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US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after a joint news conference, Wednesday, March 20, 2013, at the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem. (photo credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster)

PM thanks Obama for blocking UN nuclear disarmament move

By AP and ToI Staff

Netanyahu calls Kerry to convey gratitude after US rejects NPT document setting deadline for Mideast nuke conference

Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-IDF Chief Education Officer Brig. Gen. Eli Schermeister, second left, along with an education corps officer, back to camera, and potential converts on December 15, 2010 (Amos Ben-Gershom/ GPO/ courtesy)

How Israel’s army skirts minefields to pave a smoother road to conversion

By Mitch Ginsburg

At Shavuot, a festival closely associated with conversion, The Times of Israel looks at the IDF’s remarkable Nativ program, and follows three of the 850 Israelis to convert in uniform this year

Liberman urges new government to ease conversion process

By Tamar Pileggi

The premature death of Robert Wistrich

On what we lost with the untimely passing of the foremost authority on the return of anti-Semitism

The President is well-intentioned but simply out of synch with Iran’s intransigence and Abbas’s hostile moves

Ariel Ronis, a manager at the Population Immigration and Border Authority who committed suicide on May 23 after being accused of racism on Facebook (Facebook photo)

Civil servant commits suicide after Facebook accusations of racism

By Itamar Sharon

Before taking his own life, population authority manager who was ‘shamed’ on social media says he spent whole life championing equality

Chaim Friedman moved with his wife and two children to Bloomingburg from Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (JTA/Uriel Heilman)

How to build an American shtetl — See: Bloomingburg, NY

By Uriel Heilman

File: In this May 22, 2010 file photo, a Hezbollah fighter stands behind an empty rocket launcher while explaining various tactics and weapons used against Israeli soldiers on the battlefield (AP/Hussein Malla)

Analysis

Hezbollah focuses PR on Israel, to deflect from its killing of Muslims in Syria

By Mitch Ginsburg

Deeply embroiled in Assad’s fight for survival, Shiite group uses 15th anniversary of Israeli withdrawal to show off its battle readiness in south Lebanon

Pakistani missiles on display in Karachi, Pakistan (CC-BY-SA SyedNaqvi90/Wikimedia Commons)

IS claims it is ‘infinitely’ closer to nuking US

Article in English-language magazine attributed to captive British journalist says jihadist group could obtain nuclear weapon from Pakistan

2004 satellite image of the military complex at Parchin, Iran. (AP/DigitalGlobe-Institute for Science and International Security)

Iranian official: We’ll allow ‘managed access’ to military sites

By AP and ToI Staff

Statements by deputy FM Abbas Araqchi seem to contradict supreme leader’s vow to block access to army facilities

The Islamic State flag raised on top of Palmyra castle, May 22, 2015. (The website of Islamic State fighters via AP)

IS takes over Palmyra museum, raises flag over citadel

By AFP

Though most artifacts were removed some time ago, concerns mount over fate of ancient ruins

Illustrative photo of Israeli police near Jerusalem's Damascus Gate. (Sliman Khader/FLASH90)

Two Israeli teens stabbed near Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate

Palestinian suspect arrested; victims moderately injured and taken to Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem

Leader of the radical northern wing of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah (center) attends a demonstration organized by the movement against the death sentence handed to Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi, in the town of Kfar Kana, in northern Israel, on May 23, 2015. (AFP/ AHMAD GHARABLI)

Israeli Arabs rally against Morsi death sentence

By AFP

5,000 at march organized by Islamic Movement against penalty imposed on ousted Egyptian president

Two men kiss as first results start to filter through in the referendum, Dublin, Ireland, Saturday, May 23, 2015. Ireland voted resoundingly to legalize gay marriage. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

Ireland says stunning ‘Yes’ to gay marriage

By Shawn Pogatchnik

Landslide vote in referendum signifies ‘social revolution’ in Catholic country, means marriage equality will be enshrined in constitution

Illustrative: Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, head of Yeshivat Maharat, teaching a class in Jewish law. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)

What to call an Orthodox female clergyperson?

By Uriel Heilman

More Headlines

In social experiment, Egyptian journalists dress up as orthodox Jews to gage the public's reaction on May 20, 2015. (Screenshot: YouTube).

Not all bad as Egyptian journalist takes to Cairo streets dressed as Jew

By Tamar Pileggi

Illustrative photo of an Air France Airbus shortly after takeoff (Alf van Beem/Wikimedia Commons, File)

L'amour explosifMan causes airport bomb scare…for love

By AFP

Sweden's Mans Zelmerlow reacts after winning the Eurovision Song Contest final on May 23, 2015 in Vienna. (AFP PHOTO / DIETER NAGL)

Sweden rocks Eurovision as Israel places ninth

By ToI Staff, AFP and AP

Israeli athletes call on FIFA to keep politics out of football and turn down Palestinian bid to ban Israel from world soccer. (screen capture: YouTube)

Play the ballIsraeli athletes: Keep politics off pitch

In this May 30, 2013, photo, Kayla Mueller is shown after speaking to a group in Prescott, Ariz. (Photo credit: AP/The Daily Courier, Matt Hinshaw)

Slain IS hostage ‘gave up chance to escape’

In this Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013 file photo, Daniel Cohn Bendit, co-president of the Greens/Free European Alliance Group in the European Parliament, speaks during a press conference, at the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)

Once expelled by France, Cohn-Bendit gets French nationality

By PHILIPPE SOTTO and Jamey Keaten

Photo of a painting titled 'Reiter am Strand' (Riders at the Beach) by German artist Max Liebermann, which was among the more than 1400 works of art seized by German authorities in an apartment in Munich in February 2012 (photo credit: AP/Staatsanwaltschaft Augsburg)

Nazi-looted painting from Gurlitt art trove to go on sale

By AP

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police discover three bodies in suspected murder-suicide

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