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August 22, 2012
5:03 pm

Republican US presidential candidate Mitt Romney holds a press conference in Jerusalem, July 29, 2012. (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

Republicans set to endorse two-state solution at convention next week

Romney camp blocks efforts to amend its proposed party platform

August 22, 2012
4:57 pm

Hungary condemns anti-Semitic calls during match with Israel

Prosecution not likely against fans who chanted ‘dirty Jews’ during a friendly game

August 22, 2012
2:52 pm

European Jewry rushes to defend rabbi charged for performing circumcision in Germany

David Goldberg says he will continue to perform religious ritual; incident ‘is reminiscent of far darker times,’ warns European Jewish Congress

By Stuart Winer

August 22, 2012
1:12 pm

Israeli-born table tennis player Tahl Leibovitz is competing for the U.S. team in the 2012 Paralympic Games in London. (photo credit: JTA/Gaël Marziou)

Saved from homelessness by table tennis, Tahl Leibovitz is London-bound

Israeli-born New Yorker holds two bronze medals from the 1997 Maccabiah Games

By Hillel Kuttler

August 22, 2012
10:41 am

Yona Metzger speaking in Berlin on Tuesday. (photo credit: AP/Markus Schreiber)

Israeli chief rabbi confident Germany will resolve circumcision crisis

Following a visit to Berlin, top rabbinical figure says the ban stemmed from a misunderstanding and not from anti-Semitism

By Stuart Winer

August 22, 2012
5:39 am

Barack Obama, far right, meeting with Jewish leaders in 2011. (photo credit: Official White House Photo/Pete Souza)

As presidential race heats up, Obama touts rabbinical support

Hundreds of Jewish clergy have signed on to support re-election bid, more than double the number at this stage of 2008 campaign

By Nathan Burstein

August 22, 2012
12:45 am

Archaeologist Yoram Haimi talking to young people from the Dror School in Israel about his findings at the site of the former German Nazi death camp of Sobibor, in eastern Poland, on Tuesday, Aug. 21 (photo credit: AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

Israeli archaeologist, seeking truth about his family, digs into Nazi death camp

Yoram Haimi has been able to remap Sobibor, where two of his uncles died; ash concentration led him to raise the estimate of number of people killed there

By Aron Heller

August 21, 2012
11:55 pm

Rocker Lenny Kravitz is not coming to TLV in October (photo credit: screen capture, YouTube)

Kravitz cancels Israel gig

October concert in Tel Aviv postponed due to filming conflict; sources say gig will happen, but don’t know when

By Greg Tepper

August 21, 2012
7:36 pm

An 8-day-old baby is prepared for his circumcision (illustrative photo: Serge Attal/Flash90)

Scandinavia’s Jews brace for fresh attempts to ban circumcision

Former Jew’s account of ‘mutilation’ and ‘child torture’ takes hold in media

By Cnaan Liphshiz

August 21, 2012
7:35 pm

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. Teacher, clergyman, scholar, and congressional hopeful (photo credit: Courtesy)

Adelsons give $500,000 to Shmuley Boteach’s congressional PAC

Republican rabbi running in NJ is casino mogul’s personal friend

August 21, 2012
7:19 pm

Jews perform a religious circumcision. (illustrative photo: Serge Attal/Flash90)

Criminal charges filed against German rabbi for performing circumcisions

David Goldberg, who oversees a 400-member strong community in northern Bavaria, is the first mohel to be charged since Cologne court banned the ritual

By Raphael Ahren

August 21, 2012
6:28 pm

Main entrance to Auschwitz (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Tulio Bertorini)

Alleged Nazi guard at Auschwitz-Birkenau to be tried in Germany

Man is accused of ‘significantly’ contributing to the murder of at least 344,000 people, most of them Hungarian Jews

August 21, 2012
4:01 pm

Yona Metzger speaks to the media in Berlin, August 21 (photo credit: Markus Schreiber/AP)

Israel’s chief rabbi visits Germany to aid in circumcision legislation crisis

In Berlin, Yona Metzger talks to officials about ways to perform and supervise the ancient Jewish practice

August 21, 2012
10:52 am

Heinz-Christian Strache (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Christian Jansky/Wikipedia)

Austrian Jewish leader calls out politician for anti-Semitic cartoon

Right-wing politician shares picture of banker with Star of David cuff links enjoying the European financial crisis

August 21, 2012
1:27 am

Dan Halloran in Jerusalem this week. (Credit: Itzik Nissim)

King of Queens: An unconventional Republican

Meet Dan Halloran, candidate for the House seat from Queens — scion to five generations of NYC public servants; champion of diversity; and hawk on terrorism and Iran

By Haviv Rettig Gur

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