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Featured Stories The price of waiting for indictments in Olmert, Lieberman cases Ehud Olmert, seen here with his wife Aliza the day he left office on April 1, 2009, still hasn't been indicted more than a year after investigations against him prompted him to announce his resignation. (Kobi Gideon / FLASH90 / JTA) Long-running corruption investigations brought down an Israeli prime minister last year and now threaten the country's foreign minister. But with no indictments filed yet in either case, have innuendo and rumor been allowed to subvert justice? Read more » Day schools taking measures to prevent swine flu's spread With students set to return to the classroom, U.S. Jewish schools are adopting new health safety measures to ward off swine flu outbreaks. Read more » Editors' Picks Hadassah's bigger problem The New York Times reports on claims by a former Hadassah CFO that she had an affair with Bernard Madoff, but notes a potentially bigger cause for concern: Will the organization be asked to return any of the tens of millions of dollars it made over the years off of its investments with Madoff? Hadassah president: We didn't know about ex-CFO and Madoff Read the statement by Hadassah's president saying the organization did not know about its ex-CFO's alleged affair with Bernard Madoff. Take yes for an answer The New Republic's Marty Peretz accuses Robert Malley and Hussein Agha (and The New York Times) of arguing for a binational state. Jonathan Tobin and Shmuel Rosner say who cares? -- whatever their intentions, they ended up endorsing the view that the Palestinians refuse to accept a Jewish state. Breaking News A previously unknown Palestinian group's claim that it kidnapped an Israeli soldier has turned out to be false, the Israel Defense Forces says. Canada's largest Protestant denomination, the United Church of Canada, rejected a series of resolutions calling for a boycott of Israel. Israel's consul general in Boston apologized for a memo he wrote criticizing Israel's policy toward the United States. Officials at Montreal's YM-YWHA/Jewish Community Centres have voted to open the facility on Saturdays. Two top Sephardic rabbis in Israel called for a day of fasting and prayer to combat the swine flu. The remains of a centuries-old Jewish temple were found on the southern coast of Turkey. A complaint was filed against a New Jersey judge who jokingly referenced a Nazi organization during a trial. The United Nations said it has not congratulated Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his contested re-election, despite reports saying it did. Syrian President Bashar Assad will visit Iran. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said the Palestinians are to blame for the lack of peace talks.