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Featured Stories Ramon tragedy strikes home for Houston's Jews Israeli President Shimon Peres, left, embracing Assaf Ramon at his Israel Air Force pilot's graduation ceremony in June 2009. (IDF) The tragic death of 21-year-old Assaf Ramon, son of the late Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, hit close to home in the American Jewish community that knew the Ramon family. Read more » Israel 'appalled' by Goldstone report Israel's Foreign Ministry said it is "appalled and disappointed" by a U.N. commission report that says Israel committed war crimes during its Gaza offensive. Read more » Op-Ed: J Street should rescind its invitation to Al-Marayati If J Street is pro-Israel, why is it distorting polling data on Israeli and U.S. Jewish support for settlements, hosting an anti-Israel figure at an upcoming conference and taking money from Arabs, the president of the Zionist Organization of America asks. Read more » Op-Ed: Changing our campuses from polarized to pro-peace A growing movement of students on campuses across the country is standing against the angry and divisive talk on the Israel-Palestinian issue that defines our university environments, says an official with the new group J Street U. Read more » Fear, faith, horror movies and the Jewish New Year The High Holidays are a time to ponder the similarities between Jewish texts and your favorite horror movies, says Amy Kalmanofsky, an assistant professor of Bible at The Jewish Theological Seminary. Read more » Is it 5770 yet? The year that nonprofits want to forget As they prepare to offer loved ones Rosh Hashanah wishes, many people in the Jewish nonprofit world would probably like to wish away 5769. Read more » Editors' Picks Toronto, the counter-attack (or Sex, Lies and JVP) The celebrity slugfest continues over the Toronto Film Festival and its decision to highlight Tel Aviv. Podhoretz's Jewish question The debate is raging over the new Norman Podhoretz book "Why Are Jews Liberal?" Podhoretz in his own words, Leon Wieseltier's takedown, plus a host of responses at Commentary and Tablet. Defending Podhoretz JTA's Ron Kampeas has some problems with Norman Podhoretz's theories on Jews and liberalism -- but says that doesn't justify unfair attacks against the former Commentary editor. Organ libel II The anti-Semitic blogosphere and many Arab and Muslim media outlets are aflutter in recent days over accusations of an international Jewish conspiracy to kidnap Algerian children and harvest their organs, The Jerusalem Post reports. The road to war Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens says President Obama is pushing Israel toward war by dragging his feet on Iran. NYPD Blue (& White) The Associated Press reports on an NYPD detective stationed in Tel Aviv. Breaking News A meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and George Mitchell ended without a compromise on construction in the West Bank. An organization calling for full religious freedom and diversity in Israel was launched in Tel Aviv. A prominent list of celebrities is opposing a group that has criticized the Toronto International Film Festival's spotlight on Tel Aviv. Two New York City apartments were raided following a visit by a suspected al-Qaida operative. Thirteen Israeli nonprofit environmental organizations will receive a total of $1.5 million in grants as part of a matching program. Human Rights Watch suspended a senior official over his collection of Nazi memorabilia. Under a new policy, one of Canada's largest universities will hold classes on the Jewish holidays. Israeli police have been ordered to "strengthen Israeli sovereignty over East Jerusalem," an Israeli newspaper reported. Army Archerd, the veteran show business columnist often described as "the most trusted voice of Hollywood," has died. A new project will survey mass graves and Jewish cemeteries in the Baltic states where Jewish communities were largely destroyed during World War II. A class-action lawsuit is accusing a Los Angeles Jewish cemetery of dumping remains to make room for new interments. Graves belonging to AMIA Jewish Center attack victims were among those vandalized in an Argentine Jewish cemetery. The Covenant Foundation is now accepting nominees for its 2010 awards for innovative Jewish educators. Three Jewish families have left Yemen for the United States, a Yemen newspaper reported. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is providing $4.6 million to help needy Israelis purchase food for the High Holidays.