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Illustrative: An Israeli rabbinical court reviews a conversion case. (Flash90)

A bill of rights for Jewish converts

By Bethany S. Mandel

Rabbi Barry Freundel oversaw her conversion — she shouldn’t have to fear she won’t be considered Jewish

Ismail Haniyeh, former Hamas prime minister, in the Gaza Strip (Abd Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas leader’s daughter receives medical care in Israel

By Marissa Newman and AP

Child treated for a week at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital, after complications during a procedure

Hamas reconstructing damaged Gaza attack tunnel

By Elhanan Miller

Israel said to hold remains of 2 top Hamas officers

Egypt invites Israel, Palestinians to renew ceasefire talks

By ToI Staff and AFP

Lisa and Ilsa Klinghoffer

An injustice to our father’s memory

The Metropolitan Opera’s staging of ‘The Death of Klinghoffer,’ justifies the murder of innocent civilians

Aryeh Ben David

Parenting for God and love

What’s a father to do when his children don’t share his beliefs?

Then-defense minister Moshe Ya'alon visits the family of IDF Golani Brigade soldier St.-Sgt. Oron Shaul in the northern village of Poria on August 10, 2014 (Photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense/Flash90)

US insists it aided Israel’s search for body of soldier in Gaza

By Mitch Ginsburg

American officials say that contrary to claims, the FBI did convey information from Oron Shaul’s hacked Facebook page

In December 2013, the American Studies Association approved a boycott of Israeli academic institutions, such as the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (pictured). (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘No discrimination here,’ US academics say after Israel boycott

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

American Studies Association denies its conference banned Israelis, saying even Netanyahu could attend if he did not represent his government — but not everyone buys that argument

Demonstrators in New York protesting the Metropolitan Opera's decision to produce 'The Death of Klinghoffer,' September 22, 2014. (Raffi Wineburg)

Large protests expected at Met ‘Klinghoffer’ opening Monday

By Marissa Newman and Lazar Berman

100 wheelchairs to be set up outside Manhattan’s Lincoln Center in memory of handicapped murder victim; rabbis to host prayer vigil

Kurdish Jews dance at the Saharana celebration during the Sukkot holiday, 2014. (photo credit: Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

Concern for brethren in Syria marks Kurdish Jews’ celebration

By Lazar Berman

A newly purchased Jewish home in Silwan, October 2, 2014. (Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

Jewish Israelis move into Arab E. Jerusalem neighborhood

By Spencer Ho and Stuart Winer

Nighttime operation in mostly Arab Silwan area follows similar move last month

A Nepalese Army helicopter rescues survivors of a snow storm in Manang District, along the Annapurna Circuit Trek on October 15, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/NEPAL ARMY)

Missing Israeli hiker’s body found in Nepal

By AFP and Marissa Newman

Rescue crews uncover remains of Michal Cherkasky, pushing Israeli death toll to four

Avigdor Liberman (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Liberman calls Arab Balad party ‘a wing of Hamas’

By Marissa Newman and Lazar Berman

Foreign minister pledges to again seek to oust faction from Knesset after MK Hanin Zoabi compares IDF to Islamic State

Washington, DC Conservative Rabbi Gil Steinhauf (courtesy/JTA)

Rabbi’s coming-out lets Conservative clergy ‘stop lying about themselves’

By Anthony Weiss

Now upended, only eight years ago Conservative doctrine stated homosexual behavior was antithetical to Jewish law

Kurdish people watch the Syrian town of Kobani, from the Turkish side of the border on October 19, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/BULENT KILIC)

In first, US drops weapons to Kurds in Syria’s Kobani

By AP and AFP

Arms, ammunition and medical supplies sent by US and allies to fighters defending embattled border town in operation against Islamic State

Peering through red hearts at the fields beyond the yoga/meditation space at Ashram in the Desert, one of the yoga sites for the weekend. (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Say ‘om’ in the desert

By Jessica Steinberg

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Illustration. Nazi officers in WWII. (Flash90)

Nazis expelled from US were paid millions in Social Security

By Richard Lardner, David Rising and Randy Herschaft

Jamie Masada, founder of The Laugh Factory comedy clubs (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

On the road to find the world’s funniest person

Illustrative photo of Lebanese troops (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Iran vows to aid Lebanese military, Hezbollah

By AP and ToI Staff

Toledo skyline (photo credit: CC BY-SA Diliff, Wikimedia Commons)

Spanish anti-Semitism due to Gaza media coverage — watchdog

By JTA

Goldsmiths College (YouTube screenshot)

London university rejects Holocaust commemoration

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left); President Reuven Rivlin; Agriculture Minister, and son of Yitzhak Shamir, Yair Shamir; and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat (right) inaugurate the Yitzhak Shamir Road, Route 9, on October 19, 2014. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

PM says Iran poses greater global threat than IS

The entrance to the settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank. (Flash90/File)

Palestinian girl dies in hit-and-run by Jewish driver

By JTA

Knesset Member Hanin Zoabi (Balad) in the Knesset. (photo credit: Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewHezbollah ups activities, Zoabi rapped for low blow

By Yossi Nachemi

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