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Featured Stories British Jews use 'buycott' to combat Palestinian boycott threat British Jews organized a "buycott" of Israeli products to combat a Palestinian boycott campaign against two major supermarket chains. Read more » Featured Stories For the disabled, Birthright trips are extra special Staff and participants on a Birthright Israel trip for people with Asperger's syndrome socializing at Jerusalem's Beit Ekstein. (Bruce Sharon) By the end of 2009, Birthright will have brought 28 groups to Israel on specially tailored trips for participants with special needs, including those with Asperger's syndrome, the hearing impaired, the developmentally disabled and wheelchair users. Read more » British Jews use 'buycott' to combat Palestinian boycott threat British Jews organized a "buycott" of Israeli products to combat a Palestinian boycott campaign against two major supermarket chains. Read more » Editors' Picks Are you one of the 50 most influential Jews? (Forward) The annual Forward 50 list has been released. Are you on it? Israel challenged over Gazan student's ejection (Washington Post) Berlanty Azzam, 21, was two months from receiving her bachelor's degree from Bethlehem University when Israel realized that she lacked the proper permission to attend school in the West Bank and sent her back to Gaza. An Iranian AIPAC? (Washington Times) A leading Iranian American organization that has opposed sanctions against Tehran comes under scrutiny for not filing as a lobbying group. Bill Gates talks to the Jews (JTA's The Fundermentalist) Microsoft founder Bill Gates recently spoke about philanthropy at New York's 92 St. Breaking News The leader of Hezbollah says President Obama's promise to engage with the Muslim world was a "deception" and that the U.S. president has demonstrated commitment to Israel. A full-page newspaper ad placed by B'nai Brith Canada that equated radical Islam with Nazism has raised the ire of Holocaust survivors and a group that promotes Jewish-Muslim ties. President Obama should formulate a plan for Israeli-Syrian peace, Syrian President Bashar Assad said. In a landmark decision, the Australian government approved the extradition to Hungary of an alleged Nazi war criminal. Japan will "strengthen its alliance" with the United States when it comes to Iran issues, the Japanese prime minister said. Israeli troops killed a Palestinian allegedly planting explosive devices along the border with the Gaza Strip. The U.S. government is moving to seize four mosques and a skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim group that federal prosecutors charge is controlled by Iran's government. Israeli President Shimon Peres exchanged presents with Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo. President Obama extended for a year existing U.S. sanctions against Iran. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told the Anti-Defamation League that Italy will not help Iran launch a communications satellite. Christians United for Israel formed an alliance with the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.