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November 7, 2013
5:47 am

New York City Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio, left, join Mayor Michael Bloomberg for a meeting in the 'Bull Pen,' the mayor's main City Hall office, on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013, in New York. (photo credit: AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

NYC Jews optimistic after de Blasio landslide

Though the mayor-elect’s support was lowest among Jewish voters, the community is ‘looking forward to getting to know him’

By Rachel Delia Benaim

November 7, 2013
12:17 am

Silvio Berlusconi visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, February, 2010 (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Berlusconi takes heat for Holocaust comparison

Former Italian PM reportedly says his adult children feel like Jewish families must have felt in Hitler’s Germany

By AP

November 6, 2013
10:59 pm

Anti-Semitic graffiti (illustrative photo: Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Pig’s head left on doorstep of Ukrainian synagogue

Incident in Sevastopol comes amid local opposition to construction of Chabad center

By JTA

November 6, 2013
11:56 am

American singer Paula Abdul visits the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City on October 31, 2013, six days before she celebrated her bat mitzva in Safed. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Paula Abdul snubs Western Wall

Singer moves belated bat mitzva ceremony to Safed

By AP

November 6, 2013
6:17 am

Bill de Blasio speaks to reporters after voting on Tuesday in Park Slope, Brooklyn (photo credit: AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Bill de Blasio is elected mayor of New York

Big Apple elects first Democratic mayor in over 20 years; de Blasio says New Yorkers chose ‘a progressive path’

By Jonathan Lemire

November 6, 2013
5:13 am

US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after a joint news conference, Wednesday, March 20, 2013, at the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem. (photo credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Americans high on support for Israel, wary of military role in Mideast

Only 40% of respondents to ADL survey think the US should back Israeli military action against Iran

By Spencer Ho

November 6, 2013
4:32 am

After being pulled from the rubble in Gaza, it wasn't clear if Aharon Karov would live, let alone run in the NY marathon. (photo credit: courtesy)

Five years after near death, Israeli runs NYC marathon

As a commander in Operation Cast Lead, newlywed Aharon Karov almost died. Now he’s raising money for the organization that helped him get back on his feet

By Rachel Delia Benaim

November 6, 2013
1:50 am

Bill de Blasio speaks to reporters after voting on Tuesday in Park Slope, Brooklyn (photo credit: AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

In NY mayoral race, Orthodox key to the ‘Jewish vote’

Polls predict Bill de Blasio a clear winner, but is he good for the Jews?

By Rachel Delia Benaim

November 6, 2013
12:41 am

Thousands of waterlogged Jewish books and documents shortly after their discovery in a flooded basement of Saddam Hussein's former intelligence headquarters, May 2003. (Photo credit: courtesy The National Archives)

Rescued from Saddam, Iraqi Jewish archive finally on display

Some of the thousands of Jewish items recovered by US troops from a flooded Baghdad basement have been painstakingly restored for public display. But should they return to Iraq next year?

By Ben Zehavi

November 5, 2013
11:31 pm

Eli Yishai speaks during a ceremony marking 30 days since the passing of the late religious spiritual leader of Israel's Sephardi Jewry, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, in Jerusalem on November 5, 2013. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Thousands mark 30 days to Ovadia Yosef’s passing in Jerusalem

‘The people of Israel miss him daily,’ former Shas chairman Eli Yishai says on one-month anniversary of esteemed rabbi’s death

By Yifa Yaakov

November 5, 2013
10:28 pm

US author Peter Beinart in Jerusalem on June 21, 2012. Beinart considers himself a supporter of Israel. (photo credit: AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Peter Beinart to join Haaretz, The Atlantic

Controversial journalist to write on ‘issues related to the complex triangle of Israel, America, and the American Jewish community’

By JTA

November 5, 2013
7:28 pm

Vadim Rabinovich is unfazed by critics and readily offers his own censure of European and American Jewish leaders. (photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Ukraine’s Jewish Congress head: Builder or bulldozer?

Shrugging off critics and an assassination attempt, Vadim Rabinovich claims the mantle of Jewish leader

By Cnaan Liphshiz

November 5, 2013
6:52 pm

The Kristall Sauna-Wellnesspark Spa in Germany (Photo credit: kristallbad-bad-klosterlausnitz.de)

German spa withdraws ‘romantic Kristallnacht’ ad

Kristall Sauna Wellnesspark apologizes for ‘extremely inappropriate’ campaign

By JTA

November 5, 2013
5:11 pm

A painting of Marc Chagall is projected on a screen during a news conference in Augsburg, southern Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013, on the art found in Munich. (photo credit: AP/Kerstin Joensson)

Seized Nazi loot includes previously unknown Chagall

Hoard discovered in Munich in 2012 contains some 1,400 art pieces, many of them confiscated by the Nazis during WWII

By David McHugh

November 5, 2013
4:52 pm

US Attorney Preet Bharara at a press conference, Monday, November 4, 2013, in New York. (photo credit: AP/Louis Lanzano)

Hedge fund giant led by Jewish billionaire to pay biggest penalty in history

Pending deal would see company headed by Steven A. Cohen pay out $1.8 billion for insider trading, cease operating as investment adviser

By Larry Neumeister and Marcy Gordon

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