many English speakers in France, dropped the "h" in "hit" and came up with "eat."http://www.newser.com/story/39286/french-fm-mistakenly-says-israel-can-eat-iran.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 06 Oct 2008 17:05:47 CDT