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Flocking to free services Free High Holidays services are sprouting up all over as the season of looking inward approaches, and worshipers are expected to take advantage in large numbers, the Forward writes.

Singing spurs Jewish engagement An online survey shows that Jewish choral singers are more Jewishly involved than the average American Jew, JTA's Sue Fishkoff reports.

Settling for less If Israeli settlers have their way, Israel will have to choose between remaining democratic but not Jewish or staying Jewish by becoming non-democratic, Gadi Taub writes in The New York Times.

Teaneck politics leads the way CBS on its "Early Show" shows how Jews and Muslims get along in a New Jersey township with a Muslim mayor and an Orthodox Jewish deputy mayor. See the video on JTA's Telegraph blog.

Undercurrents below the Ground Zero mosque Emerging from the discourse is the message that when Muslim grievance is at question, America is the culprit, writes Judea Pearl, a UCLA professor and father of the slain journalist, in the Jerusalem Post.

Black Orthodox Jews a tight community New York's black, Orthodox Jews form a tight, proud community, reports The New York Times.

Lady Gaga Rosh Hashanah A synagogue in Port Washington, N.Y., takes Rosh Hashanah to Lady Gaga -- or maybe it's the other way around. BREAKING NEWS The Obama administration condemned what it said was incitement by an influential Israeli rabbi. In the wake of California legislation requiring companies to disclose their activities during the Holocaust, the head of France's national railroad said lawmakers were welcome to review its archives. A pro-Israel group has launched an online campaign to buy Israeli goods. Three members of Los Angeles' Iranian Jewish community were shot and killed in West Hollywood. Construction has begun on a new Mumbai Chabad House. About 30 stores in Muslim communities in Glasgow, Scotland, are refusing to stock Israeli products. Thousands of demonstrators marked Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit's fifth birthday in captivity. Iraq's Tourism Ministry is calling on Israel to return an ancient Torah scroll that it says was illegally smuggled out of the country. An Arab resident of eastern Jerusalem was charged with agreeing to spy on Israel. More than 50 Israeli theater professionals have signed a petition saying that they will not perform in a new theater in the West Bank. More than 150 medical instruments possibly used to conduct experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz were donated to its memorial museum. A Catholic primary school in Australia apologized to parents after a student dressed as Hitler won a dress-up competition. Egyptian police intercepted weapons intended to be smuggled into Gaza. A German official in his new doomsday book on the future of Germany appears to endorse Nazi racial ideology, Jewish leaders said. Israel's envoy to South Africa said the country's recent bias against Israel is not helping to advance peace in the Mideast. Two rabbinical students reflecting the demographics of Germany's burgeoning Jewish community are set to be ordained at a German seminary.