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Elana Kagan was sworn in as the 112th U.S. Supreme Court justice.

A New Jersey appeals court ruled that parents who gave their children names linked to Nazism cannot have custody of the children.

Newsweek writer and CNN host Fareed Zakaria has returned an award he received in 2005 from the Anti-Defamation League over the Jewish group\’s opposition towards the Ground Zero mosque.

With the press abuzz about the Royal wedding of Chelsea Clinton this past weekend, JInsider began to reflect on the current state of Jewish “royalty.” Who are our own rich, famous and impactful Jews?

Chief District Judge Linda Reade both coordinated with prosecutors and acted as judge in the contentious conviction of Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse operator Sholom Rubashkin, according to internal federal documents and court filings obtained by this reporter. According to the documents, Judge Reade personally participated in many aspects of the raid and prosecution “game plan” nearly from its planning inception in October, 2007 some six months before the raid and long before the ultimate trial of Rubashkin before her. Her continuous week-to-week involvement in the organization of the raid and ultimate prosecution was not disclosed to defense counsel or a House Judiciary Sub-Committee during hearings on the matter. Ultimately, Judge Reade sentenced Rubashkin to 27 years imprisonment for financial crimes related to the original immigration case. That sentence was two years longer than requested by prosecutors and startled many legal experts as inexplicably harsh.