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Featured Stories In Mexico City, insular community begins to reach out Paul Feldman, left, and Alan Grabinsky in front of Moishe House, a residence for young Jews in Mexico City. (Ben Harris) "Closed" is the word most often used to describe the estimated 40,000-person Jewish community of Mexico City, which boasts an impressive network comprising more than a dozen schools, nearly twice as many synagogues and a gleaming sports center. But there are signs of a gradual yet undeniable movement to breach, if gently, the communal walls and interact more with non-Jewish Mexico. Read more » Rivera's contacts with Jews among treasures in Mexican Jewish archive An archive maintained by the Ashkenazi community in Mexico City shines light on the legendary muralist Diego Rivera's ties to Jewish intellectuals. It also houses more than 1,000 volumes recovered from the Nazis. Read more » Security Council rejects special session on Goldstone The U.N. Security Council decided it will not hold a special session to discuss the Goldstone report on the 2009 Gaza war. Read more » Editors' Picks The 'special relationship' JTA's Ron Kampeas and Eric Fingerhut are spending Thursday live blogging the Hudson Institute's conference, "U.S.-Israel Relations at a Crossroads?" Goldstone's war Nobody knows when Israel's next war will be, but it is clear it will be the war brought upon us by the Goldstone report, Judge Goldstone and his Goldstoner followers, writes Ari Shavit in Ha'aretz. West Bank brew Time magazine has a video report on Oktoberfest in Taybeh, in the West Bank. Egypt's mufti on Israel In an Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal, the grand mufti of Egypt calls for the end of "Israel's occupation of Palestine." What exactly does he mean by that, asks JTA Managing Editor Uriel Heilman. Breaking News Avigdor Lieberman said there is no chance of ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for many years. The war crimes trial of John Demjanjuk will begin Nov. 30 in Munich, the state court announced. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said it was an "outrageous conclusion" that a war memorial featuring a cross only honors Christian war dead. A leading Israeli rabbi, Yosef Sholom Elyashiv, said Jews should not visit the Temple Mount and that such visits could provoke bloodshed. The king of Saudi Arabia will travel to Syria to try to weaken the Syria-Iran alliance, according to The Wall Street Journal. Pope Benedict XVI held a private audience with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Rome. Nearly 1 in 4 people in the world are Muslim, according to a new report. Israel made a mistake by not cooperating with the Goldstone investigation, Sweden's foreign minister said. An Israeli soldier was arrested for allegedly beating a Palestinian. A German town infamous for the Nazi concentration camp on its outskirts is set to twin with an Israeli city. An alleged Nazi war criminal can be extradited to his native Hungary, an Australian court ruled. British Jews expressed concern over the appearance of two rightist European politicians at a Conservative Party rally. Actress Vanessa Redgrave is defending the Toronto Film Festival's decision to showcase films about Tel Aviv.