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Medics carry Krishna Khadka out of the rubble of a hotel after her extraction by an Israeli-led team (photo credit: Mickey Noam Alon/IsraAID)

After 5 days under rubble, Nepalese woman rescued by Israeli-led team

By Tamar Pileggi and AFP

In painstaking, 10-hour operation, Krishna Devi Khadka, 24, pulled to safety from under collapsed hotel; young boy also rescued

IDF hospital in Nepal treats over 200, search resumes for Or Asraf

As death toll tops 6,200, search continues for last missing Israeli

Dispatch from NepalIn Nepal’s remote villages, a new challenge for aid workers

By Melanie Lidman

Prabad Bushel in Gongabu, Nepal, April 2015 (Photo: IsraAID/Mickey Noam-Alon)

In Nepal: Hero of the day

By Yotam Polizer

In the ruined village of Gongabu, the IsraAid relief team met Prabad, a boy looking for his younger sister

Hundreds of Israeli-Ethiopians clash with police at a protest in Jerusalem, following a video clip released a few days ago showing police beating up an IDF soldier from the Ethiopian community, April 30, 2015. (Photo credit: Yonatan SIndel/Flash90)

After violent protest, Ethiopian demonstrators warn it’s ‘just the beginning’

Over a dozen hurt, two held, during 9-hour Jerusalem demonstrations called to highlight police brutality against Ethiopian-Israelis

Hundreds of Israelis of Ethiopian origin clash with police at a protest in Jerusalem, called to highlight alleged violence and racism against the community by police, April 30, 2015. (Photo credit: Yonatan SIndel/FLASH90)

Ethiopian-Israeli protest against police brutality turns violent, over a dozen hurt

Sanctifying the Name

Rather than serving God through suffering, the call for Jewry today is to pursue justice and show compassion (Emor)

Steven Greenberg

Silence is not OK when Torah is painful

Some congregants will weep inside as the biblical verses condemning homosexual acts are chanted on Shabbat (Achrei Mot-Kedoshim)

US Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy on April 30, 2015. (Photo credit: screenshot)

Biden: Critics of Iran nuclear deal ‘don’t get it’

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

In Washington Institute address, VP defends Obama’s approach, takes minor jabs at Netanyahu but says Israel ‘absolutely right’ to be worried

Mohammad Javad Zarif, Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, attends a public event at New York University on April 29, 2015. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / KENA BETANCUR)

UK: Iran trying to buy nuke technology in violation of sanctions

By AFP and AP

US President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday, April 30, 2015, in Washington D.C. (AFP PHOTO / MICHAEL B. THOMAS)

In heritage month message, Obama says US Jews still face bigotry

By JTA

President says he is committed to fighting anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, reaffirms unwavering support for Israel

US National Security Adviser Susan Rice (photo credit: Screen capture: YouTube/CNN)

Washington seeks ‘genuine’ Israeli commitment to 2 states

By JTA and ToI Staff

National Security Adviser Rice says US waiting to see how new Netanyahu coalition approaches peace process

Indiana senate passes anti-BDS resolution

By JTA

Decision makes state legislature second in US, after Tennessee, to oppose boycott movement

Opposition Labor Party leader Ed Miliband takes part in the "BBC Question Time: Election Leaders Special" television program at Leeds Town Hall in Leeds, northern England on April 30, 2015. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / POOL / STEFAN ROUSSEAU)

As election nears, UK candidates roasted by voters in TV debate

By Jill Lawless

With polls too close to call, Cameron, Miliband, Clegg met with hard-hitting questions and accusations by skeptical voters

US Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) at the United Nations General Assemby April 27, 2015, in New York. (AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY)

Israel faults Arab neighbors for stalling on nuke-free zone

Statement distributed at disarmament summit laments ‘strident opposition’ by regional powers to dialogue with Jewish state

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush, a potential 2016 US presidential candidate (AP/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Jeb Bush: Islam hijacked by ‘barbarians’

Likely Republican presidential candidate says Muslim extremists want to ‘destroy Western civilization’

An outhouse funded by the EU in Arareh, east of Jerusalem, April 29, 2015. (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

Tracking illegal Arab construction, one EU-funded house at a time

By Elhanan Miller

Regavim, the right-wing equivalent of Peace Now, says Europe is using an impoverished Bedouin population to create political facts on the ground

The inside of Sports Mart in downtown Baltimore was a sea of shoe boxes and other debris after being looted, April 29, 2015. (photo credit: JTA/Hillel Kuttler)

After Baltimore looting, one Jewish-owned store assesses losses

By Hillel Kuttler

Damaged houses are seen from an Indian Army helicopter following an earthquake in the Nepalese area of Gorkha on April 28, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/Sajjad Hussain)

Israel pledges to reconstruct an entire village in Nepal

By Raphael Ahren

Efforts to take ‘several months’; providing emergency aid is ‘the most effective kind of diplomacy,’ Liberman says

Ali Marpet, number 55, in action for Hobart College, expects to go in the first four rounds of the NFL Draft. (Kevin Colton/Hobart College/JTA)

Jewish 300-pound offensive lineman is sleeper NFL draft pick

By Hillel Kuttler

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US ambassador to Turkey, John Bass, posted this picture of himself on Instagram May 1, 2015 with his hair dyed blond, to protest a comment made by the mayor of Ankara against the blonde-haired US State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf. (Photo credit: John Bass/Instagram)

US envoy hits back at Ankara mayor: ‘We’re all blonde’

By AFP

British pop star Robbie Williams arrives in Ben Gurion Airport, April 30, 2015 (photo credit: public relations/Sivan Faraj)

Take That, Roger WatersRobbie Williams lands in Israel

By Daniel Bernstein

Jerry Seinfeld (L) and Jason Alexander reunite as Jerry and George for a 2014 Super Bowl ad (screen capture: YouTube)

Hello… HuluHulu signs $160m deal to air ‘Seinfeld’

At a Brandeis event on April 28, 2015, visitors view Solomon Nunes de Carvalho’s 1865 portrait of Abraham Lincoln. (JTA/Ashley McCabe/Brandeis University)

A moment in the sunArtist’s rare Lincoln portrait spotlighted

By Penny Schwartz

In this January 29, 2015 picture Jozef Paczynski, left, 95, a former Auschwitz prisoner who was the barber to camp commandant Rudolf Hoess, stands next to Eva Mozes Kor, 81, a Jewish survivor of experiments by the sadistic German doctor Josef Mengele, in Krakow, Poland. (photo credit: AP Photo/Alexandra Fletcher)

Ex-Auschwitz inmate, barber to camp commander, dies at 95

By Vanessa Gera

Dr. Amir Ziv Av and Ziva Patir (center) with Butil officials at the Nanjing signing ceremony (Photo credit:Courtesy)

Where Better Place failed, Israeli engineers seek to help China succeed

By David Shamah

Snow blankets a Jerusalem street, February 20, 2015 (photo credit: Times of Israel/Lazar Berman)

‘Emergency tech’ firm ClickSoftware sells for nearly $500m

By David Shamah

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with Chief Minister of the Indian state of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis at PM Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on April 29, 2015. (Photo credit: Haim Zach/GPO)

India minister praises Israel’s ‘more crop per drop’ farm model

By David Shamah

Hundreds of Israeli-Ethiopians clash with police at a protest in Jerusalem, following a video clip released a few days ago showing police beating up an IDF soldier from the Ethiopian community, April 30, 2015. (Photo credit: Yonatan SIndel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewBaltimore meets Jerusalem

By Ilan Ben Zion

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