An Overland Park police vehicle sitting White supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller, 73, kills a man and his grand- son outside the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and then shoots to death a woman at a Jewish assisted-living facility a few blocks away. None of the victims are Jewish, highlighting the diverse constituency served by America's Jewish institutions. in front of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City, Kan., following shootings there and After weeks of near breakdowns in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks brokered by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Israel suspends all negotiations after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party signs a unity accord with Hamas, a designated terrorist organization. President Obama responds by saying it may be time for a pause in Middle East peacemaking. Kerry later expresses regret for saying that Israel risks becoming an "apartheid" state or a non-Jewish one if the two-state solution is not implemented. U.S. negotiators blame Israel for the talks' collapse. later at a nearby assisted-living complex that killed a total of three people, April 13, 2014. Gennady Kernes, the Jewish mayor of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second- largest city, is shot in a suspected assassination attempt, leaving him in critical condition. The shooting comes amid growing violence between Russian-backed Ukrainian separatists in eastern Ukraine and forces loyal to the new Ukrainian government in Kiev. Kernes is air- lifted to Israel for treatment. The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations rejects J Street's bid for membership. J Street, the liberal Washington group that lobbies for increased American pressure to bring about a Mideast peace deal, lost its bid for membership in the main communal group on foreign policy issues by a vote of 22-17, with three abstentions. J Street needed the support of two-thirds of the conference's 51 members to gain admission. Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is banned from the NBA for life and fined $2.5 million after being caught on tape making racist comments to his girlfriend. He is heard saying that his views reflect the way the world works, and as evidence he says that black Jews in Israel "are just treated like dogs." His girlfriend is heard countering that as a Jew, Sterling should know better than to advocate discrimina- tion, citing the Holocaust as an example of where racism can lead. Secretary of State John Kerry testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on April 8, 2014, weeks before the collapse of U.S.-led Israeli- Palestinian peace talks. Head of the Hamas government Ismail Haniyeh (right) and senior Fatah official Azzam Al-Ahmed (left) attend a news conference as they announce a reconciliation agreement in Gaza City on April 23, 2014. Former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is pictured here with V. Stiviano to his left at a 2013 basketball game. An arm of the private equity firm Bain Capital purchases the Manischewitz Company, the iconic producer of kosher packaged goods, for an undisclosed sum. According to the New York Times, the new owners are expected to promote kosher as an indication of quality food rather than just a religious designation. Genealogical research reveals that the late archbishop of New York, Cardinal John O'Connor, technically was Jewish. O'Connor's mother, Dorothy Gumple O'Connor, was born Jewish but converted to Catholicism before she met and married O'Connor's father. MAY 2014 New York's 92nd Street Y, a Jewish center for arts and culture, names its first non-Jewish executive director, Henry Timms. Shortly after- ward, Sol Adler, the previous longtime executive director, who was fired after revelations that he had a long-term affair with his assis- tant, hangs himself in his Brooklyn home. An Anti-Defamation League anti-Semitism survey finds "deeply anti- Semitic views" are held by 26 percent of 53,000 people polled in 102 countries and territories covering approximately 86 percent of the world's population. Critics say the survey's 11 questions are not accu- rate gauges of anti-Semitism. Maccabi Tel Aviv wins the Euroleague basketball championship by beating favored Real Madrid, 98-86, in overtime. Novelist Philip Roth receives an honorary doctorate from the Jewish Theological Seminary. Now considered one of the greatest living American writers, Roth had caused outrage early in his career with his continued on page 92 Macabbi Tel Aviv wins the Euroleague basketball championship in May. JN September 18 • 2014 91