A search continues for the missing Jewish teen from Englewood. [Jewish Week] Who are the Jewish refugees? [Jerusalem Post] India's "Hitler" clothing store will change its name. [New York Daily News] A Christian monastery is the victim of vandalism in Israel. [LA Times] Jewish leaders protest after a rabbi in Vienna reports abuse. [Reuters] Berlin youths hurl anti-Semitic slurs at young girls. [Haaretz] Jewish settlers leave Migron. [Algemeiner] Six percent of the Palestinian Authority's budget goes to …More

Why Jewish voters will pick Obama over Romney. [The Hill] A man faces life imprisonment for butchering a Brooklyn Jewish boy. [Chicago Tribune] There are tales of tragedy and triumph behind Israel's Paralympic team. [Times of Israel] JAFI gives aid to the family of the non-Jewish Burgas victim. [Jerusalem Post] German Jews oppose an award for a US philosopher. [Ynet] Co-founder and past president of the World Jewish Congress died 30 years ago today. [WJC] An Israeli high court says Migron must be …More

An Israeli outpost evacuation planned for yesterday has met a delay, with no clear indication of when the move might take place. Residents in Migron have been allowed to stay put, while the Israeli Supreme Court reviews a petition for a delay. The West Bank settlers requested the evacuation be put off until a nearby neighborhood of modular homes designed for the evacuees is completed. The homes are not expected to be finished for several weeks. As it stands, the Supreme Court will make a decision on the petition …More

Off a rough, paved road atop a mountain, on the thin stucco wall of a trailer home, black graffiti proclaims “Private Jewish land.” And underneath, in red, “Migron.” The trailer home is among dozens in Israel’s largest settlement outpost, deep in the central West Bank and not far from the Palestinian metropolis of Ramallah. To reach Migron, cars must exit a main highway and ascend a twisting road that barely has room for two lanes. Founded more than a decade ago, Migron remains …More

The trial begins in the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces case against the Hotel Shangri-La. [The Jewish Journal] Families in the Migron outpost will be evicted on August 21. [The Jewish Journal] Only four percent of Jews cast their votes based on how candidates view Israel. [Gestetner Updates] Seventy-nine North American cities will host Jewish or Israeli film festivals in 2012, exposing tens of thousands of Jews to a view of Israel. [The Algemeiner] Jewish settlers react to Dani Dayan’s New York …More

Israel's top court order blocked the government's deferral of the demolition of an illegal West Bank settlement. Citing the need to maintain the rule of law, the High Court of Justice ruled Sunday against an attempt by the government to postpone to 2015 the demolition of Migron, a settlement that the Palestinians say is built on their land. After repeated deferrals dating back to 2006, the demolition was scheduled to take place at the end of the month. But the court gave the state until August to arrange an …More

While UNESCO has declined to recall and reprint the most recent five-year report on worldwide scientific achievements, which largely omits Israel, it has recently bowed to pressure to update the online version. [The Times of Israel] A recent report shows that Israeli venture capital funs raised $796 million in 2011 after raising nothing the year before. [Globes] Dan Margalit worries that nobody in the settlement Migron is publically speaking out in favor of maintaining harmony with the Israeli …More

Two major U.S. Jewish groups commended Israel for dismantling an illegal settlement and condemned a subsequent attack on a mosque apparently by West Bank Jewish settlers. The Reform movement's Religious Action Center and the The American Jewish Committee praised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The center in a statement Wednesday lauded Netanyahu for his leadership in calling for the immediate dismantling of the Migron settlement, in accordance with a decision handed down by the Israeli Supreme Court. "We …More