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Liberal Jewish groups optimistic about Stevens' replacement

U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan, speaking at Harvard Law School, is one of the rumored candidates to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. (Harvard Law Record)

The Jewish groups who liked John Paul Stevens as a Supreme Court justice are getting ready to dish out the same like to whomever replaces him. Read more »

Despite some optimism, fear for future at Jewish funders' gathering

Despite a veneer of optimism at an annual gathering of Jewish funders, t Loving Israel is in the details Author and stand-up comedian Joel Chasnoff offers a Top 10 list of things he loves about Israel.Read more » EDITORS' PICKS Don't be a hater (New Voices) Sam Green urges secular disaffected Jews on campus to know their roots and abandon their anti-Zionist ideology. Is UC Irvine safe for Jews? (L.A. Jewish Journal) Yes, but it might not be particularly comfortable. Lisa Armony investigates. Delis in a pickle (N.Y. Times) A cadre of young deli entrepreneurs believes the classic Jewish deli must enter the 21st century or risk disappearance. BREAKING NEWS President Obama expects Israel and other nations to join the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Britain is nearing an agreement to take in persecuted Jews from Yemen who have relatives in the country. Israel's delegation to President Obama's nuclear security summit emphasized the Iran threat and the need to confront it with regional coordination. A scheduled vote to overturn the veto of a divestment bill at the University of California, Berkeley has attracted high-profile supporters. A Jewish Democrat won U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler's Florida district by a wide margin. More than three quarters of the U.S. Senate urged the Obama administration not to allow tensions with Israel to harm relations or the prospects of a return to Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. A new Israeli military order will not lead to the deportation of large numbers of Palestinians from the West Bank, an Israeli army major said. Israeli President Shimon Peres criticized Syria and Iran during a visit to Paris. An advertisement for travel to Israel was banned in Britain as misleading for showing sites that included the Western Wall. Residents of a nearby Jewish settlement are accused of vandalizing a West Bank Palestinian village. Four Palestinians believed to be planting explosives along the security fence in Gaza were heavily armed, Israel's army said. Hundreds of Israelis left Egypt's Sinai Peninsula after being warned to do so immediately. A father may take his Jewish daughter to church, a court in Chicago ruled.