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Thursday, February 10, 2011 Donate Now | Share This Email

FEATURED STORY Battle over Mideast transit ads heating up across U.S. With public bickering over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict already having spilled over into university student senates, corporate pension boards and even local farmers markets, the latest battlefront is municipal transit systems. Read more » EDITORS' PICKS Egypt reverberations in Herzliya The annual Herzliya security conference served as an opportunity to mourn the possible passing of an era of stability along Israel's southern border with Egypt and argue for the need to redouble efforts on the Israeli-Palestinian track, JTA's Dina Kraft reports. What Israel fears in Egypt It is not a democratic Egypt that Israelis fear but the prospect of Egypt being hijacked by enemies of democracy, of Israel and of the United States, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Sallai Meridor writes in The Washington Post. BREAKING NEWS Dozens of faculty members at the University of California, Irvine, have asked that criminal charges be dropped against 11 Muslim students who disrupted a speech by Israel's U.S. ambassador. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords spoke for the first time since she was shot. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak talked about the unrest in Egypt with U.S. officials. Brazil's highest court will have its first Jewish member. The partner of an Israeli man killed in an attack on a gay community center in Tel Aviv has been granted a temporary visa after being ordered deported. A bill that would have pulled some United States funding from the United Nations failed to pass the U.S. House of Representatives. South Carolina's superintendent of education has recommended cutting Holocaust education funding to help make up a significant budget deficit. Jewish and veterans' groups urged the U.S. Congress to pass a resolution that would add the names of Jewish chaplains to an Arlington Cemetery memorial. Residents of a Bedouin village razed more than a dozen times clashed with workers from the Jewish National Fund who came to plant trees in the area. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a likely candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, during a speech in Israel called Iran the biggest threat to world stability. A Hebrew charter school serving the Upper West Side of Manhattan has submitted its application to open. Proposed Republican cuts to foreign assistance endanger national security, according to a foreign policy umbrella that includes AIPAC among its members. A handwriting expert witness failed to confirm whether a signature on a Nazi death camp ID card was that of John Demjanjuk. The New York Times apologized for allowing a writer who has attended pro-Palestinian rallies to co-author a story claiming that Jewish criticism of Israel has grown in the San Francisco region. Directors of Jewish museums and educational institutes in Europe have written an open letter condemning the destruction of a 16-year-old exhibit at the Jewish Museum of Vienna. Jewish Democrats continued their pre-eminence on the powerful U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee. Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick will lead a state trade delegation to Israel. Salonika Mayor Yannis Boutaris is visiting Israel to learn how to bring more Israeli tourists to Greece's second largest city.