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Featured Stories Fatah parley raises questions about Palestinian intentions, Obama's strategy Jewish leaders criticized the rhetoric at last week's Fatah General Assembly in Bethlehem in which party leaders failed to renounce the use of violence and charged that Israel killed Yasser Arafat. (Issam Rimawi / Flash90 / JTA) The fiery rhetoric at last week's Fatah meeting in Bethlehem has renewed concerns that the Obama administration is not doing enough to pressure the Palestinians. Read more » Op-Ed: There's something about Mary JTA editor Ami Eden explains why President Obama's decision to honor Mary Robinson is upsetting to so many Jewish groups and pro-Israel activists. Read more » Remembering Amos Kenan David Twersky explains his love for a writer who found himself at odds with the New Left and the Israeli establishment. Read more » Editors' Picks Mary Robinson's Jewish defenders A former colleague of Mary Robinson's at the United Nations, the former head of the World Bank and the leader of a Jewish organization say the former U.N. commissioner for human rights is a good choice for the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Y'all might want to reconsider this video U.S. Rep. Travis Childers (D-Miss.) went on a Democratic mission to Israel this week instead of staying home and talking to constituents about health care reform. The Mississippi political and legal Web site Y'all Politics didn't like that, so it put together a video slamming the congressman for his decision -- a video that will probably offend a lot of people in the Jewish community. Michael Oren: Living the Zionist dream -- in Washington At a reception for New York Jews, Israel's new ambassador to the United States addresses U.S.-Israel tensions -- and blows the shofar. Mistaken identity The New York Jewish Week reports on the widespread mixup that led many blogs and news outlets to confuse one of its contributors with a U.S. citizen being held captive in Iran. Remembering Amos Kenan David Twersky explains his love for a writer who found himself at odds with the New Left and the Israeli establishment. Read more » Breaking News Hamas leaders say they are not any closer to releasing kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, despite reports to the contrary. Israel's attorney general said his office will decide "without delay" whether to issue indictments in three corruption cases brought against Ehud Olmert. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called on Israel's consul general in Boston to resign after he criticized the government's handling of relations with the United States. A 13-year-old from New York donated $40,000 to build a park in southern Israel. Jewish organizations are among the sponsors of a national call-in and Web cast on health care reform next week featuring President Obama. Three Orthodox groups asked a New York appellate court to defend the viability of the Jewish beit din court system from interference by secular courts. A soldier convicted of stealing a Palestinian's credit card during Israel's military operation in Gaza was sentenced to prison. The sons of a Jewish man killed last year in Yemen have left the country for Israel, a Yemen news agency reported. Lebanon's president called for the rapid formation of a unity government in response to "Israeli threats." A rabbinic group endorsed an organization promoting human rights for Israel's Arab minority. Hundreds of students and young professionals are participating in Hillel's biggest conference ever. The award-winning Yiddish author Josef Burg has died at the age of 97 in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. The Palestinian Authority will purchase $8 million worth of swine flu vaccines. A town near Haifa is offering $1 million for proof that a mermaid lives in its waters.