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AIPAC calls for swift action to block U.S. companies supporting Iran

Expressing outrage over past U.S. failures to block support for Iran's energy sector, AIPAC is calling for swift action from the U.S. government. Read more »

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And what about the Palestinian incitement? (Palestinian Media Watch, ZOA) Vice President Joe Biden and left-wing Jewish groups are criticizing Israeli building plans in eastern Jerusalem. Meanwhile, on Thursday, the Palestinian Authority is planning to honor the leader of a 1978 bus hijacking that led to the deaths of dozens of Israelis.

Destination wedding (Tablet Magazine) How the Mossad nearly killed one Israeli's weekend in paradise.

Clash of the titans (L.A. Times) Edmund Sanders writes that the growing intensity in Israel's newspaper wars are undermining sound journalistic judgment.

Sibling rivalry (Washington Post) Her younger daughter's bat mitzvah gives columnist Ruth Marcus an opportunity to reflect on the biblical proportions of sisterly competition.

Falling for conversion (N.Y. Jewish Week) An Israeli rabbi explains how a proposed conversion law nearly brought down Israel's government. Breaking News As U.S. Vice President Joe Biden again denounced the plan for new Israeli construction in eastern Jerusalem after meeting with Palestinian leaders, Israel's interior minister apologized for the timing of the plan's approval. Hundreds of protesters marched in front of a New York City hotel where the Israeli military's chief of staff spoke at a dinner hosted by the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. A group of anti-Israel protesters interrupted the opening of Paris' 10th annual Israeli film festival. A local activist's interview with a former Iranian diplomat accused of planning the bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center has upset the Argentine Jewish community. Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom signed into law legislative reforms making Holocaust denial a criminal offense. President Obama's faith-based advisory council urged clearer guidelines on church-state separation in faith-based funding, but members differed on some critical details. A United Nations sapper unit will enter the Gaza Strip to dispose of unexploded ordnance from the Gaza war. David Kimche, the Israeli spy who played a key role in Israel's 1980s entanglements with Iran and Lebanon, has died. Tamas Raj, a charismatic retired chief rabbi and one of Hungary's top intellectuals, has died. The organization that reportedly banned lox as unkosher says the media fabricated the story.