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Leipzig becoming Orthodox Jewish hub in Germany

Pasha Segal and Anya Chernyak on their wedding day in Leipzig on Oct. 25, 2009. The pair are one of only a handful of young observant couples in the city. (Ben Harris)

Due in large part to Jewish immigration from the former Soviet Union, Leipzig has become an Orthodox Jewish hub, funneling students from around the region to institutions of Jewish learning in Berlin and beyond. Read more »

Big stars and nuts and bolts at the GA

The annual conference of the Jewish federation system, which is set to take place Nov. 8-11 in Washington, will be highlighted by big-name guest appearances, but the conference itself promises to be heavy on the nuts-and-bolts fund-raising issues facing local federations. Read more »

Can Jewish tenets be a model for a more eco-friendly world?

Jewish representatives to a faith-based climate change conference in Britain argued for eco-friendly measures based on the Jewish tenets of Shabbat, kashrut and shmita. Read more »

Editors' Picks

Diaspora Jews need to focus on themselves (Ha'aretz) A columnist at Ha'aretz says American Jews are doing themselves a disservice by mistaking Israel's problems for their own.

Women at Jewish organizations lag behind at CEO level (Forward) The Forward has a major story and editorial focusing on gender discrepancies in the Jewish organizational workplace.

Letter from Gaza (The New Yorker) Lawrence Wrights takes a look at last winter's war in Gaza, what led up to it and how life is lived there now.

The Russians are coming (Ha'aretz) Are Russian Jewish philanthropists poised to shake up the cozy arrangement that has made Israel and America the most influential Jewish communities in the world? Breaking News The Obama administration expects to keep working with Mahmoud Abbas despite his planned resignation as Palestinian Authority president. U.S. Jewish groups blasted the U.N. General Assembly for its endorsement of the Goldstone report into last winter's Gaza war. A Jewish community center in Montreal opened on Shabbat for the first time, but a compromise limited Sabbath desecration. The United States vetoed an Israeli plan to attack a ship bearing weapons allegedly from Iran to Hezbollah, according to a report in an Arabic-language newspaper. Leaders of the Union of Reform Judaism stressed the group's consolidation of services at the start of its biennial conference. There is "nothing to be worried about" at a newly discovered uranium enrichment site in Iran, the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog said. The International Atomic Energy Agency has evidence that Iran may have tested an advanced nuclear warhead design, according to a British newspaper. Israel delivered 20,000 swine flu vaccines to the Palestinian Authority ahead of the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. A bipartisan group of governors urged the U.S. Senate to pass an Iran sanctions bill.