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• Group plugs sweatshop-free kippot

  February 28, 2007 10:00am

  Jews concerned about social justice now can buy kippot from companies that shun sweatshop labor.

• Trial opens in burning of Anne Frank diary

  February 28, 2007 10:00am

  A young German man admitted burning “The Diary of Anne Frank” at a summer solstice party in 2006.

• Orthodox feminists push for agunot

  February 28, 2007 10:00am

  An Orthodox feminist group is launching an advertising campaign on behalf of agunot, whose husbands refuse to give them a get, or Jewish bill of divorce.

• New Republic in new hands

  February 28, 2007 10:00am

  Martin Peretz, long-time editor in chief of The New Republic, sold his remaining shares in the pro-Israel magazine, The New York Observer reported.

• Israel to curb airport profiling

  February 28, 2007 10:00am

  Israel’s domestic security chief ordered new screening equipment installed at Ben-Gurion Airport to reduce selective “profiling” of Arab passengers.

• Europe keen to renew P.A. aid

  February 28, 2007 10:00am

  When Mahmoud Abbas announced in Mecca that an agreement had been reached for a Palestinian unity government, Europe’s united position toward the Palestinian Authority came apart at the seams.

• Reform praises Maryland on death penalty

  February 28, 2007 10:00am

  The Reform movement praised Maryland’s governor for supporting a repeal of the state’s death penalty.