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September 2, 2012
2:01 am

Hal David in 2011. (photo credit: AP/Charles Sykes)

‘He always had a song in his head’ — songwriter Hal David dies at 91

Lyricist best known for pairing with Burt Bacharach on a flurry of 1960s hits

September 1, 2012
9:34 pm

Rabbi Lynne Goldsmith and her husband, Rob Goldsmith, in front of their synagogue in Dothan, Ala., where Jews can receive up to $50,000 for relocating for at least five years. (Photo credit: Rob Goldsmith/JTA)

Jews in Bible Belt’s small towns face curiosity, ignorance

Some struggle with a desire to leave, while others express pride in preserving a Jewish presence

By Holly Leber

September 1, 2012
2:51 pm

Toronto rabbi charged with sexual assault after 40 years

Heshi Nussbaum accused of assaulting boy, 12, in the 1970s at school and summer camp

September 1, 2012
1:21 pm

Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky talks to the media after losing a case against Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich as he leaves the High Court in London, in 2012. (photo credit: AP)

10 things we learned during the billionaires’ battle

An office is no place to meet; an oligarch is most vulnerable when shopping; a million dollars? — That’s nothing!

By DANICA KIRKA and SYLVIA HUI

September 1, 2012
1:06 pm

In this Jan. 26, 2000 file photo Russian tycoons Boris Berezovsky, left, and Roman Abramovich, then both lawmakers, walk after the session of the State Duma, parliament's lower house, in Moscow, Russia. (photo credit: AP)

Russian oligarch Abramovich wins multibillion-dollar London court battle

Fellow tycoon Berezovsky loses huge case against Chelsea owner over oil wealth

September 1, 2012
12:30 pm

Young Poles with Jewish roots visit the Western Wall on Aug. 20, part of an organized trip intended to connect them with their heritage and Israel. (Photo credit: Mariusz Frej/Courtesy of Shavei Israel via JTA)

Israel trip brings out Poland’s ‘hidden Jews’

Group of 19 tours holy sites as part of effort to explore their recently discovered heritage

By Ben Sales

September 1, 2012
10:45 am

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah speaking in July via video feed (image capture from Al Manar News video)

LAPD probes terror plots linked to Iran and Hezbollah

From the web CBS: Senior Southern California police officials concerned about ‘active’ attack plans

September 1, 2012
4:04 am

Dominique Strauss-Kahn (photo credit: screen capture, YouTube)

Strauss-Kahn movie to start filming

Depardieu, Adjani to star in film about France’s biggest political sex scandal

August 31, 2012
10:54 pm

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (photo credit: Charles Dharapak/AP)

Romney: Obama ‘has thrown allies like Israel under the bus’ and ‘failed to slow Iran’s nuclear threat’

In RNC acceptance speech Thursday night, challenger blasts president’s foreign policy

By Haviv Rettig Gur

August 31, 2012
7:18 pm

Visitors walk the grounds of Majdanek, where more than 75,000 prisoners were murdered during the Holocaust. (Photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Polish mayor joins ADL in opposing crematorium near death camp

Leader of neighboring Lublin says burning bodies near Majdanek would be disrespectful to its victims

August 31, 2012
6:30 pm

A rabbi's son (Matisyahu) attempts to exorcise a dybbuk, or malevolent spirit, from a young girl (Natasha Calis) in Hollywood thriller "The Possession" (Photo credit: courtesy of Lionsgate)

Jewish horror story takes ‘Possession’ of Hollywood

With an oddball cast featuring Kyra Sedgwick and Matisyahu, a new thriller opening in the US Friday borrows heavily from Yiddish folklore

By Jordan Hoffman

August 31, 2012
10:30 am

In this Sept. 7, 1972 photo, the two West German border police helicopters that carried armed terrorists and their nine Israeli Olympian hostages, stand at Fuerstenfeldbruck air force base about 20 miles west of Munich, Germany. The helicopter in foreground is a burned out shell as a result of a hand grenade explosion set off by one of the terrorists apparently committing suicide rather than risking capture in the evening of Sept. 5 (photo credit: AP Photo/File)

Forty years after Munich, documents show Israel acknowledging its failures, Germany ducking blame

New papers provide bitter insights on how the massacre of 11 Israelis during the 1972 Olympics could have been avoided. But official Germany is still saying nothing

By Raphael Ahren

August 31, 2012
5:02 am

Hitler store and owner (photo credit: screenshot/ TYT)

ADL calls on Indian store to get rid of ‘Hitler’ name

Owner claims ignorance of name’s historical significance

By Greg Tepper

August 31, 2012
3:59 am

Pro-Palestinian group offers BDS tour of Australian stores

Brisbane branch of Justice for Palestine says it wants to expose ‘horrors of apartheid’ in Israel

August 31, 2012
3:45 am

Former US president Jimmy Carter, pictured during a visit to East Jerusalem, lambasted an Israeli legal decision that the IDF bore no responsibility for the death of American activist Rachel Corrie. (Photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90/File)

Jimmy Carter calls Corrie ruling ‘unacceptable’

Former US president says decision exonerating IDF in activist’s death ‘confirms a climate of impunity’

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