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Tuesday, September 21, 2010 Share This Email

FEATURED STORY Shouldering the burden of forgotten cemeteries As interest grows in caring for at-risk Jewish cemeteries, new regional and national efforts are emerging to take on the responsibility.Read more » EDITORS' PICKS A blueblood's family prejudices With Elana Kagan soon to join the Supreme Court, a distant kin of the first chief justice recalls her family's prejudices against Jews and Catholics and what it means for a third Jew to take a seat on a court with no WASPs. Anne Frank obsession Veteran stage and screen actor Mandy Patinkin is starring in a new play about the world's, and one man's, enduring obsession with Anne Frank, JTA's Sue Fishkoff reports. Peace Now's (aerial) view of the West Bank A settlements foe, the Israeli group took a planeload of Israeli members of Parliament and media people on a tour over the northern West Bank on Monday to press its case, The New York Times reports. Sacramento crying foul over swastikas A mural of Omri Casspi has has been defaced three times, surprising Israel's first NBA player and California's liberal capital city, Haaretz reports. Big bucks belly dancer A mysterious belly dancer from Israel has turned into a Palestinian wedding sensation and is earning about $425 for every 15 minutes of her performance, Ynet reports. BREAKING NEWS Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a top aide suggested that a compromise with the Palestinians on a settlement freeze is not in the offing. A Jewish high school in Washington State was defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti. Israel is ready to enter peace negotiations with Syria "right away," Shimon Peres told the United Nations General Assembly. Martin Peretz has been dropped as a speaker from a Harvard University event. The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against a New Jersey town on behalf of a former Jewish employee. Israel's unusually extreme summer heat has seriously damaged this year's etrog crop, growers say. A 1,500-year-old Samaritan synagogue was uncovered in the Jordan Valley. Israel has been automatically slotted in the second semifinal of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest since the first falls on Israeli Memorial Day. A Russian Jewish leader urged the head of Moscow State University to take steps to drop a history textbook considered by many to be anti-Semitic.