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FEATURED STORY Not wild about Wilders? Populists' anti-Islam message has European Jewish leaders worried As several anti-Islam populist parties in Europe make gains, and even some mainstream leaders are weighing in of late on the "Muslim integration problem," Jewish leaders are ill at ease over the ilk typified by Holland Party of Freedom founder Geert Wilders. Read more »

EDITORS' PICKS Political Points: What will Joe do? Ross talks to AIPAC On JTA's Capital J blog: Will Joe Lieberman caucus with Dems in January? Dennis Ross tells AIPAC that the U.S. needs action on peace. Teaming to stop delegitimization The Jewish Federations of North America and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs are launching a multimillion-dollar joint initiative to combat anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions campaigns, JTA's Jacob Berkman reports. As it is written Julie Seltzer, 35, one of a handful of female scribes, is nearly finished handwriting a Torah scroll that she has spent the past year writing on the second floor of San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum, the San Francisco Appeal writes in an extensive feature. BREAKING NEWS A slaughterhouse that supplies kosher meat to London-area stores has stopped kosher slaughter following a protest by McDonald's. The top foreign operations appropriator in the U.S. House of Representatives slammed a GOP proposal to vote separately on aid to Israel and foreign aid. An Australian natural foods producer won best new product at this year's Kosherfest. Film director Jean-Luc Godard will not appear in person to accept an honorary Oscar that some have urged be withdrawn because of views deemed anti-Semitic. An Israeli lawmaker canceled a trip to Spain over fears that he would be arrested. A commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Rabbi Meir Kahane will be held in a Jerusalem hotel, despite opposition. Holocaust survivors and their families have sued Hungary and its two railroad companies for allegedly collaborating with the Nazis to commit genocide against the Jews. A polling place at a messianic Christian center in New York was changed after Orthodox Jewish voters protested. Joseph Stein, the Tony Award-winning writer of "Fiddler on the Roof," has died. Iran began placing uranium fuel rods in the Bushehr nuclear plant. Turkey has asked the United States not to share intelligence from a new missile defense system with Israel. Two Arab-Israel passengers on a Gaza-bound Turkish flotilla testified that Israeli soldiers did not allow injured passengers to receive medical attention. Australia's first Jewish lawmaker for the federal Liberal Party paid homage in his maiden speech to family members who perished in the Holocaust and one who survived.