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October 29, 2013
10:16 am

A 'stumbling block' in Heidelberg, Germany. (illustrative photo credit: The Profitcy, CC-BY-SA via wikipedia)

Munich launches virtual stumbling blocks memorial app

Biographies of Jews murdered in the Holocaust appear on visitors’ smartphones as they pass by former homes

By JTA

October 29, 2013
8:53 am

Illustrative photo of Chabad activities. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Chabad opens Jewish student house in Berlin

Hassidic movement partners with locals to create place for pro-Israel cultural and social activities

By JTA

October 29, 2013
8:12 am

A bus in Denver Colorado carries an anti-Israel ad paid for by the website notaxdollarstoIsrael.com and Colorado BDS. (screen capture: notaxdollarstoisrael.com)

Denver buses carry anti-Israel ads during JNF conference

Colorado BDS holds ‘counter-conference’ with protests outside governor’s mansion and JNF session

By JTA

October 29, 2013
4:10 am

Former financier Bernard Madoff exits Federal Court in Manhattan, New York on March 10, 2009. (photo credit: AP Photo/David Karp)

Jewish groups in new database admit losses of $150 million to Madoff

Washington Post list covers 1,000 organizations in all; history’s biggest Ponzi scheme estimated to have cost $18 billion

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

October 28, 2013
5:40 pm

Jack Straw (photo credit: UK Ministry of Justice / Wikipedia Commons)

I’m not remotely anti-Semitic, says ex-British FM Straw

Veteran politician doesn’t deny account of his comments in debate last week, but tells Times of Israel he voiced legitimate concerns

By Raphael Ahren

October 28, 2013
5:21 pm

A copy of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' (photo credit: dccarbone/CC-BY, vi Flickr)

Lawyer sues Amsterdam gallery over ‘Mein Kampf’ sales

It has been illegal to distribute Hitler’s book in the Netherlands since 1974

By JTA

October 28, 2013
3:24 pm

US President Barack Obama gestures while making a statement on Friday, Sept. 27, 2013 in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington (photo credit: AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Drop in Jewish support for US strike on Iran

Annual AJC poll also shows slight fall in confidence in Obama’s handling of national security

By JTA

October 28, 2013
3:15 pm

Author Eve Harris (photo credit: Karolina Urbaniak)

The book bringing ultra-Orthodox Jews to the masses

After teaching in a UK haredi girls school, secular Jewish author Eve Harris writes a sympathetic 400-page novel about that world’s biggest problems

By Miriam Shaviv

October 28, 2013
2:59 pm

Illustrative photo: Members of Women of the Wall wear prayer shawls as they read from the Torah and pray at Robinson's Arch, near the Western Wall in Jerusalem March 12 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Women of the Wall issue demands that could take years to meet

Group says it will continue to hold prayer services on women’s side of holy site until 16 key requirements are met

By JTA

October 28, 2013
1:58 pm

In a June 24, 2003 photo, Lou Reed has his hands imprinted as supporters cheer in the background as he is inducted into Hollywood's Rockwalk, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Ric Francis, File)

Lou Reed: Rock ‘n’ roll poet of the streets

His challenging subject matter, and his limited singing voice, didn’t lend itself to mass success, but Reed didn’t mind. ‘I’m not trying to win anybody over,’ he said. ‘I’m happy to get up in the morning. I love the music and wanted to make it better, so if someone else wanted to hear it, they’d get some bang for the buck’

By David Bauder

October 28, 2013
1:16 pm

Paula Abdul at the New Jersey 'X Factor' auditions 2011 (photo credit: CC BY-SA/Mono/Flickr)

Paula Abdul to get Kotel bat mitzvah

American singer and reality-show star to meet with President Shimon Peres; Beyonce may be planning 2014 performance

By Times of Israel staff

October 28, 2013
12:30 pm

Sir Anthony Caro's 'Dream City,' 1996 (photo credit: Andrew Dunn, CC-BY-SA, via wikipedia)

British sculptor Anthony Caro dies at 89

His large, abstract steel creations stand in international galleries, parks and museums

By Jill Lawless

October 28, 2013
12:23 pm

Vladimir Keilis-Borok (photo credit: courtesy)

Scientist who sought to predict quakes dies at 92

Either accurate or lucky in some of his predictions, Vladimir Keilis-Borok sought the ‘Holy Grail’ of quake science

By AP

October 28, 2013
12:01 pm

'Mao,' painted by Andy Warhol in 1973. (photo credit: Andy Warhol: © 2013, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the VisualArts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)

Groundbreaking art critic Arthur Danto dies at 89

The trained philosopher was a central figure in debates about art in the 1960s and after

By Hillel Italie

October 28, 2013
11:40 am

In this Oct. 22, 2010 file photo, Jeff Hall, who was killed by his son, holds a Neo Nazi flag while standing at Sycamore Highlands Park near his home in Riverside, Calif. (photo credit: AP Photo/Sandy Huffaker, File)

Boy who killed Nazi dad at age 10 to be sentenced

Question is how to rehabilitate someone who grew up in an abusive home, indoctrinated in white supremacy

By AP

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