The former governor’s triumph over his Republican rivals smooths the sharp edges of the GOP Middle East policy rhetoric
By RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Republican primaries are effectively over, and gone with them is the sharp-edged rhetoric and departures from past U.S. policy on the Middle East.
Gone is Rick Santorum’s pledge to [...]

(JTA) — One woman was killed and several people were injured after a stage collapsed on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. The collapse came Wednesday afternoon during a rehearsal for the national Memorial Day ceremony to be held next week, according to reports.
Haaretz has reported that the woman killed was a female Israel Defense [...]

Sale keeps Bnai Emet Synagogue building intact and of service to the Jewish community
By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community News Editor
Last June, just before Bnai Emet Synagogue’s final Shabbat services, Neil Meyer said he hoped that the Bnai Emet property stayed in the Jewish community.
Meyer, of the Meyer and Njus law firm [...]

To commemorate April as Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month, World Without Genocide, a human rights organization headquartered at William Mitchell College of Law, will host Nazi hunter Eli Rosenbaum 7 p.m. Thursday, April 5 at William Mitchell College of Law, 875 Summit Ave., St. Paul.
He will present “Searching for Justice: Investigating Nazi Criminals and Other Human [...]

(JTA) — Jewish registered voters see the economy as the most important issue and nearly two-thirds support President Obama’s re-election, according to a new survey.
The 62 percent of Jewish voters backing Obama’s return was more than twice the number who said they would prefer a Republican candidate, according to the survey released Tuesday [...]

The next session in Darchei Noam’s monthly lecture series will focus on end-of-life issues and hospice care
By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community News Editor
The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we [...]

Through its Hag Sameach (Happy Holidays) program, Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Minneapolis (JFCS) provides gift bags of Passover foods and other ritual items to help families in need celebrate the holiday. Often this is a family’s only opportunity to receive what they need to celebrate the traditions of Passover.
Last year JFCS [...]

Main suspect in the shooting told police that he carried out the murders to ‘avenge Palestinian children’
By DANA KENNEDY
PARIS (JTA) — When Arie Bensemhoun, a Jewish community leader in Toulouse, woke up Tuesday morning, he thought for a moment that the horrific shooting of three children and a rabbi at a local Jewish [...]

The pushback to Beinart’s essay was immediate and came from varied camps in the Israel debate
By RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Should Jews shun other Jews? And should they shun Jews who call on Jews to shun other Jews?
Peter Beinart’s call in Monday’s New York Times for a boycott of goods manufactured in [...]

Internet archive offers window into physicist’s life and work
By LINDA GRADSTEIN
JERUSALEM — Ever wonder about Albert Einstein’s love life?
Now you can get a firsthand glimpse by searching the newly improved Einstein Archives Web site, which re-launched Monday with expanded offerings.
The online archive now makes available digitally 2,000 documents from Einstein’s papers and other [...]