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Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Report: Iranian schools teach hate
Iranian schools teach hatred of Christians, Jews and the West, according to a new study.
The analysis by researchers with the Center for Monitoring Peace in the Middle East found examples of anti-Western hatred and anti-Semitic hatred in many of 115 textbooks used in grades 1 to 12.
In one third-grade textbook, inhabitants of a clean town chase away a repugnant figure wearing a Star of David.
Full results of the analysis, conducted by the center and the American Jewish Committee, are scheduled to be released later this year
Sinai advisory reissued
Israel reissued a warning to its citizens not to travel to the Sinai Peninsula.
The government’s Counter-Terrorism Unit, which has had a top-priority alert in place for months over possible attacks in Egypt’s Sinai and Red Sea resorts, put out statements Tuesday that the threat level was considered higher than ever.
No further details were given.
Addressing the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin said the area was fast becoming a nerve-center of arms smuggling and terrorism, and predicted that if the problem is not addressed, the desert peninsula would be a “strategic threat” to Israel within three to five years.
ADL: U.S. papers back Israel
U.S. newspaper editorials and political cartoons backed Israel in its recent war against Hezbollah, the Anti-Defamation League found.
The ADL came to the conclusion after it surveyed 33 large-circulation American dailies during the war.
Thirty-one of the papers wanted Hezbollah to be disarmed or displaced from southern Lebanon, the ADL found.
Chabad dedicates new center in China
Chabad dedicated a new community center in China.
The Rohr Chabad Community Centre in Beijing, dedicated Sunday, includes a grade school, nursery school, kosher kitchen and mikvah.
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