Skip navigation

Israel demands French TV correct 13-year-old report on boy's death

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel demanded a French television station on Sunday correct a report from nearly 13 years ago which helped fuel anger across the world and ignite a bloody uprising against the Jewish state. Full story

Polish exports of meat for Jews, Muslims in limbo

For some, it was a barbaric way to treat animals. For others, it was great business. Full story

Christian churches back Jews facing anti-Semitism in Hungary

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - When Hungarian radical right-wingers rallied against a Jewish conference in Budapest in early May, a well-known Protestant pastor hid behind the stage while his wife stepped up to the podium to denounce Jews and Israel. Full story

Stunning Byzantine Mosaic Uncovered in Israel

Archaeologists have uncovered an "extraordinary" mosaic that would've been used as the floor of a public building during the Byzantine Period in what is today Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced. Full story

Israeli police guard women praying at Jewish site

Forming human chains and using metal barriers, Israeli police held back thousands of ultra-Orthodox protesters who tried to prevent a liberal Jewish women's group from praying at a sensitive holy site Friday, the first time police have come down on the side of the women and not the protesters. Full story

Bombing suspect buried in Virginia

Tuesday, Martha Mullen of Richmond began the effort to find a final resting place for Tsarnaev by sending an email to local representatives of the Methodist, Muslim, Jewish and Hindu communities. She received an offer of a donated burial plot from the administrator of Al-Barzakh Cemetery in Doswell. Full story

Sponsored Links

Articles

Europeans had common ancestors 1,000 years ago

Bulgarian honor bid in DC stirs Holocaust debate

Holocaust memorial races to collect victims' names

Nazi-themed opera creates scandal in Germany

An excerpt from Burt Bacharach’s “Anyone Who Had a Heart”

Hungary's PM slams anti-Semitism, but disappoints Jews

AP PHOTOS: Few know story of Jews in Red Army

Hungarian far-right decries 'Israeli plot' before Jewish meeting

Hungary court allows far-right rally before Jewish congress

Jewish leaders alarmed by far-right, anti-Semitism in Hungary

Video

  The story that reveals what Anthony Weiner is willing to do

Steve Kornacki tells a story from Anthony Weiner’s 1991 campaign that shows exactly what the former politician is willing to do.

  Slimming down while fighting cultural stereotypes

A nonprofit called Slim Peace is helping women from diverse backgrounds lose weight while learning about each other’s cultures. TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie reports.

  Few clues as to whether Boston attack was foreign or domestic

Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center joins Alex Wagner and the NOW panel discuss what it means that the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings has offered few clues as to whether the attack was foreign or domestic.

  ‘Jew in the Box’ exhibit in Berlin stirs controversy

An exhibit at the Jewish Museum in Berlin features a Jewish man or woman in a transparent box, answering people’s questions. The exhibit is intended to be educational, but some are dubbing it “humiliating” and “idiotic.” NBC’s Michelle Kosinski reports.

  A real world ethics test

Melissa Harris-Perry goes over our current policy debates in the classic way moral dilemma case studies are discussed in philosophy courses.

advertisement | ad info

Related Photos

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linkevicius looks at pictures of Jews killed in the Holocaust during a visit to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linkevicius looks at pictures of Jews killed in the Holocaust during a visit to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius looks at pictures of Jews killed in the Holocaust during a visit to the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem May 19, 2013. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS)

Palestinian protester waves a Palestinian flag in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem during a weekly demonstration against Jewish settlements
Palestinian protester waves a Palestinian flag in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem during a weekly demonstration against Jewish settlements

A Palestinian protester waves a Palestinian flag in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem May 17, 2013, during a weekly demonstration against Jewish settlements and the possible eviction of a Palestinian family from their home. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

Palestinian flag is reflected in a bus window as a girl looks out in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem during a weekly demonstration against Jewish settlements
Palestinian flag is reflected in a bus window as a girl looks out in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem during a weekly demonstration against Jewish settlements

A Palestinian flag is reflected in a bus window as a girl looks out in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem May 17, 2013, during a weekly demonstration against Jewish settlements and the possible eviction of a Palestinian family from their home. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLI

protester waving a Palestinian flag shouts at an Orthodox Jewish man in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem during a weekly demonstration against Jewish settlements
protester waving a Palestinian flag shouts at an Orthodox Jewish man in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem during a weekly demonstration against Jewish settlements

A protester waving a Palestinian flag shouts at an Orthodox Jewish man in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem May 17, 2013, during a weekly demonstration against Jewish settlements and the possible eviction of a Palestinian family from their home. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (JERUSALEM - Tags: P