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Free speech at issue in campus Israel wars

A protester is removed by campus police after he disrupted a speech by Israel's ambassador to the United States at the University of California, Irvine, Feb. 8, 2010.

Israel's critics have stepped up efforts to actively disrupt speakers defending the Jewish state. Meanwhile, Jewish groups are increasingly pressing their case on an institutional level, calling for the enforcement of campus codes of conduct. Some have even sought to have speakers disinvited whose views are deemed beyond the pale. Read more »

Jewish groups expected to adopt measure backing gays in the military

A group of national and local Jewish leaders will likely adopt a resolution next week calling for the repeal of the U.S. military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy on gay and lesbian soldiers. Read more »

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The assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh: On video Dubai has released a 27-minute video compilation of surveillance footage of the team carrying out its plot to assassinate a top Hamas official.

Ideas #17: New ideas from the Old World (eJewishPhilanthropy) In the latest installment of the 28days28ideas initiative, Lisa Capelouto, director of JHub -- a London-based incubator that focuses on Jewish social action and innovation -- injects a European perspective into the conversation about innovation and looks at how the old world is learning from the new (and sometimes the other way around).

Can you hate Israel and not the Jews? (CNN) Former White House aide David Frum examines the case of Jennifer Tonge, a member of the British House of Lords, in arguing that it is hard to "separate hatred of the Jewish state from hatred of the Jews who live in that state."

Walking the extra Shabbat mile for an endorsement (Dallas News) A Sabbath-observant candidate for district judge in Dallas walks the extra mile, literally, on Shabbat to get a special endorsement.

A basketball player's righteous grandparents (Ynet) Marco Belinelli of the NBA's Toronto Raptors, a high-energy imported Italian player, confirms that his grandparents risked their lives to help hide and transport Jews out of France during World War II. Breaking News International calls to boycott Israeli goods have not posed a real threat to the country's economy, the Bank of Israel's governor said. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas fired his chief of staff in the wake of a sex scandal. A painting by Adolf Hitler and possibly owned by Sigmund Freud will be auctioned in Britain. A bar mitzvah could stand in the way of Jewish boxing champion Yuri Foreman defending his title at Yankee Stadium. Agudath Israel of America expressed "deep anguish" after the execution in Florida of a murderer whose case drew Orthodox pleas for clemency. Muslims living in prestate Israel had plans to build a business center on top of Jerusalem's Mamilla cemetery, the planned site of a museum, the Simon Wiesenthal Center claimed. Israel's Shahar Pe'er upset the top seed to reach the quarterfinals of a tennis tournament in Dubai a year after being denied a visa to compete there. Six of the 11 people named by Dubai officials as being part of an assassination team that killed a Hamas terrorist have the same names as British-Israeli citizens. President Obama nominated an ambassador to Syria, saying his aim is to "enhance relations." York University has supplied video footage that it says casts doubt on the accuracy of reports that two Jewish students were assaulted during a pro-Israel event at the school. Academy Award-nominated actor Colin Firth will play Jewish underground leader Avraham Stern in a new movie. The corruption trial of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will not be postponed due to the prosecutor's leave of absence, a court ruled