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Monday, October 11, 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 With Emanuel and Axelrod gone, will the Jews have access to Obama? Observers are saying the departure of the president's two top Jewish aides -- both with offices within shouting distance of the Oval Office -- will be more visual than substantive.Read more » EDITORS' PICKS Political Points, your political fix JTA launches Political Points on its Capital J blog, offering a daily politics fix from Ron Kampeas until Election Day. Today: An Ohio candidate dresses up as an SS Nazi; Schumer and Specter backing Sestak in Pa. race; the Republican Jewish Coalition rolls out an ad campaign in eight states. HP's new Jewish chief The computer giant's new CEO Leo Apotheker studied in Jerusalem, loves hummus and speaks fluent Hebrew, Ynet reports. Face to face How Jewish businessman Joseph Helfgott's Jewish nose and the rest of his face helped another man get his face back. Hunting for hit men The Wall Street Journal follows the complicated investigative trail blazed by Dubai authorities in the assassination of top Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, allegedly by Israel's Mossad. Mayoral run for gay ex-rabbinical student A Jewish lesbian and former rabbinical student who supports same-sex marriage is running for mayor of Oakland, Calif., with support from local church leaders, The New York Times reports. Religious test New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof offers readers a quiz on religion, with a focus on extremism and fundamentalism. JEWISH IDEAS DAILY Sponsored Content The J Street Scandal A movement billing itself as "pro-Israel and pro-peace" is being devoured by its own internal contradictions. Read more » BREAKING NEWS The Jewish organizational leader said to be detained on a Turkish sex yacht denied being arrested in the breakup of a prostitution ring aboard the boat. The Republican candidate for New York governor denounced homosexuality in an address to Orthodox Jewish leaders. Israel's Cabinet approved a loyalty oath requiring non-Jews wishing to become citizens to pledge allegiance to Israel as a "Jewish and democratic state." A Holocaust survivors' umbrella group and a Republican leader rebuked a GOP congressional candidate for participating in Nazi re-enactments. The synagogue where Bob Dylan celebrated his bar mitzvah is for sale. Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters reportedly changed one of the videos he uses in his new "The Wall" tour after claims that it was anti-Semitic. More than a dozen anti-Israel protesters disrupted a presentation at the Jewish National Fund's conference in Atlanta. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is under fire for telling his Spanish and French counterparts to solve their own problems before telling Israel what to do. Iran has signaled its willingness to discuss its nuclear program with six world powers, and admitted that spies had infiltrated its nuclear installations. Hollywood power couple Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher are in Israel reportedly to work on their marriage. The Palestinian Authority's Education Ministry approved a history textbook that gives both the Palestinian and Israeli sides of their conflict. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and radical Islamism will be among the topics under discussion at a special meeting of Middle East bishops. A tourism conference will stay in Jerusalem following an agreement between Israel's finance minister and the head of a Western economic umbrella group. Two Palestinian children in eastern Jerusalem were hit by a car driven by a settler leader after they threw rocks at the vehicle. Columbia University opened its Center for Palestine Studies, despite a shortage of funds for the project. Israel's consul general welcomed his new Egyptian counterpart during a ceremony at Los Angeles City Hall. Israeli writer David Grossman was awarded the prestigious Peace Prize at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair. A delegation of prominent HIV/AIDS doctors from across East Africa is visiting Israel to expand medical partnerships and benefit from Israel's expertise.