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Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) greets Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, May 11, 2017. (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Palestinians court Russia as new broker in peace process

By Khaled Abu Toameh and Stuart Winer

Abbas to meet Putin on February 12 as Ramallah seeks replacement for US role; Russian officials hear Israeli concerns about Iranian missiles

AnalysisAmerica’s good cop/bad cop strategy to get the Palestinians to negotiate

By Raphael Ahren

US President Donald J. Trump gestures after the State of the Union address in the chamber of the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC, on January 30, 2018. (AFP / POOL/Win McNamee)

Why Democrats sat on their hands when Trump celebrated recognizing Jerusalem

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, September 20, 2017 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Abbas to make rare address to UN Security Council

By AFP

Top UN body should hear the Palestinian leader after the US ambassador accused him of lacking courage for peace, council president says

Trump said to mull unveiling peace plan even if Abbas maintains boycott

By ToI Staff and JTA

Amid UNRWA cuts, PA says refugees’ status, right of return are ‘sacred’

By Khaled Abu Toameh

EU blasts ‘settlement tourism’ near Jerusalem’s Old City

David Kellman, Eddy Galland and Bobby Shafran appear in 'Three Identical Strangers' by Tim Wardle, an official selection of the US Documentary Competition at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. (Courtesy of Sundance Institute)

NY triplets seek compensation from Jewish group for their separation at birth

By JTA

The story of Bobby Shafran, Eddy Galland and David Kellman features in an acclaimed new documentary

David Kellman, Eddy Galland and Bobby Shafran appear in 'Three Identical Strangers' by Tim Wardle, an official selection of the US Documentary Competition at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. (Courtesy of Sundance Institute)

Sundance film festival debuts dark tale of Jewish triplets split at birth

By Frankie TAGGART

An Iranian woman waving a white scarf -- an apparent reference to so-called 'White Wednesday' protests against mandatory clothing rules for women, December 27, 2017, in Tehran, Iran. (Screencapture: YouTube)

Iran arrests 29 women as headscarf protests intensify

By AFP

Prosecutor calls demonstrations ‘trivial’ and ‘childish’ moves possibly incited by foreigners

In this photo from January 3, 2018, the sun rises over a mosque in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Eight Gazans killed in gas explosion after family spat

By Khaled Abu Toameh and AFP

Children said among the dead, 20 others wounded when gas canister set on fire amid reported squabble over inheritance

Israel strikes Hamas position after rocket fired from Gaza

Mother of fallen soldier held by Hamas: Israel abandoned my son

AnalysisPalestinian reconciliation deal dying slow death

By AFP and ToI Staff

Visitors at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, January 26, 2015 (AP/Alik Keplicz)

Israel nixes visit by top Polish official amid Holocaust bill backlash

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Upcoming trip by Warsaw security council chief postponed day after Polish Senate passes bill making it unlawful to accuse country of being complicit in Nazi crimes

Hebrew media reviewIsrael straddles anger and diplomacy in tricky Pole dance

By Joshua Davidovich

Jewish groups blast Polish Senate’s passing of Holocaust bill

AnalysisDecades after Holocaust, Poles still struggle with role

By AFP and ToI Staff

Amadeo Modigliani in his art studio. (©RMN-Grand Palais musée de l’Orangerie/Archives Alain Bouret, image Dominique Couto)

Like a rock star

Amadeo Modigliani lived hard, died young, and is on display in London

African asylum seekers and human rights activists protest against deportation in front of the Rwandan Embassy in Herzliya, on January 22, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Analysis

10 key questions about Israel’s African asylum seeker controversy

As authorities gear up to expel migrants amid growing pushback, here’s a primer to help make sense of the complexities

The line late at night outside the office of the Population Immigration and Border Authority, September 29, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Interior Ministry abruptly moves office for asylum seekers out of Tel Aviv

By Melanie Lidman

African asylum seekers and human rights activists protest against deportation in front of the Rwandan Embassy in Herzliya, on January 22, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israeli deportation of African migrants would appear racist, ADL suggests

By JTA

Jonathan Arkush with Birmingham school kids at the King David Junior School. (Courtesy)

Interview

In shock announcement, UK Jewish community head won’t run for second term

By Jenni Frazer

Sarah Halimi. (Courtesy of the Confédération des Juifs de France et des amis d'Israël)

Paris Muslim accused of killing Jewish woman no longer charged with hate crime

By JTA

Prosecution to appeal dismissal of aggravated element in the trial of Kobili Traore, who threw his neighbor Sarah Halimi to her death

Overland Park JCC shooter Frazier Glenn Cross Jr., also known as Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., appears at his arraignment in New Century, Kansas, April 15, 2014. (photo credit: AP/David Eulitt)

Jews worry US focus on Islamic terror a way to avoid home-grown white supremacy

By Cathryn J. Prince

White nationalist Richard Spencer stirring up students during a speech at the University of Florida in Gainesville, October 19, 2017. (AP/Chris O'Meara, File)

University asks judge to dismiss white nationalist’s lawsuit

By AP

Leslie Ginsparg Klein

Women’s faces banned from Haredi press? Not true

Mishpacha magazine claims rabbis forbade publishing women’s photos 70 years ago — the pictures say otherwise

What covenants do that contracts can’t

There’s a reason the havdalah candle symbolizes covenant: its multiple distinct wicks produce a single flame (Yitro)

Reconstructionist Judaism is rebranding

Doing Jewish may mean attending synagogue, learning Hebrew, immersing in social action, or making ecologically-kosher meals

Charles E. Savenor

Moses and the missing hug

Was the biblical leader too busy at his job to make time for his family?

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Photo in the German Federal Archives depicts German Jews leaving Germany in the 1930s. (Courtesy Ethan Bensinger)

UK spy agency celebrates agent who saved 10,000 Jews from Holocaust

By Stuart Winer and JTA

Louis Farrakhan, left, and former President Barack Obama (Mark Wilson/Getty Images; Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

What was Louis Farrakhan doing at that meeting with Obama?

Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (3rd R) and Imam Mohammed Mahmoud (2nd L) visit floral tributes left close to the scene of the Finsbury Mosque attack in the Finsbury Park area of north London on June 21, 2017, following a car-ramming terror attack on pedestrians. (AFP/Pool/John Nguyen)

London mosque attacker jailed for at least 43 years

By AFP

The statue of late US Congressman of Hungarian origin Tom Lantos photographed after its ceremonial unveiling near Lantos's former school, Berzsenyi Daniel Secondary School, in Tom Lantos Walk in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, February 1, 2018. (Noemi Bruzak/MTI via AP)

Holocaust survivor, US lawmaker Lantos gets Budapest statue

By Pablo Gorondi

Likud MK Oren Hazan in Jerusalem on September 19, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Settler leaders join condemnation of booted Likud MK

New Zealand singer Lorde appears in 2013 video for 'Royals.' (Screen capture: YouTube)

New Zealanders mock legal group for suing over Lorde boycott

Illustrative: Young Palestinians smoke hookahs and play cards at the Sultan coffee shop in the West Bank city of Ramallah, September 11, 2011. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Cops a dragPalestinian police arrest 12 teens for smoking hookah

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Illustrative. Smoke billows in the distance following reported air strikes on the southern Syrian city of Daraa on February 22, 2017. (Mohamad Abazeed/AFP)

Reports: Israel bombed Islamic State positions in southern Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

A Syrian man rides his motorcycle in Khan Sheikhun on April 7, 2017 near the area of a suspected chemical weapons attack earlier this week on the northwestern Syrian town that killed at least 86 people. (AFP/Omar Haj Kadour)

US says Syria may be making new types of chemical weapons

By AP and AFP

President Donald Trump pauses while speaking at the 2018 House and Senate Republican Member Conference at The Greenbrier, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Trump: FBI, Justice Dept. have ‘politicized’ Russia probe in favor of Democrats

By Zeke Miller, MARY CLARE JALONICK and CHAD DAY

Actor Massimo Popolizio, who plays the part of Benito Mussolini in 'I'm Back,' stands in front of a giant image of the late dictator (Claudio Iannone via AP Photo)

As Italian election nears, new film imagines Mussolini’s comeback

By Nicole Winfield and MARIAGRAZIA MURRU

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