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Question in Italy: How do we reach non-Orthodox Jews?

The president of the Italian Rabbinical Assembly, Rabbi Elia Richetti, with crutch, mingles with tourists outside the Jewish Museum in Venice. (Ruth Ellen Gruber)

The nominally Orthodox Italian Jewish community establishment is struggling with the question of how to include non-Orthodox Jews. Read more »

Israel approves Gaza flotilla inquiry panel

Israel's Cabinet unanimously approved a commission of inquiry into the interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla that left nine passengers dead. Read more »

Op-Ed: What we can learn from anti-Israel activism

With Israel's enemies winning the marketing war and Israel in a precarious situation, Jewish groups must come together to fight back with big ideas, says marketing guru Gary Wexler. Read more »

Op-Ed: Engaging with Israel on campus starts with relationships

The pro-Israel campus community must build relationships on their campuses to promote a positive message around Israel, and to marginalize and negate the falsehoods popularized by Israel's detractors, the head of the Israel on Campus Coalition writes. Read more »

Editors' Picks

Israel's investigative commission (Reuters) Who's who on Israel's panel charged with investigating the Gaza flotilla incident?

Hip hop's new Jewish star (N.Y. Times, Heeb) The new face of hip hop is a black Jew from Canada.

Latest battleground for interfaith families: the cemetery (Forward) What happens when a Jewish family wants to bury non-Jewish family members in their Jewish cemetery?

Do Israel's leaders know what they're doing? (New Republic) Gadi Taub argues that Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak are incompetent.

The Academy considers the flotilla raid (American Thinker) What are American university professors saying about Israel's raid of the Gaza-bound flotilla? Breaking News A parody of world reaction to the Gaza flotilla incident has been removed from YouTube. A Bob Dylan fan site has blocked users inside Israel from accessing the site in what the site operator calls a cultural boycott in response to Israel's interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla. A kosher-food vendor is suing the New York Mets baseball team. Two California city bodies will consider resolutions condemning Israel for intercepting a Gaza-bound flotilla. A French court found that a French documentary about coverage of the controversial death of a Palestinian boy was defamatory and not objective. An alleged Mossad spy wanted in Germany in connection with the assassination of a Hamas official in Dubai was arrested in Poland. South Africa's ambassador to Israel is to return "within two to three weeks," a South African Jewish group said, citing a government official. Two Iranian Red Crescent ships are ready to sail for Gaza. One Israeli policeman was killed and three were injured in what is being described as an ambush on a police vehicle near Hebron. The head of the Arab League is visiting the Gaza Strip for the first time since Hamas took over. American Jewish groups briefed congressional staffers on the intimidation of Jewish students on college campuses. About 10,000 yeshiva students will lose their grants under a ruling on state aid by Israel's Supreme Court. The U.S. Jewish security coordination network is briefing summer camp directors on safety. A racist statement against Israel in the United Nations by a Syrian government official should be condemned, a Jewish group said. An Israeli float was banned from participating in a gay pride parade in Madrid, Spain. Richard Prasquier was re-elected president of the French Jewish umbrella organization CRIF. Only six of 234 xenophoic attacks in Russia last year were against Jews, though anti-Semitism remains a problem in the country, according to a new report. Noted Italian writer Alain Elkann issued a forceful appeal in support of Israel, urging all Jews worldwide to become citizens of the Jewish state, even if they don't live there. A hotel with a kosher restaurant has opened in a southwestern Ukrainian town.