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Princeton students are voting on whether to ask the university's dining services to provide an alternative brand of hummus.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the United States in early 2009 that he supported land swaps in a peace agreement with the Palestinians, a leaked document shows.

Federal Judge Kimba Wood agreed to recess a fraud trial so that the Orthodox Jewish defense attorney could attend his grandson's brit.

Some 53 percent of Israel's Jewish population believes that the state can encourage Arabs to leave the country, a new poll found.

Five Palestinian workers in Gaza were injured by Israeli gunfire after entering an area that Israel has identified as a launching ground for rockets.

A self-proclaimed rabbi who counseled his followers to commit acts of child abuse was convicted of abusing several children who lived with him.

Richard Goldman, one of the most influential Jewish philanthropists in the United States, has died.

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Editors' Picks A candle for Russian Jews JTA's Sue Fishkoff remembers being called to light a Chanukah candle in front of the Israeli Knesset -- and not being able to bring herself to lie. The great hummus debate The vote at Princeton over which hummus can be sold at the Ivy League university will decide the future of Israel, more or less (probably less), columnist Jeff Edelstein writes in The Trentonian. Wake up to terror threat Although Jews are top targets in the crosshairs of Islamist terrorists, many in the Jewish community have been slow to open their eyes to this reality, placing the community in further peril, the American Jewish Committee's Yehudit Barsky writes in an Op-Ed for JTA. The American Herzl David Geffen writes in The Jerusalem Post in praise of Abba Hillel Silver, the American Zionist leader who helped bring Israel into being. I made it out of plastic Haaretz visits Jerusalem's Vilplast factory, where they make dreidels the old-fashioned way. Tel Aviv's 'messiah' Calling himself only "The Messiah of Tel Aviv," a 31-year-old Russian-born immigrant has become a fixture in a neighborhood more accustomed to beggars and bohemians before he announced he was a prophet, the French news agency AFP reports. Hebrew huddle Football finds fans in Israel, with settlers and Palestinians even playing on the same team, The Media Line reports.

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