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Featured Stories Ron Bloom: Car czar in the Labor Zionist tradition Ron Bloom, center, talks with President Barack Obama and the chairman of his National Economic Council, Lawrence Summers. (White House Photo Office) Ron Bloom's professional road to becoming the Obama administration's point man in attempting to rescue the U.S. auto industry is well known. Missing from the myriad news reports on Bloom's appointment, however, were those formative summers at Camp Galil. Read more » New Slingshot-style book highlights Jewish innovation in Europe A low-profile group of international foundations and philanthropists has published a Slingshot-type book to highlight innovative Jewish projects in Europe. Read more » Ethiopian Israelis fight school discrimination The Ethiopian-Israeli community is protesting discrimination by three Orthodox schools in Petach Tikvah. Read more » Bad neighbor Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is outraged that Libyan strongman Muammar Gafhafi may be spending a few nights as his neighbor in Englewood, N.J., and it's not just because of Gadhafi's history of terrorism. It's also because the Libyans have cut down 10 of Boteach's trees. Meet the American on Israel's Supreme Court For only the second time in Israel's history, an American-born jurist will sit on Israel's Supreme Court. The New York Jewish Week has the profile. Loose Change: Bailouts in St. Louis, declines in San Francisco From The Fundermentalist's weekly roundup: Federation campaigns in the San Francisco area are down. Baltimore's Cardin School is getting $4.5 million. A Chabad rabbi in Teaneck donated his kidney. The Jews of Hebron Writing in The Wall Street Journal, history professor Jerold Auerbach recalls the story of the 1929 Hebron massacre. Breaking News The proportion of Israeli Jews who believe Barack Obama's policies are pro-Israel has fallen to 4 percent, according to a new survey. Critics are slamming Israel's religious affairs minister for comments asserting the primacy of Orthodoxy. Desmond Tutu said that the Palestinians and the Arabs are paying "penance" for the Holocaust. Human rights expert William Korey, the founding director of B'nai Brith International's U.N. office, has died. The State Department said its demand for a complete Israeli settlement freeze is "unchanged," but that peace talks could resume before a freeze. A group of filmmakers are planning to pull their movies from a Canadian film festival in protest of Israel. The United Nations voted to renew the mandate of its peacekeeping forces in South Lebanon. The Simon Wiesenthal Center is urging the United Nations to bar Iran's new defense minister from all U.N. events and facilities. A major Irish NGO that trains activists to oppose Jewish settlements is cutting back on its West Bank activity due to budget cuts. Tennis star Venus Williams received an award from the Anti-Defamation League for opposing the exclusion from play of an Israeli tennis player.