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FEATURED STORY Like NBA's Nets, European Jewish group gets an oligarch, but some see Soviet-style takeover The installation of a Ukrainian tycoon as president of a pan-European group is shining a light on East-West tensions simmering just beneath the surface of European Jewish life.Read more »

EDITORS' PICKS How the Jews voted On JTA's political blog, Capital J, Ron Kampeas looks at how the Jews may have voted in Tuesday's historic midterm election. Jews in the crosshairs Rabbis, thinkers and communal leaders reflect in the New York Jewish Week on the foiled Chicago synagogue bomb plot and what it says about Jews in America today. Jews and baseball, a love story Here's one way for San Francisco Giants fans to keep the good times rolling and for everyone else to kill time until spring training -- check out "Jews and Baseball, An American Love Story." Finishing Rabin's work We must all take up the cause for which Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who died 15 years ago today, gave his life: building a shared future in which our common humanity is more important than our differences, Bill Clinton writes in The New York Times. Growing Jewish campus life in New Orleans Tulane is one of 12 universities involved with a grant program to expand Jewish studies. At the New Orleans school, it also has given a boost to Jewish life on campus. Viral bar mitzvah A video invitation for a bar mitzvah in Israel, featuring the reconciliation between brothers Jacob and Esau, has gone viral on YouTube. Germany's woman rabbi: The video The BBC reports on Alina Treiger, the first woman in Germany to be ordained a rabbi since World War II. Craving for krembo Haaretz explores the secret behind the success of Israel's beloved chocolate marshmallow treat.

JEWISH IDEAS DAILY Sponsored Content The Next UN Security Council It's not just in the General Assembly that an anti-Western and anti-Israel majority is now increasingly assured. Read more » BREAKING NEWS Several prominent Jewish men appear on Forbes' latest list of the world's most powerful people, including the Israeli prime minister. Israel suspended its ties with the cultural body of the United Nations over its decision to classify the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb as Palestinian. Voters in three Boston-area districts backed a nonbinding resolution supporting Palestinian rights in Israel. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security advised Jewish institutions on protecting themselves from terrorist threats. Pope Benedict XVI told a delegation from the Anti-Defamation League that he would continue to fight anti-Semitism. A student group at Rutgers University is holding a fund raiser in support of a blockade-busting flotilla to Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces confirmed that it assassinated a senior Palestinian terrorist in the Gaza Strip. A former Brooklyn car service driver accused of leaving notes reading 'Kill Jews' around New York's Long Island was arraigned on a hate crimes charge. An Israeli chief rabbi told university students that stipends for yeshiva students should also apply to them. Martin Kraar, who was instrumental in helping the Council of Jewish Federations merge with the United Jewish Appeal and the United Israel Appeal, has died.