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Iran rejects bilateral talks with US at Istanbul summit

West bridge-building with Tehran shows ‘encouraging promise,’ but diplomats warn against ‘premature optimism’

Istanbul skyline (photo credit: CC BY Mark_Smith, Flickr)

Beastie Boys in Barcelona, 2007 (photo credit: Michael Morel, CC-BY, wikipedia)

Class of 2012 has a Jewish tune

This year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee class includes eight Jewish musicians and artists

By Matt DeFaveri

Jonathan Pollard belongs at home

Yedidya Atlas One has to wonder what brought Marc Goldberg to suddenly write an anti-Pollard diatribe. What master or cause does he believe he serves by dishing up this verbal hametz during the Passover holiday?

In Sri Lanka, the alternative 1948

Dan Kosky The more I learned about the country, the more I uncovered uncanny parallels it shares with Israel’s history

This image, released by the U.S. Department of Justice, shows a World War II-era SS identity card from the Trawniki training camp alleged to have belonged to John Demjanjuk. (photo credit: AP Photo/Department of Justice)

Demjanjuk’s lawyers file for posthumous restoration of his US citizenship

Sobibor Nazi guard was convicted in Munich in May and then stripped of his naturalization rights

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Abbas says Netanyahu is denying the PA the capacity to govern

Palestinian president calls for NATO troops to replace IDF in West Bank

By Ilan Ben Zion

Dave Eggers, author of 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.' (photo credit: CC BY-SA David Shankbone, Wikimedia Commons)

US author forgoes Günter Grass prize

David Eggers says he just wants to avoid controversy by appearing at foundation’s award ceremony

By Ilan Ben Zion

The American Nazi Party seal. (photo credit: americannaziparty.com)

US Nazis get their own lobbyist in Washington

From the web John Bowles to push for ‘political rights and ballot access laws,’ says US News and World Report

Saturday’s nuclear talks ‘an Iranian trick,’ warns Israel’s last envoy to Tehran

Uri Lubrani, now a top adviser to the vice prime minister, says US is being duped

By Mitch Ginsburg

A file shot of Uri Lubrani, an adviser to the minister of strategic affairs (Photo credit: Moshe Shai/ Flash 90)

Analysis

Is the West negotiating a ‘fatal bargain’ with Iran?

Permitting Tehran to continue enriching uranium at any level would still give it the option of developing nuclear weapons

By Simon Henderson and Olli Heinonen

The suspected nuclear enrichment facility under construction north of Qom, Iran, as seen in a 2009 satellite image. (photo credit: AP Photo/DigitalGlobe)

Christian pilgrims gather in Jerusalem for ‘holy fire’ ritual

Thousands crowd into Church of the Holy Sepulcher to witness annual ceremony performed by Eastern Orthodox clerics

Christian worshipers take part in the "Holy Fire" ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City during Easter, 2011 (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Despite truce, activists say 1 killed in Homs

Two days after cease-fire brokered by Annan, black smoke said to billow over the beleaguered central Syrian city

In this image made from amateur video released by the Syrian Media Council, smoke rises following purported shelling in Homs, Syria. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Syrian Media Council via AP video)

The Johnsons from Tennessee host lone soldiers in Jerusalem

Evangelical Christian couple have left behind their 13 grandchildren in the US to look after IDF youngsters

By Meredith Mandell

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