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Fast Forward Jerusalem Mayor and Bodyguard Wrestle Palestinian Attacker to Ground
Israel’s mayor of Jerusalem and his security guard wrestled a Palestinian attacker to the ground near city hall on Sunday after an ultra-Orthodox Jew was stabbed with a knife at a busy intersection. Security camera footage showed mayor Nir Barkat, in a white shirt, walk towards the suspect together with his bodyguard and lunge at…
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News Temple Mount Bathrooms Spark Feud With Muslims
The rabbi of the Western Wall, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, condemned as “incitement” attempts by the Muslim Wakf to politicize the expansion of restrooms at the site. Muslim leaders at the Al-Aksa Mosque located on the Temple Mount say the expansion of the restrooms, located 55 yards from the Mughrabi Gate, is designed to desecrate Muslim…
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Opinion My Night at Jerusalem’s First Public Drag Show
Courtesy of Jerusalem Gay Student Association, photo by Leshem Brosh “Did you see the drag show?” I asked a friend at last night’s Winter Noise Festival. “Yeah,” he responded, “did you see the racist a**holes?” Last night, in the hippest corner of Jerusalem’s city center, young Jerusalemites made history. They held the city’s first-ever public…
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Life Women Fight Back Against Jerusalem Modesty Signs
A sign in the entrance to Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem. Photo by Wikimedia Commons / Lisa Mathon Modesty signs in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods of Jerusalem are a common sight. The forbidding black headlines generally read, “Please do not pass through our neighborhood in immodest clothes” – with a detailed description of the dress code…
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Fast Forward Jewish Visits to Temple Mount Rise by 28%
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem saw nearly 11,000 Israeli Jewish visitors last year, an increase of 28 percent over 2013. The figures were released by Israel Police through a freedom of information request to the Temple Institute, an organization that encourages Jewish visits to the site and aspires to rebuild the Jewish Temple there. According…
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Fast Forward Druze Student Beaten ‘for Speaking Arabic’ in Jerusalem
A Druze student in Jerusalem was beaten with glass bottles by a gang. Tommy Hasson, 21, told Israeli news website Ynet that he was leaving his job at a hotel Thursday night when a group of people approached him and began mocking him for speaking Arabic. One man spat on him, and after Hasson hit…
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News Congress Seeks To Force White House Hand on Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital
With the start of the new, Republican-led Congress, the issue of Jerusalem will be converging on President Obama from two separate directions now, even as a viable peace process to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict appears more distant than ever. The Jerusalem Embassy and Recognition Act of 2015, introduced in early January by Republican senators Ted…
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Opinion Want To Stop Terror Attacks? Cover Up!
Illustration by Lior Zaltzman “Short clothing = shortened life.” That’s a message currently winding its way through Jerusalem’s streets, thanks to a new ultra-Orthodox modesty campaign. The ad, plastered across 20 Egged buses, has been sparking social media protests among secular Israelis who resent being told how to dress. They’re saying that it’s hypocritical of…
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