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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

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

May 10, 2013
9:30 pm

A Senegalese mother and her son standing outside the Israeli Embassy in Dakar, April 2013. (photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Amid rising African Islamism, Israel-Senegal ties prosper

An impoverished Muslim nation heavily dependent on foreign aid, Senegal follows an appreciative but careful line in its embrace of the Jewish state

By Cnaan Liphshiz

May 10, 2013
4:35 pm

Pamela Geller as self-appointed spokesperson for moderate Muslims

The Times of Israel asks the controversial activist whether she is, as the ADL claims, a bigot, or merely an impolitic and impolite campaigner against extremist Islam

By Haviv Rettig Gur

May 10, 2013
4:23 pm

Orthodox Jewish women find new ways to be fashionable in Crown Heights

From the web Fashionista: No longer frumpy Frans, Brooklyn’s Chabad women are turning sidewalks into fashion runways — modestly

May 10, 2013
3:15 pm

Pope Francis, left, and Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt Pope Tawadros II meet during their private audience in the pontiff's library, at the Vatican, on Friday (photo credit: AP/Andreas Solaro)

Coptic pope meets Pope Francis at Vatican

Pontiffs pray together in first such meeting in 40 years, marking anniversary of declaration for improved relations

May 10, 2013
11:01 am

Raoul Wallenberg, right, with Jews in the Swedish Embassy in Budapest, exact date uncertain (photo credit: courtesy Yad Vashem)

Wallenberg Congressional Gold Medal unveiled

First recipient of the congressional honor was George Washington

May 10, 2013
10:53 am

Rome Jewish community head billed for convicted Nazi’s fees

Under Italian law, ‘all parties involved’ pay fees to register sentence if guilty party bankrupt

May 10, 2013
8:25 am

The modern production of Richard Wagner’s opera 'Tannhaeuser' during the dress rehearsal on April 30, 2013. (photo credit:AP/Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Hans Joerg Michel)

Nazi-themed opera canceled in Dusseldorf

Director of modern interpretation of Wagner’s ‘Tannhauser,’ featuring gas chambers and other atrocities, refuses to modify show

May 10, 2013
6:43 am

Members of Women of the Wall gather at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Friday (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel staff)

Ultra-Orthodox teens clash with Women of the Wall at holy site

Three men arrested, two policemen injured as thousands of Haredis flock to Western Wall in failed bid to keep group from holding prayer session

By Michal Shmulovich and Yoel Goldman

May 10, 2013
12:48 am

St. Andrew's Church in Jerusalem, with the Scottish flag fluttering above. (photo credit: CC BY paularps, Flickr)

Church of Scotland agrees to reword report on Israeli settlements

From the web The Guardian: Religious group defuses controversy by clarifying that it doesn’t challenge Israel’s right to exist

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