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• A Jewish papal knight has become a loud voice within the Catholic Church opposing Holocaust-era pontiff Pius XII’s sainthood. [NYT]
• A small group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis declared lox to be unkosher due to a certain parasite that salmon can host. Most rabbis disagree, though, so stick that on your bagel and eat it. [Grub ...

• After last week’s tension in Gaza—rockets fired into Israel, a fatal skirmish at the Egyptian border—Hamas asked Gazans to observe a ceasefire. [Haaretz]
• The head of the American Israeli Action Committee demanded the resignation of Hannah Rosenthal, Obama’s anti-Semitism envoy, and said J Street, which she used to advise, “fool[s] around with the lives ...

The U.S. State Department is standing behind its anti-Semitism envoy, Hannah Rosenthal. She told Haaretz last month that Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren’s choice not to speak to J Street, the “pro-Israel, pro-peace” organization she used to advise, was “most unfortunate.” The comment prompted a minor tempest: prominent figures in the American-Jewish community questioned her fitness; ...

• The Israeli Supreme Court ordered a West Bank highway to be opened to most Palestinian drivers. [NYT]
• A Lakewood, New Jersey, Orthodox man is the target of a $200 million fraud lawsuit, according to court papers. The plaintiffs are several Orthodox real estate investors who allege they were specifically targeted as part of an ...

Is Hannah Rosenthal, the State Department’s new anti-Semitism czar, doomed to become the next Van Jones—an administration official whose impolitic comments force her departure? Last week, she told Haaretz that Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren’s recent criticism of the progressive Israel lobbying group J Street was “most unfortunate.” The remarks prompted several Jewish leaders to complain; ...

• Israel announced plans to build 700 new homes in East Jerusalem. The move was condemned by Palestinian negotitor Saeb Erekat as well as a U.S. diplomat. [AP/WSJ]
• Alan Solow, a major figure in the Jewish-American organizational world, criticized Obama administration anti-Semitism envoy Hannah Rosenthal for her comments chastising Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren and defending ...

“Most unfortunate” was how a U.S. administration official characterized the Israeli Ambassador to the United States’s disparaging comments about the “pro-Israel, pro-peace” J Street political organization. Hannah Rosenthal, the State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, told Haaretz that Ambassador Michael Oren “would have learned a lot” from participating in J Street’s conference, ...

Hannah Rosenthal, the former head of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, will start work Monday as the State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. The position was created by Congress in 2004. Rosenthal, the 58-year-old daughter of a rabbi who survived the Holocaust, is a former seminarian—in the 1970s, she dropped out ...

The White House is expected to formally announce today the appointment of Hannah Rosenthal, the 58-year-old former head of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and a member of J Street’s advisory council, as the State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, an ambassador-at-large position that falls under State’s human-rights portfolio. The position, ...