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Wednesday, January 4, 2012 Donate Now | Share This Email

FEATURED STORY Three winners in Iowa and three takeaways for Jews What do the strong showings by Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul in Iowa mean for Jewish voters? Read more » EDITORS' PICKS Amman meet-up Observers say the first Israeli-Palestinian get-together in over a year was more about dispensing favors than making peace. JTA's Ron Kampeas reports. BREAKING NEWS An author of the new Iran sanctions law warned that President Obama would face "overwhelming opposition" if he ignored some parts of the measure. A white supremacist arrested after informing his wife that he planned to kill Jews and blacks may have targeted Anti-Defamation League leader Abraham Foxman, the FBI said. The chief rabbi of the Israeli Air Force has resigned from a program that recruits haredi Orthodox men over the issue of female soldiers singing at events. The Simon Wiesenthal Center condemned a memorial Mass in in two Catholic churches in Croatia for Ante Pavelic, the fascist leader of the country under the Nazi regime. Two haredi Orthodox children say they were attacked in Jerusalem by non-Orthodox Jews in recent days. Two cars owned by Arabs were set on fire near the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo. The Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management board has divested its holdings in companies tied to Iran’s energy industry. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met face to face for the first time in more than a year and agreed to meet again. German-Jewish author Rafael Seligmann launched a Jewish quarterly magazine. A Jewish retirement community in Ohio has opened what it is calling the state’s first shelter for abused elderly.