This is the Forward’s coverage of Jerusalem, the holiest city in Judaism and the capital of Israel.
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Life Israel’s Monument to 9/11
Whatever tensions may exist between Jerusalem and Washington at the moment, there was a show of unity this week as Israeli leaders and American officials came together to unveil a 9/11 memorial. With that, Jerusalem became one of the first cities outside the U.S. with a memorial to 9/11 victims. Visitors of Arazim Park in…
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Culture Who’s Afraid of Jerusalem?
Who’s afraid of Jerusalem? Who loathes and despises her? Who execrates her, heart and tongue? Who says, What am I doing in this city of black hats And maniacs This city of blood and enmity Where Hillel the Elder pursues peace Amid the broken cups and carnage? Who hates Jerusalem For the love wherewith he…
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Opinion Obama, the Double-edged Nobel Sword and that Little Blue Dress
The Nobel committee may not have done President Obama much of a favor in awarding him the Peace Prize. At best it’s a double-edged sword. As Yediot Ahronot’s Washington correspondent Yitzhak Ben-Horin points out in a smart news analysis on the paper’s Ynet Web site (in Hebrew — not yet translated into English as I…
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Life Women: Sit at Home or Risk Being Spat Upon
Years back, when the Lubavitcher rebbe was alive and I was covering various events connected with that movement, I was always pleasantly surprised when my job seemed to cancel out my gender. For instance, at a gathering of thousands of Chabad emissaries, then held at a hall on Eastern Parkway across from the movement’s headquarters,…
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Life Unrest on the Day of Rest: The Irony of the Haredi Parking Lot Protests
Shabbat is known as the “day of rest,” and the etymology of Jerusalem is often said to be “city of peace.” But this Shabbat in Jerusalem was neither restful nor peaceful. Some 28 Haredi demonstrators were arrested during riots over the opening of a parking lot. Six people were wounded. On Friday night, thousands of…
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Life Offbeat Israel: Gay Pride Brings Religious Zionists to Arab Neighborhoods
Here in Israel, there has been no shortage of secular-religious tensions in recent weeks. As the Bintel Blog discussed here, there have been the turf wars of Ramat Aviv where secular residents fear a Haredi takeover. More recently we’ve had violence over recreation. Haredi residents of Jerusalem, where there is no public transport on Shabbat,…
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Life Jerusalem Gets the PBS Treatment
As the site of — depending on how one worships — Abraham’s divinely-commanded sacrifice (and last minute recall) of his son, Jesus’s resurrection from the dead and Mohammed’s ascension to heaven, Jerusalem is no longer the “militarily and strategically” insignificant spot 35 miles off the coast of Mediterranean, that it was 40 centuries ago, according…
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Life Jerusalem Is Sold?
The Babylonian Talmud says: “Ten measures of beauty descended the world, Nine of them were taken by Jerusalem, and one by the rest of the world.” But how many of those measures will be left once the real estate developers are done with the holy city? Jewlicious takes a look at the high-rise developments looming…
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