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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Featured Stories Trading a settlement freeze for action on Iran, Arab ties A settlement freeze could put a halt to construction in the West Bank, as shown here by Arab workers building new homes in the fervently Orthodox settlement Beitar Illit on June 10, 2009. (Nati Shohat/Flash90/JTA) Israel is moving closer to trading a West Bank settlement freeze for U.S. action on Iran and normalization of ties with Arab states. So far, however, the Arabs don't seem to want to play ball. Read more » Hillary to talk about Arab state obligations in peace process Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will discuss what the Obama administration wants to see from the Arab states in supporting the Palestinian Authority. Read more »

Evangelicals' rabbi wants to know why the Jews aren't saving FSU Jewry

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, the president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, which raises about $100 million per year from evangelical Christians for Jewish and Zionist causes, is miffed that the Jewish people are not coming up with more money to help Jews in the former Soviet Union. In particular, he says Israel is failing to deliver on a pledge to support Jewish schools in Russia. Read more »

Editors' Picks

Jewish is bad for PR A leading pro-Israel advocacy group has produced an internal manual suggesting that invoking the terms "Jewish state" or "Zionist state" could end up hurting Israel in the realm of public opinion.

Do Israelis care about the Maccabiah Games? A sports blogger at Reuters says no.

Lobby-mania running wild John Mearsheimer says he has David Harris of the American Jewish Committee running scared. Nonsense, say Harris' people. Either way, Kampeas the Kosher Krusher wants a piece of the Mearsheimer-Walt tag team.

The Dersh fights back Alan Dershowitz responds to those criticizing his defense of President Obama. Breaking News An Israeli pharmaceutical company has recalled two batches of an anesthetic drug connected to the investigation of Michael Jackson's death. The Orthodox Union says it is "deeply troubled" by President Obama's desire to play an "evenhanded" role in the Middle East. Tony Blair will speak at the Reform movement's 2009 biennial conference. Al-Jazeera television has been banned from operating in Palestinian-controlled territory. Israeli officials criticized a report citing Israeli soldiers who said they perpetrated human rights abuses. Police investigators told Israel's attorney general that they have enough evidence to prosecute Avigdor Lieberman, according to an Israeli newspaper. Travel and Leisure magazine's annual poll ranked Jerusalem as one of the best cities in the world for tourists. A Jewish center in Tulsa, Okla., was evacuated due to a bomb threat. A new immigrant from Ukraine currently living in an Israeli absorption center won Maccabiah gold in the 100-meter race. Fervently Orthodox protestors in Jerusalem demonstrated against the arrest of a fervently Orthodox mother who allegedly starved her son. A Jewish farmer from the Negev was acquitted on manslaughter charges for killing a Bedouin trespasser. A New Zealand student's controversial master's thesis on neo-Nazism was returned to library shelves despite a protest by one of its subjects. Hungarians wearing the black-and-white uniform of the banned neo-Nazi Hungarian Guard will be fined under a new government decree. Israeli defender Leo Krupnik signed with the Red Bulls of Major League Soccer. A series of explosions in Lebanon near the Israeli border were in a Hezbollah arms depot, Lebanese army officials said. Ukrainian Jewish leaders and representatives of other religious organizations praised progress in the state's communication with them