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Are inaccurate media reports hurting U.S.-Israel relationship?

A reporter at Israel's daily Ha'aretz has been publishing unsourced and inaccurate reports about the dynamic between the administrations of President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seen here at the White House on May 18, 2009. (Moshe Milner / GPO / Flash 90)

Partisans and pundits on both sides of the political divide are seizing on reports of questionable accuracy in Israel's daily Ha'aretz to herald their own preconceived notions of the Obama administration and Netanyahu government. Read more »

Israeli, Palestinian mayors pitch rare joint industrial project

Plans for a joint Israeli-Palestinian factory, coexistence programs and sports tournaments are unusual not just because they represent a coordinated effort between local Israeli and Palestinian officials, but also because the plan -- which has U.S. Jewish sponsorship -- involves the Palestinian governor of a city that until recently was known as the suicide-bomber capital of the West Bank. Read more »

Op-Ed: Jewish education should be multicultural, like us The overwhelming majority of Jewish children and families live in a multicultural world, and Jewish education needs to reflect that, writes the executive director of The Curriculum Initiative. Read more »

Editors' Picks Toronto, Tel Aviv and apartheid Danny Glover, Alice Walker and others have a problem with a Toronto film festival celebrating Tel Aviv, which they call "contested ground" governed by an "apartheid regime." Now there are three reasons not to watch "Lethal Weapon" movies, writes JTA Managing Editor Uriel Heilman. Overpaying for Olmert With the filing this week of indictments in three cases against Ehud Olmert, the public is learning exactly how much Olmert allegedly bilked from American Jewish organizations. Hamas and Holocaust denial Jewish groups are jumping on board to condemn Hamas for seeking to suppress Holocaust education at UNRWA schools in the Gaza Strip. Holy war? The New York Times writes about the violent campaign by some fervently Orthodox Jerusalemites to get a parking lot closed on Shabbat. Breaking News George Mitchell had a "good meeting" in New York with two Israeli officials, according to a State Department spokesman. Family and close friends attended the funeral for the Jewish celebrity DJ AM. Construction in the West Bank dropped by one-third in the first half of the year, according to official data. El Al will not allow passengers with symptoms of swine flu to board its planes. An arms cache that exploded in southern Lebanon contained chemical weapons, according to a Kuwaiti newspaper. The co-director of an international film festival showcasing Tel Aviv said the city "remains contested ground." An Australian man charged with posting a YouTube video that threatens Jews will stand trial. Russia has a contract to supply Syria with fighter jets, a Russian newspaper reported. The leadership of the fervently Orthodox groups that have been demonstrating in Jerusalem called on followers to avoid violence and property damage. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will visit Syria and meet with Syrian President Bashar Assad. Israeli soldiers must be willing to risk their lives for their country, Ehud Barak said. A 26-year-old man with no other medical conditions is the 21st Israeli victim of the swine flu. The trial of four former top managers of the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant was moved out of Iowa because of negative publicity. A Rhode Island man who reportedly taunted a Chasid was later shot with a Taser gun and arrested. The Genesis Philanthropy group is giving the Jewish Agency for Israel $6 million for educational projects in the former Soviet Union. The man charged with killing a security officer at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum made his first appearance in court.