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Opinion At Twersky Shiva, Glimmer of Hope for Jerusalem
Ibrahaim Wassim pays respects to Jewish victims’ families in Jerusalem / Yossi Zamir, Tag Meir Forum Mirrors covered with drapes, pictures stripped from the walls, and the out-of-style black-and-white modernism of North American Orthodox homes — the shiva (mourning) house of Rabbi Moshe Twersky of Har Nof was overcrowded and warm. On the men’s side,…
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Israel News Will Renewed Terror Stifle Jerusalem’s Secular Renaissance?
The First Station looks like a typical outdoor mall, with shops and cafes inside a renovated Ottoman-era train hub. But the year-old center, with its porous design, non-kosher eateries, and shops open for business on the Jewish Sabbath, is a subtle rebuke to two forces that have shaped modern West Jerusalem: ultra-Orthodoxy and Palestinian suicide…
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Fast Forward Ashkelon Mayor Decides Against Ban On Arab Workers
Ashkelon Mayor Itamar Shimon has walked back his decision to lay off city Arab workers in the aftermath of the deadly synagogue attack in Jerusalem. On Sunday, Shimoni agreed to allow the workers to complete construction work on bomb shelters in the city’s preschools and relocate the students to the local community center, Ynet reported….
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Opinion The Terror Rocking Jerusalem Is Not About God
Israeli emergency services cleans the sidewalk at the scene of the Jerusalem attack / Getty Images Four ultra-Orthodox Jews at prayer and one Druze policeman, murdered by two Palestinian young men armed with knives, axes and a gun. The heart grieves for the families of the victims and the suffering of the injured. This past…
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Fast Forward Italian Aliyah Expected To Double in 2014
Italy is experiencing a sharp upsurge in Jews making aliyah. An estimated 300 Italian Jews are expected to move to Israel in 2014, the Italo-Israeli demographer Sergio Della Pergola told the Italian news agency ANSA on Friday. The Jewish Agency affirmed to JTA that the figure — more than double from a year ago —…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Home Torched, Owner Blames Israeli Settlers
A Palestinian home was torched in the occupied West Bank on Sunday and “Death to Arabs” daubed on a wall in Hebrew, in an attack that its owner blamed on Jewish settlers. No one was hurt in the fire that gutted the home in the village of Khirbet Abu Falah, near the Palestinian city of…
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Fast Forward Israeli Cabinet Approves Controversial Jewish Nation-State Bill
Israel’s Cabinet passed a controversial bill that would identify Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people. The bill passed the Cabinet Sunday by a vote of 14 to 6. It will move on to the Knesset on Wednesday, where it must pass a preliminary reading and then two other readings. The opposition includes five…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Man Approaching Gaza Fence Shot by IDF Troops
Israeli troops shot a Palestinian man in northern Gaza, killing him, Palestinian officials said. It is the first Gazan Palestinian to be killed by Israeli bullets since the Israel’s 50-day operation in Gaza last summer. Fadil Muhammad Halawah, 32, was hunting birds Sunday in the northern Gaza Strip when he was shot, the Palestinian Maan…
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