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Featured Stories After swine flu: Finding camp at home Micah Rodman returns for a week of R & R -- recovery and relaxation -- after coming down with a fever. (Edmon J.Rodman) A father recounts the experience of bringing his son back from camp. Read more » S.F. festival under fire over plan to screen Rachel Corrie film The president of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival has stepped down amid controversy over the decision to screen a film that investigates the death of anti-Israel activist Rachel Corrie, and invite her mother, Cindy Corrie, to speak afterward. Read more »

Anti-Semitic attacks in Britain at record high

The number of anti-Semitic crimes in Britain recorded during the first half of this year was higher than the entire previous year. Read more »

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Family honor Coverage of Thursday's arrests in the New Jersey corruption probe focuses on the roles of two scions of prominent Syrian Jewish families.

Freeze the freeze talk Over at Foreign Policy's The Cable, Laura Rozen extracts something of a consensus on the Obama administration's emphasis on a settlement freeze: Everyone wonders if a freeze is the right thing to stress right now.

Rabbis & imams More than two dozen imams and rabbis from nine European countries visited the White House Thursday to pledge their participation in efforts to combat anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.

The politics of intermarriage The New York Jewish Week checks in on U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner's love life and wonders whether his engagement to a Muslim woman will hurt him politically.

New Israel Fund's red lines The NIF sheds some light on the red lines that would disqualify grantees.

Loose Change: Gratz dean steps down, Hebrew schools and shuls adapt, and courting Saudis The Fundermentalist delivers his weekly roundup of the Jewish media. Breaking News The Senate approved legislation calling on the president to implement stiffer sanctions on Iran if it does not stop its nuclear program by late this year. The United States is not contemplating economic action against Israel, a State Department spokesman said. The United Nations said Hezbollah violated the ceasefire ending the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war in Lebanon. UNRWA denied a report that its top official fled the Gaza Strip after Hamas threatened him for not coordinating disbursement of funds. Israel arrested a Palestinian suspected of involvement in several terrorist attacks. A Jewish group is concerned about a lecture series by a Hamas supporter at a Toronto university. The number of anti-Semitic crimes in Britain recorded during the first half of this year was higher than the entire previous year. A Ukrainian middle school teacher convicted of hate speech is still on the job. A Holocaust survivor from New York state was killed in a traffic accident while visiting Australia. Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo is set to play himself in an Iranian movie about a Palestinian girl who was killed in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Israeli police have created a special unit to direct large-scale evacuations of unauthorized settlement outposts. Romania indicted nearly two dozen Bucharest-based Israeli fertility doctors in a human egg trafficking scandal. "Nakba," the Arabic term meaning "catastrophe" used to describe the creation of the State of Israel, will be removed from school textbooks. Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman joined the chorus of criticism against Germany for honoring staunch anti-Israel activist Felicia Langer. The Dead Sea is one of 28 finalists in an international competition to name the seven natural wonders of the world. France questioned Israel's ambassador over settlement policy as Switzerland called on Israel to halt settlement construction.