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AIPAC’s self-inflicted wounds in Iran sanctions campaign puncture its power of deterrence - Haaretz, 2 hours ago
US: Syria conflict a threat to national security - The Times of Israel, 2 hours ago
Egypt’s Top Satirist Back on Air After Suspension - NY Times, 3 hours ago
Space, science center named for Ilan Ramon planned - The Times of Israel, 3 hours ago
ADL honors George W. Bush - JTA, 3 hours ago
ADL honors President George W. Bush - JTA, 3 hours ago
White House briefs students on Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts - JTA, 3 hours ago
Senate bids to save ancient Iraqi Jewish archive - The Times of Israel, 3 hours ago
Israeli hospital treats injured 13 year-old Syrian boy - The Times of Israel, 4 hours ago
Olmert: Netanyahu’s terms ‘a vast distance’ away from peace basis - The Times of Israel, 4 hours ago
RCA and O.U. condemn Israeli anti-Kerry rabbis’ ‘venom’ - JTA, 4 hours ago
World of American donations to the Jewish State revolutionized - Ynet, 4 hours ago
US lauds Lieberman’s support of Kerry - Ynet, 4 hours ago
Olmert: No doubt Israel can evacuate 80,000 settlers out of West Bank - Haaretz, 4 hours ago
Man with two bags tries to breach White House fence - The Times of Israel, 4 hours ago
Jewish athletes to watch at Sochi Winter Olympics - Haaretz, 4 hours ago
Action needed to end horrors of female genital mutilation | @guardianletters - The Guardian, 5 hours ago
Yemeni Tribesmen Attack Oil Pipeline Repair Crew, Eight Killed - NY Times, 5 hours ago
Entire government insists on retaining united Jerusalem, minister claims - The Times of Israel, 5 hours ago
Amid controversy and threats, Sochi 2014 kicks off - The Times of Israel, 5 hours ago

Tunisia basks in praise over its new constitution

Three years after Arab Spring started, country where it began stands out as bright spot in otherwise troubled region

By Paul Schemm and Bouazza Ben Bouazza

French President Francois Hollande delivers his speech, as first row, from left, Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki, Assembly speaker Mustapha Ben Jaafar, and Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa, listen during a ceremony at the Constituent Assembly in Tunis, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Hassene Dridi)

Top Ops

SodaStream should be celebrated, not boycotted

Jeff Robbins says by targeting the fizzy drink maker, the BDS movement harms the people they claim to want to help

Ani lo medaberet Anglit?

Tzippy Levy asks what is an Anglo in Jerusalem to do when encountering another English speaker

Oy, I keep kosher, but my parents don’t

Ethical Jam ...You went to Israel and changed your value system — now you’re home and wish your folks would change their kitchen

Tetzaveh: Bloggers on the Torah reading

This week …God commands olive oil for the lamp, sacred garments for the priests, an ordination ceremony and to make an incense altar

What Auschwitz can teach the world

Irwin Cotler says one lesson is that genocide results not only from state-sanctioned hatred, but from indifference and inaction

The petulant Secretary Kerry

David Horovitz asks: How dare those stubborn Israelis deny him his nine-month peace treaty?

Interfaith marriage is not a disease

Rick Jacobs says reaching out to interfaith families strengthens the Jewish future

And the winner of the Sochi Games is...

Yuval Mond says the Winter Olympics have provided an ideal platform for Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov to make his threats heard around the world

Replacing Falk: A rogues’ gallery

Hillel Neuer says the candidates to become the next UN Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories all have proven anti-Israel records

The Times of Israel is also in Arabic

David Horovitz says the new site offers Arabic readers a window into Israel’s complex reality

Olmert: Netanyahu’s terms ‘a vast distance’ away from peace basis

Former PM urges current leadership to rebuild trust with Abbas, says ‘Jewish Israel’ and Jordan Valley issues can be solved

By Times of Israel staff

Former PM Ehud Olmert meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem, November 2008. (photo credit: Moshe Milner GPO/Flash90)

Senate bids to save ancient Iraqi Jewish archive

Time is running out for State Dept. to renegotiate the status of the massive collection before it’s returned to Iraq in June

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Centuries-old books and documents from the Iraqi Jewish Archives awaiting preservation. (Photo credit: courtesy The National Archives)

US: Syria conflict a threat to national security

Americans returning from fighting against Assad regime raise concerns, homeland security chief says

By AP

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson gives his first major address, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, at the Wilson Center in Washington. (photo credit: AP/Susan Walsh)

Ukranian man attempts to hijack plane, fly it to Sochi

Turkish commandos storm aircraft, subdue hijacker after flight lands safely in Istanbul with fighter jet escort; all passengers evacuated

By AFP and Times of Israel staff

A Pegasus Airlines flight (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Norwegian Islamist refused referee license

From the web The Local: Founder of militant Islamist group turned down by soccer league for anti-gay, misogynistic views

Members of the Prophet's Ummah demonstrating outside the US Embassy in Oslo. (screen capture: YouTube)

Israeli hospital treats injured 13 year-old Syrian boy

Three other Syrians wounded in clashes admitted for treatment in Nahariya

By Times of Israel staff

Israeli soldiers escort a wounded Syrian patient into a secret military field hospital in the Golan Heights. (photo credit: screen capture, Channel 2)

Britain's James Woods takes a jump during ski slopestyle training at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (photo credit: AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

How Herod the tyrant saved the Olympics

Against his people’s will, a brutal despot spent a fortune to keep the games alive. No, this was millennia before Putin

By Ilan Ben Zion

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Tales of the Times

The quirky, improbable, infuriating, and uplifting

Campus mayhem

Female death sparks Saudi fury
Community values

Rabbi sued for running shul in home
Teacher with a reach

Peres, Guinness record holder
Sex, lies and videotape

Clinton-Hurley love affair debunked
In good paste

Hummus is a laughing matter
Where there's a will

The weird case of the ‘Mossad’ conman
Manhattan transfer

Israeli cartoonist on New Yorker cover
Match made in Ramat Gan

‘Shy’ male anteater finally gets mate
Punch-drunk love

‘Hoffman had biggest, brokenest heart’
Over the hump

Camel archaeology contradicts the Bible
Scroll the scrolls

Online Dead Sea archive upgraded
Musical matchmaker

Ninet makes a match for Shlomi Shaban
No red herring

New fish species found by Eilat diver
Thor the children

Portman joins Israeli aid effort to Syria
A spot about nothing

‘Seinfeld’ stars in Super Bowl reunion
Disney ID'ed

If Cinderella and Belle took mug shots
Chai loveline

Jewish proposal at marathon finish line
Right brain drain

Leftists are smarter, reporter says
Rabbi, crowdfunder

Unusual would-be rabbi, unusual tuition
Roaring trade

Asian lion makes his Jerusalem debut

Israel & The Region

Diplomacy, defense, politics, Middle East affairs

Interview Nobody sane should want a war between Iran and the United States, but the onus now is on the Iranians to live up to every commitment

Malcolm Hoenlein: ‘I don’t want any more memorials to dead Jews’

The head of the US Jewish establishment slams the interim deal on Iran, the public Israel-US sniping, and the deafening silence in the face of new anti-Semitism

By David Horovitz and Raphael Ahren

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The Tzedakah Fund of the Gedolei Hador

'We prefer a prisoner who is president than a president who is a prisoner'

After Abbas: It’s battle stations for the men who would be president

An exiled former close aide is openly challenging the leadership; others are moving more subtly; and the most likely candidate is behind bars

By Avi Issacharoff

Russia in talks to help Iran build new nuclear reactor

Moscow says expansion of US sanctions against Tehran is unacceptable, contradicts international law

By Yoel Goldman

Hundreds throw stones at police on Temple Mount

Security forces break up demonstration; five youths arrested

By Lazar Berman and Times of Israel staff

Liberman: Kerry is ‘a true friend’ of Israel

Foreign minister defends US secretary of state after Bennett and other ministers criticize his effort to broker peace

By Lazar Berman and Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

AIPAC backs off call for new Iran sanctions

Reversing course after White House pressure, lobby group says there should be no vote without bipartisan support

By JTA

Palestinian UNRWA workers end two-month strike

Public services, school classes set to resume; employees to be reimbursed

By Marissa Newman

Arabic Media Review

Fri, Feb 7, 4:43 PM

Assad gives Homs a break

Hosni Mubarak doing well in hospital, follows news and talk shows

By Elhanan Miller

Hebrew Media Review

Fri, Feb 7, 1:33 PM

A tale of two sit-ins

Ultra-Orthodox protests against the draft intensify, as does the open-ended strike at Hadassah hospital

By Marissa Newman

Jewish Times

The life of the tribe worldwide

Restituted Pissarro painting sells for $32m in London

Work once owned by industrialist Max Silberberg, who was forced by Nazis to sell his artworks and died in the Holocaust

By Jill Lawless

Anne Frank’s marbles prove resonance of a small museum

Despite its narrow scope and limited collection, the Holocaust diarist’s hiding location is one of Holland’s biggest attractions

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Rabbi resigns from RCA over online alias scandal

Michael Broyde’s alter-ego commented favorably on his own scholarly works and gained access to rival rabbinical association

By JTA

Spain speeds up citizenship for Sephardic Jews

Amended legislation will allow applicants who can prove their Spanish ancestry to retain other nationalities

By AP

French court acquits Dieudonne over anti-Semitic video

Tribunal cannot prove that controversial comedian is behind the publication of a clip calling for release of murderer

By Times of Israel staff

Alice Walker discusses marriage to Jew in documentary

‘Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth,’ scheduled to air Friday night on PBS stations in the US

By Hillel Italie

Far-right magazine uses Nazi term to defend itself

Austria’s right-wing Freedom Party publishes cartoon ‘Kristallnacht 2014′ after demonstration against it smashes store windows

By AP

Gital Dodelson, public face of agunot, receives ‘get’

Ex-husband reportedly has a change of heart after public campaign to compel a religious divorce

By JTA

‘Monuments Men’ characters inspired by real people

George Clooney’s new film chronicles those who worked to save cultural treasures across Europe during World War II

By AP

Kosher meals, Torah classes await at 2014 Winter games

Sochi’s rabbi is ready to meet visitors’ spiritual and religious needs and expects to welcome 20,000 Jews for the Olympics

By Aaron Kalman

1,700 years of Jewish history come alive in downtown Cologne

Excavations in a city where Jews have lived as long as Christians yield some remarkable findings, to be displayed in a major new museum

By Raphael Ahren

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Israel Inside

The people and the land

The beauty who faced the beast

A Hollywood documentary tells the story of Israel’s former Miss World Linor Abargil, who was raped six weeks before she won the pageant. The Times of Israel speaks to its director

By Debra Kamin

Space, science center named for Ilan Ramon planned

Joint project of Bar Ilan University and Ramon Foundation seeks to build campus promoting science education in Modiin

By JTA

Exterminator arrested for resuming work after deaths

Yossi Barkan, accused of negligence in young girls’ poisoning, allegedly went back to job in violation of release terms

By Times of Israel staff

How did the Arthur Hotel become #1 on TripAdvisor?

Travel time The latest Jerusalem addition to the Atlas Hotels chain receives consistently good reviews. Here’s why

By Jessica Steinberg

Chief rabbi: Jewish law permits territorial concession for ‘real peace’

It isn’t clear that a deal now would prevent bloodshed, Yitzhak Yosef tells US envoy, who also hears plea to release Jonathan Pollard

By Stuart Winer

Non-Orthodox: Conversion institute not living up to promise

Rabbis from Conservative and Reform movements shifting towards private organizations instead

By Ben Sales

Food, art, fashion and fun — homegrown and online

Top five A look at the latest websites and apps offering settler art, chef-inspired recipes, designer products and chalkboard stickers

By Jessica Steinberg

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox riot after draft arrest

Haredi protesters across country block roads and highways, vow to avoid army service, demand release of young man who refused to enlist

By Adiv Sterman and Stuart Winer

Even pre-Madoff, Hadassah heads told hospital to cut

National President Marcie Natan urges state bailout, says strike is unrelated to Ponzi scheme losses

By Debra Kamin

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