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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 Donate Now | 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 Amid crisis and violence, Tunisian Jews safe but guarded The violence roiling Tunisia hasn't put the country's 1,500 or so Jews in serious jeopardy, but Jewish organizations are concerned about their fate as massive anti-government protests continue. Read more » EDITORS' PICKS Chinese mom vs. matzah mom A stream of offended Jewish mothers have waded into the debate started by Yale Law Professor Amy Chua's piece in The Wall Street Journal arguing for the superiority of Chinese parenting. Ben Harris has the details on JTA's Telegraph blog. Serenity in Stuxnet? With the news that the Stuxnet computer virus set back Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions for perhaps years, is the urgency gone to stay strong against the Islamic Republic? JTA's Ron Kampeas offers an analysis. Barak's gambit Was it political betrayal or a precursor to something bigger when Labor leader Ehud Barak quit the party to form a new movement? JTA's Leslie Susser has an analysis. From where help comes A London taxi driver receives more than 200 offers of help to support him through the next two years of cancer treatments after putting an appeal on a local Jewish website, the Times of London reports. The Eulogizer: Don Kirshner and Rabbi Menachem Zeev 'Wolf' Greenglass JTA's Appreciation column remembers a rock music producer and a Chabad kabbalist. Meet the Maccabeats The Jerusalem Post sits down with the Yeshiva University a cappella group the Maccabeats, whose "Candlelight" video on YouTube went viral, before a performance in Israel. BREAKING NEWS U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) reportedly will not run for re-election. The United States was advised by a German think tank to use "covert sabotage" to disrupt Iran's march toward nuclear weapons, a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable reveals. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev reiterated Russia's recognition more than two decades ago of an independent Palestinian state. The national board of Hadassah: The Women's Zionist Organization of America has nominated its former treasurer to take over the organization's top lay leadership position. Birmingham's Jewish federation said it would reach out to Alabama's governor after he said non-Christians were not his "brothers and sisters." A Yale University alumnus has donated $1 million to the campus Chabad House. Former champion Yuri Foreman will return to the ring March 12 after rehabilitating from knee surgery. The U.S. chip-maker Intel Corp. will invest $2.7 billion to upgrade its plant in southern Israel. The state of New Jersey approved a second Hebrew immersion charter school. The PLO office in Washington raised a flag for the first time. Holland's first same-sex Jewish commitment ceremony was held in Amsterdam. More than 335 immigrants from Ethiopia arrived in Israel on a special Jewish Agency charter flight. British author Ian McEwan was chosen to receive the prestigious Jerusalem Prize. Anthony Horowitz, author of the popular series about teenage spy Alex Rider, has been commissioned by the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle to write a full-length Sherlock Holmes novel.