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New Yorker jailed in Rabbi Chaskel Werzberger's 1990 killing could be freed

Investigation finds jailed man is probably innocent, NYT reports.

By The Associated Press | Mar 20, 2013 | 05:33 PM | 3

NYPD police vans in New York City’s Times Square.

A nun holds a photograph of Pope Francis during a Thanksgiving Mass for the newly elected pope

Pope’s book co-authored with rabbi to be translated into English

'On Heaven and Earth’ discusses Holocaust, same-sex marriage and globalization, among other topics.

By Reuters | Mar 20, 2013 | 03:49 PM

U.S. appeals court hears 'Jerusalem is Israel' passport case

Justices appear unlikely to list Israel as Jerusalem-born Menachem Zivotofsky's place of birth.

By JTA | Mar 20, 2013 | 02:20 PM | 24

Ravens dismisses NFL season opener on Rosh Hashanah

Original scheduling change rooted in conflict with baseball’s Baltimore Orioles.

By JTA | Mar 20, 2013 | 11:57 AM | 4

Driver in accident that killed ultra-Orthodox Jewish couple charged with manslaughter

Julio Acevedo also was indicted on three new counts of criminally negligent homicide to go along with a lesser charge, announced earlier this month, in the deaths of Raizy and Nachman Glauber, and their newborn son.

By The Associated Press | Mar 20, 2013 | 10:55 AM | 2

Manny Waks as a student at Yeshivah College in Melbourne in 1988.

Former Jewish leader’s sex abuse charges rock Melbourne community

Two years after one man broke the silence on sex abuse in the Australian Jewish community, the aftershocks are still reverberating.

By Dan Goldberg, JTA | Mar 20, 2013 | 10:39 AM | 6

Pope Francis is driven through the crowd in his popemobile in St. Peter's Square for inauguration

Pope at installation gives shout-out to Jews

Rome’s chief rabbi attends inauguration, along with more than a dozen other Jewish representatives.

By JTA | Mar 20, 2013 | 07:36 AM | 2

Yeshiva University rabbi warns sex abuse reports put innocent Jews in prison

The faculty member of the prestigious Jewish institution said rumors could lead to Jews being jailed with 'a shvartze,' an African-American, who might kill.

By The Forward | Mar 20, 2013 | 02:08 AM | 8

Labor party arriving at parliament in Canberra Bloomberg

Anti-Israel tirade in Sydney parliament shows strained ties between Australia and Israel

On heels of the Prisoner X scandal, an Australian MP accuses Israel of running torture camps and compares the Jewish state to Nazi Germany.

By Dan Goldberg | Mar 19, 2013 | 06:12 PM | 5

Israel condemns award to Hungarian reporter it calls anti-Semitic

A dozen former recipients of the prize for journalistic excellence returned their awards in protest; TV journalist Ferenc Szaniszlo denies making anti-Semitic comments and says he won't return award.

By Reuters | Mar 18, 2013 | 09:45 PM | 4

Republican post-mortem commends hard-hitting Jewish group for 'outreach' to Jewish community

100-page party report on 2012 electoral loss gives nod to Adelson-backed Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) that led Israel-centered assaults on Barack Obama and Chuck Hagel.

By Chemi Shalev | Mar 18, 2013 | 08:34 PM | 3

Graves at Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw, Poland.

One of Europe's oldest cemeteries reopens with help of Moroccan, Jewish youths

After 70 years of neglect, youths restore Jewish cemetery, with two years spent painting over graffiti-covered walls, cutting overgrown grass and weeds and helping restore some of the paths that crisscross the site.

By JTA | Mar 18, 2013 | 12:37 PM | 3

Baby survives Jewish mother’s suicide attempt, NYT reports

Mother lands on her back after jumping from eight-story building with baby strapped to her body, leaving infant to roll away virtually unscathed, media reports say.

By JTA | Mar 18, 2013 | 12:29 PM

Rabbis' Round Table

A Passover meter for measuring freedom

By Rabbi Micah Peltz / Jewish World blogger | 11:27 PM

The Jewish obligation to obliterate the glass ceiling on women

By Rabbi Elianna Yolkut / Jewish World blogger | 11:25 AM

Coffee, Haggadot, and Jewish assimilation

By Rabbi Joel Seltzer / Jewish World blogger | 11:58 AM

The Jewish Thinker

It’s time to end the slavery of narrow-mindedness

By Arie Hasit / Jewish World blogger | 12:06 PM

Forget the ultra-Orthodox; focus on settlers

By Joel Braunold / Jewish World blogger | 12:14 AM

Moderate rabbis are all around us, even in Israel

By Arie Hasit / Jewish World blogger, Emily Levy-Shochat | 02:45 PM | 9

Kosher cuisine

Modern Manna recipe / Date, walnut, and red wine charoset

By Vered Guttman | 03:05 PM

Kosher for Passover potato gnocchi with sage and porcini sauce

By City Mouse Online | 12:00 PM

Bringing Jews together through food (never underestimate the power of lox)

By Vered Guttman | 06:41 PM