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FEATURED STORIES DiMaggio. Koufax. Wittels -- Jewish batsman eyes college streak Garrett Wittels, a sophomore at Florida International University, finished the 2010 season with a 56-game hitting streak. (Courtesy of FIU) College baseball's hottest hitter this season, Garrett Wittels, is up for an ESPY award based on his 56-game hitting streak. And his very proud Jewish parents want your vote. Read more » Can Kutsher's, the Catskills' last kosher resort, be saved? The last kosher resort hotel in the Catskills narrowly averted closure earlier this year when a New York attorney agreed to take it over. Will guests come to support his endeavor?Read more » Op-Ed: Toward creating an Ethiopian Israeli Peace Corps Creating an Ethiopian Israeli Peace Corps for Africa would help African populations while giving Ethiopian Israelis a way to better their socioeconomic position once they return to Israel.Read more » Op-Ed: A plea for inclusion and religious liberty on LGBT rights The president of the Reform movement's main rabbinical seminary argues that if Orthodox Jews are serious about protecting religious liberty, they should back proposals to legalize same-sex marriage. Read more »

EDITORS' PICKS Day school application stress (U.K. Jewish Chronicle) What happens when there aren't enough spots for applicants to Jewish day schools -- or nursery schools? Making BP kosher (Huffington Post) A new Conservative movement hechsher can be a model for environmental responsibility, corporate accountability, worker safety and animal welfare, writes the executive vice president of the movement's Rabbinical Assembly. Empowering young leaders (Jerusalem Post) It's time to energize and empower a generation of Jews who often feel cut off from the Jewish world and help them take to scale the innovative projects they believe can revitalize Jewish life, writes Lynn Schusterman, proposing several ways to do it. Tombstone tale (N.Y. Times) A New York artist and part-time cook finds a tombstone on the street that leads him to discover the life of a Yiddish cookbook author who died in 1910. BREAKING NEWS In an off-the-cuff remark at a Jewish gathering in New York, the Israeli prime minister hinted at openness to the idea of ceding Israeli sovereignty over part of Jerusalem. CNN fired a senior correspondent who praised a Muslim cleric associated with Hezbollah. A small, liberal rabbinic group has expanded the definition of women's roles in Orthodox Jewish life. The president of the University of California criticized a letter from Jewish groups accusing the university of being soft on anti-Semitism. President Obama is not planning a visit to Israel this year. Three U.S. senators said a military strike on Iran is possible to prevent the Islamic Republic from developing a nuclear weapon. Iran will launch its first nuclear power plant by late September, its nuclear agency's chief said. Seven British activists were acquitted of damaging a weapons factory after testifying that they did it to prevent alleged Israeli war crimes. A Polish court has decided to extradite an alleged Israeli Mossad agent suspected of involvement in the assassination of a Hamas leader in Dubai. Ireland blocked a European Union plan to allow sharing of European citizens' personal data with Israel over concerns that Israeli officials could not be trusted with the information. Adolf Storms, who was on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most-wanted Nazi suspects, has died. A former Michigan congressman pleaded guilty to charges connected with his support of a charity accused of funding Hamas and other terrorist groups. Thousands of supporters of captive soldier Gilad Shalit entered Jerusalem in the last leg of a two-week march. Three Greenpeace activists were arrested after boarding and trying to take over an African coal ship bound for Israel. Some two dozen black and Jewish high school students launched a civil rights tour of the South.