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Monday, September 27, 2010 Share This Email

FEATURED STORY J Street owns up to Soros funding J Street acknowledged substantial donations from billionaire George Soros, reversing years of claims by the group that it had nothing to do with the liberal financier.Read more » EDITORS' PICKS No money Due to dire economic circumstances, the Jewish Federation of Greater Orlando has stopped funding all Jewish agencies, except one JCC branch, the Orlando Sentinel reports. A Jewish wedding without God? How do you advise a couple that wants a Jewish wedding with no mention of God? An expert weighs in over at The LifeCyclist, JTA's new blog on doing Jewish in the 21st century. Funny, those neo-Nazis look Jewish CNN International tells the story of a neo-Nazi husband and wife who embraced Judaism after discovering that they actually had Jewish roots. Recruiting Jews, Southern style Turning to Jewish students to help create a more diverse, multicultural campus, Washington and Lee University in Virginia has stepped up its efforts to recruit Jewish students from across the nation, the Roanoke Times reports. Chocolate and kalamata olives Check out what happens when a political consultant, mother of two and dedicated foodie goes to Israel for six months in JTA's new food blog, Chocolate & Kalamata Olives. Eddie Fisher's love life Eddie Fisher, the 1950s singing star who died last week of complications from hip surgery, was brought low by his scandalous love life, according to an extensive feature in The Washington Post. A Jewish reporter in the U.N.'s Iranian underworld The Jerusalem Post's Jordana Horn attempts to cover a news conference for the Iranian media with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and realizes that in that multinational complex, regular rules do not apply. BREAKING NEWS Building began in West Bank communities just hours after the expiration of a 10-month settlement construction freeze. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he will not make a hasty decision to pull out of renewed peace talks in response to new construction in West Bank settlements. An Israeli women hit in the leg by Palestinian gunfire in the West Bank later gave birth to a son. JCall, a new European Jewish lobby, launched a German branch and called on Israel to continue its moratorium on construction in West Bank settlements. Two attackers are being held in the stabbing death in Ukraine of an Israeli Chasid. Israel and Jewish defense groups slammed a U.N. Human Rights Council report accusing Israel of breaking international law when it intercepted a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah met to continue reconciliation talks. A sapling grown from the famous Anne Frank chestnut tree in Amsterdam will be planted in Canada. Two Jewish U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation to protect students from religious discrimination. Jewish students at the University of Texas are working to change the date of next year's football game against rival Oklahoma because it falls on Yom Kippur. An international coalition of Jewish groups attempting to break Israel's blockade of Gaza set sail from Cyprus on a British-flagged boat. Ed Miliband, a Jewish minister, narrowly defeated his brother in a vote to head Britain's opposition Labor Party.