The News Shticker: Bahrain sends U.S. a Jewish ambassador

Popular web technology blog Mashable will be holding a conference in Israel next week.
Over at Jerusalemite, Michael Yaari has 31 facts to celebrate 41 years of Jerusalem’s reunification.
The Forward reports on Ivanka Trump’s disappointment in Tel Aviv’s lack of five star accommodations.
The San Diego Jewish Journal profiles Shoshanah Jacobs, a nice Jewish girl who just so happens to lead Arctic expeditions.
Rabbi David S. Gruber, an Orthodox rabbi and former RCA member, outs himself as an atheist and secular humanist.
Jack Wertheimer has a lengthy piece in this month’s issue of Commentary which questions whether Reform Judaism’s tolerance for individualism and pluralism will see to its demise.
Bahrain has appointed a Jewish woman to be its ambassador to the United States.
The Denver Post writes on the failure of rabbis and synagogues to integrate interfaith families, and the end result for individuals’ Judaism.
Matisyahu is on his first trip to Jamaica.
Newly discovered recordings reveal President Lyndon Johnson’s feelings about Israel.
Israel Gutman, a research director at Israeli Holocaust museum Yad Vashem, has condemned Germany’s new memorial commemorating homosexuals killed during the Holocaust.
IHT columnist William Pfaff says that Israel’s refusal to end the occupation of the Palestinian territories has insured the nation’s end.
Diamond magnate Lev Leviev organizes a bris at the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
And for those who missed it, executives at Bear Stearns find religion.