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White House reassures Jews as it readies Baghdad offer to Iran

By Ron Kampeas · May 22, 2012

Ahead of a meeting this week between the major world powers and Iran, the Obama administration reached out to Jewish leaders with reassurances. Read more »

Is the Israeli Rabbinate reconciling itself to non-Orthodox Judaism?

By Mati Wagner · May 22, 2012

As a Reform rabbi participates in a city religious council meeting, Reform and Conservative movements speak of their gains in Israel. Read more »

Extreme dental hygiene, science on tap and record-breaking mezuzah

By Marcy Oster · May 22, 2012

An Israeli woman can't convince doctors she swallowed her toothbrush, scientists fan out to lecture in Tel Aviv bars and is Israel ready for its first legal long weekend? Read more »

Israel shows off its homeland security technologies to international visitors

By Mati Wagner · May 14, 2012

Israel’s security technologies were on display as the country hosted two separate international contingents. Read more »

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Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak visits the Iron Dome anti-rocket defense system in southern Israel, March 10, 2012. ( Israeli Ministry of Defense via Flash 90 ) Israel's Iron Dome defense system near the Israeli town of Ashdod has intercepted a volley of rockets fired by terrorist groups from the Gaza Strip area, March 11, 2012. (Flash 90) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington on Mar. 5, 2012, where he argued against inaction in stopping Iran's nuclear program and held aloft correspondence from 1944 between the World Jewish Congress and the U.S. War Department, which refused the WJC's request to bomb Auschwitz. (Robert J. Saferstein) The Moshe Aviv Tower, left, in Ramat Gan's Diamond Exchange district will be replaced later this decade as the tallest skyscraper in Israel by a 70-story high rise in the neighboring city of Givatayim, a Tel Aviv suburb. (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Obama meet on Mar. 5, 2012 in the White House Oval Office. (Ron Kampeas) President Barack Obama addresses the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. on Mar. 4, 2012. (Robert J. Saferstein) Israeli President Shimon Peres addresses the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. on Mar. 4, 2012. (Robert J. Saferstein) President Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres share a warm exchange at the AIPAC policy conference in Washington, March 4, 2012. (Courtesy Office of President Shimon Peres) Sen. Lindsey Graham, shown attending Independence Day celebrations at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, in July 2011, has authored a resolution that would make an Iranian nuclear capability a "red line." ((Courtesy U.S. Embassy, Kabul)) A poster campaign sponsored in part by the Jewish community's Security Community Network urges Jews to keep an eye out for suspicious objects. U.S. intelligence officials are saying the likelihood of an Iranian-backed attack on U.S. soil has increased. (Courtesy Security Community Network)

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  • Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak visits the Iron Dome anti-rocket defense system in southern Israel, March 10, 2012.
  • Israel's Iron Dome defense system near the Israeli town of Ashdod has intercepted a volley of rockets fired by terrorist groups from the Gaza Strip area, March 11, 2012.
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington on Mar. 5, 2012, where he argued against inaction in stopping Iran's nuclear program and held aloft correspondence from 1944 between the World Jewish Congress and the U.S. War Department, which refused the WJC's request to bomb Auschwitz.
  • The Moshe Aviv Tower, left, in Ramat Gan's Diamond Exchange district will be replaced later this decade as the tallest skyscraper in Israel by a 70-story high rise in the neighboring city of Givatayim, a Tel Aviv suburb.
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Obama meet on Mar. 5, 2012 in the White House Oval Office.
  • President Barack Obama addresses the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. on Mar. 4, 2012.
  • Israeli President Shimon Peres addresses the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. on Mar. 4, 2012.
  • President Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres share a warm exchange at the AIPAC policy conference in Washington, March 4, 2012.
  • Sen. Lindsey Graham, shown attending Independence Day celebrations at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, in July 2011, has authored a resolution that would make an Iranian nuclear capability a "red line."
  • A poster campaign sponsored in part by the Jewish community's Security Community Network urges Jews to keep an eye out for suspicious objects. U.S. intelligence officials are saying the likelihood of an Iranian-backed attack on U.S. soil has increased.
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