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September 10, 2012
12:29 pm

Pope Benedict says Lebanon trip will promote peace in region

‘Even though the search for solutions to the various problems affecting the region seems difficult, we cannot resign ourselves to the violence’

September 10, 2012
11:18 am

Synagogue of Colonia del Sacramento, 2012. (photo credit: Natalie Schachar)

UNESCO site in Uruguay points to a forgotten Jewish past

The small historical city of Colonia del Sacramento is slowly unearthing remnants of Port Jews who fled persecution on the Iberian peninsula and slowly assimilated in the New World

By Natalie A. Schachar

September 10, 2012
9:52 am

Workers remove thousands of notes and letters from the Western Wall ahead of the new year (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rabbis empty God’s mailbox

The Western Wall is cleaned of wishes and prayers ahead of the new year

By Aaron Kalman

September 10, 2012
12:20 am

Mark Alan Siegel (photo credit: courtesy)

Florida: Local Democratic Party official resigns over remarks on Christians

Mark Alan Siegel said pro-Israel Christians want to see Jews ‘slaughtered and converted’

September 9, 2012
11:41 pm

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

Circumcision debate in Germany brings together Jews, Muslims in protest

From the web Hundreds rally in Berlin against anti-circumcision rules, Global Post reports

September 9, 2012
11:35 pm

Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center office in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Jewish groups cry foul over Holocaust joke in Estonian newspaper

Fake weight loss ad called ‘perverted attempt at humor’

September 9, 2012
8:11 pm

Rabbi Asher Lopatin, right, the incoming president of the Modern Orthodox Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, confers with Rabbi Yehoshua Eichenstein, the Zidichiver rebbe, at Chicago's Siyum HaShas celebration. (photo credit: Fred Eckhouse Photography/JTA)

How much will new rabbinical school leader shake up the Orthodox world?

With an emphasis on ‘open Orthodoxy,’ Rabbi Asher Lopatin — soon to take over the liberal-leaning Yeshivat Chovevei Torah — is stirring up both interest and opposition

By Uriel Heilman

September 9, 2012
7:22 pm

Ice partially covers the surface of the body of the former 'Jew Pond' in Mont Vernon, New Hampshire (photo credit:AP/Garrett Brnger)

Feds strip New Hampshire pond of Jewish name

Jew Pond changed to Carleton Pond in national registry, months after town votes to change name

September 9, 2012
7:06 pm

King Abdullah II of Jordan talking with Charlie Rose on CBS. (photo credit: Image capture from CBS)

Jordan’s king to address British Jewry

November event devoted to multi-culturalism, interfaith and world peace

September 9, 2012
12:48 pm

Noam Gershony (center) with his co-medalists at the London 2012 Paralympics (photo credit: Razi Livnat/courtesy IASP)

The gold medalist who came back from the dead

When his helicopter crashed during the Second Lebanon War, doctors did not believe Noam Gershony would survive. On Saturday, he won tennis gold at the Paralympic Games

By Aaron Kalman

September 9, 2012
9:57 am

Illustrative photo of a female prison guard at the Neve Tirza prison in Ramle (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Family of detained Canadian-Israeli says essentials being withheld

Prison services failed to transfer contact lens solution and summer clothes to Yana Gorelik, 30, held as an army deserter

By Gabe Fisher

September 9, 2012
9:38 am

Jewish children at the Western Wall in Jerusalem (photo credit: Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

Global Jewish population grows by 88,000 over past year

One of 514 people on Earth is Jewish; at 0.65%, population growth rate is well below world average

By Aaron Kalman

September 9, 2012
6:05 am

Bernard Wasserstein in his book-lined office (photo credit: courtesy)

The downward spiral of pre-World War II European Jewry

In his new book, historian Bernard Wasserstein says Jewish culture was on the road to extinction even prior to the Holocaust. An interview with the author

By JP O’ Malley

September 9, 2012
5:42 am

Jewish eatery in Florida targeted by arsonists

From the web Police unsure if attack on Achla Pita Grill near Miami is a hate crime, Sun-Sentinel reports

September 8, 2012
9:58 pm

Israel wins first gold at 2012 Paralympics

Former Apache pilot Noam Gershony triumphs in wheelchair tennis; ‘You symbolize the victory of the human spirit,’ Netanyahu tells him

By Times of Israel staff

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