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Thursday, September 2, 2010 Share This Email

Today's Daily Briefing Sponsored by: You! For only $180, you can use this prominent spot to announce an honor or celebrate a milestone. To make your announcement, click here. FEATURED STORY Netanyahu, Abbas each give a little on first day of talks On the first day of a summit between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, each side gave the other something in remarks at Thursday morning's news conference. Read more » EDITORS' PICKS Talking about the talks in the Middle East As the leaders of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, the United States, Jordan and Egypt meet in Washington, commentators back in the Middle East weigh in about what it will take for them to succeed, why they will fail and who's to blame. JCCs, synagogues compete on High Holidays As more JCCs offer High Holidays services, they're encroaching on synagogue turf, The N.Y. Jewish Week's Stewart Ain reports. Tiger, Toyoda and Selichot What can public figures teach us about teshuvah? JTA columnist Edmon J. Rodman provides some answers. JTA on 'The Colbert Report' The venerable Jewish news agency (if we say so ourselves) makes it onto the venerable late-night Comedy Central "news" show. Yes, we have no fresh vegetables The summer's extreme heat has damaged Israel's vegetable and fruit crops, leading to high prices and temporary shortages, Ynet reports. Wiesenthal on the Mossad's payroll? Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor who gained worldwide fame for decades as a one-man Nazi-hunting operation, was frequently on the payroll of the Mossad, asserts a new biography reviewed in The New York Times. Please don't burn the ribs The Forward attends the world championship kosher barbecue cook-off in Memphis, Tenn., featuring 42 competitive teams of cooks from around the South and as far away as New York. Living in a haredi closet Haredi Orthodox hide their new secular life because the price of exposure is too high. JEWISH IDEAS DAILY Sponsored Content Repentance = Freedom? For Abraham Isaac Kook, to engage in teshuvah-literally, "return"-is to catch the wave of divine energy that expresses itself in all aspects of human creativity. Read more » BREAKING NEWS Mahmoud Abbas agreed with Benjamin Netanyahu that securing Israelis and Palestinians was the key to advancing peace. A Boston television station rescheduled the initial Massachusetts gubernatorial debate to avoid a conflict with the first night of Rosh Hashanah. A settlers' umbrella group unilaterally ended the West Bank construction moratorium in response to the terrorist attack near Hebron. American Jewish attachment to Israel is holding steady, a new study shows. Four Torah scrolls that once belonged to a Southern California rabbi should be returned to his widow, a Los Angeles court ruled. A six-month strike by Israeli Foreign Ministry workers that jeopardized Israeli diplomatic relations with work slowdowns has been suspended. Jews are being urged to oppose a church's call to burn Korans on Sept. 11. Pope Benedict XVI and Israeli President Shimon Peres discussed prospects for the new round of Middle East peace negotiations. Two Israelis were wounded in a West Bank shooting attack late Wednesday night, a day after four Israelis were killed in a similar attack. Amsterdam's Reform congregation dedicated its new synagogue building in time for Rosh Hashanah. Ten past and present NBA players visited Israeli President Shimon Peres at his Jerusalem office. A Torah was dedicated in the birthplace of Communist leader Vladimir Lenin. Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Natan Sharansky was in Budapest for the inauguration of the Israeli Cultural Institute.