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Daily Briefing Monday, March 14, 2011 FEATURED STORY Murder of West Bank family members spurs protests, new housing approval Demonstrations in solidarity with settlers and a Cabinet committee's approval for new housing in the West Bank are among the Israeli responses to the suspected terrorist attack that killed five members of a West Bank Jewish family. Read more » EDITORS' PICKS McCarthyism or PC run amok? Jewish groups may disagree on why, but there appears to be wide consensus that the congressional hearings on Muslim radicalization led by Rep. Peter King are off on the wrong foot, JTA's Ron Kampeas writes. Ami Eden's perspective JTA Editor in Chief Ami Eden offers his views on shaping the future of Jewish journalism and other issues in a sit-down with The New York Jewish Week's JINsider, Mark Pearlman. The Wandering Jew's Limmud (Limoud) debut In Paris, the Wandering Jew Ben Harris finds that the mostly young Limoudniks are indistinguishable from their counterparts around the world: They've got a serious bone to pick with the community leadership. What's ahead for the Fogels "They won't understand how the world can continue on and how they can continue to be breathing after such a horrendous thing happened," Rabbi Seth Mandell, whose son was murdered by terrorists, tells The Jerusalem Post about how the Fogel family's surviving loved ones will feel. Nightmare mission In a remembrance of U.S. Army Gen. Al Ungerleider, The Washington Post recalls in his own words the day he liberated Nordhausen in central Germany. Some Jews silent in Wisconsin In Wisconsin, rabbis and members of the state's Jewish community have been a visible presence in support of public worker unions. But the community's biggest and most politically influential bodies - its federations and affiliated community relations councils - have been conspicuously silent, the Forward reports. The Eulogizer: Walter Zacharius and Louis Sachwald JTA's Appreciation column remembers iconoclastic publisher Walter Zacharius and Bataan death march survivor Louis Sachwald. JEWISH IDEAS DAILY Sponsored Content Beyond Tanks Israel has fought large-scale conventional wars and it has faced down terrorists. In the next war, just as enemy tactics will be different, so too will be the response. BREAKING NEWS Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called the killing of five members of a West Bank Jewish family "despicable," "inhuman and immoral." An Israeli Cabinet committee approved the construction of hundreds of housing units in West Bank settlements, supposedly in response to a suspected terrorist attack that killed five members of a West Bank Jewish family. West Bank settlers reportedly attacked Palestinian property in revenge attacks following the funeral of five members of a Jewish family fatally stabbed in a suspected terror attack in their home. The Obama administration condemned the 15-year sentence handed down by a Cuban court to Alan Gross. U.S. Sen. John McCain became the first active Republican politician to join the recent calls for the release of Jonathan Pollard. Poland is shelving plans to compensate former property owners -- among them Holocaust survivors -- for assets confiscated during the communist period. An Alaska Airlines flight crew issued a security alert after three Mexican Orthodox Jews began praying with tefillin. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is among 18 people who will be indicted in Israel's most wide-ranging real estate scandal. Pittsburgh's Jewish day schools are offering free tuition to new students in grades 3-11 for the coming school year. Actor Charlie Sheen has hired Israeli military veterans as round-the-clock security guards. The Jewish New Media Innovation Fund has announced $500,000 in grants to nine digital media projects. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is set to induct Neil Diamond. Palestinians in an official ceremony named a town square in the West Bank after a terrorist involved in killing 37 Israelis. Florida's chief financial officer called on his state's financial institutions to waive wire transfer fees charged to Holocaust survivors for receiving reparations. Six American universities are teaming up to offer a master’s concentration program in Israel education. Anti-Semitism and other forms of xenophobia are closely linked among Europeans, and Hungarians and Poles are the most likely to hold extreme anti-Semitic views, according to a new report. Iran said it will attend the 2012 Olympics in London despite its protest of the Games' logo, which it says spells the word Zion.