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EDITORS' PICKS Learning Judaism from Giffords All Jews could learn about Jewishness from Gabrielle Giffords, the product of an interfaith home, The Jerusalem Post writes in an editorial. Is Loughner's mother Jewish? A friend of Jared Lee Loughner says the alleged Tucson gunman's mother is Jewish, according to a Mother Jones report, but Ron Kampeas on JTA's Capital J blog has his doubts. BREAKING NEWS President Obama spoke with the rabbi of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords during a series of calls to friends and families of victims of the weekend shooting in Tucson. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes about $12,300 a month before taxes, he informed the public on Facebook. A New Hampshire state legislator is under fire for suggesting that Jews were vulnerable during the Holocaust because they were different. References to the trial of Jesus and a pork comment made by a defense lawyer for Cisco Systems during a federal trial has led a judge to grant a new trial. The notorious Nazi Adolf Eichmann could have been caught sooner if Germany's intelligence agency had assisted, new information has revealed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has extended a moratorium on a civil conversion bill for another six months. A high school teacher in France who was suspended for spending too much class time on the Holocaust was reinstated. A report by European Union officials in Israel proposes the intervention of EU officials in eastern Jerusalem home demolitions and in Palestinian arrests. Iran said it has exposed an Israeli spy ring linked to the assassination of an Iranian physics professor working on the country's nuclear program. A Knesset committee approved a bill that would allow the revocation of citizenship from Israelis convicted of terror or espionage crimes.