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Attack-related art made during ITC session in Boston on May 7, 2013. (photo credit: Matt Lebovic/Times of Israel)

Israeli team helps Boston fight back against trauma

By Matt Lebovic

It takes a village, say Israel’s top specialists as they reshape individual Bostonians’ suffering and refocus on the community as a source of resilience

Muslim worshipers on the Temple Mount during the festival of Eid Al-Adha, October 26, 2012 (photo credit: Sleiman Khader/Flash90)

Jordanian parliament votes to eject Israeli envoy

By Ilan Ben Zion

Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour says Amman ‘deeply concerned’ about ‘evil, systemized’ Israeli schemes against Al-Aqsa mosque

Religious Jews visiting the Temple Mount, March 27, 2013. (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Ministry to review Jewish prayer on Temple Mount

By Stuart Winer

Not so blue and white: Pondering Jerusalem Day

Finding that the festivities bring out cynicism, exasperation and, oh yes, also delight and pride. And then more cynicism

Phyllis Chesler

The reluctantly racist filmmaker

Mira Nair has turned out yet another movie that blames America for atrocities committed by Islamist jihadists

How homosexuality is different

A conscientious objection to the battle-cry to wage war on the Biblical crime of males lying with males

Dov Lipman, January 16, 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Dov Lipman an ‘apostate,’ head of MK’s old yeshiva fumes

By Raphael Ahren

Ner Israel’s Rabbi Aharon Feldman once hailed Yesh Atid lawmaker’s teachings; now he’s skewering him for his take on Haredi education

Jibril Rajoub (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90/File)

Top PA official: Israel ‘is our main enemy, resistance is still our agenda’

By Elhanan Miller

Arab states should put their money where their mouth is to ‘liberate’ Jerusalem, says Jibril Rajoub, a signatory to the Geneva Initiative who had pledged he was Israel’s peace ‘partner’

Outgoing Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat visits Arab students in a newly opened elementary school in the Arab neighborhood of Umm Tuba, in East Jerusalem, on December 13, 2011. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Interview

One Jerusalem. Undivided. Open to all. Controlled by Israel

By David Horovitz

President Shimon Peres meets Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg in Jerusalem on February 02, 2012. (photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO/Flash90)

Settlement plans ‘obnoxious,’ says Czech foreign minister

By Raphael Ahren

In exclusive interview, Karel Schwarzenberg says bid to call Hezbollah a terror group is pointless propaganda, won’t back Israeli airstrikes on Syria or Iran, and calls for settlement goods to be labeled; Jerusalem says Czechs are good enough friends that they can be candid

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

Stephen Hawking opts out of Jerusalem conference

By Asher Zeiger

Celebrated British physicist reportedly motivated by ‘independent decision to respect the boycott’ of Israel’s academia

Former deputy prime minister Dan Meridor (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Interview

Meridor: Israel must take steps for peace talks

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Amid talk of settlement freeze, former Likud minister urges return to negotiations and more Palestinian self-rule

Jobbik party supporters burning an EU flag at a rally in Budapest in 2012. (screen capture/YouTube)

World Jewish Congress

Budapest Jews fear violent attack only ‘a matter of time’

By Aaron Kalman

With anti-Semitic events on the rise and the WJC in town, community members warn intensifying verbal assaults could be a sign of worse to come

Palestinian workers unload gravel being pulled from a smuggling tunnel between the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on April 3, 2013 (photo credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

Egypt busts hundreds of smuggling tunnels, and a spy

By Elhanan Miller

Cairo is tougher on smuggling today than it was in Mubarak’s time, says Israeli expert

Notre Dame and Jerusalem's Light Train (photo by Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels: Jerusalem Day

Between east and west: Jerusalem’s No-Man’s Land

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Abraham Doodhkar puts a golden necklace on Nirah during the wedding ceremony. (photo credit: Paul Dharamraj and Ofira Reuben/Times of Israel)

Our big fat Indian-Jewish weddings

By Paul Dharamraj and Ofira Reuben

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An iron key used to open a 2,000-year-old door, found in an ancient quarry in Jerusalem (photo credit: Clara Amit/Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)

Ancient quarry, key unearthed in Jerusalem

By Matti Friedman

Illustrative photo of a Facebook 'Like' button (Sophie Gordon/Flash90)

How Facebook ‘liberated’ its Israeli namesake

By David Shamah

From the webTurkey’s man in ‘Palestine’

Not hasidic? No parkingBrooklyn yeshiva cops traffic

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Ben Zygier in IDF uniform (YouTube screenshot)

Families of missing soldiers lash state, not Zygier

By Stuart Winer

Zebras at Jerusalem's Biblicl Zoo (photo credit: Times of Israel)

Times of Israel video reportWatch: Israel’s zebra diplomacy with Turkey flies into action

By Ron Friedman

US Secretary of State John Kerry (back to camera) speaks to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Tuesday, May 7, 2013. (photo credit: AP)

Arabic media reviewIran to turn the Golan into ‘Fatah-land’

By Elhanan Miller

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) meets with Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter at the premier's Tel Aviv office on Thursday. (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewBattling for budgets

By Ilan Ben Zion

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