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May 23, 2013
12:33 pm

The Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel)

Muslim clerics visit Nazi death camp

‘I tried to prevent my tears from my eyes because it’s very difficult to see how many people were killed without any reason,’ Ramallah imam says

May 20, 2013
1:55 am

Police on the Brooklyn Bridge. (photo credit: CC BY-SA Edward M Johnson, Flickr)

Palestinian smuggler linked to 1994 Brooklyn terror attack

Muaffaq Askar, arrested last week as part of a cigarette smuggling ring, supplied terrorist with guns used to attack yeshiva students

By JTA and AP

May 14, 2013
1:21 am

Lord Ahmed reportedly claimed during an interview in Pakistan that English Jews were persecuting him because of a controversial visit to Gaza. (YouTube screenshot)

Britain’s Lord Ahmed quits party over reported anti-Semitism

Labour member of House of Lords was to face inquiry over whether he blamed Jews for dangerous driving arrest

By AP and JTA

May 6, 2013
8:18 am

Reform leader Rabbi Rick Jacobs (Robert A. Cumins/JFNA via JTA)

Reform movement leader supports Western Wall plan

Rabbi Rick Jacobs says proposed compromise for an expanded egalitarian section at holy site is a unique opportunity

By JTA and Times of Israel staff

May 4, 2013
8:34 am

John Kerry and Tzipi Livni in Jerusalem in March. (photo credit: Matty Stern/US Embassy/Flash90)

Israel reportedly rejects 1967 lines ‘precondition’

Tzipi Livni says borders of Palestinian state must be resolved through talks, praises ‘involved, determined’ approach by Kerry

By AP and Times of Israel staff and JTA

May 3, 2013
1:51 am

US President Barack Obama with Michael Froman and Penny Pritzker in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 2, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama taps Pritzker, Froman for top US commerce posts

Cabinet level positions are subject to Senate approval; ‘I intend to work them to the bone as soon as they’re official,’ says president

By Nedra Pickler and JTA

April 28, 2013
4:51 pm

This April 25, 2013 file photo shows Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, left, the mother of the two Boston bombing suspects, speaking at a news conference in Makhachkala, the capital of the southern Russian province of Dagestan. At right is her sister-in-law Maryam. (photo credit: AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev, File)

Bombers’ mother told older son to go to ‘Palestine’

Phone call between Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, was intercepted by the Russian security service

By JTA and Times of Israel staff

April 26, 2013
7:30 pm

Entrance to the 2,000-year-old Djerba synagogue (photo credit: CC BY upyernoz/Flikr)

Thousands of Jews reach Djerba for pilgrimage

Visitors, among them several Israeli citizens, receive blessing from rabbi at oldest African synagogue as police up security

By Yifa Yaakov and JTA

April 16, 2013
8:11 pm

Benjamin Netanyahu (center) with the Bible Quiz winners (photo credit: Marc Israel/Flash90)

American, Israeli jointly win Bible quiz

US-born MK Dov Lipman hails symbol of bond with Diaspora

By JTA and Times of Israel staff

April 11, 2013
3:20 pm

Gilles Bernheim, the chief rabbi of France, leaving the Elysee Palace in Paris after meeting with then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy, March 21, 2012. (photo credit: Franck Prevel/Getty via JTA)

French chief rabbi quits amid plagiarism, qualification scandals

Resignation comes less than 48 hours after Bernheim said he’d stay on ‘as a show of humility’

By JTA and Gavriel Fiske

April 1, 2013
2:07 am

Inscription on the Jobar Synagogue, near Damascus, Syria (photo credit: screen capture YouTube)

Historic Damascus synagogue looted and destroyed

Assad forces, rebels trade blame for destruction of country’s holiest Jewish site; ‘it’s the Syrian heritage regardless of religion,’ says official

By JTA and Yoel Goldman

March 29, 2013
8:08 pm

US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a welcoming ceremony at Ben Gurion Airport on March 20, 2013. (photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Poll: Obama’s visit reduced pro-Palestinian perception

Survey indicates an 11% rise in the number of Israelis who see the US president as pro-Israel

By JTA and Times of Israel staff

March 17, 2013
11:55 pm

Labor MK calls on students to boycott Obama speech

Nachman Shai says president deliberately excluding students at Ariel University in the West Bank from his main public event

By Adiv Sterman and JTA

March 8, 2013
2:14 am

US Senator Carl Levin (center) during a Senate Armed Services Committee (photo credit: US Navy photo/Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kevin S. O'Brien/Released)

Carl Levin says he won’t seek 2014 reelection

Jewish senator led opposition to confirmation of Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense

By Times of Israel staff and JTA

March 8, 2013
1:38 am

A man working in an olive oil factory in Meshek Achiya in the West Bank, March 3, 2009. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Netherlands recommends labeling settlement goods

Foreign Ministry says move singling out Israel ‘is a case of blatant discrimination’

By Ron Friedman and JTA

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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Writer: JTA

Muslim clerics visit Nazi death camp

‘I tried to prevent my tears from my eyes because it’s very difficult to see how many people were killed without any reason,’ Ramallah imam says

Palestinian smuggler linked to 1994 Brooklyn terror attack

Muaffaq Askar, arrested last week as part of a cigarette smuggling ring, supplied terrorist with guns used to attack yeshiva students

Britain’s Lord Ahmed quits party over reported anti-Semitism

Labour member of House of Lords was to face inquiry over whether he blamed Jews for dangerous driving arrest

Reform movement leader supports Western Wall plan

Rabbi Rick Jacobs says proposed compromise for an expanded egalitarian section at holy site is a unique opportunity

Israel reportedly rejects 1967 lines ‘precondition’

Tzipi Livni says borders of Palestinian state must be resolved through talks, praises ‘involved, determined’ approach by Kerry

Obama taps Pritzker, Froman for top US commerce posts

Cabinet level positions are subject to Senate approval; ‘I intend to work them to the bone as soon as they’re official,’ says president

Bombers’ mother told older son to go to ‘Palestine’

Phone call between Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, was intercepted by the Russian security service

Thousands of Jews reach Djerba for pilgrimage

Visitors, among them several Israeli citizens, receive blessing from rabbi at oldest African synagogue as police up security

American, Israeli jointly win Bible quiz

US-born MK Dov Lipman hails symbol of bond with Diaspora

French chief rabbi quits amid plagiarism, qualification scandals

Resignation comes less than 48 hours after Bernheim said he’d stay on ‘as a show of humility’

Historic Damascus synagogue looted and destroyed

Assad forces, rebels trade blame for destruction of country’s holiest Jewish site; ‘it’s the Syrian heritage regardless of religion,’ says official

Poll: Obama’s visit reduced pro-Palestinian perception

Survey indicates an 11% rise in the number of Israelis who see the US president as pro-Israel

Labor MK calls on students to boycott Obama speech

Nachman Shai says president deliberately excluding students at Ariel University in the West Bank from his main public event

Carl Levin says he won’t seek 2014 reelection

Jewish senator led opposition to confirmation of Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense

Netherlands recommends labeling settlement goods

Foreign Ministry says move singling out Israel ‘is a case of blatant discrimination’

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