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Rolling with not so holy Chasidim

Danny Abeckaser, left, and Ari Graynor in "Holy Rollers." (First Independent Pictures)

Meet Danny A. Abeckaser, the 37-year-old night-club owner/actor-cum producer of "Holy Rollers," an indie film about Brooklyn Chasidim who serve as drug mules to transport ecstasy from Europe to New York. Read more »

White House meets with rabbis to assuage concerns on Israel

White House officials held two private meetings with a group of 15 rabbis to assuage their concerns about the Obama administration's policies on Israel and to get the word out that this president is a friend of Israel. Read more »

Op-Ed: Hugging and wrestling with Israel

The Jewish people must be allowed to engage in the kind of struggle on the State of Israel as Jacob did in wrestling with a heavenly being, writes author and activist Rabbi Sid Schwarz. Read more »

Editors' Picks American Zionists vs. American liberals (N.Y. Review of Books) The American Jewish establishment's laissez faire attitude toward Israel has resulted in U.S. Jews being forced to choose between their Zionism and their liberalism, writes Peter Beinart. Was Richard Goldstone pro-apartheid? (Forward) An article about how Richard Goldstone, the head of the U.N. commission on the 2009 Gaza war, had sentenced to death dozens of blacks when he served as a judge in South Africa is creating a stir. Goldstone denies the claim, saying it's "old news." Attention 'JAPs': Reality TV wants you (Perez Hilton) If you're a beautiful, fun, outspoken Jewish woman aged 21 to 45, you can apply to be on a reality show that's a classier version of "Jersey Shore" meets "Real Housewives of New Jersey," according to the casting call. Being Jewish in Iraq (N.Y. Times) In his year serving in Iraq, U.S. Army Capt. Henry Brewster had to deal with blatant anti-Semitism -- and his own anti-Arab sentiments. Macedonia Jews building Holocaust museum (Global Post) The 200-member Jewish Macedonian community is building a $23 million memorial to commemorate the destruction of 98 percent of its community in the Holocaust. Breaking News Syndicated columnist Pat Buchanan slammed President Obama for nominating a Jewish woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. A Jewish-led protest at a famous Rio de Janeiro beach called for the respect of human rights in Iran. The headstones of nine historic Jewish graves were toppled and broken in a Louisiana cemetery. President Obama will sign the Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act into law, joined by six members and three generations of the slain journalist's family. Iran has agreed to ship some of its uranium to Turkey in a nuclear fuel exchange. A British citizen who traveled on his own passport has been identified as a suspect in the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai, a British newspaper reported. Charlotte Jacobson, who as Hadassah national president reclaimed the Jerusalem land where the organization's flagship hospital now sits, has died. Up to 40 ultra-Orthodox protesters were arrested during the removal of graves on the site of a new protected emergency room in Ashkelon. Palestinian officials are alleging that a Palestinian teen throwing rocks at Israeli cars near Ramallah was shot and killed by a Jewish driver. In an unprecedented move for Italian Jewry, the Jewish community in Turin has dismissed its chief rabbi for being too rigidly Orthodox. A Jewish cemetery in Greece was vandalized. Thousands of Israelis protested in Jerusalem against West Bank settlers. Jewish-American professor Noam Chomsky was denied entry into Israel and the West Bank. A major pro-Israel Democratic Party campaign donor says he is unsettled by the Obama administration's Middle East policy. Moshe Greenberg, one of Judaism's pre-eminent biblical scholars, has died. The world of fashion is mourning the death of award-winning stylist Giuliana Coen Camerino.