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Opinion ‘Sacrilege’? It’s a Pretty Low Bar in Israel These Days
Israel’s escalating culture wars turned surreal in late February, when a vitriolic battle of words erupted between right and left over this question: What is the biblical birthplace of the Jewish people? One side picked Jerusalem. The other side picked Egypt. Both sides were wrong. But days later the battle is still raging, from the…
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News Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi Slams Reform Jews as ‘Heretics’ — but Backs Western Wall Prayer Deal Anyway
(JTA) — Rabbi Avigdor Nebenzahl, former chief rabbi of Jerusalem’s Old City, is no fan of Reform and Conservative Judaism. In a letter sent Thursday to Israel’s chief rabbis, the haredi Orthodox Nebenzahl calls the movements “heretical religions.” They are “uprooting the religion and hurting everything holy to us,” he writes. “Their war against the…
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Fast Forward Bibi Hits Back at ‘Friend’ David Cameron on ‘Occupied’ Jerusalem
In an unusual rebuke, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted his British counterpart for criticizing Israel’s construction in eastern Jerusalem. “My friend David Cameron, who is without a doubt a friend of Israel, apparently forgot a few basic facts about Jerusalem,” Netanyahu said in a speech in Ofakim on Thursday, following statements by Cameron the…
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Fast Forward David Cameron Slams ‘Shocking’ Settlements in ‘Occupied East Jerusalem’
British Prime Minister David Cameron called construction in eastern Jerusalem “genuinely shocking” during a parliamentary question period. “I am well known for being a strong friend of Israel, but I have to say the first time I visited Jerusalem and had a proper tour around that wonderful city and saw what had happened with the…
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Opinion Israeli Opposition’s Plan for Jerusalem Makes No Sense. Here’s a Better Idea.
Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog has announced that, since a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not currently viable, Israel should take unilateral steps to manage the conflict. These steps include cutting off a number of Palestinian neighborhoods from East Jerusalem. “Then we’ll reunite the true Jerusalem, without hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, who…
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Fast Forward Archeologists Slam Construction at Western Wall for Egalitarian Prayer Deal
New construction aimed at providing a space for non-Orthodox prayer at the Western Wall would damage “the most important archaeological site for the Jewish people,” a group of Israeli archaeologists said. In a letter to Benjamin Netanyahu, nine senior archaeologists urged the prime minister to abort plans for construction, the Times of Israel reported. The…
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Fast Forward Teenage Policewoman Slain, 3 Palestinians Shot Dead in Jerusalem Attack
JERUSALEM — One of the two Israeli Border Police officers seriously injured in an attack by three Palestinian assailants in Jerusalem has died, police said. Hadar Cohen, 19, of Or Yehuda in central Israel, died hours after she was critically wounded Wednesday near the Old City, outside the Damascus Gate. She had recently joined the…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Umbrella Group Denounces Western Wall Compromise as ‘Profane’
The approval of an egalitarian section of the Western Wall “profanes” the holy site, the haredi Orthodox group Agudath Israel of America said. “Designating an area at the Kotel Maaravi (Western Wall) for feminist and mixed-gender prayer not only profanes the holy site, it creates yet a further lamentable rift between Jews,” Agudah said in…
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