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The Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Reverend Justin Welby, strikes three times on the West Door of Canterbury Cathedral with his pastoral staff prior to his Enthronement in Canterbury, March 21, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Chris Ison, Pool)

His Jewish heritage was a secret so deep even he was not party to it

The first ‘Jewish’ archbishop of Canterbury heads to Israel

Justin Welby’s grandfather fled from Germany; his father bootlegged alcohol, knew JFK and was engaged to Vanessa Redgrave; he worked in the oil industry before feeling a call to God after his daughter’s death in a car crash

By Miriam Shaviv

Alice Walker (photo credit: CC BY Virginia DeBolt/Wikipedia)

ADL: Alice Walker ‘unabashedly infected with anti-Semitism’

New book, ‘The Cushion in the Road,’ filled with ‘comparisons of Israelis to Nazis, denigrations of Judaism and Jews’

By Times of Israel staff

Urban Adamah fellow Laura Ruiz-Needleman (left) and Dani Friedenberg working on the farm (photo credit: Courtesy of Urban Adamah)

San Francisco’s Jewish farm needs more room to grow

Urban Adamah aims to transplant its flourishing project and get the whole Bay Area to dig into Judaism and sustainable living

By Renee Ghert-Zand

A menorah made of Shmaltz Brewing's He'Brew beer bottles. (photo credit: Shmaltz Brewing Facebook/JTA)

Heads up: Jewish brewer thriving amid craft beer boom

Using a combination of shtick and innovative flavors, Shmaltz Brewing is bringing Jews — and gentiles — to drink

By Lisa Alcalay Klug

spotlight Communicated content

IDC Herzliya – an innovative approach to success

Spreading knowledge – serving society (Magna Charta Universitatum)

By Jonathan Davis

Michael Applebaum, Montreal's mayor (photo credit: Wikipedia Commons/abdallahh)

Montreal interim mayor resigns after fraud arrest

‘I want to be clear that I have never taken a penny from anybody,’ says Michael Applebaum who faces 14 fraud and corruption charges

Rabbi David Stav (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Jewish groups urge civility in chief rabbi race

Following David Stav’s harassment at a wedding, leaders call to promote respect among Israeli religious factions

This June 3, 1944 photo provided by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum shows Heinrich Himmler, center, SS Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister of the Interior of Nazi Germany from 1943 to 1945, as he reviews troops of the Galician SS-Volunteer Infantry Division (photo credit: AP/ US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Atlantic Foto Verlag Berlin)

Poland checking files on Nazi-led unit commander

Michael Karkoc, 94, lied to US authorities about his leadership role in Ukrainian militia that committed atrocities during WWII

WWII war criminal Laszlo Csatary outside the Budapest prosecutor's office, July 18 (photo credit: MTI, Bea Kallos/AP)

Hungary indicts Nazi-era war crimes suspect

Ex-police officer Laszlo Csatary, 98, denies charges that he abused and helped deport Jews to death camps

Students at the controversial Maharat religious training program. (photo credit: Chavie Lieber/Times of Israel)

NY yeshiva graduates first class of female religious leaders

Three women receive title of ‘maharat’ spiritual leader, set to take on roles in Orthodox synagogues and institutions

‘Israeli goose liver ban jeopardizes kosher slaughter’

Prohibition on trade in foie gras ‘give a weapon to our enemies’ in animal rights groups, says head of Paris’s rabbinical court

Celebrating the men of spiel: Super Jewish dads

Essay Though they may not be invited to join the Legion of Super-Heroes anytime soon, on Father’s Day, Jewish men should be applauded

By Edmon J. Rodman

June 19, 2013
3:19 pm

Barbra, in all her glory, performing last week in Amsterdam (photo credit: Official Barbra Streisand Facebook page)

Barbra Streisand butt of Dutch singer’s anti-Semitic joke

Gordon labeled ‘unfit to be a role model,’ but says he is not anti-Semitic

June 18, 2013
11:56 pm

The Pet Shop Boys (photo credit: Courtesy)

Pet Shop Boy: Israel is not an apartheid state

Rejecting call to cancel Tel Aviv show, singer notes Israel has ‘equality of rights for all its citizens both Jewish and Arab’

June 18, 2013
11:36 pm

An anti-Israel rally in Johannesburg last year. (photo credit: CC BY Meraj Chhaya, Flickr)

Ex-South African envoy says Israel built on ‘stolen land’

Ismail Coovadia, who served as ambassador in Tel Aviv until December, fumes about trees the JNF planted in his honor

By Raphael Ahren

June 18, 2013
6:11 pm

The former New York mayor visits his own gravestone in the documentary 'Koch.' (Courtesy Zeitgeist Films)

Wrong year etched on Ed Koch’s grave

Engraver promises to speedily fix New York mayor birthdate error

By JTA and Renee Ghert-Zand

June 18, 2013
12:44 pm

Google Ideas head Jared Cohen (photo credit: Google)

Google Ideas head warns of a ‘balkanization of the web’

Jared Cohen foresees a time when states will have two foreign and domestic policies: one for the physical world and one for cyberspace

By JP O’ Malley

June 18, 2013
12:13 pm

AirTran Airways' 737 aircraft (photo credit: courtesy AirTran)

BBFKs: Badly behaved frum kids

An internal Yeshiva report concludes that in kicking 100 students off a plane, AirTran Airways’ actions were inappropriate, but not anti-Semitic

By Times of Israel staff

June 18, 2013
11:21 am

Rabbi David Stav (photo credit: Flash90)

RCA backs David Stav following harassment

US umbrella group for Orthodox rabbis sends Hebrew letter of support for moderate Israel chief rabbinate candidate

June 17, 2013
7:25 pm

Shimon Peres, Barbra Streisand, and the 'Make-a-Wish' children, at the President's Residence on Monday. (photo credit: Mark Neiman/GPO)

‘Make-a-Wish’ kids sing with Streisand, Peres

Group of children with life-threatening illnesses hosted at President’s Residence

By Debra Kamin

June 17, 2013
7:05 pm

Montreal’s Jewish mayor arrested in corruption crackdown

Michael Applebaum took over in November from another politician charged in separate crime scandal

June 17, 2013
4:39 pm

President Shimon Peres meeting with Pope Francis I at the Vatican in Rome, Italy on April 30, 2013. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon / GPO/Flash90)

Pope sends Peres an early happy birthday

‘I pray that the Lord who has already blessed you with fourscore years and ten will continue to bless you and keep you,’ pope writes

By Gavriel Fiske

June 17, 2013
9:39 am

New anti-Semitic Polish party claims ‘bad Jews’ run the country

Court says it can’t ban ‘Together Party of the Slavonic Empire,’ whose charter speaks of importance of ‘the Pole of true Slavonic blood’

June 17, 2013
9:14 am

Rabbinate candidate Stav attacked at wedding

Opponents surround and harass moderate rabbi in wake of scathing indictment by Shas spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef

By Asher Zeiger

June 17, 2013
7:13 am

European Parliament honors Polish Jewish leader

Poznan’s Jewish community president awarded European Citizens’ Prize for advancing inter-religious understanding

June 17, 2013
5:32 am

Robert K. Kraft (left) hands Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a helmet signed by the New England Patriots football players in February 2012. (Photo credit: Amos BenGershom / GPO/Flash90)

Did Putin pocket Super Bowl ring?

Russian president’s spokesman calls Robert Kraft’s allegations ‘weird’: insists that championship memento was a gift

By Asher Zeiger

June 17, 2013
4:24 am

US Senators Ron Wyden, left, and Dianne Fienstein (photo credit: US Senate)

Jewish senators poles apart on intel gathering

Dianne Feinstein and Ron Wyden on opposite ends of security vs. privacy debate

By Ron Kampeas

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Essay Though they may not be invited to join the Legion of Super-Heroes anytime soon, on Father’s Day, Jewish men should be applauded

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