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Thursday, August 26, 2010 Share This Email

FEATURED STORY Israeli-Palestinian preview: Who's coming to dinner at the White House? Until Netanyahu, Obama, Abbas, Abudllah and Mubarak meet at the White House on Sept. 1, the exact issues to be negotiated will remain unknown. What we do know is what each is concerned with. Read more » EDITORS' PICKS Standing up for Christian Zionists Christian Zionists support Israel and the Jews not because they're out to convert us and hasten Armageddon, Steven I. Weiss writes in Slate. They really love us. Circumcision confessions A new mother writing in Salon asks why a woman like her, who believes circumcision is mutilation, would hand over her child to the mohel at her son's bris. Peace process mirage The biggest threat to peace in the Middle East might be the peace process -- or, more precisely, the illusion that there is one, George Will writes in the Washington Post. The 14-year-old rabbi A 14-year-old boy from Netanya would like to become the youngest rabbi in the world, and has taken his ordination exams. But Israel's rabbinical authorities say nobody under 22 should be allowed to become a rabbi. The boy's parents say he's an adult in a child's body. Ban the Shabbat wedding Saturday weddings disturb the sanctity of Shabbat and should be banned by all denominations, writes Rabbi Leon Morris in the N.Y. Jewish Week. Justin Long talks kosher meat An Orthodox Jewish couple is more upset about non-kosher hamburgers being cooked on their grill than a sex scene on their dining room table, actor Justin Long said. BREAKING NEWS A recent CIA paper cited Jewish acts of terrorism in the West Bank in its analysis of whether the United States is an exporter of terrorism. A suspect has been arrested in the shooting death in New York of a former hip-hop musician turned Orthodox Jew. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers has joined a coalition of Muslim, Arab and human rights groups that plans on taking a boat to Gaza this autumn. Right-wing extremism on the Internet is increasing in Germany, including hateful material in disguise, a watchdog group said. Leaders of religious groups signed a letter urging U.S. congressmen not to take measures to alter federal funding of religious charities. Two actors from Israel's national theater said they will not perform at a Jewish West Bank cultural center. The first Jewish chief of the Republican Party came out as gay. Israel's Foreign Ministry has slammed the European Union's foreign policy chief for criticizing an Israeli court's conviction of a Palestinian protest leader. Palestinians set cars on fire and threw stones at Israeli police and firemen in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. The original Nuremberg Laws documents were transferred to the National Archives in Washington, where they will reside permanently.