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• Using Sukkot as an opportunity to “widen our communal hut,” the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent announced that it will publish marriage announcements for gay couples, just a week after Reform leader Rabbi David Saperstein testified against discrimination based on sexual orientation. [JE]
• Considering reactions to Congressman Alan Grayson’s use of the word in reference to ...

Last night, Barack Obama hosted an iftar, the meal that breaks the daily fast during the Muslim month of Ramadan. It’s actually not a new White House tradition—Bill Clinton started it, and George Bush continued it, as an event for the diplomatic corps along the lines of a state dinner. Obama, as is his wont, ...

This week, the head of the Reform movement’s political arm, Rabbi David Saperstein, helped launch an effort by progressive religious leaders to get President Barack Obama’s health care plan passed in Congress; the president’s agreed to join the group in a call-in webcast on August 19. Saperstein and liberal Rev. Jennifer Butler appeared this morning ...

• A fugitive Ku Klux Klan member on America’s 100 most wanted list has been turned in—by his pregnant Jewish girlfriend, with whom he was living in Israel. [JPost]
• Parisian gang members convicted of murdering the Jewish Ilan Halimi will be retried, as the court determined their sentences were “too lenient.” [Jewish Chronicle]
• After an ...

• The G8 echoes everyone else’s calls for a settlement freeze in Israel, and tsk-tsks the violence in Iran. [Reuters]
• A Florida court clears philanthropist Guma Aguiar for charges lobbed by his uncle, who claimed Aguiar believes he is the Messiah and is therefore unfit to manage the family’s foundation. [Haaretz]
• At an interfaith rally ...