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August 26, 2012
4:47 am

Fifty descendants of Germans involved in the Holocaust visited Poland's death camps this week as part of the March of Life, a multi-day trek commemorating the genocide. (Photo credit: Heinz Reuss/TOS Ministries)

Grandpa, who helped install the gas chambers

Like many before her, Barbel Pfeiffer participated in an emotional visit to Auschwitz and other death camps last week. What was extraordinary is that she and 50 others on the ‘March of Life’ are descendants of Nazis and Nazi collaborators

August 26, 2012
1:09 am

Israeli soccer player Tal Ben Haim, while with Manchester City in 2008 (photo credit: CC BY SA 3.0, by Oldelpaso, Wikimedia Commons)

British man charged with Twitter abuse of Israeli soccer player

Tal Ben Haim received racially motivated tweet in early August

By Asher Zeiger and AP

August 25, 2012
11:44 pm

Reflecting on his experience as he emerged from the craft into the daylight on the Expedition 24 mission's second spacewalk, astronaut Doug Wheelock said "the colors of the Earth just explode at you as you exit toward the planet. Notice what looks like scorch marks on the hatch thermal cover, the effect of vacuum and atomic oxygen on the threads and thread sealant used on the thermal cover. The 'smell' of space follows suit, I’ve heard it described like burnt cake or cookies, or like the smell of an extinguished match." (photo credit: NASA/Flash90)

Key dates in history of space exploration

On October 4th, 1957, the first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, was launched by Soviet Union; 12 years later, Armstrong’s Apollo landed on the moon

By AP

August 25, 2012
11:38 pm

This July 20, 1969 file photo provided by NASA shows Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, the first men to land on the moon, plant the U.S. flag on the lunar surface. (photo credit: AP Photo/NASA)

Neil Armstrong, first man on moon, 82

Astronaut visited Israel in 2007, told young space hopefuls in Haifa that space travel proved ‘the human species, all of us, is not forever chained to the planet Earth’

By AP and Times of Israel staff

August 25, 2012
8:38 pm

Activists protest inclusion of ‘pinkwashing’ Israeli film in Toronto Queer Film Festival

From the Web Xtra.ca: The documentary film Invisible Men by gay Israeli director Yariv Mozer tells the story of a gay Palestinian seeking refuge in Israel after receiving death threats from his family

August 25, 2012
7:08 pm

Androgynous Israeli model Stav Strashko, as featured in Candy magazine. (photo credit: Charles Guislain/stavsupermodel.tumblr.com)

Androgynous Israeli shocks in Toyota ad

Ukrainian-born male model Stav Strashko thinks living in Tel Aviv is ‘fabulous’, idolizes Angelina Jolie, loves ‘girl power’ and believes ‘the mind sees what it wants’

By Yifa Yaakov

August 25, 2012
5:50 pm

UK anti-Israel duo get 2-year suspended term for trespassing arms factory

Activists plan to appeal

August 25, 2012
3:52 pm

A young Jewish refugee and her Chinese girlfriends in Shanghai during World War II (photo credit: courtesy, Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum)

Saved in Shanghai — a young girl’s story highlights a rare WWII place of refuge

20,000 Jews were protected from the Holocaust in the Japanese-occupied city. Nina Admoni, whose husband would later head the Mossad, was one of them

By Michal Shmulovich

August 25, 2012
5:07 am

500-year-old women’s prayer book comes back to life in Hebrew

Original version of Sephardic siddur was written in Ladino

August 25, 2012
4:06 am

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

Romney willing to use military option in Syria and Iran

Republican presidential candidate says he’d go to war to stop Iran from getting the bomb

August 25, 2012
3:34 am

Former Republican candidate Ron Paul. (photo credit: CC-BY/Richard DeYoung, richard.deyoung@gmail.com)

Jewish Democrats slam Republican tribute to Ron Paul

Texas congressman rapped for criticism of US-Israel relations and empathy for Iran’s nuclear program

August 25, 2012
3:04 am

New York City police approach the lifeless body of Jeffrey Johnson lying on a sidewalk near the Empire State Building in New York following a shooting on Friday, August 24. (photo credit: AP/Guillermo Ratzlaff)

Disgruntled ex-worker at Jewish-owned firm guns down company executive in NYC

Jeffrey Johnson, 53, kills Steven Ercolino, injures nine others, before being shot dead outside Empire State Building

By Colleen Long and Tom Hays

August 25, 2012
2:51 am

The 2008 Democratic National Convention. (photo credit: CC BY kellydelay, Flickr)

Republican, Democratic conventions will focus on Jewish preoccupations — but with different outcomes

The pro-Israel discussions may be similar in Tampa and Charlotte; not so the debates on marriage and abortion

August 24, 2012
11:29 pm

Tools for a circumcision procedure used at a recent ceremony in a Hasidic court in Jerusalem (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

German Jewish leadership to begin training rabbis as circumcisors

Program seen as possible solution to controversy over court ban of ritual practice; with ironic timing, German postal service announces release of stamp dedicated to circumcision of Jesus

By JTA and Times of Israel staff

August 24, 2012
7:30 pm

Empire State Building shooter was disgruntled ex-worker at Jewish-owned firm

Jeffrey Johnson, 53, laid off by Hazan Import Corp. last year, kills former co-worker Steven Ercolino, injures nine others, before being killed by police

By AP and Times of Israel staff

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