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Bibi's inner circle

After a few weeks in office, Benjamin Netanyahu has assembled an inner circle that offers some hints about the direction in which the prime minister plans to take the country. Read more »

Groups lining up with Obama on health care measures

As the health care reform debate heats up, Jewish organizations are backing the Obama administration on several key points, including the creation of a government-run public insurance option and pushing for measures that would help the rapidly aging Jewish community. Read more »

Editors' Picks

Wexler: Call the Arabs' bluff Visiting Israel, Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) tells The Jerusalem Post that Israel should agree to a short-term settlement freeze -- and put the onus on Arab states to take concrete steps toward normalization.

The Israel option Writing in The Washington Post, John Bolton says an Israeli strike is the only "timely option" for derailing the Iranian nuclear program.

Unhip Commentary D.G. Myers says Jewish hipsters are a specter haunting American Jewry, but he's just picking on an easy -- and marginal -- target, JTA's Ben Harris writes.

Hotels get modest Bowing to haredi pressure, several Israeli hotels have signed on to an agreement mandating they block TV access and views of the swimming pool.

Assalamu Alaikum Newsweek reports on the efforts of Turkish Jews to combat a rising tide of prejudice and reach out to their Muslim neighbors. Breaking News The Israeli army's top rabbi spurred calls for his dismissal after he said women should not serve in the military. Holy books and Torah scrolls were defaced and burned at a yeshiva located at the site of the evacuated Homesh settlement. A U.S. congressional delegation pressed the Lithuanian government to address the issue of restitution for property looted from Nazi and Communist eras. Amnesty International was manipulated by Hamas in its report that accused Israel of committing war crimes during its Gaza military operation, the Israeli army said. German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Israel to stop expanding settlements in the West Bank to pave the way for a two-state solution with the Palestinians. A group of youths in Moldova assaulted an elderly rabbi while screaming anti-Semitic abuse, according to a Russian Jewish news site. A Dresden politician was fined for playing loud klezmer music outside City Hall to disturb a neo-Nazi march. A "drought tax" scheduled to go into effect in Israel to force households to conserve water was postponed. A police chief who has fought against right-wing extremism in his former East German state was honored by the Jewish community. Kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was made an honorary citizen of the Italian capital. A new survey finds that a majority of immigrants from the former Soviet Union prefer life in Israel. Arson is suspected in most of some two dozen forest fires that broke out in northern Israeli forests, according to reports. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke of Israel's great appreciation for the United States at an event marking the Fourth of July