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Featured Stories Arrest of Jewish terrorist raises questions Yaakov "Jack" Teitel sits in an Israeli police vehicle after being arrested in October 2009 for killing two Palestinians in 1997 and other attacks. (Israeli Police Handout / Flash90 / JTA) After the news broke in Israel that a West Bank settler was charged with murdering two Palestinians in 1997 and bombing the home of a prominent Israeli professor last year, many Israelis were asking why it took police so long. Read more » Hillel groups responding to hate acts by bringing together campus communities Jewish students, faced with anti-Semitism or vandalism, have come up with some creative responses that involve the entire campus community instead of retreating into fear and isolation. Read more » In Eastern Europe, advances toward accountability but more to do Since the fall of communism 20 years ago, Eastern European countries gradually have been memorializing the Holocaust, but the process of reckoning with the past remains far from complete. Read more » Holocaust memorials go up in Eastern Europe, with some flaws Some new monuments whose positioning and design make them prominent provide little or no information as to what they commemorate, but still are important as a permanent presence. Read more » Editors' Picks Yeshiva row over messiah goes to court (N.Y. Daily News) Trial opens in case of a brawl at a yeshiva dorm in Brooklyn over whether the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson was the messiah. 'The Jewish terrorist' (AP) A video report on the Jewish settler arrested by Israeli police for a string of murders and bombings. Debating why Israelis have an Obama problem Henry Siegman thinks Israelis don't like President Obama because he wants Israel out of the West Bank and Gaza. Ha'aretz's dovish columnist Bradley Burston objects, suggesting that maybe Siegman should try asking some tough questions of the White House. Manischewitz changing its message (N.Y. Times) The leading marketer of kosher foods looks to broaden its appeal -- and dives into the broth wars. Breaking News A Jewish KGB agent who spied on Israel and later became a business mogul in Russia was murdered in Moscow. Hamas has a missile that can reach Tel Aviv, an Israeli army official said. Two men were arrested for allegedly stealing a Torah scroll from a Texas synagogue. Jewish Israelis moved into the home of a Palestinian family in eastern Jerusalem after a court ruled that it was Jewish-owned. Arab delegates circulated a draft resolution requiring U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon to bring the Goldstone report before the Security Council. Ethiopian Jews celebrated the Sigd holiday with Shimon Peres at the President's Residence in Jerusalem. Italy's president stressed his country's support for Israel and said the European Union would "do its part" to help bring peace in the Middle East. More than 300 Conservative rabbis signed a statement urging Americans to renounce the use of Nazi imagery in political discourse. The new 2009 Chanukah stamp was released by the United States Postal Service