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nominee Mitt Romney.
President Obama names Jacob Lew,
an Orthodox Jew from New York, as
his new chief of staff. Lew replaces
William Daley, who had replaced
Rahm Emanuel, who is Jewish and
later wins the race for Chicago
mayor.
Aryeh Ralbag, the chief rabbi of
Amsterdam, is suspended from his
post after signing a document on
"curing" homosexuality. Ralbag is
later reinstated, saying he was wrong
to use his Amsterdam title and that
the document did not fully reflect his
position on the matter.
U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords .
announces she is resigning from
Congress to recuperate from a
shooting a year earlier. The Jewish
Democrat from Arizona was shot in
the head during a campaign event in
Tucson.
The owner of the Atlanta Jewish
Times finds himself under fire after
penning a column speculating that
Israel might assassinate President
Obama. Andrew Adler apologizes
and, within days, resigns his post.

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September 13 • 2012

The breast cancer charity Susan G.
Komen for the Cure says it is cutting
funding for Planned Parenthood, a
move that sparks widespread out-
rage, including among a number of
Jewish groups that are vocal sup-
porters of the organization. Within
days, Komen CEO Nancy Brinker, a
prominent Texas Jewish Republican,
announces that the organization is
reversing course.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the
outspoken author of several best-
selling books including Kosher Sex,
announces his intent to run for
Congress in New Jersey. Boteach says
he wants to bring Jewish values into
the race.
Rabbi Gunther Plaut, the author of
a commentary on the Torah that has
become the standard text in Reform
congregations, dies at 99.
The Associated Press reports that
Alan Gross, an American Jew being
held in Cuba on suspicion of espio-
nage, gave sophisticated equipment
capable of providing untraceable
Internet access to Cuban Jews. The
revelation is expected to hamper
Jewish communal efforts to secure
Gross' release.
Anne Frank and Jewish journal-
ist Daniel Pearl are discovered to
have been posthumously baptized
by members of the Mormon Church.
The controversial practice has long
irked some Jews, who find it an insult
to the memory of departed relatives.
Church leaders respond with mea-

sures to eliminate "unauthorized"
baptisms.
A car bomb attack in the Indian
capital of New Delhi injures the wife
of an Israeli diplomat. Indian police
arrest a journalist in connection
with the attack who reportedly had
ties to Iran. India also announces it
has discovered evidence linking the
attack to attempted strikes on Israeli
targets in Thailand and the republic
of Georgia.
French Jewish director Michel
Hazanavicius wins an Academy
Award for his film The Artist,
while Woody Allen takes home the
Oscar for best original screenplay
for Midnight in Paris at the 84th
Academy Awards ceremony in Los
Angeles. Israel's hopes for a statuette
are dashed again when its entry for
best foreign film, Footnote, loses to
the Iranian film, A Separation.

March

After threatening a lawsuit and mak-
ing national headlines, a Jewish
high school in Texas is permitted
to reschedule a state basketball
tournament game that conflicts
with Shabbat. The Robert M. Beren
Academy team goes on to prevail in
its semifinal tournament game before
losing in the final. The tournament's
organizer, the Texas Association of
Private and Parochial Schools, had
denied Beren's requests to reschedule.
President Obama tells the annual
gathering of the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee that there
is still time to use diplomatic means
to prevent an Iranian nuclear weap-
on. Obama adds that that the mili-
tary option remains on the table.
In a New York Times op-ed, jour-
nalist Peter Beinart calls for a boycott
of Israeli goods produced in the West
Bank, or what he calls "undemocratic
Israel." Beinart, the author of The
Crisis of Zionism, launches a bitter
debate while coming under wither-
ing criticism for his proposal despite
repeated assertions that he loves
Israel and was acting in the country's
best interest.
A Brooklyn cooperative grocery
rejects an effort to boycott Israeli
products. The Park Slope Food Co-op
votes overwhelmingly to reject the
measure, which had been cham-
pioned for years by members who
wished to protest Israel's treatment of
the Palestinians.
A gunman on a motorcycle opens
fire on a Jewish school in Toulouse,
France, killing four people: Rabbi
Jonathan Sandler, his two young
sons, and the young daughter of

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