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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Featured Story Mitt Romney, John Thune make pitch to Jewish Republicans at RJC bash Without the emphasis on social issues many Jews might find alienating, does the Republican Party have a better shot of drawing more Jewish voters in 2012? JTA's Ron Kampeas goes to the Republican Jewish Coalition conference in Las Vegas to find out. Read more » Editors' Picks Goldstone's bombshell Richard Goldstone raised a host of questions with his Washington Post Op-Ed retracting some of his report's allegations against Israel on the Gaza war, JTA Managing Editor Uriel Heilman writes in a News Analysis. Rabbi on call in Japan The rabbi of the Israeli army's aid delegation to Japan already has erected an eruv and driven eight hours to get challah for Shabbat. He's also helping in the medical clinic and dealing with Passover and other religious issues, Ynet reports. Lithuania's unfinished business With its Parliament declaring 2011 a Year of Commemoration to Victims of the Holocaust, Lithuania at long last must join the list of nations that have come to terms with their Holocaust-era past, writes Rabbi Andrew Baker of the American Jewish Committee in a JTA Op-Ed. Marathon's wrong turn, Dylan's return JTA's Israel Under the Radar column by Marcy Oster features a mistaken finish by the top three runners in the first Jerusalem Marathon and the return of folk rock icon Bob Dylan to Israel after nearly two decades. Ode to a matzah ball No dish is more emblematic of Passover than matzah ball soup, Michael J. Solender writes in The Faster Times. He considers the soup "a delivery system for the ethereal, light, fluffy pillows of steamed goodness." Do touch In Tel Aviv's Jaffa port, an old warehouse overlooking the Mediterranean hosts the Na Laga'at Center, what is being called the world's only professional deaf-blind acting ensemble, The Jerusalem Post reports. The Eulogizer: Michael Abramson, Peter Davis, Norman Goldberg JTA's Appreciation column remembers photojournalist Michael Abramson, hospital CEO Peter Davis, music store owner Norman Goldberg, philanthropists and others. JEWISH IDEAS DAILY Sponsored Content Gandhi and the Jews A new book offers an occasion to examine Gandhi's relation to Jewish matters, including the suicidal counsel he proffered Jews facing Hitler, and his hardhearted opposition to Jewish national self-determination. Read more » Breaking News The United Nations Human Rights Council said it will continue to use the Goldstone Report as written, despite its author's retraction of a key finding. The United States has frozen weapons shipments to Lebanon's military following the collapse of the Arab country's government in January. The recent Middle East turmoil has sharpened Israeli needs for tangible security guarantees in exchange for concessions to the Palestinians, Dennis Ross said. Shimon Peres told Hillary Rodham Clinton that Israel was ready to do what it could to facilitate the transition among its neighbors to democracy. A group of leading Israelis, including former heads of the country's secret services and the military, will put forth a peace initiative, The New York Times reported. The terrorist organization al-Qaida is active in Brazil, including planning attacks and recruiting followers, a Brazilian magazine reported. A bloody pig's foot and an anti-Semitic note were sent to Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.). A call by Germany's top Jewish leader for the European Iranian Bank of Commerce in Hamburg to be shut down was echoed by the German government. A new report warns of a sharp rise in child poverty in Britain's haredi Orthodox Jewish community. Construction resumed on the new Lincoln Square Synagogue building in New York more than four months after it was halted due to funding problems. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak will approve development plans for four West Bank settlements. Israeli lawmaker Avi Dichter was heckled by protesters during a speech at Brandeis University. Juliano Mer-Khamis, a well-known Israeli-Arab actor, was shot dead by masked Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank city of Jenin. John Adler, a former New Jersey congressman, has died.