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FEATURED STORIES Riding the French countryside in the Jewish-Muslim friendship bus The Jewish-Muslim Friendship bus team talks to a Muslim activist in the central square of Besancon, France, June 10, 2010. (Sue Fishkoff) A Jewish-Muslim friendship bus travels the French countryside every summer trying to diffuse tensions and build bridges between French Muslims and Jews.Read more » With flotillas, marches and vigils, Jews press for Shalit's release On the fourth anniversary of Gilad Shalit's capture, Jews organized events around the world to call attention to his plight and press for his release. Read more » Millionaires, marijuana and daily hugs More Israeli millionaires, marijuana costs on the rise, less sex and violence on TV than in America. Read more » Op-Ed: Only Israel making the effort toward peace Israeli governments have worked and sacrificed for peace, while the Palestinian Authority has only increased its demands and pulled away from the negotiating table, write Lee Rosenberg of AIPAC and Alan Solow of the Presidents Conference.Read more »

EDITORS' PICKS America's top 50 rabbis (Newsweek) The venerated newsweekly comes up with a list of 50 rabbis to keep your eye on. Chabad's Yehuda Krinsky tops the list. Gentlemen, keep your hats on. Europe's kosher food wars (Ynet) A battle appears to be under way between the Conference of European Rabbis and American kashrut agencies over who should certify kosher foods produced in Europe. Taking a stand for Rubashkin (Forward) The Forward newspaper, which led coverage of abuses at the Rubashkin kosher meatpacking plant, weighs in on Sholom Rubashkin's sentencing with an editorial decrying the court's 27-year prison term as "too harsh." Hamas hurts the Palestinians (Washington Post) Why is nobody talking about how Hamas persecutes women, bars freedom of religion, tortures people and still fires rockets at Israel? asks columnist Richard Cohen. BREAKING NEWS Jewish groups expressed disappointment in a U.S. Supreme Court decision expanding gun owners' rights and differed on another decision upholding a university's right to ban discriminatory groups. Russia's foreign minister defended his country's holding direct talks with Hamas in Gaza, while his Israeli counterpart said achieving peace would take time. Construction began on a Jewish housing project in an eastern Jerusalem neighborhood. The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "the biggest barrier to peace" in the Middle East, Turkey's prime minister said in a television interview. Yemeni Jews demanded an end to the delay in the execution of a Yemeni man sentenced to death for killing a Jewish man. A Palestinian from Gaza who the Israeli military said was firing an anti-tank missile at Israeli soldiers was killed in an Israeli airstrike. The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Latin American subcommittee slammed Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for calling Israel a "genocidal" state. A New Zealand comedian who apologized for making anti-Semitic jokes was suspended from his radio show.