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New 'Shalom Sesame' using Grover to bridge Israel-Disapora gap

Michael Rosenberg of New York City chats with Grover, who attended his bar mitzvah in Jerusalem as part of the "Shalom Sesame" filming, on Aug. 28, 2009. (Koby Gideon / Flash 90)

"Sesame Street" is filming a new 12-part series, "Shalom Sesame," geared toward Jewish-American children and designed to help forge a Jewish identity and affinity with Israel. Read more »

Push on Iran sanctions, Mideast peace talks expected in Sept.

Timing, if not intent, inevitably is weaving the Israeli-Palestinian peace process into the efforts to end Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program. Read more »

Olmert looking at a notorious rather than a glorious legacy

With indictments this week, Ehud Olmert stands a chance of becoming Israel's first prime minister to end up in an Israeli prison. Read more »

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A flag and a kiss Pop diva Madonna held aloft an Israeli flag at her concert this week in Tel Aviv, after a passionate kiss with another female performer. Only in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could the flag bit stir more controversy than the kiss.

Personal opinion disguised as academic theory Ben-Gurion University's president, Rivka Carmi, responds to one of her professor's calls for a boycott of Israel in the Op-Ed pages of the L.A. Times.

Madoff-funded charities beware After months of skirting the question, Irving Picard, the trustee for Bernie Madoff, has told Bloomberg News that he may indeed go after charities that profited from their investments with Madoff.

Obama's next test What will President Obama do about the released Lockerbie bomber? asks Seth Lipsky in Tablet.

Yom Kippur games NBC New York has the story behind the latest Yom Kippur game change: the Red Sox-Yankees matchup on erev chag. Breaking News Israeli and Palestinian officials held a high-level meeting to discuss economic issues. Israel intercepted a Russian-manned cargo ship allegedly carrying secret weapons that had disappeared, a European Union official said. Israel's U.S. ambassador and leaders of the Orthodox and Reform movements joined a White House celebration of Ramadan. An international initiative to give Holocaust victims interred in mass graves a proper Jewish burial will be launched in Eastern Europe. Israeli archeologists have uncovered a large fortification likely used by the Canaanites and dating to the Middle Bronze period. Two Hamas gunmen were killed in Gaza amid unclear circumstances. A Yankees-Red Sox game was rescheduled to avoid a conflict with Yom Kippur. Argentine philosopher and writer Santiago Kovadloff received threatening phone calls that he called anti-Semitic. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is visiting five African counties. Africa Israel Investments stock plummeted after the real estate firm said it could not repay billions of dollars in debt. The Arab group behind the publishing of a cartoon denying the Holocaust may face charges in the Netherlands.