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Tuesday, September 28, 2010 Share This Email

Dancing with stars on Simchat Torah Columnist Edmon J. Rodman does his version of Arthur Murray for the seven hakafot, or circle dances, to send Jews into the fresh circle of the new year. Read more » EDITORS' PICKS Mazal Tov: Baby in the mikveh An intermarried couple takes their baby to the mikveh in Newton, Mass. Check out the story and video on The LifeCyclist, JTA's new blog on doing Jewish in the 21st century. What Americans (don't) know about religion How many of the 32 questions about religion asked recently of 3,400 Americans by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life can you answer correctly? Of all faith groups, Jews scored highest, right behind atheists and agnostics, averaging 20.5 correct answers. Debating J Street and George Soros As the frenzy over George Soros' funding of J Street continues, two Jewish leaders weigh in on opposite sides. 10 years from aliyah JTA's Israel correspondent Marcy Oster writes about the ups and downs of her family's decade living in Israel. Sukkot, a time to be thankful Sharing the Jewish holiday conveys nature's limitless bounty and God's unfailing love, Sandy Banks writes in The Los Angeles Times. Trying to crack the 'D.B. Cooper' case Listen to Tablet's interview with Skipp Porteous, the neo-Nazi hunter and convert to Judaism who thinks he solved the "D.B. Cooper" case. BREAKING NEWS Israeli commandos peacefully intercepted a boat carrying Jewish activists who hoped to breach Israel's embargo of the Gaza Strip. The faculty Senate of a major South African university is set to vote on whether to sever ties and a joint research project with Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The Obama administration says it is seeking ways to advance the Israeli-Palestinian talks in light of the end of Israel's partial moratorium on settlement building. Hillary Rodham Clinton met with the Syrian foreign minister and discussed reviving Israeli-Syrian peace talks. The Anti-Defamation League slammed Pink Floyd's Roger Waters for using what the organization says is anti-Semitic imagery. Nearly two-thirds of Israeli Jews believe that non-Orthodox converts to Judaism should be considered Jewish, a new Israeli government survey reveals. Israel's foreign minister presented a plan to the United Nations that would transfer Israeli Arab towns to a future Palestinan state in exchange for annexing Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Canada's two major Jewish advocacy groups are clashing over a cartoon. Josh Block, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's spokesman, is leaving to start a consultancy and join a centrist Democratic think tank.