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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

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Featured Stories Iranian unrest prompts calls for more U.S. pressure on regime Iranians take to the streets of Tehran to protest the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, June 13, 2009. (Shahram Sharif/Creative Commons) With unrest mounting in Iran over official claims of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election, U.S. Jewish organizational leaders are calling for more American support for the protesters and more international action to stop the Islamic Republic's nuclear program. Read more » Tehran Jewish community cancels programs The Jewish community in Tehran canceled social and educational programs out of safety concerns during the current unrest. Read more » Breaking News President Obama said there was "positive movement" in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's policy speech. A large majority of Israelis support Benjamin Netanyahu's recent policy address, a poll found. An American-born Chabad rabbi living in South Australia has been charged with allegedly signing fake report cards to justify applications for government funding for phantom Hebrew classes. Dennis Ross will be moving from the State Department to the White House. The creation of an extreme right-wing paramilitary-style vigilante group has triggered an uproar in Italy. The head of Germany's Jewish community condemned any suggestion of negotiations with the current Iranian regime. Vandals used pigs' feet to desecrate a Holocaust memorial in Budapest. A Father's Day letter-writing campaign will urge President Obama to help bring home a kidnapped Israeli soldier. At least 10 participants in the Birthright Israel program came down with swine flu while in Israel and were quarantined. American voters' support for Israel has dropped 20 percent in the past nine months, a new survey found. Israeli and French officials said the world should heed the protests of Iranians who claim the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was rigged. A new "kosher" Internet search engine omits material not acceptable to rigorously Orthodox Jews. Demonstrators at a pro-Israel rally in Norway called for the release of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Editors' Picks Hoenlein: That's not what I said Yesterday we flagged a NewsMax interview that cited Malcolm Hoenlein as saying that concern over President Obama is rising in the Jewish community. Hoenlein, the chief executive of the main umbrella group of Jewish organizations, tells JTA that the online magazine gave the wrong impression by "conflating the questions with the answers." Dennis Ross: Movin' on up? Dennis Ross is moving over to the National Security Council -- so is he getting bumped off the Iran issue or being given more access to the White House? Giving remains strong, despite economy Writing on JTA's Fundermentalist blog, Robert Evans says charitable giving in 2008 amounted to a remarkable statement of generosity amid an economic crisis: just a 2 percent decline from record-setting giving in 2007. Neo-Nazis in the U.S. Army Why is the U.S. military ignoring its own regulations and permitting white supremacists to join? asks Salon. Where anti-Semitism is mainstream In the Middle East, James von Brunn -- the 88-year-old white supremacist who shot and killed a security guard last week at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington -- would represent mainstream public opinion, writes columnist Richard Cohen in The Washington Post. S.F. federation dips into endowment The Jewish federation in San Francisco has withdrawn $7 million from its endowment for emergency use, reports j. The Jewish Weekly of San Francisco.