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Featured Story Rumors sully Jewish response to imams' trip to Auschwitz Rumors about the Jewish response to the recent trip to Auschwitz and Dachau by eight American imams show the fraught nature of Jewish-Muslim relations, particularly given the fight over the Islamic center near Ground Zero. Read more »

Editors' Picks 'Focus' on Bloomberg's Jewishness What does Michael Bloomberg's stint as a Hollywood producer tell us about his passionate defense of the Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero? JTA's Ami Eden has the answer. Abbas is no Arafat Once this becomes apparent to all, the finger pointing will begin, Moshe Arens writes in Haaretz. My (Jewish) daughter's tattoo Author Anita Diamant, writing in the Huffington Post, comes to terms with her adult daughter's tattoo -- three Hebrew letters spelling the word for strength on her left shoulder. Israel's diplomatic flap with itself A labor dispute at the Israeli Foreign Ministry threatens to harm the country's delicate diplomatic relationships, scuttle overseas trips by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- including this week's to Washington -- and bring international embarrassment, JTA's Leslie Susser writes. Raising his German and Jewish child It remains an unusual experience to live as a Jew in a nation that systematically murdered 1.5 million Jewish children, among millions of others, author Andrew D. Blechman writes in the Los Angeles Times. Life in Ramallah A Hebrew University grad student spent six months in Ramallah to experience life beyond the checkpoint, New Voices reports.

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Breaking News Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak reportedly met secretly with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on the eve of peace talks. Los Angeles Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting deaths of three members of the city's Iranian Jewish community. A leading American Jewish umbrella group has started a national campaign in support of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. A Jewish woman from New Jersey died in a plane crash in Nepal on her 30th birthday. Some 150 academics and authors have thrown their support behind a boycott of a new West Bank cultural center. The United Nations voted to extend the mandate of its peacekeeping operation in southern Lebanon for another year. German police are investigating an arson attack that damaged the funeral chapel of a Jewish cemetery in Dresden. Renowned architect Daniel Libeskind was chosen to design and create a Canadian monument to the Holocaust-era ship the St. Louis. Carly Fiorina, the Republican candidate challenging incumbent Barbara Boxer for a U.S. Senate seat in California, is set to visit Israel. Burlesque dancer and actress Dita Von Teese in a lawsuit accused her former landlord of an anti-Semitic tirade. Elie Wiesel will be teaching at a Southern California university that features a large bronze bust of the Nobel laureate at its library entrance. Four Israeli soldiers were indicted after taking pictures of themselves pointing their guns at a Palestinian prisoner. World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder called the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority "one of the most fateful moments" in the history of Israel.