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Featured Stories Jewish activists on Darfur laud new U.S. policy Ruth Messinger, left, joins other Darfur activists at the White House in an October 2009 meeting with Joshua DuBois, head of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. (Pete Muller / Save Darfur Coalition / Creative Commons) Jewish activists concerned with Darfur are giving high marks to the new U.S. policy toward Sudan, but some are cautioning that the real test is how the strategy is implemented. Read more » Attacks on J Street as parley approaches Days before the inaugural conference of the left-wing pro-Israel group J Street, critics' attacks on the organization are having an effect on the planned event. Read more » Op-Ed: Support for Israel comes in a multitude of voices The pro-Israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy camp can serve as a bridge between the American Jewish and Israeli communities at a time when such a bridge is sorely needed, says the incoming CEO of the New Israel Fund. Read more »

Editors' Picks Ariel Sharon's twilight zone Too healthy to die, too injured to rule, Israel's legendary warrior and former prime minister lives in a comatose limbo -- just like the Middle East peace process, writes Lynn Sherr in The Daily Beast. Tel Aviv subway, where art thou? How is it that Tel Aviv, which is celebrating its centennial, doesn't have a subway? asks Aluf Benn in Ha'aretz. Der Wander Jude JTA's Wandering Jew talks with Maya Saban, the singer of Jewdyssee, a band that marries Yiddish songs to contemporary sounds. Jews in Palestine A columnist for Lebanon's Daily Star proposes an Israeli-Palestinian agreement in which Jews who refuse to leave the West Bank would become citizens of Palestine, with the right to leave and immigrate to Israel whenever they choose. Breaking News Iranian negotiators reportedly have agreed to a draft of an accord that would allow most of its nuclear fuel to be enriched in Russia. China will oppose discussion of the Goldstone report in the United Nations Security Council, Chinese lawmakers told a visiting Israeli delegation. Benjamin Netanyahu ordered several government ministries to look into floating an international initiative to change the rules of war in light of global terrorism. An invitation for Israeli doctors to attend a breast cancer awareness conference in Egypt was rescinded. The U.S. Senate approved an increase in funding for the protection of religious organizations. A fervently Orthodox anti-Zionist group denied that it was against the release of a captured Israeli soldier. The relationship between the U.S. and Israel is a "bond that is much more than a strategic alliance," President Obama said. Quartet Mideast envoy Tony Blair was attacked verbally at a mosque in Hebron. Nearly 70,000 rejected German Social Security claims from Holocaust survivors are to be reopened. An Australian newspaper apologized for referring to allegations of child molestation at a fervently Orthodox school in an article about the death of an American visitor. The parents of an American teenager killed in a terrorist attack in Israel cannot collect damages from an alleged funder of Hamas. A bipartisan group of lawmakers urged President Obama in a letter to enforce current sanctions against Iran. The first swine flu vaccinations arrived in Israel.