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Comments (0)Jewish ice dancer Charlie White took a silver medal at the Winter Olympics.
White, with partner Meryl Davis, edged fellow Americans and 2006 silver medalists Ben Agosto and Tanith Belbin, who finished fourth at the Vancouver Games. Agosto also is Jewish.
“We had three great programs, so we are very happy,” White said Monday, according to the Vancouver Sun.
Israel’s brother-and-sister ice dancing team of Roman and Alexandra Zaretsky finished 10th. They performed to music from “Schindler’s List” in the free dance Monday night at the Pacific Coliseum. The music was chosen in part as a tribute to 27 family members that died in Minsk, Belarus, during the Holocaust, the Jewish Chronicle reported.
“The music is amazing. We just weren’t sure we could skate it or not,” Roman Zaretsky told The Star-Ledger, a New Jersey newspaper. “I think it brought the balance—music and skating together. It doesn’t matter when you hear it, it’s the greatest music, and we wanted to try it.”
Iran Says It’s Ready to Swap Uranium
Iran says it is ready to hand over its enriched uranium in exchange for fuel rods to power a medical research reactor.
The exchange must take place on Iranian territory, the Islamic Republic said in a confidential letter, The Associated Press reported Tuesday.
The condition would likely be rejected by the United States and other world powers, which want to get the nuclear material out of Iran to prevent it from stockpiling enough to power a nuclear weapon. Iran says its nuclear program is strictly for civilian use.
“In order to bring about a constructive interaction, we have declared our readiness for fuel swap, provided it is done within the country [Iran],” Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said, according to Reuters. “We are prepared for a fuel swap even though we do not regard this condition of supplying fuel to the Tehran research reactor through a swap as correct.”
The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, brokered a deal six months ago that would have seen Iran exporting the majority of its low-enriched uranium to be further enriched and made into fuel rods in two European countries.
Suspect in Cairo Synagogue Attack Arrested
Egyptian police arrested a suspect in the attack on Cairo’s central synagogue.
Gamal Hussein Ahmed, 49, a tailor and a known drug addict, was arrested early Tuesday morning while on his way to the American Embassy to seek political asylum, Egyptian police told news agencies.
Ahmed told investigators that he committed the crime because he was “angry at what is taking place in the Palestinian territories,” Ynet reported.
On Sunday, a man who police believe was Ahmed threw a suitcase containing gasoline and an igniter at the Shaar Hashamayim synagogue. The bomb exploded on the sidewalk outside the synagogue but no one was injured and the synagogue was undamaged, Reuters reported.
The attacker, who reportedly had checked into a hotel across the street from the synagogue, fled the scene.
The Shaar Hashamayim synagogue is the only one in Egypt that still holds services, though just on Jewish holidays. It was built in 1899.