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Lieberman being sidelined as foreign minister
Israeli media criticism of Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, seen at a Knesset session on June 29, 2009, has mounted over his inability to advance Israel's foreign policy interests. (Miriam Alster/Flash90/JTA) Read more »
New rules have Diaspora converts waiting on Israel
New Israeli regulations that make it more difficult for converts from the Diaspora to obtain Israeli citizenship constitute the latest chapter in the long-running battle over who is a Jew -- a question that repeatedly has strained Diaspora-Israel relations. Read more »
Top Stories
ORTs settle name dispute
Two operators of Jewish vocational schools settled a lawsuit over which can use the ORT name for fund raising in the United States. Read more »
U.S. denies settlement compromise report
The United States denied a report that it would allow the completion of 2,500 housing units in the West Bank as part of a compromise on settlements. Read more »
Op-Ed: Russia should return the Schneersohn collection
The collection of papers of the sixth Lubavitcher rebbe, Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, which is being held in Russian state archives after being seized by the Nazis, is war booty that should be returned to its rightful owners, the Jews, says former special U.S. envoy Gregg J. Rickman. Read more »
Maverick researcher Gary Tobin, 59, reached out to Jews of color
There are probably few students of American Jewry equally comfortable arguing for more aggressive efforts to grow Jewish numbers through conversion as they are assailing the hostility toward Israel of reflexively liberal academics. But Gary Tobin, who died late Monday at 59 after a long illness, was just that sort of thinker. Read more »
Blogs
The Fundermentalist
JDC faces significant budget crunch
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is facing a significant budget shortfall, according… Read Blog »
Capital J
Satmars for Obama’s Middle East policy
The mayor of Kiryas Joel, N.Y., sends a letter to the president praising his efforts to stop the “senseless… Read Blog »
The Telegraph
Trading outposts for large settlement blocs
If Benjamin Netanyahu insists on keeping illegal settlement outposts, he will be defending lawlessness… Read Blog »
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- Israel's army praised the job Palestinian security forces have been doing in the West Bank.
- Egypt arrested 26 alleged al-Qaida operatives accused of plotting attacks on foreign ships sailing through the Suez Canal.
- Four members of the Jewish Defense League were detained and questioned by French police for ransacking a pro-Palestinian bookstore in Paris.
- A leader of the anti-Zionist Satmar Chasidic movement praised President Obama's Middle East policy.
- The Hillel at Harvard University was defrauded of more than 780,000 by its accountant, the school's newspaper reported.
- IDF salutes Palestinian security forces
- Op-Ed: Israel backers must support a settlement freeze
- Egypt arrests 26 planning Suez attacks
- Op-Ed: Palestinians’ plight, Holocaust are not analogous
- JDL members arrested in Paris
- Satmar mayor praises Obama
- Harvard Hillel victim of $780,000 fraud
- ORTs settle name dispute
- The Chosen: Jewish members in the 111th U.S. Congress
- Jackson kids’ Jewish mother could regain custody
- Biden: Israel can decide for itself on Iran
- Guard shot at Holocaust museum dies
- Canadian politician sues Jewish groups
- In endorsing two states, Netanyahu adopts popular Jewish position
- Some Jewish settlers turning against Israel
- Mass converts pose dilemma for Latin American Jews
