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Elena Kagan nod would put third Jew on Supreme Court

U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan, speaking at Harvard Law School, has been tapped by President Obama to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. (Harvard Law Record)

Elena Kagan would make it three -- three women and three Jews on the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time in its history. Read more »

Jerusalem: The city that drives people mad

At a time when Jerusalem is at the center of major political debate, cases of Jerusalem syndrome are a reminder that the city not only drives politicians a bit mad, but some visitors, too. Read more »

Helping Russian Jews build community themselves

After decades of community-building from the top down, often with the aid of donors from overseas, can Russia's Jewish communities build themselves from the bottom up? Read more »

Scratching your 'ish'

The Jewish Federations of North America wants to know "what's your ish?" -- as in, what makes you Jewish? Read more » Editors' Picks Settlement watcher (Haaretz) A new film, Lea Klibanoff's "The Messiah Will Always Come," chronicles the work of Peace Now's settlement watch director, Hagit Ofran. Teva's pills in your medicine cabinet (N.Y. Times) The world's biggest maker of generic drugs, Teva Pharmaceuticals, is an Israeli company that, like Israel, is brash, nimble and surprisingly powerful, writes Natasha Singer. Party like it's bar mitzvah time (Cleveland scene) The most connected person in Cleveland's bar mitzvah scene is a black Catholic who didn't meet his first Jewish person until he was 19. British anti-Semitism (N.Y. Times) Anthony Julius' book on British anti-Semitism, "Trials of the Diaspora," explores the long tradition of Jew-hating in a supposedly enlightened, humane, liberal society, writes Harold Bloom. Jewish deli in the Jewish state (Forward) Gil Shefler reports on the success that Ruben, a Jewish deli in the heart of Tel Aviv, has had since its opening several months ago. Breaking News The body of a yeshiva student was found mutilated in a Kiev suburb. The Palestinian Authority accused Israel of violating the terms of newly started indirect peace talks. A dealer in historic documents is being sued for allegedly trying to sell a fake copy of Schindler's list. Israel has lifted a gag order on the arrest of two prominent Israeli Arabs for espionage. Lady Amelie Jakobovits, the widow of British Chief Rabbi Baron Immanuel Jakobovits and a supporter of many Jewish causes, has died. A volcanic ash cloud that has closed airports throughout Europe is set to reach Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Canada in late May, the first sitting Israeli prime minister to visit the country since Yitzhak Rabin in 1994. A large group of rabbis visited the Temple Mount on the eve of Jerusalem Day. President Obama will host prominent U.S. Jews at the White House to mark Jewish American Heritage Month. A memorial to Greek victims of the Holocaust is set to be unveiled in Athens. A new documentation center opened on the site of the former Gestapo headquarters. Israel's Air Force bombed two targets in southern Gaza in response to a Kassam rocket strike near Ashkelon. An international economic cooperative has approved Israel as a member, despite the Palestinian Authority's attempt to thwart the move. Two Jewish Congress members hosted a discussion on Palestinian incitement. An Israeli court has denied a homosexual father permission to bring his twins, born to a surrogate mother in India, back to the country. Thousands of soldiers representing World War II Allied countries marked the anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis at a march in Moscow. The Reform movement is backing a pick for the federal appellate court caught in a tug of war between Republicans and Democrats over his liberal views. Lebanon for the second time in a year has wrested from Israel the title of making the largest plate of hummus.