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On a Warsaw Ghetto film, an unwitting collaboration

Promotional poster for a "A Film Unfinished," which features real and staged footage from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942.

In "A Film Unfinished," Israeli filmmaker Yael Hersonski combines actual and staged ghetto scenes shot in 1942 by a Nazi propaganda crew with the testimony of a Nazi cameraman and ghetto survivors. Read more »

Bedouin demolitions raising tensions in Israeli land dispute

A series of demolitions of an unofficial Bedouin town in the Negev is raising tensions between Bedouin and the government and could have implications for thousands of acres in southern Israel.Read more »

Survey seeks to paint fuller portrait of 'chained' wives

A new information-gathering campaign will seek to document the number of women who are trapped in religious marriages because their husbands refuse to grant them a Jewish divorce. Read more »

Op-Ed: An open invitation to Chelsea and Marc

A rabbi wonders what happens next for Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky. Read more » BREAKING NEWS A fire at the Majdanek concentration camp has destroyed a barracks and thousands of prisoners' shoes displayed on the site. Two members of the U.S. Congress independently placed holds on military aid to Lebanon. A Libyan charity announced a $50 million deal to build homes for refugees in Gaza. Israel's defense minister told an Israeli panel that Cabinet members discussed the possibility of violence during the interception of a Turkish flotilla bound for Gaza. Israel will cancel its participation in a United Nations probe of the Turkish flotilla incident if it insists on calling Israeli soldiers to testify. Five Toronto synagogues and a Jewish day school are the latest beneficiaries of Canadian government money to guard against hate crimes. Seven members of Iran's Bahai religious faith reportedly were sentenced to jail for allegedly spying for Israel. The Illinois Democratic Party's candidate for the U.S. Senate withdrew from a forum on Israel. More than 1,000 people rallied for Israel in one of the most remote communities of the Jewish world. BREAKING NEWS A fire at the Majdanek concentration camp has destroyed a barracks and thousands of prisoners' shoes displayed on the site. Two members of the U.S. Congress independently placed holds on military aid to Lebanon. A Libyan charity announced a $50 million deal to build homes for refugees in Gaza. Israel's defense minister told an Israeli panel that Cabinet members discussed the possibility of violence during the interception of a Turkish flotilla bound for Gaza. Israel will cancel its participation in a United Nations probe of the Turkish flotilla incident if it insists on calling Israeli soldiers to testify. Five Toronto synagogues and a Jewish day school are the latest beneficiaries of Canadian government money to guard against hate crimes. Seven members of Iran's Bahai religious faith reportedly were sentenced to jail for allegedly spying for Israel. The Illinois Democratic Party's candidate for the U.S. Senate withdrew from a forum on Israel. More than 1,000 people rallied for Israel in one of the most remote communities of the Jewish world. BREAKING NEWS A fire at the Majdanek concentration camp has destroyed a barracks and thousands of prisoners' shoes displayed on the site. Two members of the U.S. Congress independently placed holds on military aid to Lebanon. A Libyan charity announced a $50 million deal to build homes for refugees in Gaza. Israel's defense minister told an Israeli panel that Cabinet members discussed the possibility of violence during the interception of a Turkish flotilla bound for Gaza. Israel will cancel its participation in a United Nations probe of the Turkish flotilla incident if it insists on calling Israeli soldiers to testify. Five Toronto synagogues and a Jewish day school are the latest beneficiaries of Canadian government money to guard against hate crimes. Seven members of Iran's Bahai religious faith reportedly were sentenced to jail for allegedly spying for Israel. The Illinois Democratic Party's candidate for the U.S. Senate withdrew from a forum on Israel. More than 1,000 people rallied for Israel in one of the most remote communities of the Jewish world. EDITORS' PICKS Israel's open secret (L.A. Times) It's time for Israel to come out of the closet and admit it has nuclear weapons or forfeit having a voice in the debate on nuclear nonproliferation, says Micah Zenko of the Council on Foreign Relations. Video: Paul Rudd's emcee gig (Forward) Before films and TV, "Dinner for Schmucks" star Paul Rudd worked the simcha circuit as an emcee -- like the bat mitzvah of Gabrielle Birkner of the Forward's Sisterhood blog. Gay Zionist pride in Amsterdam The blue and white shone proud in Amsterdam's Gay Pride celebration over the weekend with the inauguration of a "Jewish boat," an initiative of the city's Beit Ha'Chidush congregation. Kagan and 'Jewish Bolshevism' (Religious Dispatches) The idea of a Jewish socialist plot to take over the American judicial system has been kept alive by some on the religious right who had opposed the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan, Gordon Newby writes.