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Breaking News A California-based foundation that doles out about $12 million per year was forced to close as a result of the securities scheme orchestrated by Bernard Madoff, JTA has learned. Yeshiva University has suffered major losses related to the securities fraud of Bernard Madoff, sources close to the university said. Israel prevented a U.N. human rights envoy from entering the country. Demonstrators protested an appearance by Norman Finkelstein at a Cleveland university. The terror attack on the Mumbai Chabad House was punishment from God, a Neturei Karta leaflet said. Jews and Muslims marched through Paris to show outrage at the desecration of more than 500 Muslim and up to 20 Jewish graves. A former refusenik who emigrated from Russia in 1991 was elected president of the advocacy group NCSJ. Most Jewish Diaspora youth say the Holocaust has shaped their worldview but does not play a role in their Jewish identity, a survey found. Representatives of Hezbollah are scheduled to speak in the conference hall of the Belgian Parliament. The leader of the Reform movement suggested that cash-strapped synagogues could merge with Conservative congregations. Police postponed a controversial "Jewish pride" march through an Arab-Israeli town in northern Israel. Israel released more than 200 Palestinian prisoners.

Featured Stories Madoff scandal rocks Jewish philanthropic world Richard Joel is president of Yeshiva University, which is said to be at risk of losing at least $100 million in connection with Bernard Madoff's alleged financial scheme. (Ben Harris) The Jewish nonprofit world has been rocked by the securities fraud of Bernard Madoff, and the worst may be yet to come. Read more » Massachusetts community reels from Lappin Foundation collapse The Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation, a pillar of the North Shore community and a supporter of popular programming like the Youth to Israel program, closed its doors Friday, another in a mounting list of Jewish casualties of the still-unfolding Bernard Madoff financial scam. Read more »

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The Fundermentalist tracks the Madoff scandal Among the casualties of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme: The Ramaz School, Yeshiva University, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, the L.A. Jewish Community Foundation, the now-defunct Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation, the now-defunct Chais Family Foundation, Mort Zuckerman, Elie Wiesel, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Steven Spielberg's charity.

Political Tidbits: Carter disturbed by Obama on Jerusalem Jimmy Carter was disturbed by Obama's call for an undivided Jerusalem. Al Franken could actually beat Norm Coleman, AP reports. Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is in Israel on a trade mission. Michael Crowley doubts reports that Obama would provide Israel with a "nuclear umbrella."

'Tis the season to be politically magnanimous The top Reform rabbi praises President Bush, while a leading haredi spokesman tells his fellow Orthodox Jews to get over their anti-Obama paranoia.

Obstacles to peace In citing obstacles to Israeli-Palestinian peace, why does the Israel Policy Forum's M.J. Rosenberg give Palestinian terrorism a pass?

Another Indian hero emerges from Mumbai Meanwhile, debate continues over whether the terrorists were targeting Jews or Israelis when they hit the Chabad House.