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At Crimean Holocaust event, Putin burnishes his image as defender of minorities

Hundreds attended a memorial service at Sevastopol Holocaust monument, including delegation of Chabad rabbis from Europe and journalists from around the globe.

By JTA | Jul 17, 2014 | 01:41 PM

Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, left, and Crimean Chief Rabbi Binyomin Wolf ahead of the memorial.

Prince performs at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, May 24, 2006.

The secret Jewish history of Prince’s 'Purple Rain’

How 'the artist formerly known as' got together with some Jewish guys to make music. A story to mark the legendary album’s 30th anniversary.

By The Forward , Seth Rogovoy | Jul 14, 2014 | 05:54 PM

House damaged by rocket in Sderot, July 3, 2014.

U.S. Jewish leaders see what life is like under rocket fire

Jewish Federations of North America solidarity mission visits Israel’s worst-hit town and pledges to help.

By Judy Maltz | Jul 14, 2014 | 03:36 PM

Eating hummus on the ruins of the ghetto

Israelis open Warsaw's first hummus joint, bringing health-food oriented Poles a new option.

By Ofer Aderet | Jul 11, 2014 | 04:08 PM

Students remember their master, the Lubavitcher rebbe

Two biographies of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who passed away 20 years ago this week, were written by his most prodigious followers.

By Avital Chizhik | Jul 5, 2014 | 10:26 PM

The army unit where Hermann Bendheim served in WWI

When Hitler honored Jewish soldiers

The Nazi regime conferred honors on many of the 100,000 Jews who fought in the German army in the Great War, even on some who had already escaped to Palestine.

By Ofer Aderet | Jul 5, 2014 | 06:52 PM | 3

Meditation with a Jewish twist offers Israelis a respite from reality

Israelis are increasingly combining Eastern philosophies with Jewish insights in their search for spiritual solace.

By Danna Harman | Jul 3, 2014 | 04:17 PM

U.S. pilots who fought for Israel star in movie by Spielberg's sister

'Above and Beyond,' a tribute to Air Force pioneers during the War of Independence, will debut at the Jerusalem Film Festival.

By Judy Maltz | Jul 2, 2014 | 11:23 AM

The Jew who was the perfect Aryan baby

Goebbels allegedly chose the image of Hessy Taft nee Levinsons to grace the cover of a Nazi family magazine, much to her mother's horror.

By Haaretz | Jul 2, 2014 | 03:53 AM | 2

Putting American-Jewish life on the stage

Ten new short plays, commissioned after the recent Pew poll on American Jewry, wrestle with thorny questions surrounding the community's identity.

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen | Jul 1, 2014 | 02:15 PM

Chabad 2014: In search of father and messiah, 20 years later

While the orphaned Brooklyn-based Hasidic movement continues to expand around the globe, here at home tension exists between those who believe he is still alive, albeit unseen, and those who think he died 20 years ago.

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen | Jul 1, 2014 | 02:03 PM

20 years after the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Chabad is thriving

The messianic and non-messianic camps have learned to live together, but has Chabad lost what once made it unique?

By Yair Ettinger | Jul 1, 2014 | 04:14 AM

Page from Loic Dauvillier's "Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust."

The next Maus? Images from a new graphic novel about the Holocaust

Loic Dauvillier’s 'Hidden' recasts childhood memories of the Holocaust in comic-strip format.

By Sarah Pines | Jun 30, 2014 | 01:30 PM

The Israeli Reformation

Reform Jews - Lior Mizrahi/Baubau - May 30, 2012

Why non-Orthodox Judaism is a disaster for Israel

By Rabbi Avi Shafran | 12:43 PM | 30

The Israeli Reformation || Israelis shocked to discover: There is more than one Judaism

By Judy Maltz | 03:21 PM | 12

In Israel, Conservative Judaism speaks Spanish

By Allison Kaplan Sommer | 04:28 PM

Someone Else's Simcha

The opening of the Hofhot et Hayotzrot (Turning the Tables) exhibit at Bezalel Gallery.

Under falling Gaza rockets, Tel Aviv’s prostitutes sew together a new life

By Ron Ben-Tovim | 01:25 PM | 2

Back in time, back to school - after 50 years

By Ron Ben-Tovim | 05:06 PM

Who needs meat? Shy and Adam's fruitful union

By Ron Ben-Tovim | 02:00 AM

Jewish World News

Some of the 184 reels of microfilmed documents containing data on World War II criminals, New York.

U.S. Holocaust museum opens UN archive on Nazi war crimes

By Brett Zongker | 06:04 PM

Pew survey finds Jews to be America's favorite religious group

By Haaretz | 12:12 PM

Nazi victims group slams Austria for closing Mauthausen memorial on Mondays

By Reuters | 08:23 PM

26 Billion Bucks

Part 3 || Those Jewish charity parties? Pricey

By The Forward , Josh Nathan-Kazis | 10:15 PM

Jewish World Opinions

Solidarity won’t bring peace to Israel and Gaza, but it can breed hope

By Hannah Weisfeld | 12:21 PM

As violent anti-Semitism rises, will France expel its Jews?

By Seth Lipsky | 12:31 PM | 3

As Jews, we can't be neutral in this conflict

By Rabbi Neil Janes | 01:19 AM | 2

The Jewish Thinker

The universalism of Jewish Americans is what drives their Israel activism

By Benjy Cannon / Jewish World blogger | 05:24 PM

Why do U.S. Jews avoid debate on technology issues?

By Benjy Cannon / Jewish World blogger | 07:33 PM

The Israeli High Court’s anti-circumcision ruling is a victory against religious coercion

By Joel Braunold / Jewish World blogger | 09:53 PM | 5

Rabbis' Round Table

A Muslim youth prays inside the Dome of the Rock during the holy fasting month of Ramadan

Fasting amid fighting for the self and others

By Rabbi Yehoshua Looks / Jewish World blogger | 06:04 PM

Sorry to interrupt this peace conference, but a rocket siren's sounding

By Rabbi Gideon D. Sylvester / Jewish World blogger | 05:09 PM

Could a Google vehicle be kosher for Shabbat?

By Rabbi Yehoshua Looks / Jewish World blogger | 06:06 AM

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