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Shooting a German-Israeli relationship

Israeli filmmaker Tomer Heymann, left, with his mother, Noa, and his German boyfriend Andreas Merk at the Berlin International Film Festival. (Toby Axelrod)

An Israeli filmmaker explores the divide in a German-Israeli relationship. Read more »

Intrigue in Dubai

Was it a sloppy hit by the Mossad, or someone looking to pin the kill on Israel's famed intelligence agency? Read more » Britain, Ireland meet Israeli envoys over fake passports J Street, Oren mending fences -- but wariness lingers After months of high-profile feuding, the lobbying group J Street and Israel's ambassador to Washington appear to be reconciling. Read more » J Street congressional group snubbed, blocked from Gaza Editors' Picks Idea #18: A 'Day of Empowerment' for Jews facing serious ill (The Sisterhood) Rochelle Shoretz, the founder and executive director of Sharsheret -- a national organization that provides support services to young Jewish women facing breast cancer -- proposes an annual "Day of Empowerment" for Jews with serious illnesses. Jewish pols to watch (Forward) The Forward's list of 10 up-and-coming Jewish political hopefuls was compiled based on conversations with Republican and Democratic Jewish political activists. Is Tea Party movement bad for the Jews? (N.Y. Jewish Week) James Besser tackles the question. Israel recruiting tourists for PR A new effort aims to recruit Israelis traveling abroad as roving ambassadors. Teen funeral draws 1,000 A Los Angeles teen's untimely death in a car crash has a community reeling. Breaking News Jewish university students across Canada will respond to Israeli Apartheid Week with coordinated campaigns aimed at countering the annual campus event. An Israeli soldier and two Border Police officers were injured when West Bank teens rioted, believing an army exercise was an eviction. Religious Zionist leader Rabbi Mordechai "Motti" Elon has been accused of inappropriate conduct by a religious-Zionist forum that deals with complaints of sexual harassment in the religious school system. The Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee said a news release suggesting that they had approved of this year's Oberammergau Passion play was misleading. Israel's Shahar Pe'er has advanced to the semifinals of a tennis tournament in Dubai. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Russia's president to return a historic collection of ancient Jewish manuscripts. A new campaign will turn Israeli citizens into goodwill ambassadors for Israel abroad. The International March of the Living will honor six Holocaust survivors during its annual gathering at Auschwitz. An elevator was transferred to Gaza for use in the coastal strip's only maternity hospital. Israeli medical experts in the rehabilitation of amputees arrived in Haiti to help examine and evaluate injured victims from the devastating earthquake. The Palestinian Authority settled a lawsuit for an undisclosed amount with the widow of an American killed in Israel in 2002. Catholic scholars from three countries have asked Pope Benedict XVI in a private letter to delay the proposed sainthood of World War II Pope Pius XII.