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Featured Stories Before federation parley, UJC chief addresses challenges Howard Rieger is in his final year as president and chief executive officer of the United Jewish Communities. (Robert A. Cumins) As the Jewish federation system prepares for the annual United Jewish Communities General Assembly, outgoing president and CEO Howard Rieger talks to JTA about the challenges facing his organization and the rest of the nonprofit world. Read more » Survivors say Mormons reneging on 1995 baptism pledge A Holocaust survivor organization has broken off negotiations with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints over its practice of posthumously baptizing Jewish victims of the Nazis. Read more » Op-Ed: Don't cut support to innovative nonprofits Three experts in Jewish start-ups argue that this is no time to cut support of new, innovative organizations. Read more » Fundermentalist on the loose in Israel In his greatest feat yet, The Fundermentalist heads to Israel for a week-and-a-half of blogging from three major federation-related conferences: The Lion of Judah Conference of the UJC’s National Women’s Philanthropy, the UJC General Assembly in Jerusalem and the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors meetings. Read more »

Political Tidbits: The lost tribe of Obama Israeli Bedouins claim they're related to Obama. Obama says he digs Judaism. Editor explains why he published RJC's 'reprehensible' ads. AP says no frozen chosen in Alaska. Ha'aretz talks to some of Obama's best friends who are Jewish. Principals deal with racially charged anti-Obama rhetoric at Modern Orthodox schools.

Sexual abuse complaints subpoenaed N.Y. Assemblyman Dov Hikind has collected some 1,000 complaints about sexual abuse of children. Now those complaints are being subpoenaed.

A Jewish angle to Samuel Adams? Samuel Adams -- an organizer of the Boston Tea Party, a member of the Continental Congress, a signer of the Declaration of Independence -- was not Jewish but he illustrates one of the fascinating features of the Jewish Exodus story, writes Ira Stoll in a Nextbook article pegged to the release of his new book. Breaking News A United Nations aid agency says it has run out of food for Palestinians living in Gaza. Barack Obama's pick for chief of staff topped the annual Forward list of the country's most influential Jews. Jewish groups are divided in strategy over a Supreme Court case involving the display of a religious monument. A tribe of Bedouin from northern Israel claims it is blood relatives of Barack Obama. Israel prevented 20 European Union diplomats from entering the Gaza Strip. San Francisco's Holocaust memorial was vandalized for the second time in two months. Police said three neo-Nazis attacked a Jewish man in Prague. Former Argentine officials accused of blocking the investigation into the AMIA bombing will testify before a federal judge. The publisher of an encyclopedia of racism apologized to Jewish groups that criticized its entry on Zionism