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Murder of family of six shocks Israelis

Rescue services members on Oct. 17, 2009 take out the body of a child who was among the six members of the Oshrenko family found stabbed to death in their torched apartment in Rishon Lezion, Israel. (Roni Schutzer / Flash90 / JTA)

Israelis reacted with horror to the murders of six members of a Rishon LeZion family. Among the victims found stabbed to death Saturday in their burning home were a 3-year-old girl and 4-month-old boy. Read more »

In do-over on Goldstone, Human Rights Council ignores Hamas

The U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva took aim at Israel in a resolution endorsing the Goldstone report on the Gaza war. But the move was rebuked by the report's author, Richard Goldstone, over the lack of condemnation of Hamas. Read more »

Op-Ed: What's really on trial in the Goldstone Report?

Reports like the Goldstone report not only harm nation states in the war against terror, but harm the prospects for peace in the Middle East, writes the spokesman for the Consulate General of Israel in New York. Read more »

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Goldstone's motivation Richard Goldstone explains the motivation behind his decision to lead the U.N. inquiry into the Gaza war.

Quitting the Human Rights Council Last Friday's endorsement by the U.N. Human Rights Council of the Goldstone report on the Gaza war shows that it was a mistake for the United States to join the flawed council, John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, writes in The Wall Street Journal.

In Germany JTA's Wandering Jew lands in Berlin, then heads to Osnabruck, a small community transformed by the arrival of more than 1,000 Russian Jews over the past 20 years.

Commitment After losing his Jewish wife to breast cancer, Rob Crumb -- who was born to a Catholic family -- vowed to continue raising his four children as Jews. This weekend, he and his daughter celebrated her bat mitzvah together, reports the Republican American. Breaking News Shimon Peres said that the fact that Israel is suspected of having nuclear weapons is dissuading Iran from striking the Jewish state. The Obama administration announced a new Sudan policy that includes pressure on and incentives for the Sudanese government. Israel could stop the Goldstone report process if it openly investigated its army's conduct in the Gaza War, Richard Goldstone said Protesters demonstrated against a speech by Ehud Olmert at the University of Chicago. Hezbollah accused Israel of placing listening devices in southern Lebanon at the end of the 2006 war between the two sides. Negotiations over enriching Iran's uranium in another country were set to begin. Teenage students at a New Zealand school are facing punishment after photos of them mocking Nazi symbols surfaced on Facebook. The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard accused the United States, Israel and others of planning a suicide attack that killed 42. U.S. National Security Adviser James Jones will be a keynote speaker at the first J Street national conference. The head coach of the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team refused to leave the court following his ejection from an exhibition game against the New York Knicks. A top Christian leader apologized for comparing President Obama's health care reform plan to "what the Nazis did." An Israeli spiritual leader who allegedly abused children will be extradited to Israel. Repairing the damage done by vandals to an archeological site in the Negev will cost $2.34 million. A giant billboard showing Adolf Hitler giving a Nazi salute located along a major highway in Thailand was covered up. An Oregon college president and the editors of a campus publication apologized for an article that said students at a nearby school killed all the Jews on campus. An Italian city honored Israeli writer David Grossman. Israel's Counter-Terrorism Bureau warned its citizens against traveling to India due to a concrete threat of a terror attack. Vandals defaced a Holocaust memorial at the Jewish cemetery in a town in southwestern Poland. Israel is demanding that Germany return the original manuscript of Franz Kafka's "The Trial."