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ISRAEL NEWS

BREAKING NEWS

03:07
N.J. man charged with murder in death of Etan Patz (AP)
02:27
Israel welcomes U.S. Senate approval of E-2 visas for Israeli investors (Haaretz)
01:11
Sudanese migrant found stabbed in his head in Tel Aviv (Haaretz)
00:48
Man in his thirties found shot in his torso at park in Jaffa (Haaretz)
23:55
UN says Syria bombings show marks of 'terrorist groups' (Reuters)
23:04
Syria forces kill 50 in Homs province, says opposition group (Reuters)
22:40
Al Arabiya: Russian arms shipment en route to Syria (Reuters)
21:48
Israeli killed, six others injured in car accident in northern Israel (Haaretz)
21:02
UN chief heads to Turkey, Saudi Arabia next week (AP)
20:17
Turkish prosecutor proposes charging pianist who insulted Islam (AP)
18:56
Nasrallah: Hezbollah has missiles that could reach any point in Israel (Haaretz)
18:48
Nasrallah calls on all Lebanon factions to keep up resistance against Israel (Haaretz)
17:51
Suicide bomber kills 12 in northern Yemen (Reuters)
15:56
Syrian rebels release 13 abducted Lebanese Shiite pilgrims (DPA)
15:44
African Union, Somali forces capture town outside Mogadishu from Islamic militants (AP)

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Jewish World News

Etan Patz - AP - May 23, 2012

N.J. man charged in Etan Patz death after 33 years

A man who police say confessed to strangling Etan Patz was charged with second-degree murder on Friday, 33 years after the...

By Reuters | 03:11 AM

anti-Semitism, graffiti, vandal - AP - 19.3.12

Budapest Holocaust memorial defaced

A Holocaust Memorial on the banks of the Danube in Budapest was defaced just days after unknown vandals hung pigs’ feet on a...

By JTA | 02:12 AM

SS officers outside of Auschwitz. Richard Baer, Dr. Josef Mengele, Josef Kramer and Rudolf Hoess.

Germany's medical association apologizes over Nazi-era experiments

Germany's medical association earlier this week adopted a declaration apologizing for experiments and other actions of doctors...

By The Associated Press | 01:42 PM

Illustration: High school students sitting an exam.

In exam, U.K. pupils asked to explain bias against Jews

U.K. education secretary told the Jewish Chronicle that suggesting 'anti-Semitism can ever be explained, rather than condemned, is insensitive and, frankly, bizarre.'

By Haaretz | May 25, 2012 | 12:43 PM | 4

One of the book's authors Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira

Israel AG against prosecuting authors of book justifying killing of non-Jews

Authors describe book as discussion of Jewish law on the conditions under which it is permissible to kill a non-Jew in times of war and peace.

By Tomer Zarchin | May 25, 2012 | 01:12 AM | 15

Etan Patz - AP - May 23, 2012

Man admits involvement in 33-year-old case of missing Jewish boy, say New York police

New York police investigating claim by a man who admitted to be involved in the alleged murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz, who disappeared on the way to catch a school bus in 1979.

By JTA | May 24, 2012 | 03:55 PM

Rabbi Josh Ahrens demonstrating how to put on tefillin during a conversion course, Bulgaria

New Bulgarian conversion course offering a pathway to ‘official’ Judaism

Community members not considered by halakha as Jewish seek recognition.

By JTA | May 24, 2012 | 08:33 AM

Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, May 18, 2012.

Belgian health minister irked by Israel deputy minister's refusal to shake hands

Laurette Onkelinx posts 'My hands are clean!" on her official Facebook page, adding only an Iranian refused to shake hands with her before.

By JTA | May 24, 2012 | 05:37 AM | 55

Chief Rabbis Yona Metzger and Shlomo Amar

Ultra-Orthodox council may abolish discriminatory wedding officiation rules

Reform will significantly expand the ability of Tzohar rabbis to perform weddings.

By Yair Ettinger | May 24, 2012 | 01:48 AM

Rabbis' Round Table

Eleonora Spoltore (Ariel Pesach's mother), center, at graveside

Ariel Pesach Pietrodarchi, z”l: The month after

By Rabbi Yehoshua Looks / Jewish World blogger | 09:31 AM | 2

The maturing center of Jewish culture is on the street at Shavuot

By Rabbi Jeff Cymet / Jewish World blogger | 10:47 AM

The Jewish calendar’s lesson on life

By Rabbi Micah Peltz / Jewish World blogger | 10:27 AM

The Jewish Thinker

Yitz Jordan, known as Y-Love, converted to Judaism in 2000.

Homosexuality, Orthodox Judaism and shaving

By Dr. Samuel Lebens / Jewish World blogger | 06:19 PM

The importance of community in sorrow and in joy

By Arie Hasit / Jewish World blogger | 10:08 AM

Zionism cannot be parve

By Matthew Mausner / Jewish World blogger | 03:30 PM | 2

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