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June 28, 2014
10:40 am

Adolf Hitler and fellow soldiers during World War I. (Photo credit: Bundesarchiv/Public Domain)

Serbia marks 100 years since Franz Ferdinand assassination

Deep Balkan divisions make it impossible for heads of state to jointly remember death that sparked World War I

By Rusmir SMAJILHODZIC

June 28, 2014
6:07 am

Bride Katka Reszke and groom Slawomir Grunberg, made their wedding a celebration of Polish Jewish revival, June 22, 2014. (Ruth Ellen Gruber/JTA)

Big fat Polish Jewish wedding celebrates communal renewal

Couple turns nuptials into open-air public event with klezmer bands, kosher food and two officiating Orthodox rabbis

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

June 28, 2014
4:37 am

United Nations headquarters in New York City (photo credit: CC BY WorldIslandInfo.com/Flickr/File)

Activist seeks to needle Iran by renaming NY street after prisoner

From the web Buzzfeed: David Keyes seeks to highlight Iran’s human rights abuses by naming street outside UN after Majid Tavakoli

June 28, 2014
3:48 am

A ritual circumcision ceremony in Jerusalem (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90/File)

Norway passes act regulating circumcision

Jewish community lauds move as significant decision; law requires supervision by licensed physician

By JTA

June 28, 2014
3:04 am

US Middle East envoy Martin Indyk (Screen capture: Washington Institute for Near East Policy)

PM said to feel Indyk was unfair to Israel, ‘won’t ever work with him again’

TV report quotes Israeli official bashing US peace envoy, who quit Friday; State Department says he won’t be replaced

By Times of Israel staff

June 28, 2014
2:02 am

Several attendants of the Presbyterian General Assembly in Detroit form a prayer circle and sing for Israeli-Arab peace. Two are seen wearing shirts which read: "Another Jew supporting divestment." (screen capture: YouTube)

Presbyterians ‘committed more than ever’ to relationship with Jews

After vote to divest from 3 companies operating in West Bank, US church affirms commitment to interfaith cooperation

By JTA

June 28, 2014
1:12 am

Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

American Jews leave African Union summit after protests

Egyptian, South African delegates object to skullcap-wearing Jewish attendees, mistaken for an ‘Israeli’ delegation

By JTA

June 27, 2014
7:58 pm

Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaking on the Senate floor. (photo credit: AP/Senate TV/File)

Ted Cruz: US should aid Israel to locate abducted teens with ‘all available means’

Republican senator calls for ‘weight of world’ to be placed on Hamas to force release of the Naftali Fraenkel, Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaar

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

June 27, 2014
7:02 pm

Illustrative photo of a Jewish cemetery (photo credit: Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland)

Holocaust victims’ mass grave in Ukraine raided

Robbers reportedly seize gold teeth and valuables from bodies of Jews killed by the Nazis

By JTA

June 27, 2014
3:07 pm

French Jewish Defense League activists demonstrate in Paris, 2011 (illustrative photo credit: Ligue de Defense Juive via JTA)

2 French Jews jailed for assaulting anti-Israel reporter

Jewish Defense League members were found guilty of placing a bomb under car of anti-Zionist journalist

By JTA

June 27, 2014
1:59 pm

Rachelle Fraenkel speaks to the Times of Israel, June 26, 2014. (Photo and video credit: Ricky Ben-David/Times of Israel)

A mother’s plea for ‘prayer, positive energy, whatever it takes’ to find kidnapped teens

WATCH: ‘Somewhere, probably in the Hebron area, there is a very good hiding place with three teenagers,’ says Rachelle Fraenkel. ‘We need people condemning the kidnapping, requesting, pressuring. Any leverage…’

By David Horovitz

June 27, 2014
10:18 am

A man says goodbye to his relatives as they prepare to cross the border into Russia at the Ukrainian-Russian border checkpoint in Izvaryne, Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine Thursday, June 26, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Germany eases immigration for Ukrainian Jews

Thousands of citizens flee for Russia; truce nears end

By Balint Szlanko

June 27, 2014
6:37 am

Augustine, Florida, where they spent a night after being arrested protesting for civil rights 50 years earlier. Standing (from left to right), are Allen Secher, Israel Dresner, Jerrold Goldstein and Richard Levy. Sitting are Daniel Fogel, left, and Hanan Sills. (photo credit: Dina Weinstein/JTA)

Rabbis jailed in civil rights protest 50 years ago return to Florida

To fight Jim Crow segregation in St. Augustine, Reform rabbis were enlisted in a battle Martin Luther King Jr. later called one of the movement’s most violent

By Dina Weinstein

June 27, 2014
6:31 am

Actor Shia LaBeouf poses for photographers, with a paper bag over his head that says 'I am not famous anymore,' on the red carpet for the film 'Nymphomaniac' at the International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, on February 9, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Axel Schmidt)

Shia LaBeouf kicked out of NYC theater

Actor in police custody after being thrown out of Broadway’s Studio 54 for disorderly conduct during play

By AP

June 27, 2014
6:15 am

Gal Mekel, shown on defense during a preseason game in October 2013, is hoping to become a starter for Dallas following knee surgery that curtailed his rookie season. (photo credit: Hillel Kuttler)

Can Gal Mekel make his point in Dallas?

After enduring knee injury that curtailed his rookie season, Israeli basketballer returns to US arena

By Hillel Kuttler

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