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Featured Stories Taking office, Netanyahu continues balancing act Benjamin Netanyahu, left, speaks with Ehud Olmert during the swearing-in of Netanyahu's new coalition in the Knesset in Jerusalem on March 31, 2009. (Amos Ben Gershom / BPH Images) Benjamin Netanyahu's careful articulations in his inaugural address left uncertain where he stands on the most contentious issue in Israel, and between Israel and governments overseas. Will he be able to keep up his balancing act? Read more » Study: Ethnic identification on the wane, spirituality rising among Jews A new study finds that ethnic identification is on the wane for American Jews, replaced with identification through spirituality, and that this trend will have significant policy implications. Read more »

In reversal, U.S. to join U.N. rights council

The United States will seek to join the U.N. Human Rights Council, reversing its policy of shunning the group and prompting concern among some Jewish organizations. Read more »

The 32nd Israeli Cabinet

A list, by party, of the government ministers sworn in Tuesday. Read more »

Editors' Picks

Netanyahu on Iran: You take care of it, or we will Benjamin Netanyahu talks tough on Iran with The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg.

Can Bibi and Barack get along? Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Yossi Klein Halevi outlines his Netanyahu-Obama peace plan.

Where rich and poor are equal The New York Times looks at efforts to provide the Jewish poor with proper burials. Breaking News President Obama must stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons or Israel will attack, Benjamin Netanyahu said. Israel is not obligated by commitments made at the 2007 Annapolis conference, Avigdor Lieberman said. Anti-Semitism in Canada is "at an all-time high," according to the findings of an annual audit. The U.S. House majority leader said United Jewish Communities "does God's work." Shmurah matzah prices in the New York area are up slightly this Passover, but with kosher wine there's seemingly no limit. A Minnesota panel dealt a blow to Norm Coleman's hopes for reversing a vote recount in his reelection bid for the U.S. Senate. Mahmoud Abbas said Israel's new prime minister does not believe in peace. A fervently Orthodox Ashkenazi party joined the Likud government coalition. A Canadian-Lebanese man suspected of bombing a Paris synagogue in 1980 will be confined to house arrest, an Ottawa court ruled. Ruth Messinger was among the Darfur activists who met with President Obama and members of Congress. A U.N. official wants "friends of Palestine" to visit Israel and "friends of Israel" to visit Gaza. Investigators discovered a mass grave for 200 Jews in a western Ukrainian city. Ukrainian Jewish community leaders and Jews in the arts received state honors.