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Pro-Israel, with questions: Beinart pins his thesis to the synagogue door

Peter Beinart has pundits and Jewish officials debating his recent essay asserting an increasing American Jewish alienation from Israel.

Pundit Peter Beinart discusses his recent essay arguing that American Jews are becoming alienated from Israel -- and blaming U.S. Jewish groups for refusing to criticize the Israeli government's perceived rightward shift. Read more »

Conservatives' ethical seal nearing kosher marketplace

A Conservative movement commission on creating ethical certification for kosher food products is almost ready for market. Read more »

Congress delays sanctions bill, with AIPAC blessing

In a sign of closer White House-congressional coordination on Iran, Congress is delaying an Iran sanctions bill several weeks to give the Obama administration time to shepherd new sanctions through the U.N. Security Council. Read more »

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Jewciest moments on 'Law & Order' (Heeb) As the series comes to a close, Heeb takes a look at the eight best Jewish-themed episodes of "Law & Order."

Shabbat before the big fight (ESPN) Unbeaten junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman, an Orthodox Jew and rabbinical student, will observe the Sabbath before his title defense against Miguel Cotto at Yankee Stadium.

RJC rejects Rand Paul (N.Y. Jewish Week) Some Republicans find that Rand Paul and the Tea Party are outside their comfort zone.

Desperately seeking Madonna (Reuters) Tourists have been visiting Safed, the Israeli city of Jewish mysticism, to trace the footsteps of Madonna, the singer who visited graves there last year.

Giving Pat Buchanan a platform Pat Buchanan again has some Jewish communal figures upset -- and Menachem Rosensaft again is wondering why MSNBC continues to give him a platform.

Gaza's ignored luxury spots (Canadian National Post) Gaza has fancy restaurants, an Olympic-sized pool and windsurfing competitions, Tom Gross writes, but the mainstream media never talk about that part of the city Breaking News Rahm Emanuel will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. New Yorker Lori Berenson was paroled from a Peruvian jail after spending 15 years behind bars. A coalition of 10 major Jewish organizations is urging Congress to repeal the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" military policy. Two Jewish groups are demanding that the chancellor at the University of California, Irvine denounce an anti-Israel, anti-Semitic speaker hosted by a campus Muslim group. Israeli police were searching the Tel Aviv area for a man and woman who reportedly tried to carry out a terror attack on a bus on Dizengoff Street. Leading U.S. lawmakers called on formerly communist European nations to advance Holocaust-era property reclamation processes. A "Nazi" and a "non-Jewish Shikse," a pejorative for a gentile woman, are among the victims listed on the latest hate crimes report issued by Toronto Police. The chancellor of New York's public school system hailed the efforts of those who support day schools, yeshivas and other Jewish educational institutions. Two leading Italian supermarket chains will stop importing and selling produce from an Israeli company located in the West Bank. A U.S. court sentenced an Israeli American to 20 months in prison for leaking information to a journalist. Israel's Air Force struck two tunnels in Gaza in response to mortar shells fired at Israel. Funny Jewish women will get their due as part of the Jewish American Heritage Month celebrations in Washington. A prominent Jewish umbrella organization rebuked National Geographic for "singling out and negatively portraying the State of Israel" in an exhibit dedicated to water.