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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Featured Stories Will J Street money translate into influence? Democratic candidate Jared Polis, left, speaks with Jeremy Ben-Ami, the executive director of J Street at a party in Denver during the 2008 Democratic Convention. Polis was later elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. (Jay Premack) Can campaign fund-raising success translate into Capitol Hill clout for J Street, the new liberal pro-Israel organization? Read more » No final dramas for Bush in Middle East When it comes to the Middle East and the Bush-Obama transition, the most dramatic element might be the lack of drama, with the outgoing administration showing no signs of making a final push for a Palestinian state or taking swift action to stop Iran's nuclear program. Read more » Kristallnacht remembrances visit today's concerns In Berlin and Brussels, events marking the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht went beyond the past to focus on current concerns, including rising anti-Semitism and Iran's threatening posture toward Israel. Read more »

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Political Tidbits: Keeping Lieberman in the Democratic fold Obama wants Lieberman to continue caucusing with the Democrats, and Bill Clinton is making calls on Lieberman's behalf. The Coleman-Franken Senate race may last till late December. The Jewish lawyers being mentioned as possible U.S. attorney general. A Georgia congressman compares Obama to Hitler.

Israel elects new mayors One of the most closely watched mayoral races in today's municipal elections across Israel is in Jerusalem, where the vote is pivotal for a city that is Israel's poorest, still vulnerable to terrorist attacks and wracked by economic, political and religious divisions.

Battling for a Jerusalem church The argument over rights at Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre is as complicated and seemingly intractable as the Middle East conflict itself, the BBC reports.

Tolerance as antidote to anti-Semitism and racism? Is tolerance and reconciliation the antidote to racism and anti-Semitism? With several new initiatives under way to address the age-old problems, both optimists and skeptics abound. Breaking News U.S. Jewish organizational leaders are meeting with the Saudi and Bahraini kings. Voters in Jerusalem are choosing a new mayor. Joe Biden discussed Middle East peace and Iran in a phone call with Tzipi Livni. Benjamin Netanyahu would end end Israel's current negotiations with the Palestinians if elected prime minister, Netanyahu's office said. Investigators from the International Atomic Energy Agency reportedly found traces of enriched uranium in Syria. A far-right politician in Germany characterized Barack Obama's election as "the American alliance of Jews and Negroes" in a statement titled "Africa conquers the White House." Israel will resume fuel shipments to Gaza after withholding supplies pending the cessation of rocket fire from the strip. Israeli police evicted a disabled Palestinian man and his wife from their Jerusalem home of more than 50 years. The children's magazine Babaganewz will cease its print edition. A school expansion project is imperiling 85 tombs at an ancient Jewish cemetery in Spain, a Barcelona-based organization said