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• Iran blames U.S. and U.K. for suicide attack, vows revenge
• Family who lost 29 members in Gaza war: We envy the dead
• Finance Minister: UN backing of Goldstone report is `anti-Semitic`
• Becoming Jewish men and women, decades after 13
• Thai billboard featuring Hitler causes diplomatic flap

Iran blames U.S. and U.K. for suicide attack, vows revenge Posted: 18 Oct 2009 10:35 AM PDT The Iranian armed forces have accused the United States and Britain of involvement in a suicide bombing that targeted the Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Guard on Sunday, and warned of revenge. ...

Family who lost 29 members in Gaza war: We envy the dead Posted: 18 Oct 2009 10:35 AM PDT Richard Goldstone visited the Gaza City neighborhood of Zaytoun in late June to tour the compound of the extended Samouni family, the subject of coverage here in recent weeks ("'I fed him like a baby bird,'" September 17; "Death in the Samouni compound," September 25). Twenty-nine members of the family, all of them civilians, were killed in the Israel Defense Force's winter assault - 21 during the shelling of a house where IDF soldiers had gathered some 100 members of the family a day earlier. ...

Finance Minister: UN backing of Goldstone report is `anti-Semitic` Posted: 18 Oct 2009 10:21 AM PDT Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz on Sunday accused the United Nations Human Rights Council of anti-Semitism, after the UN body endorsed a damning report on Israel's winter Gaza offensive. ...

Becoming Jewish men and women, decades after 13 Posted: 18 Oct 2009 09:57 AM PDT On the morning of October 15, as young hippie-ish Hasidim beat on drums, singing ecstatically, nine elderly Americans from a retirement village in Cincinnati celebrated their belated bar and bat mitzvahs at Jerusalem's Western Wall. ...

Thai billboard featuring Hitler causes diplomatic flap Posted: 18 Oct 2009 07:41 AM PDT A highway billboard using a saluting Adolf Hitler to advertise a Thai wax museum has been covered up after complaints from the Israeli and German ambassadors, the museum's manager said Sunday. ...

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