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FEATURED STORY Will Israel's Supreme Court tilt conservative after Dorit Beinisch leaves? As Israeli Supreme Court president Dorit Beinisch steps down from her post as chief justice, a battle is raging to limit the court's power -- or at least fill it with more conservative justices. Read more » EDITORS' PICKS Ohio's great Jewish hope Jewish Republicans in Ohio are pinning their November hopes on a 34-year-old Jewish Marine Corps veteran. Zach Silberman reports for JTA. GOP candidates on the issues JTA breaks down the GOP candidates' positions on issues of Jewish concern. Gaza Vice, continued (Vice) In Part Two of Vice magazine's visit to the Gaza Strip, the crew investigates the contraband seized by Hamas police during a drug raid. Don't fear the Mormons (Boston Globe) Jeff Jacoby writes that the Mormon belief in posthumous baptisms represents no threat. Jewish leaders who accuse the church of killing Holocaust victims a second time by offering them the chance to embrace Mormonism in the afterlife are guilty of a vicious slander. I want you to know I'm pregnant (Forward) Sybil Sanchez, six weeks pregnant after four miscarriages, writes that the social convention of waiting to announce a pregnancy is harmful to women who have struggled with fertility. Prosecuting Israel at Harvard ... (Wall Street Journal) Harvard's Kennedy School of Government is due to host a conference on the "one-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Professor Ruth Wisse writes that while the school is obliged to tolerate such speech, it should not sponsor a conference whose objectives are at odds with its mission. ... is OK as long as it cuts both ways (Harvard Crimson) Professor Alan Dershowitz defends Harvard's decision to sponsor a conference on the one-state solution -- so long as the same applies when other students sponsor equally controversial events. Why the Syrian people are on their own (The New Republic) Josef Joffe explains why the West will not come to the aid of the Syrian people now being pummeled by their leader, Bashar Assad. Did Shmuley's interviewer go anti-Semitic? (Sun News TV) Shmuley Boteach claims that television interviewer Michael Coren suggested Jews control Hollywood. Did he? Or was we baited? Either way, it was a highly contentious exchange. Behind the Times (Forward) The new Internet publication The Times of Israel is backed by yet another wealthy American investor disturbed by coverage of the Jewish state and the Middle East. BREAKING NEWS Daniel Pearl was baptized in a Mormon proxy ritual in another case of a prominent deceased Jew discovered to have been baptized posthumously in recent weeks. Mitt Romney won Republican primary contests in Arizona and Michigan, maintaining his front-runner status. Casino and hotel magnate Sheldon Adelson reportedly has given a “substantial” new donation to a group supporting Newt Gingrich for the Republican presidential nomination. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan decried what he called Jewish control of the media and accused “Zionists” of trying to push America into war with Iran. The first Israeli Arab with a permanent appointment to Israel's Supreme Court has come under fire for not singing Israel's national anthem at a public court event. Israel has appointed its first Ethiopian-born ambassador. Opponents of a proposed shopping center in Prague to be built on the site where Jews were deported to Nazi death camps want to ensure that an appropriate monument also is erected. Mitt Romney will address the annual AIPAC policy conference. A Palestinian television station in the West Bank went off the air following a raid by Israeli soldiers. Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Senate committee that he did not advise Israel against striking Iran's nuclear facilities. eBay is expanding its activity in Israel. Israel's new ambassador to Egypt presented his credentials at a ceremony in Cairo.