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July 19, 2012
10:51 pm

The Olympic Stadium in London. NBC sportscaster Bob Castas will memorialize the athletes murdered in Munich in 1972 when the Israeli team enters the stadium during the opening ceremony on July 27th. (photo credit: CC BY, James Mitchell,Flickr)

NBC sportscaster to mark Munich 11

Bob Costas intends to point out rejection of minute of silence in memory of murdered athletes when Israeli team enters the Olympic stadium

By Stuart Winer

July 19, 2012
6:53 pm

British terrorist couple Shasta Khan and Mohammed Sajid Khan were found guilty of planning an attack on the Manchester Jewish community. (photo, courtesy Greater Manchester Police)

UK Muslim couple convicted of plotting terror attack on Manchester Jews

Husband and wife downloaded ‘Make a bomb in the kitchen’ manual from the Internet, cased synagogues and Jewish Agency building

By Miriam Shaviv

July 19, 2012
4:51 pm

Former Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi gestures with a green cane as he takes his seat behind bulletproof glass for a military parade in Green Square, Tripoli, Libya in 2009 (photo credit: AP/Ben Curtis)

Gaddafi killed anyone who discovered his mother was Jewish, aide claims

Nouri Mismari, the slain Libyan leader’s chief of protocol, details the colonel’s outrageous behavior

By Elhanan Miller

July 19, 2012
1:55 pm

Sybil Sage's personalized mosaic urn. (photo credit: Courtesy)

A burning question

How is it that a mere 70 years after the Holocaust, a full one-third of American Jews are opting for cremation?

By Renee Ghert-Zand

July 19, 2012
1:34 pm

Top Israeli swimmer to miss Olympics after surgery

Jonathan Koplev, European champion in the 50m backstroke, still hospitalized

By Aaron Kalman

July 19, 2012
11:33 am

State derails opening of New Jersey Hebrew charter school

According to reports, school did not provide a certificate of occupancy for educational use and a ‘sanitary inspection report with a satisfactory rating’

July 19, 2012
11:23 am

Ben-Ami Kadish, spy for Israel arrested at age 85, dies

Pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and was sentenced in mid-2009 to pay a $50,000 fine

July 19, 2012
11:00 am

Writer Etgar Keret to live in narrowest house in Warsaw

The Jakub Szczesny-designed domicile is being built as an experimental project aimed at portraying the city as artistically innovative

July 19, 2012
10:55 am

Australian kosher cook-for-a-cause kitchen marks Mandela’s birthday

Our Big Kitchen prepared 720 packages of food in 67 minutes, commemorating Mandela’s 67 years of public service

July 19, 2012
10:50 am

Israeli appointed to top UN counterterrorism position

David Scharia becomes the only Israeli serving in a top senior security position in the UN

July 19, 2012
5:06 am

Jeffrey Cohen, right, with fellow members of the 6th New York Independent Battery Civil War reenactors. (photo credit: Robert Fagan)

Taking to the battlefields with Jewish Civil War reenactors

‘Sons of Abraham’ carry muskets — and Shabbat candles — to ‘battles’ at Gettysburg, Antietam and Bull Run

By Debra Rubin

July 19, 2012
1:40 am

Businessman Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, on a trip to Israel (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90/File)

Adelson fires back at prostitution claim

Casino magnate blasts former exec for ‘inflammatory and personally derogatory’ accusation

By Ken Ritter

July 19, 2012
1:26 am

Throngs of ultra-Orthodox Jews attend the funeral of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv in Jerusalem on Wednesday night, July 18, 2012. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Hundreds of thousands attend funeral of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv

Nearly 100 people require medical aid as throngs converge on Jerusalem burial

By Ilan Ben Zion and Sam Ser and Michal Shmulovich

July 18, 2012
11:12 pm

Aerial view of Olympic Park, in London (photo credit: CC-BY, by BaldBoris, Wikimedia Commons)

Racism scandal dogs Australia’s only Jewish Olympic athlete

Steven Solomon hailed as a ‘rising star,’ while fellow runner John Steffensen cries racial discrimination

July 18, 2012
5:27 pm

Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv (Yosef Avi Yair Angel/ Flash90/JTA)

Rabbi Elyashiv, a relentless Torah scholar whose strict rulings sought to resist modernity

Born into a home steeped in Jewish mysticism 102 years ago, the revered rabbi’s life led him to fierce conservatism and unbending religious insularity

By Matti Friedman

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