Coca-Cola has personalized its cans with common Hebrew, Arabic, and English names. [Tablet] A Jewish women’s Greek cuisine offers a Shavuot-themed recipe. [Jewcy] The Bronx High School of Science now houses a hands-on, professionally designed Holocaust museum. [Times of Israel] Budapest’s historic Jewish quarter hosts memorials to the tragedies and re-building it has seen since Jews first arrived in Hungary in the 12th century. [Times of Israel] Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu continue to …More

The Albany school district in New York has issued an apology, after an English teacher gave a writing assignment from the Nazi perspective. [Times Union] Modern Orthodox legal expert, Rabbi Michael Broyde, admits to using a fake identity and infiltrating a rival rabbinical organization. [Forward] Oprah is being protested by The Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project for endorsing a face cream that contains foreskin. [Heeb] Turkish police uncovered an al Qaeda plot to bomb the United States Embassy and …More

Jewish groups are requesting the Great Neck Synagogue cancel its scheduled speaking engagement with an anti-Muslim blogger. [JPost] New York State government has interceded in the sales of Jewish cemetery plots on the black market. [Forward] American Jewish leaders have written letters to Netanyahu, encouraging him to make political sacrifices in the name of peace. [Jewish Press] As Yom Hashoah approaches, different theaters and exhibits in Israel pay tribute to Holocaust survivors and victims. [Times of …More

President Obama may not take a planned visit to Israel later this month, if Netanyahu’s coalition is still not officially formed. [Times of Israel] Beverlywood Supper Club has hired a New York City rabbi to oversee its newly developed kosher dinner. [LA Times] John Kerry is criticized for seeking a final agreement between Israelis and Palestinians during his term as Secretary of State. [Times of Israel] American Israel Public Affairs Committee requests that the US not include Israel’s grant package …More

US senators support Israel’s right to defend itself. [Jerusalem Post] Itzhak Perlman will perform at this year’s Boston Jewish Music Festival. [Boston Globe] An American Jew living in Cambodia finds commonalities between Holocaust and Khmer Rouge prison survivors. [Tablet] Netanyahu struggles to organize Jewish Home and Likud-Beytenu in coalition, due to rising opposition between the two parties. [Times of Israel] A key witness in prosecution against former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert passed away, …More

Israeli and Palestinian soccer players will join the same team for a peace-fueled soccer game with FC Barcelona. [Jerusalem Post] Collegiate Hillel leader discusses how to redefine Jewish life for college population. [Huffington Post] Netanyahu works to maintain alliance between Yesh Atid and Jewish Home. [Times of Israel] A Jewish day school’s basketball team returns to tournament, after forfeiting last years due to a Shabbat scheduling conflict. [Times of Israel] A hard-left NGO leaked an EU report …More

Csanád Szegedi announced that he would give up his seat in the European Parliament, but denies offering money to a man who threatened to disclose his Jewish ancestry. [Xpatloop] What can the United States do to stop Iran’s nuclear program? [Tablet] Bulgarian police release a computer-generated image of the bus bomber. [The Times of Israel] A new bill aims to stop fur trade in Israel. [ynet] Former US Citizens Jillian Schwartz and Donald Sanford will compete for Team Israel in the Olympics on …More

According to Mati Tuchfeld, Olmert fell because he failed. [Israel Hayom] Pickle experts share the Jewish story behind National Pickle Month. [Arizona Jewish Post] The Hackney Museum works with their local community and Simon Marks Jewish School to create a Jewish Treasures workshop. [Hackney Hive] Some say there won’t be an Israeli military strike on Iran before Election Day, to prevent Netanyahu from angering Obama. [Tablet] Amy Winehouse’s family will light a yahrzeit candle in her honor. …More

Two days ago the Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed that newly elected Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (this is his third non-consecutive term) will make an official 24-hour visit to Israel on June 25. His stop in Israel will be followed by meetings in the West Bank with the Palestinian Authority and in Jordan with King Abdullah. This will be Putin’s second visit to the Jewish state as the leader of Russia; he last visited in 2005. According to the report, he will meet with Israeli Prime Minister …More

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, who is recovering from a stroke. "The two discussed issues related to Iran and the urgent need for tougher sanctions," said a statement Monday from the office of Kirk (R-Ill.), who helped shape the most recent sanctions targeting Iran's finance and energy sectors. "They agreed to remain in close contact on issues of mutual concern," the statement said. Kirk suffered a stroke in January. …More

When I learned of the murder of dozens of members of my family in the Holocaust and then met my Israeli relatives whose Auschwitz numbers could hardly be missed on their arms, I decided to dedicate my life to challenging war, the denial of human rights, the hatred of minorities, and social and economic injustice. I also wanted to challenge the breakdown of human solidarity and the fear that competitive societies generate in their citizens, which destroys the natural instinct of individuals to care for “the …More

Israeli Ministers call for a stronger response to the recent escalation with Gaza. [Ynet] Nehemia Shtrasler applies the “catastrophe law” to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the conflict with Iran. [Haaretz] A committee in charge of approving web domain names has deemed “Yahweh.co.il” to be inoffensive, through some halachic views hold that typing the name of God is only permissible when absolutely necessary. [Ynet] Alex Levac finds the subtlety of …More