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FEATURED STORY Bin Laden's killing raises immediate questions of security With the news that Osama bin Laden has been killed in Pakistan by U.S. forces, the question many American Jews are considering is whether the liquidation of al-Qaida's leader makes a follow-up attack more or less likely, and whether Jews could be a target.Read more » EDITORS' PICKS Obama announcing bin Laden's death Watch the YouTube video of President Obama saying that 'justice has been done' while disclosing that U.S. forces had killed al-Qaida leader and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.

BREAKING NEWS

Jewish and Israeli leaders welcomed the news that Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight with U.S. forces in Pakistan.

"Israel is the historical commemoration to the victims of the Holocaust," President Shimon Peres said at a Yad Vashem ceremony marking Yom Hashoah.

Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav has appealed his conviction on rape and sexual assault charges and requested a delay of his prison sentence.

The U.S. Supreme Court said it will hear the appeal of a U.S. citizen born in Jerusalem whose parents want Israel listed as his country of birth on his passport.

Former Sen. Alan Simpson has asked President Obama to commute convicted spy for Israel Jonathan Pollard's sentence to time served.

President Obama emphasized Jewish military service in his proclamation naming May as Jewish American History Month.

Israel will delay the transfer of tax proceeds collected for the Palestinian Authority pending proof that the money will not go to the terrorist Hamas organization.

Three billboards calling on the United States to stop its aid to Israel will be removed from downtown Seattle, several months after similar bus ads were rejected.

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann in a speech linked the fallout from current U.S. economic policy to the Holocaust.

Pope John Paul II, who made fostering Catholic-Jewish relations and remembering the Holocaust cornerstones of his papacy, was beatified at the Vatican.

Pro-Israel groups praised the Obama administration for stiffening Syria's isolation.

Two Jewish social justice organizations -- The Progressive Jewish Alliance and Jewish Funds for Justice -- have decided to merge.

Israeli director Alma Har'el took top honors at the Tribeca Film Festival in the documentary category.

A new multimedia project has been launched to highlight the long Jewish history of Oswiecim, the former shtetl in southern Poland where the Nazis built the Auschwitz death camp.