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Daily Briefing

Thursday, September 1, 2011

FEATURED STORY In Slovakia, being strategic about preserving Jewish heritage Lacking the resources to care for all of its old synagogues and Jewish cemeteries, Slovakia's small Jewish community has identified 24 flagship sites to preserve as part of a Slovak Jewish Heritage Route. Read more » BREAKING NEWS Vandals defaced the monument in Jedwabne that commemorates the hundreds of Jews burned alive in a barn there by their Polish neighbors in July 1941. The president of the AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires was granted a two-month leave of absence after the center's parties failed to form a coalition to name a successor. Two antiwar protesters were sentenced to 30 days in federal prison for throwing a pie in the face of U.S. Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan. Israel arrested a top Hamas leader in the West Bank that it had released from jail several weeks ago. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra will perform at the prestigious BBC Proms in London in the face of calls for a boycott of its performance. Some 300 Ethiopian students and parents protested against their segregation in a Petach Tikvah elementary school, as nearly 2 million Israeli children began the school year. A councilwoman in Santa Ana, Calif., should resign after she made a "half-hearted" apology to a Jewish businessman that she had compared to Hitler, the Anti-Defamation League said. U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann became the latest presidential hopeful to meet with Orthodox Jewish leaders to discuss Jewish and Israel issues. Florida Marlins' third baseman Greg Dobbs visited a New York hospital to see the boy he injured with his foul ball.