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Daily Briefing

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

FEATURED STORY Jewish activists try to fight Wall Street -- and some protesters' anti-Semitism For the Jewish activists who see great merit in the Occupy Wall Street protests and have been trying to amplify their impact, they have had to do double duty tamping down anti-Semitic expressions. Read more » EDITORS' PICKS Israel's Arab soldiers (McSweeney's) Arab citizens who serve in the Israeli army face dilemmas. The assassination plot and the nuclear threat Iran watchers say the revelation of an alleged plot to hire Mexican contract killers to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Washington signals the Iranian regime's deepening radicalization and underscores the urgency of the threat posed by Tehran's nuclear plans. JTA's Ron Kampeas has the story. A soldier's path to the rabbinate After fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Joshua Knobel figured out that what he really wanted was to be a rabbi. Hillel Kuttler profiles the soldier-turned-rabbinical student for JTA. BREAKING NEWS The United States expressed objections to Israel about some of the Palestinian prisoners in the swap for Gilad Shalit, the State Department said. A computer virus similar to the Stuxnet virus that attacked Iran's nuclear program has been identified. A former Chabad-Lubavitch youth leader was arrested in Melbourne for allegedly molesting a child. Gilad Shalit took a walk with his mother near their home. The Palestinian envoy in Ottawa has apologized for tweeting a link to a video that was deemed offensive to Jews. A group of European rabbis has called on the pope to condemn the latest anti-Semitic remarks by a Holocaust-denying Catholic bishop. A demonstration and march hosted by Occupy Boston protested U.S. support of Israel's presence in "Palestine." The "anonymous" buyer of a historic letter written by Albert Einstein -- E. Randol “Randy” Schoenberg, president of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust -- entered the bidding a day before it closed. An Israeli startup company has received a $30 million investment from China's richest man. A substitute teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District has been fired after making anti-Semitic remarks. Slingshot added a Top 10 list to its newly released annual guide to innovative Jewish programming in North America.