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Daily Briefing

Thursday, March 3, 2011

FEATURED STORY New mall in Caracas provides a safe haven for Jews Jewish life in Venezuela is on vivid display at a Caracas mall that features a kosher restaurant, shops that cater to Jewish clientele and a place where Jews can feel safe from the violent crime plaguing the city.Read more » EDITORS' PICKS Mr. Freeze? Settler leaders are accusing the Netanyahu government of imposing a silent building freeze despite the lifting months ago of the 10-month moratorium on building in West Bank Jewish settlements, JTA's Leslie Susser writes in a news analysis. Top 10 reasons not to be an anti-Semite Mark Zuckerberg, Bar Refaeli, the Beastie Boys, Amy Winehouse. Need more reasons not to hate Jews? writes blogger Amir Mizroch. Even the pope says we didn't kill Jesus. Unresolved sentiment When Pope Benedict, WikiLeaks' Julian Assange and designer John Galliano are on the front page at the same time -- for remarks about Jews -- it's time to take notice, Brad Hirschfield writes in The Washington Post's On Faith. 'Goy' meets girl When Steven Marche married his Jewish wife, he writes in Tablet Magazine, he became a "goy," part of a growing community of non-Jews with Jewish spouses, Jewish children and a special connection to Judaism. Song requests and death threats The Israeli behind a spoof YouTube video showing embattled Libya leader Muammar Gadhafi rapping from his balcony has received requests from Iranians to put together a revolutionary theme song for them, as well as death threats, the German news agency DPA reports in Haaretz. It's a girl thing Forty-five girls who graduated from San Francisco's Brandeis Hillel Day School and have gone on to different high schools continue to meet for monthly Rosh Chodesh programs. Read about their story in j, the Jewish news weekly of northern California. Condo or shul? Jewish residents of a South Florida retirement village are up in arms over a condo turned into a shul, the Palm Beach Post reports. The Eulogizer: Brazilian novelist, journalist on hospice, Haim overlooked again JTA's Appreciation column remembers Brazilian novelist Moacyr Scliar and actor Corey Haim, plus journalist Marilyn Henry's thoughts on hospice. JEWISH IDEAS DAILY Sponsored Content The Virtuoso of Judaism Was Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the spiritual leader of modern Orthodoxy in America, a Western religious intellectual or a nearly-unreconstructed Lithuanian talmudist? Read m

BREAKING NEWS

Fashion designer John Galliano denied accusations of anti-Semitism and racism that cost him his job, and also apologized for his behavior and "personal failure."

Director Steven Spielberg has purchased the screen rights to the WikiLeaks story.

Two Torah scrolls buried under the rubble of the Chabad house in Christchurch, New Zealand, have been saved.

The PLO representative to Washington called for a new approach to solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying the two sides are far from resolution.

A federal judge reportedly has recused himself from a lawsuit brought by a kosher vendor against the New York Mets.

Two Iranian warships passed through the Suez Canal a second time on their way home after a stop in Syria.

Folk music icon Pete Seeger, quoted earlier this week as saying that he supports a boycott of Israel, told JTA that his position on Israel is constantly evolving.

A bill that would give Holocaust survivors the right to sue European companies for unpaid life insurance claims was introduced in the U.S. Senate.

Jewish right-wing activists demonstrated on a main street in Jaffa to protest what organizers see as the "Islamic Movement gaining control over the city."

Journalist Marilyn Henry, an authority on German reparations and the recovery of Jewish properties looted and displaced in Europe during the Nazi and communist eras, has died.

Demonstrators blocked highways and train routes in a "Day of Rage" called by Israeli settler leaders to protest the demolition of illegal structures at a West Bank outpost.