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Oberammergau Passion Play better, but not good

This scene in the Oberammergau Passion Play, showing Jesus' crucifixion, perpetuates the charge against the Jews of deicide, some Jewish critics say. (Passion Play Oberammergau 2010)

Jews who have seen the Oberammergau Passion Play, which depicts Jesus' last days and historically has inspired anti-Semitic violence, say this year's version is not as bad as in decades past, but it's still highly problematic. Read more »

For Manning-Kaplan duo, Jewish nonprofits are the ties that bind

Kathy Manning and Randall Kaplan are the organized Jewish world's power couple. Read more »

Making a trip to the stars of Memorial Day

Since the U.S. Supreme Court now makes it seem acceptable to erect public war memorials using symbols once thought to be purely sectarian, Star of David memorials should be erected to remember the Jewish servicemen and servicewomen and all others who have died for their country, Edmon J. Rodman writes. Read more »

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Editors' Picks

Wexler to Israel as envoy? (Politico) Laura Rozen at Politico has it thrice confirmed by "Middle East hands" that the Obama administration wants to make Robert Wexler, late of Congress, currently of the Center for Middle East Peace, ambassador to Israel.

Author of nuclear research: 'No smoking gun' The author whose research the U.K. Guardian cited for a story on Israel's alleged offer to sell apartheid-era South Africa nuclear weapons says his research provides no "smoking gun" that Israel made a nuclear offer.

Deadly bar mitzvah (St. Louis Beacon) Richard Kalina recalls how his bar mitzvah day turned to tragedy when a neo-Nazi showed up at the synagogue and began shooting, killing a family friend.

Sakhnin United (L.A. Times) A new Israeli documentary, "After the Cup: Sons of Sakhnin United," focuses on the mixed Arab-Jewish soccer team that won the Israeli Cup in 2004.

Kaddish at Arlington (Washington Jewish Week) Each year the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington organizes tours to honor the Jewish servicemen and servicewomen buried in Arlington. Breaking News Activists heckled White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel as he and his family toured the Old City of Jerusalem in honor of his son's bar mitzvah. Comedy Central has removed a video game with anti-Semitic stereotypes from its Web site. The state rested its case in the child labor trial of kosher meatpacking executive Sholom Rubashkin. Pro-Palestinian activists on a convoy of ships planning to dock in Gaza port refused to bring a letter to Gilad Shalit from his family. A Facebook fan page outlining a game called "Beat the Jew" played by students at a Southern California high school has been removed. Jewish leaders met with more than a third of the Democratic caucus in the U.S. Senate. Israel's blockade of Gaza has resulted in a humanitarian crisis, Amnesty International said in its annual report. A local activist group vows that it will march in this year's Toronto Gay Pride parade despite being ordered by parade organizers to drop references to "Israeli apartheid." Jordanian and Israeli paramedic students are training together for the first time. A leading Arab-Israeli political activist was charged with spying for the terrorist group Hezbollah. Hundreds of Hebrew University students marched from the university to the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah to protest the eviction of Arab families. Virginia's governor claimed ignorance of his new appointee's past involvement in demoting Jews when he worked in the Nixon administration.