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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

FEATURED STORY How to succeed in picking a chief rabbi successor in Britain Synagogue leaders in Britain say they will be more transparent and more inclusive of women as they move toward naming a successor to longtime Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks before the end of 2012. Read more » EDITORS' PICKS America's Hebrew-tweeting ambassador JTA's Ron Kampeas interviews Dan Shapiro, the Jewish, Hebrew-speaking, tweeting American envoy to Israel. Struggle over Israeli-Palestinian conflict at OWS As Occupy Wall Street enters a new phase, a struggle is percolating over whether and how the movement ought to integrate pro-Palestinian activism, JTA's Dan Klein reports. BREAKING NEWS Palestinian rivals Hamas and Fatah reportedly have agreed to hold new parliamentary and presidential elections. The Palestinians will continue to press their bid for full membership in the U.N. Security Council. A spokesman for Herman Cain's campaign said the Republican presidential hopeful was joking when he said he had offered former secretary of state Henry Kissinger his old job back. A rare collection of stamps, letters, ID cards and other documents of the Nazi era was donated to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. Israel's Air Force struck two terrorist targets in Gaza in retaliation for two rockets fired at southern Israel, including one that landed near a kindergarten. Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav told an Israeli newspaper that he is a "wreck" but will not commit suicide. An Israeli strike on the Gaza Strip injured the French consul and his family. The Israeli Chief Rabbinate Council said it will investigate the procedures of an organization of Modern Orthodox rabbis that performs alternative religious wedding ceremonies for non-religious couples.