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Featured Stories Partying like a young Jew in Europe Revelers enjoy music and dancing at the European Center for Jewish Students' Party Like a Jew weekend in Brussels, Nov. 14, 2009. (Ben Harris) One rabbi's recipe for young European Jews to find their mates: a weekend for hundreds of Jewish singles at a nice hotel with good food, lots of alcohol and a hot party on Saturday night. Read more » Citing new reality, JDC presses for change in funding formula The main international relief agency of the Jewish federation system says it is pulling the plug on a long-standing funding arrangement, saying it requires more money to meet the humanitarian needs of poor Jews abroad. Read more » Rubashkin plans appeal, but another trial looms Sholom Rubashkin is hoping to be exonerated on appeal following his conviction for crimes that carry a potential prison sentence of 1,250 years. But first the former vice president of the largest U.S. kosher meat plant is facing another trial on additional charges and a bail hearing. Read more »

Editors' Picks Bibi survives photo op (Ha'aretz) Israel's prime minister slips and almost falls into the sea during a visit to a naval base. Ha'aretz has a series of photos showing the fall and the save. The push for studying secular Jews (N.Y. Jewish Week) Eric Herschthal of The New York Jewish Week reports on the growing debate over efforts to fund Jewish culture through an exclusively secular lens. Born in Berlin, fighting for U.S. (CNN) CNN interviews JTA contributor Tom Tugend about the experience of being a child in Nazi Germany and subsequently fighting as a soldier in the U.S. Army. Can't we all just do origami? (Pasadena-Star News) Muslim, Christian and Jewish students come together through the Japanese art of paper folding. Jewish jockey riding high (Forward) In 2009, David Cohen has ridden to victory more times than all but three American jockeys. Breaking News Jerusalem police arrested a woman praying at the Western Wall for wearing a tallit. President Obama said additional Israeli settlement building "embitters the Palestinians in a way that could end up being very dangerous." There is 'Israeli consensus' that the eastern Jerusalem Jewish neighborhood of Gilo belongs to Israel, opposition leader Tzipi Livni said. A group of American Jews arrived in Israel on a mission to promote home purchases in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem. Intel has proposed that it will only employ non-Jewish workers on Saturday at its Jerusalem plant, Israeli media are reporting. A Kassam rocket fired from Gaza landed in the Negev. A memorial ceremony was held at the former Mumbai Chabad center. Sy Syms, the founder of a discount retail clothing chain and a major philanthropist, has died. Noam was the most popular name for Israeli babies born in 2008. A senior U.S. official dedicating an UNRWA school in Jordan referred to a future Palestinian state. Some 25 new immigrants from five South American countries were accompanying President Shimon Peres on his return to Israel. Italy and Israel have agreed to strengthen cooperation in agricultural science and technology. A 90-year-old German man was charged with the murders of Jewish slave laborers during World War II.