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FEATURED STORIES Tourists flocking to Israel at record pace Tourists from Singapore cover themselves with mud while bathing in the Dead Sea. (Yossi Zamir / Flash 90 / JTA) Despite the hand-wringing over Israel's image overseas, visitors are continuing to flock to the Jewish state -- in record numbers. Read more » Opposition to Israeli conversion bill mounts Opposition to a proposed Israeli conversion bill is mounting, from the U.S. Congress to the Israeli prime minister. Read more » Calling (and remembering) David Twersky JTA Editor in Chief Ami Eden reflects on the career of David Twersky, a leading journalist, activist and adviser with a rare ability to win respect across political lines. Read more » Food co-op votes to boycott Israeli products A food co-op in Washington State has voted not to sell products made in Israel. Read more »

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EDITORS' PICKS The play's the thing (N.Y. Times) A play about Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff is premiering in upstate New York -- minus the Elie Wiesel character that got playwright Deborah Margolin in hot water with the Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Faith and the foul line (Naples News) A Florida Chabad rabbi has joined his love of basketball and Judaism in a weekly game where players put on tefillin before the court action starts. Gauging U.S. upset over the conversion bill (N.Y. Times, Jerusalem Post) In a sign of just how deep and wide U.S. Jewish opposition is to the Rotem conversion bill, David Harris of the American Jewish Committee and Tablet's Alana Newhouse speak out strongly against the measure. Life's a beach (Washington Post) A small group of Israeli women is giving Palestinian kids from the West Bank their first taste of the beach. BREAKING NEWS South Africa has reinstated its ambassador to Israel. An Israeli court ruled that consensual sex between a Jewish woman and an Arab posing as a Jew constituted rape. Architect Daniel Libeskind will design an extension to his Jewish Museum of Berlin building. Israelis flocked to Jerusalem's Old City to observe Tisha B'Av, the fast day that commemorates the destruction of the Holy Temple. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met to hash out their differences. A Jewish grass-roots organization is petitioning a major financial services provider to divest from holdings in companies it says profit from Israel's occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.) has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to make companies aware that they may be in violation of the new Iran sanctions law. The United States and Israel are close to agreement on a deal for a new warplane. A delegation from Colorado on a trade mission to Israel signed several economic development agreements. Original manuscripts by Franz Kafka reportedly were found in safety boxes opened in Zurich, Switzerland. The Iron Dome missile defense system successfully completed its final round of tests, Israel's Defense Ministry said. More than 250 rabbis, Christian clergy, Jewish leaders and other supporters signed on to a Jewish Funds for Justice ad criticizing Glenn Beck's comments about the organization.