JTA: The Global News Service of the Jewish People

Updated 11/20/08 @ 11:32PM EST

• Michael Mukasey, the U.S. attorney general, collapsed during a speech.
• The United States will consider further steps to isolate Iran in the wake of revelations that it is close to manufacturing a nuclear weapon.
• Penny Pritzker turned down the position of commerce secretary in the Obama administration.
• The Palestinian Authority placed advertisements in four major Israeli newspapers endorsing the 2002 Arab League peace initiative.
• A proposal to ban male circumcision for children under the age of 15 could make its way to Denmark's parliament.

• Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet with President Bush at the White House on Monday.
• A Ukrainian lawmaker and prominent Jewish leader received a top honor from a Christian Orthodox leader in Jerusalem.
• A federal appeals court ruled that a painting looted by the Nazis should remain with the estate of its Jewish owner.
• U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) has prevailed in his bid to unseat Rep. John Dingell (D-MIch.) as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
• The Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel nixed a plan by its budget committee to cut its allocation to Birthright Israel by $1 million.

• U.S. prosecutors have asked a federal judge to keep a senior Agriprocessors official in jail because he's a flight risk.
• Defeating global terrorism is our main objective, the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff told a NATO defense conference.
• Italian authorities are investigating a YouTube channel that posted songs setting anti-Semitic lyrics to Italian hit tunes.
• A 60-year-old Jewish agency that resettled refugees in New York is closing.
• Top media executives are protesting Israel's decision to prevent journalists from entering the Gaza Strip.

• The leading bodies of the Jewish and Islamic communities in Australia are urging the country's immigration minister to deny a visa to a British fascist leader.
• A soldier was injured and Palestinian graves vandalized as right-wing Jewish activists rioted in Hebron.
• Iran has produced nearly enough nuclear material to create one atomic bomb, nuclear experts told The New York Times.
• Israel's prime minister and defense minister reportedly met secretly with Jordan's King Abdullah in Amman.
• President-elect Barack Obama named David Axelrod as a senior adviser.

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