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New signs that Ethiopian aliyah will resume

An Israeli Interior Ministry official checks the eligibility for aliyah of Ethiopians in Gondar, Ethiopia, in 2005. (Uriel Heilman)

After being shut for more than a year, the gates of mass Ethiopian immigration to Israel may be swinging open again for some 9,000 people thanks to support from Israel's new interior minister and a public campaign waged by advocates for Ethiopian aliyah. Read more »

Wexler leaves Congress, and leaves Washington wondering why

A soft-spoken retirement announcement by the usually outspoken U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) left Democrats, Republicans, Jews and non-Jews expressing reactions that ranged from baffled to ... baffled. He is leaving to head the Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation. Read more »

U.N. council's session on Goldstone tackles Jerusalem violence

Delegates focused on recent violence in Jerusalem in a U.N. Human Rights Council session devoted to reviewing the Goldstone report on the Gaza war. Read more »

Dan Glickman: Hollywood's man in D.C.

Jewish Democrats honor one of their own: Dan Glickman, the former Kansas congressman and agriculture secretary who now heads the Motion Picture Association of America. Read more »

Editors' Picks

The Jews' silence The right calls Obama Hitler. Why aren't Jewish groups making more noise? asks New York magazine.

What they're watching in Turkey Watch a clip from the TV drama in Turkey that has Israel upset about the depiction of Israeli soldiers as cold-blooded killers.

Is the problem 1967 or 1948? Carlo Strenger writes in the U.K. Guardian of how critics of Israel do the cause of a two-state solution disfavor when they keep bringing up 1948.

ZOA praises Obama on Goldstone With the Goldstone report on the Gaza war under discussion Thursday and Friday at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, the Zionist Organization of America is praising the Obama administration's stance against the "deeply flawed" report. Breaking News The U.S. House of Representatives enacted legislation authorizing state and local governments to divest from companies doing business with Iran's energy sector. A group of rabbis will participate in a conference call with Richard Goldstone. Israel's Foreign Ministry summoned Turkey's acting ambassador over a Turkish television program showing Israeli soldiers shooting Palestinian children. The University of California, Irvine has asked federal investigators to look into a complaint that a Muslim student group raised money for a terrorist organization. Israel's ambassador to the United Nations criticized the focus of a Security Council session centering on a discussion of the Goldstone report. Actress Mia Farrow said she was "outraged" over conditions in Gaza during a two-day visit to the coastal strip. A Lubavitch-run kosher community kitchen gained halal certification. The state-run Auschwitz Memorial Museum in Poland launched its official page on Facebook. Two Jewish environmental organizations are launching communitywide campaigns on environmental issues. Experts on intolerance suggested to the U.S. Helsinki Commission that schools should adopt curricula that promote tolerance for minorities, including Jews.