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WORLD | EARTHQUAKE'S MASSIVE DESTRUCTION

Jewish world mobilizes aid for Haiti relief

NEW YORK - As the death toll mounts in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, the organized Jewish world is lining up support for the rescue and relief effort in the region. full story >

NATION | FOREIGN POLICY

White House seeks multilateral approach on Iran

WASHINGTON — The Obama Administration continues to favor multilateral sanctions when it comes to pressuring Iran, senior officials have said. full story >

WORLD | holocaust-denying Bishop

Pope regrets handling of Williamson

ROME — Pope Benedict XVI admits in a letter that his rehabilitation of a Holocaust-denying bishop backfired. full story >

WORLD | MUMBAI ATTACKS

For Indian Jews, sense of security is shattered

MUMBAI, India (JTA) – The Colaba neighborhood that surrounds the modern apartment block where terrorists last week murdered a Chabad-Lubavitch couple and four other Jews has begun to return to normal. full story >

WORLD | CRISIS IN GEORGIA

Georgian Jews face wartime dilemmas

TBILISI, Georgia (JTA) — Tina Pshavtoshvili is a refugee, living in a borrowed room in a strange city and facing an uncertain future — again. full story >

WORLD | UNITED NATIONS

Will Geneva be Durban revisited?

GENEVA (JTA) – In less than a year, the United Nations will try again to tackle the thorny questions of racism around the world. Its effort in 2001 devolved into a virulent attack on Israel and Jews. full story >

WORLD | 'FACING TOMORROW'

Paradoxes abound at Peres conference

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A crush of world leaders and their security details mixed with Buddhist monks, rabbis, novelists and Internet entrepreneurs at Israel's splashy, high-profile 60th anniversary celebration last week. full story >

WORLD | MIDDLE EAST

Conversion revocation in Israel sparks outrage

TEL AVIV (JTA) — A recent rabbinic court ruling in Israel is prompting thousands of converts in the country to worry if their conversions to Judaism are at risk of being revoked. full story >

WORLD | INDIA

Terrorists targeted Jews, Israelis in Mumbai attacks

Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, at a wedding in Mumbai in 2006, served as the Indian city's Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries since 2003. The Holtzbergs were killed in the Mumbai terrorist attacks. Photo courtesy Chabad.org

WASHINGTON — The only Mumbai terrorist caught alive told an Indian newspaper that he and his colleagues were sent to target Israelis. full story >

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