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Michelle Obama visits Holocaust memorial in Berlin

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:01:11 GMT

According to memorial director, the first lady and her daughters spent half-an-hour at the hallowed site.

AIPAC urges caution on Rohani

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:00:06 GMT

AIPAC: Rohani "has signaled no willigness to halt Iran's nuclear program"

On the road to recovering Spain’s Jewish roots

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:20:30 GMT

Local projects look to rejuvenate the country’s Sephardi culture.

‘I would convert and make aliya if it weren’t for the camels’

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:12:01 GMT

Famed author and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Dave Barry speaks to ‘Post’ during his first visit to Israel.

Ben-Dahan: If Netanyahu backs Lau for chief rabbi, it would violate coalition agreement

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:28:53 GMT

Deputy Religious Services minister says Rabbi Grossman would win if he runs for Ashkenazi chief rabbi.

Send President Peres a birthday greeting

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:56:42 GMT

Shimon Peres celebrates his 90th birthday at 5th annual Facing Tomorrow conference in Jerusalem.

Rabbinical Council of America issues letter of support for Rabbi Stav

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:09:40 GMT

Extensive association of rabbis in North America were shocked to hear "terrible things" said by Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef about Rabbi Stav.

Montreal mayor arrested in corruption crackdown

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:52:42 GMT

Applebaum charged with 14 offenses, including breach of trust, fraud, corruption, conspiracy, receiving secret commissions.

Hungarian man, 98, charged with WW2 crimes

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:07:36 GMT

Laszlo Csatary was sentenced to death and lived on the run for decades until Hungarian authorities detained him.

Chief rabbinate candidate attacked at wedding

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:30:55 GMT

Youths shove, attempt to pour water on Rabbi Stav; Liberman: Torah against violence, incitement of one rabbi against another.

London to host conference on boycott campaigns

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:58:08 GMT

British capital to hold academic gathering to focus on BDS movement in relation to contemporary debate on anti-Semitism.

UK queen to honor ‘Post’ columnist David Newman

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:14:59 GMT

Prof. David Newman, dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at BGU to be honored.

A Bisl Yiddish: Yiddish connecting Jews and Arabs

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:33:06 GMT

Yiddish holds a distinctly unique power, one that can bring people together-from Hasidim to non-Jews.

Italian righteous gentile is first to be beatified

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:51:17 GMT

Odoardo Focherini, who was honored for sacrificing his life to save Jews during Nazi era, is sent on road to sainthood.

German neo-Nazis submit anti-Israel legislation

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 23:57:08 GMT

Neo-Nazi and Green parties want to label settlement products, professor calls the move "political warfare and demonization."

Journalists find German Nazi in Minnesota

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:42:55 GMT

Report: He is said to have had a hand in the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising.

French court orders Twitter to ID anti-Semites

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:02:53 GMT

The court is giving Twitter 15 days to divulge details of users who posted anti-Semitic comments on Jewish organizations pages.

Meet your new burekas shapes

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:51:59 GMT

Rabbinate spends months on flaky challenge of changing the appearance of popular pastry.

Jewish social entrepreneurs connect in Jerusalem

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:44:50 GMT

ROI summit brings together Diaspora and Israeli Jews to compare notes on new initiatives.

Germany adopts anti-Semitism action resolution

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:52:28 GMT

Parliament passes resolution emphasizing special Israel-German relationship, condemns Hezbollah.