Jerusalem Controversy

I was about to devour one of the great joys of Israel, its breakfast, when the tour guide, Ofer, broke the news. Rockets launched from Gaza the night before had struck the south. We were in the tree-lined tea house gazebo of the Port and Blue Hotel in Tel Av…

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The Women of the Wall have asked the police to increase their protection and protection during the prayer they intend to hold at the Western Wall of the Temple in Jerusalem on Friday to mark the beginning of the Hebrew month of Kislev. A letter to the David …

Mordecai Chertoff moved from the United States to Palestine in 1947 as a young man, writing evocative letters to his family back home and capturing the drama of Israel’s birth. These letters were collected and annotated by his son, Daniel Chertoff, in a newly…

Archaeologists today petitioned the Supreme Court against the cable car plan for the Old City of Jerusalem.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has had a hell of a year, in which he lost two elections but has defiantly remained in office, and got indicted in three criminal cases that could bring Israel's political system down with him. The 70-year-old politi…

Candy Chang and James A. Reeves, “Light the Barricades” (2019), installation view (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted)  LOS ANGELES Governments worldwide, including the United States, Saudi Arabia, Austria, and Israel, are co…

In a pre-recorded video address to the Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference in Jerusalem, Gordon Robertson, CEO of the Christian Broadcasting Network, explained the origins of his love for the land of Israel and its people.  He recalled the impact of his firs…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday that the United States had reversed a Carter administration-era State Department legal opinion calling Israeli settlements in the West Bank "inconsistent with international law." The decision, apparently long in…

Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer The writer is adjunct professor of law at two prominent Southern California law schools, Senior Rabbinic Fellow at the Coalition for Jewish Values, congregational rabbi of Young Israel of Orange County, California, and has held promi…