This is the Forward’s coverage of Jerusalem, the holiest city in Judaism and the capital of Israel.
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Fast Forward Trump Will Skip Yad Vashem On Israel Visit
President Trump might skip a stop to Yad Vashem while visiting Israel later this month as part of his first foreign trip as president. That’s just one of the surprises in the itinerary, reported by Israel’s Channel 2 on Tuesday. Another is that Trump will travel to Bethlehem rather than Ramallah to meet with Palestinian…
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Slideshows BEHOLD: The World’s Tiniest Jerusalem at Gulliver’s Gate
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Fast Forward 52 Lawmakers Demand Israel As Birthplace For Jerusalem-Born
(JTA) — Fifty-two U.S. members of Congress have signed a letter calling on the Trump Administration to allow Americans born in Jerusalem to list Israel as their birthplace on official documents. The letter, led by Republican Reps. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Bill Johnson of Ohio, was sent last week to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson,…
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News Fact-Checking The Bible — In Chicago’s Oriental Institute
The Oriental Institute, one of the world’s most valuable collections of ancient world artifacts, takes no position of the historical veracity of the Bible. But one of its most precious holdings testifies vividly to at least part of it. In the early seventh century BCE, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, invaded the kingdom of Judah. The…
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Fast Forward UNESCO Votes 22-10 To Condemn Israel’s Control Over Jerusalem
NEW YORK (JTA) — The United Nations’ cultural agency voted to condemn Israel’s sovereignty in Jerusalem. UNESCO — the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization — passed a resolution called “Occupied Palestine” by a vote of 22-10, with 26 countries abstaining or absent, on Tuesday. The resolution calls on Israel to rescind any “legislative and…
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Culture What Ever Became of the ‘Children of Jerusalem’?
Editor’s Note: ‘What Ever Became of the ‘Children of Jerusalem,’” a longform story by Naomi Zeveloff about the fates of seven Israeli and Palestinian children who starred in a 1990’s Canadian documentary series, is the 2016 Sigma Delta Chi award winner for Non-Deadline Reporting. Between 1991 and 1996, seven Israeli and Palestinian children starred in…
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Fast Forward Trump Waffles Again On Jerusalem Embassy — Insists ‘No Reason’ Mideast Isn’t At Peace
President Trump insisted there is “no reason” Israel doesn’t have peace with the Palestinians and pointedly refused to discuss moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. Trump is considering a visit to Israel soon after a White House visit in February by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is due to meet Trump…
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Fast Forward Women Smuggle Torah Scroll Into Western Wall Prayer Service
Hundreds of women joined Women of the Wall for the group’s monthly Rosh Chodesh service, which included a Torah scroll smuggled in to the women’s section of the Western Wall. Among the some 300 women who assembled for the service on Thursday morning to mark the new Hebrew month of Iyar were those from nine…
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