Jerusalem Controversy

Blue & White Chairman Benny Gantz attended a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem. According to a report by Kan Bet, Gantz said: "When I become prime minister, I will embrace all streams in Judaism. I will promote the imple…

Benjamin Netanyahu has told the Jewish Agency that Israel has responsibility for Jewish communities around the world and that he intends to allocate financial resources to help protect the Jewish Diaspora. In an address to the organisations Board of Governor…

Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Shlomo Amar has written a letter in which he urges women to come to pray in their section of the Western Wall of the Temple in Jerusalem at 6:45 am on Wednesday to counter the Women of the Wall group's observance of the new …

When President Reuven Rivlin entrusted the mandate to form a government to Blue and White head Benny Gantz, the apparently weak prospect that he can accomplish this goal unleashed a fresh tide of complaints about political gridlock and the ineptitude of Israe…

In his recently published book, We Stand Divided, Dr. Daniel Gordis made an important contribution to the ongoing discourse about how to heal the split between American Jewry and Israel. While Gordis is insightful in examining the differences between Israeli …

The Jewish Agency will conduct an “uncompromising assault on antisemitism” as part of a new strategic plan the organization has set itself for the coming decade. It intends to partner with the Israeli government to work together with Jewish communities and o…

As the Jewish Agency for Israel turns 90 this year, it is refocusing its vision for the next decade. No longer merely “for Israel,” the agency is prioritizing connections between Diaspora communities — and outreach into the greater non-Jewish community to edu…

The Jewish Agency is set to approve a strategic action plan for the coming decade, designed to address the major challenges currently facing the Jewish people. Mapping the challenges and resulting actions were formulated through a global process, the first o…

Jerusalem is a city of hills and stone. At first thought, this combination might spook some wheelchair users, but it shouldn’t. Today, many of Jerusalem’s amazing sites are accessible to those using wheelchair mobility. Since the spring of 2019, several ki…

On the first Shabbat after Sukkot, we once again start the annual cycle of reading the Torah portions. Every Shabbat we convene in the synagogue for prayer and reading of the Torah portion, one section of the Five Books of Moses. The first portion, which we w…