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A campaign poster for Likud Party candidate Benjamin Netanyahu is displayed on the side of a Jerusalem bus on Jan. 28, 2009.

Netanyahu: The one to beat

A campaign poster for Likud Party candidate Benjamin Netanyahu is displayed on the side of a Jerusalem bus on Jan. 28, 2009. (Brian Hendler) Read more »

Rice: Israel should look into abuse claims

The United States expects Israel to investigate claims of abuse during the Gaza Strip war, its new U.N. envoy said. Read more »

Top Stories

Poll: U.S. Jews overwhelmingly back Gaza operation

Seventy-nine percent of American Jews felt Israel's actions in Gaza were appropriate, according to a new Anti-Defamation League poll. Read more »

Essman irks Chabad with TV comments

Actress Susie Essman has upset the Chabad-Lubavitch community with comments she made on "The View." Read more »

Germans remember the Holocaust, and the Jewish life that was

Official commemorations can only hint at the depth of Holocaust remembrance in Germany.To really find out, one has to visit towns and cities across the country and seek out the local, sometimes unofficial, historians. Read more »

Government minister’s slurs anger South African Jews

A senior government official has roiled the South African Jewish community with anti-Semitic slurs, while the country's president is assuring community leaders that everything will be be done to keep them safe. Read more »

Blogs

The Fundermentalist

Jewish foundations lost at least $2.3 billion with Madoff

The Times blog just published a list of the foundations it believes had exposure to the Madoff fraud.… Read Blog »

The Telegraph

Curb your disses on Chabad women

Actress Susie Esman draws sharp criticism for taking shots at Lubavitcher women during a recent appearance… Read Blog »

Photos and Videos

Jack Terpins, president of the Latin American Jewish Congress, seen here with Caridad Diego Bello and Rabbi Yossi Schildkraut, attended meetings in Sao Paulo to talk about religious integration, Nov. 5, 2009. (Conib) Rabbi Capers Funnye, a cousin of Michelle Obama, dances at the Jewish Agency's absorption center for new immigrants in Mevasseret Zion, near Jerusalem, Nov. 4, 2009. (Brian Hendler) Israeli President Shimon Peres at his residence in Jerusalem with members of a panel of Israeli Ethiopians during the first Israeli celebration of the Sigd holiday, when Ethiopian Jews mark their yearning to return to Jerusalem and Zion, Nov. 2, 2009. (Israeli Government Press Office) Young Israeli Ethiopians performing at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, Nov. 2, 2009, in a celebration of the Sigd holiday marking Ethiopian Jews' yearning to return to Jerusalem and Zion. (Israeli Government Press Office) Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, left, salutes celebrated Irish tenor Ronan Tynan after his rendition of "God Bless America" before the Anti-Defamation League's annual meeting on October 29. (David Karp) J Street founder Jeremy Ben-Ami speaking at the group's first conference in Washington, Oct. 26, 2009, as Rabbi Eric Yoffie looks on. (J Street) Some of the seven descendants of the ancient Jewish community of Kaifeng, China, arriving in Israel at Ben Gurion Airport, Oct. 20, 2009. The descendants, who were brought by the Shavei Israel organization, were issued one-year entry permits. (Michael Freund) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, a guest speaker at the opening of the annual meeting of the Jewish Agency's board of governors, looks on as Johanna Arbib-Perugia, chairwoman of the world board of trustees of Keren Hayesod, greets Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky in Jerusalem, Oct. 25, 2009. (Brian Hendler) At the initiative of JNF-UK and KKL, a group of 25 British hikers aged 9 to 79 trekked four days from the Mediterranean to the Sea of Galilee trying to raise awareness and funds to deal with the Israeli water crisis. (KKL Archive) A group of Rollerbladers and skaters in Tel Aviv show their support for alternative forms of transport on Oct. 17, 2009, the international day of climate action organized by "350," a campaign to raise climate crisis awareness. (Ronen Avihav / 350.org / Creative Commons)

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  • Jack Terpins, president of the Latin American Jewish Congress, seen here with Caridad Diego Bello and Rabbi Yossi Schildkraut, attended meetings in Sao Paulo to talk about religious integration, Nov. 5, 2009.
  • Rabbi Capers Funnye, a cousin of Michelle Obama, dances at the Jewish Agency's absorption center for new immigrants in Mevasseret Zion, near Jerusalem, Nov. 4, 2009.
  • Israeli President Shimon Peres at his residence in Jerusalem with members of a panel of Israeli Ethiopians during the first Israeli celebration of the Sigd holiday, when Ethiopian Jews mark their yearning to return to Jerusalem and Zion, Nov. 2, 2009.
  • Young Israeli Ethiopians performing at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, Nov. 2, 2009, in a celebration of the Sigd holiday marking Ethiopian Jews' yearning to return to Jerusalem and Zion.
  • Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, left, salutes celebrated Irish tenor Ronan Tynan after his rendition of "God Bless America" before the Anti-Defamation League's annual meeting on October 29.
  • J Street founder Jeremy Ben-Ami speaking at the group's first conference in Washington, Oct. 26, 2009, as Rabbi Eric Yoffie looks on.
  • Some of the seven descendants of the ancient Jewish community of Kaifeng, China, arriving in Israel at Ben Gurion Airport, Oct. 20, 2009. The descendants, who were brought by the Shavei Israel organization, were issued one-year entry permits.
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, a guest speaker at the opening of the annual meeting of the Jewish Agency's board of governors, looks on as Johanna Arbib-Perugia, chairwoman of the world board of trustees of Keren Hayesod, greets Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky in Jerusalem, Oct. 25, 2009.
  • At the initiative of JNF-UK and KKL, a group of 25 British hikers aged 9 to 79 trekked four days from the Mediterranean to the Sea of Galilee trying to raise awareness and funds to deal with the Israeli water crisis.
  • A group of Rollerbladers and skaters in Tel Aviv show their support for alternative forms of transport on Oct. 17, 2009, the international day of climate action organized by "350," a campaign to raise climate crisis awareness.
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