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Featured Stories Militant anti-gay church turns its sights on Jews Westboro Baptist Church member Margie Phelps rails against Jews and Israel in a protest outside the Washington offices of the Anti-Defamation League on May 8, 2009. (Eric Fingerhut) After years of focusing on gays and lesbians with its protests, the Westboro Baptist Church has a new target -- the Jewish community. Read more » Israelis watching, waiting ahead of Obama-Bibi meeting Some Israelis are a bit jittery as their new prime minister heads to the United States next week for his first White House meeting with President Obama. Read more » Breaking News A federal court rejected a lawsuit against a gun manufacturer and dealer filed by relatives of the victims of the 1999 attack on a Los Angeles JCC. Five Austrian teenagers were arrested in connection with a neo-Nazi attack on Holocaust survivors. President Obama declared May to be Jewish American Heritage Month. A deputy company commander was discharged from the Israeli army after his rifle discharged during a riot, killing a fellow soldier. An Israeli journalist was attacked in Moscow. The United States won a seat on the the U.N. Human Rights Council. A Polish archivist who has spent his life trying to preserve Jewish monuments in Poland will receive a San Francisco foundation's annual righteous gentile award. A march mourning the State of Israel's creation will be held in the Jewish-Arab city of Acre. Six more Lebanese citizens were charged with spying for Israel, Reuters reported. Israel's Cabinet approved a two-year state budget that will cut all ministry budgets, including defense, by 6 percent. Pope Benedict XVI called for a "sovereign Palestinian homeland" during a visit to Bethlehem. Vandals attacked a monument to Jewish victims of a Russian Gulag camp. In a landmark ruling, a Holocaust revisionist living in Australia was jailed for three months for failing to remove material from his Web site. A Jewish-Arab Israeli duo won a place in the finals of the Eurovision Song Contest. Nearly 2,700 people have signed an online petition encouraging a California university chancellor to publicly condemn an annual Muslim student event. An Orthodox Jewish day school is suing an Illinois town for blocking the construction of a school building. A former police officer was fined for beheading a wax figure of Hitler last summer. A Warsaw-based organization has written to authorities in a Polish town demanding a halt to road work on the site of a Jewish cemetery.