This is the Forward’s coverage of Jerusalem, the holiest city in Judaism and the capital of Israel.
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Opinion How Israelis and Palestinians Cope — With Two Different Wars
Getty Images The first thing I noticed when my shared taxi dropped me off in Jerusalem earlier this month were the flags. In the Beit Hakerem neighborhood where I was staying — a mostly secular Jewish area in southwest Jerusalem — balconies were strung with large Israeli flags and rows of miniature ones. Car antennas…
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Fast Forward Hundreds Protest Jailing of Yeshiva Student for Evading Draft
At least six protesters were arrested and a police officer was wounded in demonstrations protesting the arrest of a yeshiva student for ignoring a draft notice. The demonstrations took place Sunday in Jerusalem and other cities with large haredi Orthodox populations, including Bnei Brak, Modiin Illit and Beit Shemesh. The hundreds of protesters blocked busy…
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News Was Herod Ripped Off by Western Wall Builders?
(Haaretz) — Some of the stones of the Western Wall are of lesser quality than others, according to new research, and may indicate that the contractors of the Second Temple were not above cheating their royal client, Herod the Great. “It started with a simple question. We looked at the Western Wall and saw that…
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Opinion Israel Professor Gets in Big Trouble for Showing Concern for Gaza War Victims
Hanoch Sheinman, the philosophy professor at Bar-Ilan University’s law school caught in the midst of a fierce controversy involving an email sent to his second-year law students, expressing sympathy for all victims of Israel’s Gaza conflict, phoned me in frustration because he couldn’t manage to shut the roof of his rented convertible. I had emailed…
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Fast Forward Drive-By Terror Gunman Opens Fire on Jerusalem Corner — One Dead in Bus Ramming
A Palestinian killed an Israeli and overturned a bus with a construction vehicle on Monday and a gunman wounded a soldier in attacks in Jerusalem that appeared to be a backlash against Israel’s Gaza war. There were no passengers on the bus, in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of the city. Surveillance video broadcast on Israeli…
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Opinion Prayers for the State of Israel. Yes, Now, on Tisha B’Av
I get the impression that a lot of folks are feeling lost and helpless right now as we watch the tragedy unfolding in Israel and Gaza. Especially with Tisha b’Av approaching, people are looking for some way to express what they’re feeling in a manner that joins them with others in a community of spirit,…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups File Briefs in Jerusalem Passport Supreme Court Case
A number of Jewish groups have filed friend of the court briefs in a Supreme Court case considering whether Americans born in Jerusalem may list “Israel” as their birthplace on their passports. Among the groups filing in recent days on behalf of Menachem Zivotofsky in his lawsuit against the U.S. State Department are the Anti-Defamation…
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Fast Forward Planning for Third Temple With Help From Web
(JTA) — An organization based in Jerusalem is working on a detailed architectural blueprint for the Third Jewish Temple on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount — and has turned to the internet for help with the controversial project. The Temple Institute, which has recreated 60 vessels to be used in a Third Temple and which sponsors educational programs…
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