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• Shalit is facing obstacles on road to recovery

  October 25, 2011 4:49pm

  Gilad Shalit’s release from five years of isolated captivity marked the end of a national trauma for Israel, but for the 25-year-old it’s only the beginning of his road to recovery.

• Freed Palestinian tells schoolkids: Follow my path to martyrdom

  October 19, 2011 5:52pm

  A failed Palestinian suicide bomber freed in the swap for Gilad Shalit told Gaza schoolchildren that she hoped they would follow in her footsteps.

• Reform, Conservative St. Louis day schools to merge

  October 19, 2011 4:37pm

  Two St. Louis Jewish day schools, a Reform and a Conservative, have voted to merge.

• Portland-area Jewish paper to shut down

  October 19, 2011 2:43pm

  An Oregon Jewish paper, The Jewish Review, will close in January after publishing for more than 40 years.

• Jewish activists try to fight Wall Street — and some protesters’ anti-Semitism

  October 18, 2011 4:25pm

  For the Jewish activists who see great merit in the Occupy Wall Street protests and have been trying to amplify their impact, they have had to do double duty tamping down anti-Semitic expressions.

• Susan Sarandon knocked for calling pope a Nazi

  October 18, 2011 12:48pm

  Susan Sarandon is under fire after referring to the German-born Pope Benedict XVI as a Nazi.

• Iran calls U.S. assassination charges ‘Nazi propaganda’

  October 17, 2011 4:18pm

  Iran’s foreign minister accused the United States of Nazi-style propaganda for charging that Tehran was linked to an assassination plot on American soil.

• Pro-Palestinian student group holds first national conference

  October 17, 2011 4:02pm

  A loosely knit collection of student pro-Palestinian chapters gathered for its first national conference.

• Noam Shalit faces terrorist victims’ families outside courtroom

  October 17, 2011 3:11pm

  Noam Shalit faced a bevy of protesters opposing the release of his son Gilad as he arrived at the Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem to urge the court to allow the prisoner exchange.

• Netanyahu writes to families of victims of Shalit-deal prisoners

  October 17, 2011 12:30pm

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote to family members of the victims of attacks perpetrated by some of the 1,027 prisoners to be released in return for kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit.