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Monday, March 30, 2009

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Featured Stories Is financial crisis fueling Europe's far right? European Jews are concerned that the global financial meltdown could fuel antipathy against Jews and demonstrations like this one in Berlin in January 2009. (Toby Axelrod) As the global financial crisis deepens, Jews in Europe are concerned about far-right movements rekindling old stereotypes about Jews and money, and fueling anti-Semitism. Read more » As Jewish givers pull back in FSU, Christian group steps in With the financial crisis spreading in the former Soviet Union, longtime sources of Jewish funding have cut back while a Christian group from the United States has stepped up its giving. Read more »

Who said anything about anti-Semitism? The problem with Roger Cohen isn't anti-Semitism; it's bad journalism, writes JTA Managing Editor Uriel Heilman.

Neocon reunion Laura Rozen of ForeignPolicy.com reports that the two founders of the neoconservative Project for the New American Century, William Kristol and Robert Kagan, have teamed up again -- this time with fomer Bush administration official Dan Senor -- to form a new think tank aimed at fighting isolationism. Breaking News The U.S. defense secretary said economic sanctions would be more successful than diplomacy in dealing with Iran. A Lithuanian plan to sell a building that once housed the Vilna Ghetto Jewish library was halted by the U.S. Embassy, JTA has learned. Benjamin Netanyahu began naming Cabinet ministers from his Likud Party. Israel Railways is dismissing at least 40 Israeli Arab workers, as well as Jews who did not serve in the army. An e-mail campaign to help Elie Wiesel's foundation in the aftermath of the Bernard Madoff scandal has raised $400,000. Hamas swept the 11 seats in voting for the teachers' union at U.N. schools in Gaza Strip. A group of seven leading House Democrats called on President Obama to take "urgent action" to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. A Catholic archbishop in Brazil minimized the Holocaust and declared that Jews dominate the world media. Israeli airlines will not be blacklisted in Europe. Ukraine returned more Torah scrolls to local Jewish communities. Iran, Saudi Arabia and Sudan are back on a U.S. list of countries that severely violate religious freedoms. A U.S. court ordered Iran to pay $25 million in restitution to the family of an Israeli soldier. Ehud Olmert wished his successor well during farewell remarks at the weekly Cabinet meeting. Israel used unmanned drones to attack Iranian convoys in Sudan on their way to smuggle arms into Gaza, a British newspaper reported. An Athens appeals court acquitted a well-known Greek neo-Nazi of Holocaust denial. A high-level Iranian official said that Iran will not dialogue with the United States until Iran has a nuclear bomb. Russian Jewish billionaire Lev Leviev's Africa Israel Group announced the largest loss in Israel's history. Workers at the Western Wall removed notes from the holy site's cracks in preparation for Passover.