One day before Jerusalem’s gay pride parade and one year after the murder of 16-year-old Shira Banki by an ultra-Orthodox homophobe, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has announced that he will not attend the parade. His stated reason: not wanting to “be part of something that offends the ultra-Orthodox.” Barkat, give me a break. You must…
JERUSALEM — The parents of Shira Banki, the 16-year-old girl who was killed in an attack on participants in last year’s Jerusalem gay pride march, have called on the public to participate in this year’s march. “After Shira’s murder, there were many voices saying that even though they don’t agree with the way of life…
The evening of July 30 should have ushered in a joyous day on this year’s Jewish calendar. That Thursday night and Friday, July 31, was Tu B’Av — the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Av, and the Jewish festival of love. It’s traditionally a holiday dedicated to putting aside our habitual mourning over…
The Jewish Home party has filed a police complaint over threatening comments posted to chairman Naftali Bennett’s Facebook page. The posts call for violence against Bennett, Israel’s education minister, and other politicians with the right-wing, pro-settler party, accusing them of being murderers. The comments amount to incitement, the complaint said, according to reports Wednesday. They…
The mother of the man who stabbed six marchers in the annual Jerusalem Gay Pride parade said she regrets her son’s actions. “We think it’s really a great tragedy, we regret it very much and pray for the recovery of the wounded,” Rivka Schlissel told family members of Shira Banki, 16, who died of her…
Since the Jerusalem Gay Pride parade stabbing that killed teenager Shira Banki, and the arson in the Palestinian village of Duma that killed toddler Ali Saad Dawabshe, grief and outrage have permeated Israeli society. Now, those emotions have given way to stark images that are trending on social media. Death notices, in the style of…
“I felt like he was looking right at me. I could see his eyes. It was horrible.” That’s what Tom Canning, Director of Development at the Jerusalem Open House and one of the organizers of the Jerusalem Pride March, saw last Thursday on King George Street in Jerusalem. “He” was Yishai Schlissel, who stabbed seven…
Jewish groups in the United States called on Israel to more forcefully rein in its Jewish extremists. The call came in messages condemning two attacks: the firebombing of a Palestinian home in the West Bank, which led to the death of a sleeping baby; and the stabbing of six people during the Jerusalem Gay Pride…
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