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Budget crunch forcing schools to cut, become creative

Young students at the Hillel Day School in Boca Raton, Fla., which like many U.S. day schools has been forced to cut back because of difficult economic times. (Hillel Day School of Boca Raton)

With financial aid requests up and donations down, day schools are scrambling to cut costs, generate savings and find new sources of revenue. Read more »

Israel's settlement announcement irks negotiators, but unlikely to derail process

Officials in Western capitals were infuriated when news leaked that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planned to build new homes in West Bank Jewish settlements before a summit in New York later this month, but renewed talks are still expected. Read more »

MASA backs away from controversial ad

Following a burst of criticism, an organization founded and funded by the Jewish Agency for Israel and the Israeli government dropped a television ad warning Israelis about the dangers of assimilation in the Diaspora. Read more »

Op-Ed: Why do media love Jewish scandals?

There is no evidence that Jews are more or less likely to be involved in dishonest behavior than anyone else, so why do media outlets focus more on Jewish scandals than those committed by others? sociologist William Helmreich asks. Read more »

Editors' Picks

Profiling J Street J Street is the subject of a lengthy, mostly positive article by James Traub that will appear this Sunday in The New York Times Magazine and has already been posted online.

Walt and Mearsheimer still wrong It's been two years since the publication of John Mearsheimer and Steven Walt's book "The Israel Lobby," and David Makovsky writes in the The New York Jewish Week that they're still wrong.

Justice and propaganda The protest against the Toronto Film Festival for its spotlight on Tel Aviv is at odds with our society's fundamental values: freedom of expression and freedom of individual choice, writes filmmaker Robert Lantos in Toronto's Globe and Mail.

Jewish, but not family friendly Few Jewish workplaces have family-friendly policies when it comes to paying for maternity leave, and some don't allow for any maternity leave at all, according to a new study. The Forward reports. Breaking News Changes to Facebook will allow residents of the Golan Heights to register themselves as living in Israel. Israel's Supreme Court ordered the state to demolish illegal Palestinian buildings in the West Bank. Tamir Goodman, the former high school phenom once known as the "Jewish Jordan," will announce his retirement from pro basketball. Israel's Health Ministry identified a strain of swine flu that is resistant to the Tamiflu drug. The largest-ever cache of coins from the period of the Bar Kochba revolt was found in a cave in the Judean Hills. A former teacher at a Jewish day school in Australia pleaded guilty to charges of child pornography. A Ukrainian mayor says reports that he wanted to honor Russia's chief rabbi are false. The number of anti-Semitic incidents in Holland in January was nearly equal to the number of attacks in all of 2008, a new report shows. Germany's newly convened panel of experts on anti-Semitism met for the first time. Israel signed its first agreement with a federation of 15 West African countries. The German government has rehabilitated people who were condemned for disloyalty to the Nazis. Lebanon's prime minister-designate stepped down after failing to form a unity government with groups including Hezbollah. An Israeli delegation is in Ukraine to study the efficiency of a new immigration program.