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| Monday, September 12, 2011 |
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FEATURED STORYSome Israeli schools are straddling the religious-secular divide. Read more » | EDITORS' PICKSIn the first installment of JTA's new Seeking Kin column, Hillel Kuttler reports on an Israeli Holocaust survivor's search for American relatives. | The Jewish community needs to do a better job of addressing the challenges faced by Jewish boys, writes Rabbi Daniel Brenner, director of initiatives for boys and men at Moving Traditions, in a JTA Op-Ed. | | Elliott Abrams says that the U.N. statehood push is the result of failures by Palestinian leaders, who have also taken intransigent positions on the refugee issue and on Israel's identity as a Jewish state. | Zvi Bar'el writes that many of the Egyptian activists behind their country's revolution feel that attacks on Israel's embassy represent a threat to their movement. | Ben Smith writes that the president's unpopularity is the big issue in the Brooklyn-Queens congressional race where the Democratic candidate now trails in the polls. | Einat Wilf speaks about what it's like to be an Israeli politician married to a German man. | Jeffrey Goldberg speaks with Mel Gibson about Maccabees, circumcision and his drunken anti-Semitic tirade. |
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BREAKING NEWS
| Reuven Herbst, the 5-year-old Jewish boy who was electrocuted by a downed power line during Hurricane Irene, has died. |
| The University of Nebraska Press has purchased the entire book inventory of the Jewish Publication Society. |
| Security around Israel's embassy in Amman, Jordan, reportedly has been increased following the mob attack on Israel's embassy in Cairo, Egypt. |
| A children's museum in California canceled an exhibit of Palestinian children's artwork illustrating the Gaza War after receiving complaints from the community. |
| More than 1,000 people gathered at the Washington Hebrew Congregation for a religious event to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. |
| The Anti-Defamation League said it supports the inclusion of the World Trade Center Cross in the permanent memorial to 9/11 victims at Ground Zero. |
| A Sydney rabbi sounded the shofar in a major cathedral in the Australian city to mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11. |
| The annual rally marking the anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin will not be held this November for the first time in 16 years. |
| Israeli restrictions have inhibited what otherwise would have been substantial progress in the Palestinian economy, the World Bank reported. |
| Standard & Poor's has upgraded Israel's credit rating to A+. |
| The home of a left-wing Israeli activist in Jerusalem was vandalized with spray-painted slogans referring to the demolition of homes in a West Bank outpost. |
| Palestinian snipers fired at Israeli homes near the Gaza border, while in the West Bank extremist Jewish settlers apparently committed more price tag attacks against Palestinian sites. |
| Israel's Cabinet approved a plan to relocate up to 30,000 Bedouin from unrecognized villages in the Negev to state-recognized settlements. |
| The United States stands to lose Saudi Arabia as an ally if it thwarts a United Nations vote on Palestinian statehood this month, a former top Saudi official said. |
| A mikvah uncovered during construction will be restored in a museum as the oldest testament to Jewish life in Holland. |
| Israeli actor Rami Baruch said he will not perform at a new cultural center in Kiryat Arba, a Jewish suburb of Hebron. |
Argentina became the last of five South American countries to sign onto a regional free trade agreement with Israel.
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