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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

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Featured Stories Abayudaya Jews deliver relief to famine-plagued Ugandans Abayudaya members, from left, Eria Muyamba, Esau Wanani and Igaal Sizomu deliver food relief to famine-stricken villagers in the remote Ugandan village Acegerekinei on July 29, 2009. (Lorne Mallin) A Canadian volunteer tells of joining a rabbi and four members of his Abayudaya Jewish congregation in Uganda in delivering much-needed sustenance to hungry families in a remote village. Read more » Gay Israelis reeling after shooting attack After a fatal shooting at a gay community center in Tel Aviv, some gay Israelis say the attack provides a teaching opportunity. Read more » Netanyahu's proposed ban on NGO funding raises questions for U.S. groups Some are praising the Israeli prime minister's plan as a necessary step in blocking foreign governments from unduly undermining the will of Israeli voters. But some Jewish organizational officials counter that a ban on foreign funding for Israeli NGOs is more characteristic of a dictatorship and would undermine U.S. efforts to support NGOs in Iran and other countries with poor human rights records. Read more » Editors' Picks Friedman on Fayyadism The Arab world trails the globe in many crucial metrics of human development, and the U.N. says the situation is getting worse. Thomas Friedman finds one exception to that trend in an unlikely place: the West Bank. Down with Love In (dis)honor of the Jewish Valentine's Day, the top 10 Jewish breakup songs of all time. Against hate-crimes laws Richard Cohen writes that the case of the accused Holocaust museum shooter demonstrates the stupidity of hate-crimes legislation. Don't talk to them The recent turbulence in the Israeli-American friendship isn't because Israelis don't understand Obama, but because they understand him too well, Shmuel Rosner writes. Breaking News Saudi King Abdullah urged Palestinians to unite, saying their internal divisions have done more harm to their cause than Israel has. A Jewish Democratic congressman is criticizing President Obama's choice of Mary Robinson for a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Germany named a panel of 10 Jewish and non-Jewish experts to an anti-Semitism commission. Amos Kenan, the Israeli artist and writer who scandalized his countrymen with his iconoclasm, has died at 82. Two Conservative movement umbrella groups said they were "saddened and outraged" by the murders of two Israelis at a Tel Aviv gay center. Israeli police remain unsure whether the weekend murders at a Tel Aviv gay community center constitute a hate crime. AIPAC is 'deeply disappointed' by the Obama administration's choice of Mary Robinson to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Arab-American leaders had their second meeting with top Obama White House officials. President Obama will soon unveil a new Middle East peace initiative, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said