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Wednesday, January 26, 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 In speech, Obama misses some Jewish priorities: poverty, abortion rights, Israel In a State of the Union speech focused largely on lifting the nation's economic outlook, President Obama left out some key Jewish community priorities, including any mention of Israel. He did, however, sound other Jewish applause lines, including sanctions against Iran, the need to shift America away from oil and boosting education. Read more » EDITORS' PICKS Can Jewish giving weather generation shift? As trillions of dollars in wealth are transferred from generation to generation, questions linger about what will happen to Jewish philanthropy as younger generations become more assimilated and less connected to the Jewish world, JTA's Jacob Berkman reports. Leaked maps show gaps in Mideast talks A trove of documents released by Al-Jazeera include maps showing just how close -- and how far -- Israelis and Palestinians were to a deal, JTA's Ron Kampeas reports. Op-Ed: Americans Must Unite The Jewish Federations of North America policy chief says that in tough times, the country must come together. Holocaust denial shakes up a school Parents on the PTA e-mail list of an Upper East Side of New York public school are shocked when a parent sends a message recommending a book that denies the Holocaust, the New York Times reports. Marty Peretz isn't sorry In this second recent profile of the former New Republic editor, The New York Times follows Peretz to Tel Aviv, where he currently lives, to find out if he's sorry for recent remarks about Muslim life. He's not. Meaningful lives for Gen-Y The young people of Gen-Y are hungry to live lives of meaning, writes Rabbi Kenneth Brander in Ynet; the trick is how to leverage this hunger to bring them to the Jewish leadership table. Roseanne Barr blasts her Judaism "I couldn't wait to like breed with non-Jewish people," actress Roseanne Barr tells Chelsea Handler on E! See the video of the interview on newsbusters.org. Good News from the Middle East There are palatable steps that both the Israelis and the Palestinians could take, separately but simultaneously, that could help revive the peace process, Jeffrey Goldberg and Hussein Ibish write in a New York Times Op-Ed. JEWISH IDEAS DAILY Sponsored Content The Seed of Israel On the issue of conversion, the authoritative Jewish legal tradition is far broader than contemporary ultra-Orthodox ideology allows. BREAKING NEWS U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman severed ties with J Street over its call on the Obama administration not to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution on settlements. A joint project between Yad Vashem and Google will make public access to Nazi-era documents and photographs easier. A Jewish hockey player has sued the National Hockey League's Anaheim Ducks for religious discrimination and harassment based on religion. Egyptian activists urged protestors to take to the streets for a second day of anti-government rallies. With anti-Semitism on the rise more than six decades after the liberation of Auschwitz, Europe should be fighting harder against hate, Moshe Kantor said. One of Italy's most prominent Jewish figures is at the center of the latest round of scandals surrounding Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Members of a Palestinian terror cell were indicted for the murder of an American tourist in a forest near Jerusalem. The Illinois Supreme Court ordered Rahm Emanuel's name back on the ballot for Chicago mayor.