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From left, students Shakked Klein, Nearodey Chhoem, Angelina Hadad, Nico Ben Jacob and Chidinma Okoli. About half the students at Givat Haviva come from abroad.
Israel-Hamas war
This school in Israel is opening dialogue among its Jewish, Arab and international students
Many of the Jewish graves in Kyrgyzstan are adorned with Stars of David.
History
The Jewish graves in Kyrgyzstan are fading. But a small Jewish community continues to thrive. 
Protesters carry a banner with Sarah Halimi's face and name printed on it in a protest over a court's decision not to try her killer.
Protest
A French court won’t try the killer of a Jewish doctor. Thousands are protesting.
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Culture
On Israel’s 70th anniversary, a lament: ‘The Jewish community in Iraq is no more’
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Culture
Einstein’s handwritten secrets for a happy life auctioned for $1.56 million
Leo Goldberger and his family came from Czechoslovakia, but they moved to Denmark before World War II. That decision was the reason they escaped the Holocaust.
Global Politics
Danes helped him escape the Holocaust. Today, he says Denmark should do more for refugees.
A mosque attendant lowers a candelabra into a narrow shaft on the Muslim side of the shrine to an underground cave. It's revered as the place where Muslims and Jews believe Ibrahim, or Abraham, is buried.
Belief
In Hebron, Israelis and Palestinians share a holy site … begrudgingly
Egg salad for Passover in Drohobych, Ukraine. Loli Kantor remembers this method of cutting an egg in the palm of your hand from her youth. It's part of the Jewish life that she documented in Ukraine.
Belief
The conflict in Ukraine has led to a Golden Age for Jews — though some are still leaving
A demonstrator holds a sign during a rally near the Israeli Consulate in New York to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech in front on Congress.
Global Politics
American Jews have mixed feelings about Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Global Politics
Uninvited by Obama, will Netanyahu speak to Congress?
Survivors attend a ceremony on the site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Tuesday marked the 70th anniversary of the Nazi camp's liberation by Allied soldiers.
Justice
Why I want to remind you of the Holocaust
An Israeli government representative discusses Israeli immigration with prospective Jewish immigrants at an immigration expo in Paris.
Global Politics
Israel encourages frightened French Jews to make a move
Michael Bassin, 28, looking at Twitter posts from the extremist group ISIS. Bassin monitored the posts as part of a volunteer effort to ensure there were no mentions online of captured American journalist Steven Sotloff's Jewish and Israeli identity.
Conflict
Murdered journalist Steven Sotloff was Jewish and Israeli — and here’s how his friends tried to cover it up
Tottenham Hotspur
Sports
Why do fans still get away with chanting Tottenham Hotspur’s racist nickname?
Ela Weissberger speaks with the cast members of Brundibar at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge, MA.
Arts, Culture & Media
Seventy years later, a Holocaust survivor remembers the performance of her lifetime
Ela Weissberger speaks with the cast members of Brundibar at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge, MA.
Arts, Culture & Media
Seventy years later, a Holocaust survivor remembers the performance of her lifetime
There are millions of documents in cardboard boxes in the Israel State Archives.
Global Politics
Israel’s modern history sits in a Jerusalem warehouse, waiting to be declassified
Israeli coalition partners Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Economy Minister Naftali Bennett have lately been at each other's throats.
Global Politics
Israel’s coalition government is at war, with itself, over a Palestinian state
Israeli protester
Conflict & Justice
Israel considers banning its citizens from calling each other Nazis
Actors Rebecca Schneebaum, Maureen Keiller and Bobbie Steinbach (not pictured) performed "Muttersprache Mameloschn" at the Goethe Institut in Boston.
Arts, Culture & Media
What happened to Jewish survivors who stayed in the former East Germany after the Holocaust?
Rami Yizraeli (tan jacket) chats with Benjamin Netanyahu (black shirt), while the Israeli Prime Minister's bodyguards look on.
Global Politics
Here’s what happened when Israel’s prime minister stopped beneath my apartment balcony
Photos of Israeli scientists who won Nobel Prizes in recent years, in the Israeli daily Haaretz, Thursday, Oct. 10.
Environment
Israeli prime minister praises Israeli Nobel winner… who ditched Israel
Iranian-Jewish minority Member of Parliament, Siamak Moreh Sedgh, poses for a photograph in front of a banner for the 2012 parliamentary elections.
Global Politics
Why is Iran’s president traveling with his country’s one Jewish lawmaker?
Remembering Eydie Gorme
Global Politics
Israeli officials promise public referendum on any peace agreement
Global Politics
Israeli bank shooting prompts discussion of tighter gun limits
Global Politics
Israelis nervous about U.S. Senate’s attention on Hagel’s position on Israel
Lifestyle & Belief
American rabbi elected to Israeli Knesset with hopes of bridging sectarian divide
Lifestyle & Belief
Tunisian Jews seek religious tolerance after the revolution
Israeli left trying to build support from Occupy Tel Aviv crowd
Lifestyle & Belief
Russia introduces mandatory religion class for all 4th graders
Netanyahu makes a push to shore up relations in wake of Obama’s election victory
As minorities flee, the Middle East loses its once rich religious diversity
German Jews and Muslims outraged over ban on circumcisions
Iranian Jew touts deep ties between Jews and Iran
Lifestyle & Belief
Small Jewish community in India on verge of extinction
Arts, Culture & Media
Work and the meaning of life
Arts, Culture & Media
The Best of Global Hit
Arts, Culture & Media
‘Studio 360: Art that Means War’
Development & Education
Boston Bombing Suspects and Online Radical Jihad Videos
Arts, Culture & Media
President Obama Meets with First-Ever Ethiopian Crowned Miss Israel
Arts, Culture & Media
Obama Visits Israel, Lauds An ‘Unbreakable Alliance’
Global Politics
American Rabbi Elected to Israel’s Parliament
Lifestyle & Belief
New Israeli MasterChef a German-Born Convert to Judaism
Global Satire
The Furor Over Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe’s Depiction of Netanyahu Continues
Lifestyle & Belief
Goth Service at St. Edward in Cambridge, UK, Featuring Leonard Cohen’s Music
Lifestyle & Belief
The Growing Problem of Anti-Semitism in France
Health & Medicine
Israel Empathizes as the US Mourns After Newtown Shooting
Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and American: A Woman’s Unlikely Background
Pioneer in Disability Rights
Arts, Culture & Media
Villa Aurora: House of Creativity and Refuge in Los Angeles
Global Politics
Effort in Israel Underway to Bring Up the Altalena from the Deep
Global Politics
How US Election Could Affect Vote in Israel
Israeli Pol Pledges Multi-Partisanship
Global Hit
Songs of Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake, Baroque Style
Conflict & Justice
Controversy Swirls Around Hungarian Nazi War Crimes Suspect
Conflict & Justice
German Jews and Muslims Decry Circumcision Ruling
Global Politics
Israel’s Defense Minister Confirms Cyber-Warfare Campaign
New Movie Releases: ‘The Dictator,’ ‘ What to Expect,’ ‘Battleship’
Conflict & Justice
Israel’s Fear Losing Jewish Character With Influx of African Migrants