Judy Maltz

An exhibit of beat-up and bruised dolls beside the pool at Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square is meant to raise public awareness of child abuse. For some onlookers, it's a shock to take in.

Graffiti reading 'Torah tag' and 'Women of the Wall are wicked' was painted on a wall leading up to the apartment of Peggy Cidor, a longstanding member of the board of Women of the Wall.

Angelina Jolie's decision to have a double mastectomy to reduce her chance of cancer, sent shock waves through the media last week. However, a disproportionately high number of Israeli women live with her 'Ashkenazi gene.'

The Central European University, established by Hungarian-born Jewish financier George Soros, offers a graduate program attracting students from as far afield as the U.S. and Mongolia.

A program called Minyanim is helping young Jews in Hungary and other Central and Eastern European countries reconnect with the religion they were cut off from under Nazi and Soviet rule - no aliyah required.

Surprisingly, the Israel Democracy Institute poll finds that men are more inclined to support the women’s prayer group than women are - 51.5 percent compared with 46 percent respectively.

How does a 57-year-old with no acting experience under his belt, aside from the high-school drama club, land a role in a film headed for the industry’s preeminent festival? For Lowell Gallin, it took a heavy dose of chutzpah.

Women of Wall hold first monthly prayer service since ruling that allows women to wear prayer shawls at the Western Wall.

Non-orthodox movement heads to petition AG Yehuda Weinstein to investigate involvement of state-appointed rabbis in protest against Women of the Wall; Western Wall Rabbi Rabinovitch denies allegations.

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox teens protest as Women of the Wall hold first monthly prayer service since ruling allowing women to wear prayer shawls at Kotel; some threw water bottles, chairs, called police 'Nazis'; three arrested, two police injured.

After harsh criticism from the head of the prominent Baltimore yeshiva he once attended, Haredi Yesh Atid member Rabbi Dov Lipman said he only advocated making state funding contingent on teaching math and English.

Anticipating jeers and leers from ultra-Orthodox protesters during first prayer service after key court decision, group championing fight for equality at Western Wall urge supporters not to engage in conflict - verbal or otherwise.

Chella Safra, a Lebanese transplant in Brazil, expresses reservation about the Hungarian PM's pledge to curb anti-Semitism in his country, and says that the World Jewish Congress has its work cut out for it.

The resolution on anti-Semitism also calls countries where appropriate constitutional provisions exist to consider banning neo-Nazi parties.

Legislation would not grant parliamentary immunity, which means members of the extreme right-wing Golden Dawn party could be imprisoned, and the party could be diminished.

Opening on the date the UN voted to establish the State of Israel, the center will focus on Theodor Herzl's life and legacy. Its founders hope it will help combat the rise in anti-Semitism in Europe.

In Budapest as the only World Jewish Congress delegate from Swaziland, where he is the only black Jew, Geoff Ramokgadi wishes he could stay to help change people's minds about the religion he loves.

WJC delegates elect Chella Safra as the new treasurer and David de Rothschild as chairman of the board; the Plenary Assembly re-elects Ronald S. Lauder as president in Budapest on Monday.

During speech at World Jewish Congress in Budapest, Guido Westerelle also assures that his government’s position on the Syrian uprising is strongly influenced by Israel’s security interests.

When Hugh and Ed, who have little in common as those two stereotyped labels imply, meet at college in the 1960s, they have little idea just how intertwined their lives will become. They have every reason to become enemies, but fate keeps throwing them back together.

The World Jewish Congress' Plenary Assembly to which Viktor Orban spoke was unimpressed. 'The prime minister did not confront the true nature of the problem.'

Rabbi Rick Jacobs vows at a conference in Jerusalem that Reform Jews around the world would continue to fight for women’s rights in Israel.

Responding to a rise of anti-Semitic rehetoric and incidents, Viktor Orban pledged ahead of the WJC conference to 'take the most decisive possible action against all manifestations of hate speech and behavior.'

Rabbi Tully Bryks, director of The Israel Experience, claimed hidden cameras were installed due to complaints about maintenance staff; he apologized for his 'lack of judgment.'

The Docaviv Tel Aviv film festival spotlights the forgotten, pre-revolutionary period when Israelis and Iranians wined and dined together and exchanged intelligence secrets.