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Friday, June 26, 2009

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Featured Stories Israel wrestles with settler challenge A Muslim grave in Hebron defaced with a Star of David, Dec. 4, 2008. (Brian Hendler) Bringing radical Jewish settlers under control and enforcing evacuation orders for illegal West Bank outposts has proved a conundrum for successive Israeli governments. Will the new Israeli government be any different? Read more » Mass converts pose dilemma for Latin American Jews Facing growing numbers of would-be converts, Latin American Jewish communities are worried about being overwhelmed by mass conversions and having to filter out those whose motivations are not genuine. In the meantime, converts finding it hard to gain Jewish communal acceptance are creating new Jewish communities of their own. Read more »

Bringing Shalit home

Three years since Gilad Shalit's kidnapping and with fresh talk of a deal in the works to release him, Ha'aretz offers a profile of the Shalit family's struggle to bring Gilad home.

Loose Change: One-third of Americans blame Jews for crisis

In his weekly roundup of the Jewish press, The Fundermentalist finds that Baltimore is not cutting allocations despite fund-raising shortfalls, Bernie Madoff's victims talk to the Forward and a poll showing that one-third of Americans in some way blame Jews for the economic downturn is stirring debate.

Breaking News

The foreign ministers of the Group of Eight countries have called on Israel to halt all West Bank settlement construction.

Avigdor Lieberman says the Obama's administration demand that Israel stop building settlements is a mistake.

Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit will soon be transferred to Egypt as part of a larger prisoner swap, according to European diplomatic sources.

An Israeli basketball player was picked in the first round of the NBA Draft for the first time.

Thousands of marchers took part in Jerusalem's annual gay pride parade with a relatively small number of protesters.

Dennis Ross is officially moving to the National Security Council.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad demanded that President Obama apologize for criticizing the Iranian government's crackdown on protesters.

The troubled Iowa meatpacker Agriprocessors is set to be sold.

George Mitchell said he hoped Israelis and Palestinians would begin meaningful and productive negotiations in the near future.

The Anti-Defamation League testified Thursday at the Senate Judiciary Committee in support pf hate-crimes legislation.

An Israeli defense contractor will supply Israel's Transportation Ministry with an anti-missile system to protect commercial aircraft.

A top Reform Jewish leader was among the speakers at an interfaith rally and prayer service for health-care reform in the United States.

A court ruling allowing the opening on the Sabbath of a privately operated parking lot near the Old City was expected to spark protests Friday night.