Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Jerusalem, the holiest city in Judaism and the capital of Israel.
Jerusalem
The Latest
-
Fast Forward Woman Charged By U.S. For 2001 Jerusalem Suicide Bombing
(JTA) — The United States charged a Jordanian woman with involvement in a suicide bombing in Jerusalem that killed 15, including two Americans. The U.S. Justice Department unsealed Tuesday the charge against Ahlam Aref Ahmad Al-Tamimi, who is in her mid 30s and is also known as “Khalti” and “Halati,” for conspiring to use a…
-
Fast Forward 2 Israeli Police Officers Injured In Palestinian Stabbing Attack
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Israeli Border Police officers were injured in a stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem. The officers were stabbed by an alleged Palestinian assailant overnight on Sunday at their post near the Lions Gate. A third officer reportedly shot and killed the man, identified by the Palestinian Maan news agency…
-
Fast Forward Richard Gere Walks Jerusalem Red Carpet At Premier Of ‘Norman’
Hollywood actor Richard Gere delighted fans after walking the red carpet in Jerusalem for the Israeli premiere of his new film “Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall Of A New York Fixer.” The “Pretty Woman” star plays Norman Oppenheimer, a veteran “fixer” in New York’s Jewish community who runs into trouble when he tries…
-
Israel News How This Jewish Cemetery In Israel Fixed Its Vandalism Problem
While a second Jewish cemetery has been desecrated in America in as many weeks, in Israel, a historic Jewish cemetery is free of vandalism for the first time in decades. The Mount of Olives cemetery is a sprawling 3,000-year-old Jewish burial ground in East Jerusalem with 150,000 graves. The cemetery is one of the oldest…
-
Fast Forward Hundreds Of Orthodox Students Try To Disrupt Women Of The Wall Service
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hundreds of haredi Orthodox men and women and religious Zionist female seminary students attempted to disrupt the monthly Rosh Chodesh morning service of the Women of the Wall group. About 150 women gathered in the women’s section of the Western Wall Plaza to celebrate the new Jewish month of Adar. Some of…
-
Fast Forward Tel Aviv And Jerusalem Marathons Revel In A ‘Healthy Competition’
TEL AVIV (JTA) – Noah Roth likes to recall two moments from Israeli marathons in which he’s raced: a competitor in Jerusalem breezing by him in 2010 wearing all-black, haredi Orthodox garb but for a white athletic shirt; and a Russian woman on this city’s Allenby Street who last year handed sprinters cups of clear-liquid…
-
Fast Forward Secular Jerusalem Plots To ‘Choke Off’ Orthodox With Friday Night Flicks — And No Religious Pre-School
The ultra-Orthodox need to be “choke[d]” so they don’t take over traditionally secular Jerusalem neighborhoods, said the head of a Jerusalem neighborhood group. Yehiel Levi, the head of the Kiryat Hayovel neighborhood administration said Kiryat Hayovel, a neighborhood in southwest Jerusalem, will not include ultra-Orthodox kindergartens in public building projects as a way to put…
-
Fast Forward WATCH: Right-Wing Orthodox Group Accuses Women Of The Wall Of ‘Debasement’
A right-wing Orthodox group announced a protest against Women of the Wall at the feminist group’s upcoming prayer service next week with a dramatic video calling on supporters to end the “debasement” of the Western Wall. Women of the Wall said that video “all but calls for violence against Women of the Wall,” in a…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Fast Forward Why the Antisemitism Awareness Act now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements
- 2
Culture Trump wants to honor Hannah Arendt in a ‘Garden of American Heroes.’ Is this a joke?
- 3
Fast Forward The invitation said, ‘No Jews.’ The response from campus officials, at least, was real.
- 4
News Why Zohran Mamdani believes he’ll win over Jewish voters, as Israel critic surges to second behind Cuomo in NYC mayoral race
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward The fires in Israel are under control — but debate is raging over their cause
-
Fast Forward Argentina declassifies more than 1,800 files on Nazi escape via ‘rat-lines’ to South America
-
Fast Forward Betar USA founder banned from World Zionist Congress over feud with Israeli firebrand Shai Davidai
-
News School Israel trip turns ‘terrifying’ for LA students attacked by Israeli teens
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
