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FEATURED STORIES In teaching Holocaust, educators focus on prewar lives, not just camps Participants in the Centropa trip admire the ornate decor in a synagogue in Trebic, Czech Republic, where Jews worshiped before the war, July 2010. (Centropa) Recent years have seen a shift in Holocaust education toward focusing more on the diverse lives led by individual Jews in Europe before the war and away from teaching only about the concentration camps. Read more » Support for Israel near record high, Gallup Poll shows Support for Israel among Americans is at a near record high, a new poll showed. Read more » Milt (Kutsher) and Wilt (Chamberlain) -- mitzvah men In a world of what's-in-it-for-me superstars, the charity basketball game that Milton Kutsher helped put together at his hotel in the Catskills and the NBA players who showed up to play in it, including Wilt Chamberlain, stand out as a beacon of good works. Read more » Scarred by terrorism, Israeli brothers-in-law to compete in triathlon Two Israeli brothers-in-law scarred by Palestinian terrorism -- one of whom is paralyzed in one leg -- will be competing in the New York City triathlon on July 18. Read more »

EDITORS' PICKS Inside eastern Jerusalem (BBC) The BBC talks with Jews who are buying up homes in Arab eastern Jerusalem. Democracy endangered? (Haaretz) The editorialists at Haaretz criticize the controversial decision to revoke three parliamentary privileges from Israeli Arab Knesset member Hanin Zuabi, who participated in the Gaza-bound aid flotilla and has been a strident critic of the Israeli government. Reform's future (UK Telegraph) Two hundred years after its founding, is the Reform Jewish movement doomed to extinction? Hebrew passion (London Jewish Chronicle) A male porn star says his real passion is "Hebrew, Israel and all things Jewish." BREAKING NEWS U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton asked Jewish groups to press the case of Alan Gross, an American Jew imprisoned in Cuba. A Libyan aid ship bound for the Gaza Strip docked in a neighboring Egyptian port. Israeli authorities alleged that eight Israeli Arabs charged with weapons offenses had ambitions of joining a global jihad, or holy war. A huge outdoor art poster that features Mickey Mouse's image with a swastika and a nude woman's body has outraged Jewish leaders and others in a Polish city. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations offered high personal and professional praise for her outgoing Israeli counterpart. An Irish Christian and a Jerusalem psychotherapist have collaborated on a YouTube video honoring captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. A billboard in Iowa linking President Obama to Hitler and Lenin was papered over. Queen Rania of Jordan did not receive offers to publish her new children's book in Hebrew, official Jordanian sources said. The Rev. Henryk Jankowski, a Polish priest who was a key figure in the anti-Communist Solidarity movement but later was disciplined by the Catholic Church for anti-Semitism, has died.