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Israel News One Person Isn’t Buying Yehuda Glick’s Temple Mount Crusade — His Mom
Israel’s newest Knesset member, Yehuda Glick, is on a mission to bring Jews to pray on the Temple Mount. But he hasn’t won over one person — his own mother. Unlike her son, Brenda Glick’s husband, Shimon Glick, defers to the mainstream rabbis who see ascension to the Temple Mount as religiously risky because of…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade Stabber Gets Life in Prison for Murder
JERUSALEM — Yishai Schlissel, who stabbed six marchers at the Jerusalem gay pride parade, including a 16-year-old girl fatally, was sentenced to life in prison. On Sunday, the Jerusalem District Court also ordered Schlissel to pay compensation to the family of Shira Banki, the teen who was killed, and to those injured in the July…
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Fast Forward In Jerusalem’s Old City, Christians Also Fear Expansion of Jewish Settlers
When hundreds of Jewish nationalists marched through the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City this month, waving banners and chanting songs in what has become an annual ritual, it wasn’t only Muslims watching warily. Christians were, too. Religious tension is nothing new in a city that has been the home of three faiths for centuries….
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Fast Forward Egalitarian Worshippers Scuffle With Ultra-Orthodox at Western Wall
JERUSALEM — Haredi Orthodox men fought with Conservative and Reform Jewish activists taking part in an egalitarian prayer service Thursday afternoon at the Western Wall Plaza. Police worked to separate the dozens of haredi men from the crowd of worshippers. The haredi men whistled and sang loudly to distract the service, and later became physical…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Hold Divided Service in Push To ‘Sabotage’ Western Wall Prayer Deal
In what is believed to be a first, Orthodox Jews temporarily took over the space at the Western Wall that has been designated for non-Orthodox prayer services. A — a physical divider separating men and women — was set up at the southern section of the Western Wall on Tuesday for a service led by Jerusalem Chief…
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Fast Forward Brazil Regrets Voting for UNESCO Measure Denying Jewish Ties to Jerusalem Holy SItes
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s Foreign Minister Jose Serra intends to change Brazil’s anti-Israel vote given in April at a United Nations session, where rights for cultural assets in the areas conquered in the Six-Day War were discussed, Brazilian media reported. Serra was tapped by new acting president Michel Temer. The text of the resolution passed at the 199th session…
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Israel News A Muted Jerusalem Day Parade, With Some Help from a Court Order
JERUSALEM—As the alleyways of Jerusalem’s Muslim Quarter began to empty on Sunday afternoon, a policeman in grey fatigues approached Ahmad Arafa and asked him to shutter his shoe shop. “Can I smoke a cigarette first?” The 23-year-old vendor asked the officer. “If you want them to turn over your stall, be my guest,” the policeman…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Day March Passes Through Muslim Quarter With Less Violence and Racism Than Past Years
The Jerusalem Day flag march in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City took off in relative calm on Sunday evening, following earlier concerns of friction between Jewish revelers and local Arab residents. No altercations were reported, and a few Muslim-owned shops on Hagai Street, a main thoroughfare in the Old City, remained opened….
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