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Is Bibi beholden to the right wing?

Deputy Knesset Speaker Danny Danon, right, a member of the Likud Party, visits the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, where an announcement about Israeli housing starts became a flashpoint in U.S.-Israeli relations, March 10, 2010. (David Vaaknin/ Flash 90 / JTA)

The recent U.S.-Israel crisis raises the question of how beholden Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to the right wing that made him prime minister. Read more »

Nude Tel Aviv?, Barghouti's jailhouse education, 'killer' ads

Voting for Miss Israel, Marwan Barghouti gets his PhD in prison, an American teenage basketball phenom quits Israel, Israel's oldest man and more. Read more »

Op-Ed: Jewish community cannot be complacent on security

In a Passover security message, the head of the Secure Community Network implores the community to ensure that security remains an ongoing process. Read more » Editors' Picks Is Obama alienating Jewish voters? (AP) With the tension between Washington and Jerusalem showing few signs of abating, is President Obama alienating the Jews? Kampeas on Amanpour JTA's Ron Kampeas weighs in on longtime CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour and her new job anchoring ABC's "This Week." Chicken soup campaign (Miami Herald) Louise Allen is on a chicken soup mission. She believes her soup will help dozens of Jewish children who have fallen on hard times, warming their stomachs and their souls. Palestine before Iran before Palestine (Haaretz) Benjamin Netanyahu should have initiated a process with the Palestinians that would have enabled the Americans to deal with Iran before returning to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, writes Ari Shavit. Breaking News The student government president at the University of California vetoed a bill calling for divestment from two companies doing business with Israel. Though Israel's prime minister said progress was made in resolving the current diplomatic crisis with the United States during his visit, the Obama administration does not appear to be satisfied. Several sketches by Adolf Hitler, including those he submitted to the Vienna Academy of Art in a failed bid to gain entrance, will be auctioned off. A second suspect in an alleged hate crime attack against a Jewish man in Eugene, Ore., has turned himself in. Two Israeli soldiers are on trial for allegedly using a Palestinian boy as a human shield during the Gaza war. The Hamas government in Gaza announced that it will execute Palestinians found guilty of collaborating with Israel. The United Nations Human Rights Council passed three resolutions that condemn Israel and another seeking reparations for Gaza Palestinians. Anti-Semitic graffiti was spray-painted on the walls of a Jewish school in the capital of Bulgaria. A New Israel Fund petition calls on Israel's prime minister to work with the group to "strengthen Israel's democratic and pluralistic foundation." A court in Chicago has ruled that a father may not take his Jewish daughter to Catholic Mass on Easter.