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

On a wintry day at a small Iowa shul in November of 2003, John Kerry got all verklempt. The man whose opponents had taken to depicting as aloof and patrician, whose campaign for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination had been all but written off by that point, leapt onto the dais at Tifereth Israel synagogue in Des Moines. Kerry delivered an emotional account of his then-recent discovery that his grandfather was Jewish and recalled how, on a visit to Israel standing atop Masada, he had cried out, “Am …More

The Strategic Affairs Ministry presents data for the first time pertaining to Palestinian incitement against Jews over the past three years. [Israel Hayom] A Palestinian woman gave birth using sperm that was smuggled to her from her Hamas member husband, who has been in an Israeli prison for 15 years. [The Times of Israel] Four Israel Navy soldiers admit to having sexual relations with prostitutes during a joint military exercise in Greece last month. [The Times of Israel] A new report by the US Citizenship and …More

A new study finds that North African Jews are more closely related to Jews from other parts of the world than they are to their non-Jewish neighbors in their own country. [Los Angeles Times] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blames the Mt. Carmel fire disaster on a lack of firefighting planes, leaving families at the Carmel blaze meeting fuming. [The Times of Israel] Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor admits that the Muslim Brotherhood’s accusation that Israel’s Mossad was behind …More

Austria permits circumcision to continue. [The Jewish Daily Forward] Netanyahu has not decided whether to order military intervention to Iran or not. [The Times of Israel] The 54,000 yeshiva students who have legally deferred national service through their religious studies become obligated to fulfill their military obligations to Israel once the Tal Law expires tonight. [The Jerusalem Post] Defense Minister Ehud Barak says that the IDF troops' salaries should be gradually raised to minimum wage and the period …More

The Austrian province of Vorarlberg joins the religious circumcision ban. [Haaretz] Slovakia’s Central Union of Jewish Religious Communities asks Slovakian officials to extradite Laszlo Csatary. [Jewocity] Sheldon Adelson backs a group starting a new effort to win over Jewish voters for President Obama. [The New York Times] The Dead Sea Scrolls remind Jews of “ancient Judaisms” instead of “ancient Judaism.” [Haaretz] The Karmiel Dance Festival’s 25th anniversary will take …More

Attorney Alan Baker defends the government-initiated report he co-authored that authorizes West Bank outposts. [The Jerusalem Post] Some say Obama’s vow to make a trip to Israel is simply to “one-up” Mitt Romney. [Commentary] Florida’s Jewish population is vital to Obama’s reelection. [NBC Politics] How did the Munich 11 campaign go viral? [Jewish Journal] Dan Margalit believes that the splitting Kadima party is embarrassing. [Israel Hayom] Daniel Greenfield takes a stance on the …More

US presidential candidate Mitt Romney announces his support for an official minute of silence at Friday’s opening ceremony to honor the Israeli athletes killed at the 1972 Munich Olympics. [Reuters] Meanwhile, Israel is underwhelmed by a surprise tribute to the “Munich 11” by the International Olympic Committee. [The Jerusalem Post] Kadima Party head Shaul Mofaz announces that four party members have left the group. [St. Louis Jewish Light] Israelis will not stop traveling despite the attack …More

The five Israelis killed yesterday in Bulgaria are identified. [ynet] Many Israelis are pessimistic about the country’s ties with Egypt. [Israel Hayom] A planned bomb attack on Jewish sites in Manchester was foiled over a domestic dispute. [The Washington Post] Israel releases one of the Islamic militant Hamas movement’s most senior members after six months. [The Washington Post] Hebrew University researchers reach a breakthrough that may help treat degenerative diseases. [The Jerusalem …More

Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson may be reconsidering donating $100 million to Mitt Romney after seeing Sarah Silverman’s latest YouTube video. The 41-year-old comedian tweeted a link to her video for her pro-Obama campaign, Scissor Sheldon, around noon today. In the video, she pledges to scissor 78-year-old Adelson (instead of having sex, since she is a good Jewish girl), if he gives his money to Obama. And what’s Silverman’s reasoning for why he would ever consider this …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

To this point, the U.S. administration and the rest of the international community has responded to the perceived threat of a nuclear Iran with diplomacy and economic sanctions. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made their pitches for and against the effectiveness of sanctions, respectively, at this month’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference. More recently, satellite images of an Iranian military facility appeared to show trucks and earth-moving …More