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May 12, 2013
1:15 pm

Isla Fisher in 'The Great Gatsby' (photo credit: courtesy)

Isla Fisher packs one-two summer-movie punch

‘Gatsby’ actress converted to Judaism before marriage to Sacha Baron Cohen

May 12, 2013
1:00 pm

The undated file photo provided by German federal criminal investigation office BKA in December 2011, shows terror suspect Beate Zschaepe after her arrest. (photo credit: AP Photo/BKA, File)

German court rejects bias claim in neo-Nazi trial

High-profile trial of Beate Zschaepe expected to last over a year

May 12, 2013
12:37 pm

Hungary: 3 men convicted of anti-Semitism

Men shouted ‘Sieg Heil’ and made Nazi salute at people attending World Jewish Congress last week

May 12, 2013
12:27 pm

Yosel Tiefenbrun, an apprentice tailor at Maurice Sedwell's and an ordained Orthodox rabbi, modeling an outfit he put together. (photo credit: David Nyanzi/JTA)

Dapper Chabad fashionistas take cues from the Rebbe

Breaking with all black, some hasidim are pushing fashion boundaries — just as the late Rabbi Schneerson did in his youth

By Gil Shefler

May 12, 2013
8:24 am

British physicist Stephen Hawking at a conference with Israeli high school students in Jerusalem in December 2006. (photo credit: Orel Cohen/Flash90)

Noam Chomsky helped lobby Stephen Hawking to stage Israel boycott

From the web The Guardian: US professor among 20 academics who urged wheelchair-bound physicist to stay away from Presidential Conference

May 12, 2013
7:41 am

US Arabs engage in national service day

Volunteers tackle Sandy cleanup in NY, other projects across the country

By Jeff Karoub

May 12, 2013
2:36 am

Flowers (illustrative photo: Shutterstock)

Jewish battered women shed ‘happy tears’ on Mother’s Day

Sending flowers to shelters via a Jewish Women International project raises abused mothers’ spirits — and public awareness

By Debra Rubin

May 12, 2013
1:26 am

Tourists ride Segways near the walls of Jerusalem's Old City, March 7, 2013 (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

US Jews call on Israel to rethink tax hike for tourists

Revoking VAT exemption may ’cause many to reconsider’ trips to the country, warns letter to PM from Conference of Presidents

By Times of Israel staff

May 11, 2013
8:50 pm

Netanyahu and his wife Sara in London after the Thatcher funeral Wednesday, April 17, 2013 (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Netanyahu slammed for spending $127,000 on bed for flight to London

PM’s sleeping requirement for the five-hour flight he and his wife took to Thatcher’s funeral last month prompts complaints from opposition MK, Movement for the Quality of Government

By Times of Israel staff

May 11, 2013
1:24 pm

US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice (photo credit: Courtesy UN)

Susan Rice: Attacks on Israel at UN undercut peace

‘Anyone who cares about the international system has to be concerned when one member state is unfairly singled out,’ says US envoy

May 11, 2013
11:50 am

Boston bomb suspect’s quiet burial faces scrutiny

Virginia Islamic community says it wasn’t informed or consulted on Tamerlan Tsarnaev burial in local rural cemetery

By Bob Lewis and Denise Lavoie

May 11, 2013
8:42 am

Holocaust survivor Rivka Fringeru, 82, left, holds hand with Cynthia Wroclawski, director of the Yad Vashem names collection project, Sunday, May 5, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

Holocaust memorial races to collect victims’ names

Yad Vashem’s record-the-memories project hopes to clear the 5 million mark in the next few years; few believe it can go much higher

By Aron Heller

May 11, 2013
1:53 am

Opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games, 2012. Sally Becker, opposite UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, is one of the flag bearers. (photo credit: courtesy)

Sally Becker went where angels fear to tread

At the height of the Bosnian War, a young Jewish woman from England crossed the front line and saved 300 children from certain death. She only wishes she had saved more

By Miriam Shaviv

May 10, 2013
11:04 pm

Watch: Police safeguard prayers for Women of the Wall

For the first time, security forces hold back ultra-Orthodox demonstrators, not the pluralistic women who gather each month in prayers shawls and tefillin

By Times of Israel staff

May 10, 2013
10:11 pm

Women celebrate the new month with prayer at the Western Wall, Friday, May 10, 2013(photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel)

A resonant reversal at the Wall, as police protect the pluralists

400 non-Orthodox Jewish women make history at the Western Wall. But for some of them, the sense of victory is tinged by sorrow over the need for an ongoing fight

By Michal Shmulovich

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