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• Ilana Wexler chooses Obama

  January 31, 2008 10:00am

  The Jewish 11-year-old who four years ago called for a “timeout” for Dick Cheney endorsed Barack Obama.

• Israeli divestment gets an F on campus

  January 30, 2008 10:00am

  While the campus Israel divestment movement has garnered much media coverage and induced much hand wringing in the Jewish community, divestment demands have had little effect on American university administrators.

• Livni advances Israeli-Arab talks

  May 10, 2007 9:00am

  Tzipi Livni visited Egypt to set up talks between Israel and the Arab League.

• War testimony published

  May 10, 2007 9:00am

  An Israeli commission of inquiry into the Lebanon war published testimony by top officials.

• Pius XII heads to sainthood

  May 10, 2007 9:00am

  Pope Pius XII, who was criticized for turning a blind eye to the Holocaust as wartime leader of the Catholic Church, was placed on the path to sainthood.

• NSC denies Rice-Abrams rift

  May 10, 2007 9:00am

  The National Security Council denied that deputy chief Elliott Abrams suggested to Jewish leaders that the White House differed from Condoleezza Rice on the pace of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

• Six nations discuss Iran

  May 10, 2007 9:00am

  Representatives of the six major powers dealing with Iran’s nuclear capability met to discuss its failure to cooperate.

• Lauder to WJC: Make vote fair

  May 10, 2007 9:00am

  Ronald Lauder moved to clear the way for a possible run for World Jewish Congress president.

• House appropriators: Sack Al-Hurra chief

  May 10, 2007 9:00am

  A congressional subcommittee urged Condoleezza Rice to fire the news director of a U.S.-funded Arabic language broadcaster.

• U.K. Jews: Blair was ‘friend and ally

  May 10, 2007 9:00am

  British Jewish groups paid tribute to Tony Blair, hours before he announced his resignation from the premiership after a decade in power.