Jerusalem Controversy

The German-Israeli Association (DIG) elected as its new director the Christian Democratic Union Party politician Uwe Becker, who pledged in late October a more aggressive posture toward Chancellor Angela Merkel’s largely pro-Iranian regime and Hezbollah polic…

When he visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem last May, many of the traditional Jews there could not have known that this controversial Rabbi Kirt Schneider - with a graying beard, a kippah, tsitsit and a tallit (Jewish garb) - was not really a rabbi.

The housing cabinet, led by Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, on Monday approved the cable car project for the Old City of Jerusalem. The program offers a solution to the problem of accessibility to the southeastern basin of the Old City (the Western Wall Plaza…

On Monday, the cabinet approved a NIS 200 million plan to build a cable car that will connect the First Station in Jerusalem’s German Colony neighborhood with the Western Wall. Why? Good question. The allocation of the funds comes as Israelis have been wai…

Day trips to the holiest city in the world Whether youre religious or not, seeing Jerusalem will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience due to its immense cultural and historical significance its considered a holy place of worship in Judaism, Christianity and Is…

The housing cabinet of the outgoing government will discuss approving a planned cable car system leading to the Old City as activists protest the decision being discussed under a transitional government. Attorney Itay Mack, who spoke on behalf of "coalition …

Forty Israeli siblings who survived the Holocaust met the 92-year-old Greek woman who helped save their lives decades ago. The reunion took place Sunday at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, Israel on Sunday in a once regular ritual that's been …

The story of the Flood stands at the center of this week’s Torah portion, with Noah himself the central character. The story of the Flood begins when in ancient times, humanity had deteriorated to such moral lows that murder, rape and stealing became acceptab…

All around the Jewish world, people dedicate the months of Elul and Tishrei to introspection and tshuva (repentance). This year, I would like to focus on the tshuva of the month of Heshvan, the tshuva of “after the High Holidays.” As we do every year, the Wes…

US President Donald Trump has hastily dispatched Vice President Mike Pence for urgent talks with Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan. These talks may have produced a 120-hour pause in the Turkish onslaught into the Kurdish areas, but it is too early to say wheth…