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Thursday, July 17, 2014 Tammuz 19, 5774

ISRAEL NEWS

BREAKING NEWS

7:58 PM
Roughly 100 rockets and mortar shells have hit Israel since 3:00 P.M. (Haaretz)
6:55 PM
Four Palestinian children killed in airstrike Gaza City, Khan Younis (Haaretz)
6:49 PM
Large rocket barrage fired at southern Israel (Haaretz)
6:47 PM
One individual lightly wounded by shrapnel from a rocket in Hof Ashkelon regional council (Haaretz)
6:34 PM
Bomb at Baghdad market kills at least 4 (AP)
6:26 PM
Rocket sirens sound in Ashdod, Gan Yavne, Be'er Tuvia Regional Council and Yavne area. (Haaretz)
6:11 PM
Rocket sirens sound in central Israel, including commercial zone near Ben Gurion Airoprt (Haaretz)
5:46 PM
40 rockets and mortar shells have been fired at Israel since 3:00 PM (Haaretz)
4:48 PM
Bulgaria completes work on border fence aimed at stopping flow of Syrian refugees (AP)
4:27 PM
Palestinian report: IDF renews attacks on Beit Lahiya, in north Gaza (Haaretz)
4:12 PM
Bomb attacks kill at least 11 in Iraq (AP)
3:53 PM
Rocket lands in open area in Be'er Sheva, additional rocket strikes town near Gaza border (Haaretz)
3:34 PM
Two mortar shells land near community in Gaza border town (Haaretz)
2:59 PM
Rocket fired at Gaza border towns and Ashkelon area (Haaretz)
2:25 PM
IDF soldier lightly wounded from explosion near tunnel bombed during morning infiltration (Haaretz)

More Breaking News

Shavuot 2014

Shavuot Intermarriage Project

A call to conscience

We know the exact timing of the giving of the Torah: 49 days after the Exodus from Egypt, and prior to 40 years of wandering. Why was God in such a hurry to deliver the Ten Commandments?
By Avraham Burg
Intermarriage and the Jews: What would the early Israelites say?

Ancient Hebrews habitually married strangers, the bible shows; but the embrace evolved into fervid bans - until the modern day.
By Elon Gilad
Kashrut awakening: When a lapsed Catholic’s Jewish kid turns kosher

After marrying a Jewish woman, a former Catholic grapples with how to feed his daughter, who’s turned to religion.
By Adrian Hennigan
When the Palestinian national poet fell in love with a Jew

The love letters between Mahmoud Darwish and 'Rita' intrigued Israeli-Arab filmmaker Ibtisam Mara’ana Menuhin for her own, very personal reasons.
By Alona Ferber
The real reason intermarriage is bad for the Jews

Discouraging intermarriage is important, but creating a meaningful dialogue about why the Jewish people need to survive is even more critical.
By Rabbi Seth Farber
Who would you be allowed to marry in Israel today?

No civil marriage, no mixed marriage: Tying the knot in Israel remains in the hands of religious authorities.
By Ariel David
Why interfaith marriage is on the rise in Israel - and why it's a problem

As many as one in 10 Israeli marriages are interfaith, with the non-Jewish partner often subjected to second-class treatment by the state.
By Judy Maltz

Jewish World Features

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

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

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

Hummus Bar

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

Lag Ba'omer - Daniel Bar-On

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

or Halev

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

Spielberg and Licthman

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

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

Haaretz Select

Ruth Westheimer

In war, make time for sex, says Dr. Ruth

A rapt crowd of Tel Avivians took time out from the Israel-Hamas conflict to glean some secrets on good sex.

By Alona Ferber | Health & Fitness | 2

Don’t partition Iraq along ethnic lines

By Dr. Mostafa Minawi | Opinion

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

At a time of religious fasting and mourning, will Jews and Muslims let our national narratives send us into a pit of hatred? Or will we find it in our hearts to empathize with the plight of the other, fixing ourselves and those around us?

By Rabbi Yehoshua Looks / Jewish World blogger | Rabbis' Round Table

What Northern Ireland can teach us about Hamas

By Carlo Strenger | Strenger than Fiction

What would Nelson Mandela do?

By Eetta Prince-Gibson | Features

The sun sets behind the Gaza Strip

By Haaretz | National