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Breaking News Jewish Republicans are hailing Tuesday's results in the New Jersey and Virginia governors' elections. A judge is allowing Steve Rosen's defamation lawsuit against AIPAC to go ahead. Twenty Turkish students were arrested after they bombarded the car of Israel's ambassador to Turkey with eggs. The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to condemn the Goldstone report. Several Israeli human rights groups are calling for an independent investigation of Israel's conduct during its operation in Gaza. Seymour Fromer, founder of the Magnes Museum in California, has died. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton again clarified the U.S. position on Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Italian officials and the Vatican protested a human rights court ruling that said the display of crucifixes in Italian public schools violates religious and educational freedoms. Israel's Navy detained a ship carrying a large cache of arms. The Canadian Embassy has begun representing Israel's diplomatic and consular interests in Venezuela. A Jewish real estate mogul, who promotes his charitable image using a Star of David, will pay nearly $2.73 million to settle a discrimination suit. The new president of the AFL-CIO rejected boycotting Israel. A senator plans to offer legislation that would remove the presidential waiver from a law requiring that the U.S. embassy be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Claude Levi-Strauss, considered by many to be the father of modern anthropology, died in Paris at the age of 100. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Air Force base hosting a combined U.S.-Israeli military drill. The neighbor of a man who has confessed to several murders and attacks on Arabs and Jews has been arrested. Convicted billionaire Arcadi Gaydamak was a former agent for French intelligence, according to a former French interior minister. Featured Stories Battle over Jerusalem heats up as Arabs let charges fly, Jews build Masked Palestinians throw stones at Israeli policemen in Jerusalem's Old City, near the Lion Gate, as part of ongoing violent clashes, Oct. 25, 2009. (Yossi Zamir / Flash90 / JTA) In an intensifying struggle over Jerusalem, Arab leaders are accusing Israel of trying to undermine the mosque on the Temple Mount and Israel is backing Jewish construction in eastern Jerusalem in a bid to keep the city under Israeli control. Read more » Despite progress, Obama hesitant about Netanyahu meeting With President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set to appear at the same convention of Jewish activists, and their governments nearing a deal on the thorny settlements issue, it would seem like a great time for a sit-down. But with the Palestinians and Arab states unhappy, the White House worries about a meeting with no results. Read more » Jewish salons in Austria JTA's Ben "The Wandering Jew" Harris brings his video camera to a cafe in Vienna, where local Jews gathered to talk about the meaning of freedom. Read more » After report, Yemen operation is happily out in the open After months of stressing the need for silence, two major Jewish organizations and a former Bush administration official are embracing publicity about their roles in bringing Yemenite Jews to the United States. Read more » Congress debates Goldstone JTA's Ron Kampeas blogs the details as lawmakers clash over a resolution condemning the Goldstone report over its treatment of Israel. Read more » Editors' Picks Hillary's Plan B (N.Y. Times) The U.S. secretary of state is seeking a more modest set of goals for dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Mumbai revisited (The Sunday Times) Reconstructing the attack against the Chabad center in Mumbai. Brazil's best Zionist dancers (Ynet) The Zionist youth movements in Brazil held their annual dance-off. Check out the video of the winners. Welcome back conversos (Jewish News of Greater Phoenix) A Phoenix-area rabbi held a conversion ceremony welcoming crypto Jews back into the fold.