President Barack Obama, along with Massachusetts’s top political leaders and Jewish, Christian and Muslim religious leaders, attended an interfaith service on Thursday at Boston’s Cathedral of the Holy Cross to honor the victims of Monday’s Boston Marathon terror attack. “This is Boston, a city with courage, compassion and strength that knows no bounds,” Obama said during a five-minute speech that also included reflections on the lives of 8-year-old Martin Richard, 29-year-old …More

The IDF's female soldiers have long filled positions throughout the entire military spectrum, some of them serving as pilots, intelligence officers, naval officers, and search and rescue workers. In recent years, the opportunities open to women in combat units have grown, including through the establishment of the mixed-gender Caracal Battalion, in which women and men serve together as combat soldiers. The IDF reached a new milestone in 2006, establishing its first company consisting entirely of female combat …More

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman promises Germany’s Jewish and Muslim communities that they will be free to carry out circumcision on young boys despite a court ban. [Chicago Tribune] Jewish billionaire Michael Moritz donates £75 million to Oxford University to be put toward scholarships. [The Algemeiner] Arabs participating in Israel’s national service struggle with their identity and loyalty. [The New York Times] State house candidate Sheldon Lisbon apologizes for calling the …More

Rob Lattin is Jspace News' Foreign Affairs Correspondent. In addition to covering foreign affairs for Jspace, Rob is a blogger on Israeli and Middle Eastern foreign policy for the Foreign Policy Association, as well as a freelance writer. He can be reached by email at rob@jspacecorp.com. Everyone in the United States knows there is something inherently wrong with the college system in regards to the maturity level of our undergraduate college students. Yes, college is a great time, but these days unless you are …More

At the Arlington National Cemetery, monuments currently honor Catholic, Protestant and World War I chaplains who died in the line of duty. But for decades, fallen rabbis were not commemorated at the famed military cemetery. Monday, 14 Jewish chaplains who died alongside American servicemen finally got recognition in a plaque on Chaplains Hill. “You don’t leave anybody behind. You bring everybody home with you,” said Rear Admiral Harold Robinson, a retired member of the US Navy Chaplain Corps and …More