Jerusalem Controversy

Tens of thousands of people are at the Western Wall for the Priestly blessing (Birkat Kohanim), which is recited during the intermediate days of the Sukkot holiday. The chief rabbis of Israel and the Rabbi of the Western Wall and the Holy Sites will be in att…

EU continues to delude itself“New EU Foreign Envoy: It’s not antisemitic to favor a two-state solution” (Jpost.com, October 9) quotes incoming European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell as saying that the EU contributes “around a million euros a day” t…

Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY), one of the most influential Jewish lawmakers, announced on Thursday she will not run for re-election to Congress next year. In an announcement quoted by JTA, the 82-year-old lawmaker noted that she was the first woman to chair the Hou…

Friday afternoon and the sun begins to set. The traffic thins out. Numerous individuals and families make their way to their local synagogue, the Jewish place of worship. The descending wings of tradition’s two angels escorting the opening of Shabbat are almo…

Tens of thousands of Jews across Israel attended synagogues on Yom Kippur and participated in the prayers. The rabbinical organization Tzohar held over 350 joint secular and religious quorums throughout Israel in cooperation with Or Torah Stone and the Meita…

Israel shut down on Tuesday evening for Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement and the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. All flights in and out of Ben Gurion airport ceased at 1:35 p.m.. The airport will reopen Wednesday night with arrivals starting at 9:…

Israel's Tourism Ministry is planning on opening a new camping site in the Peace Forest in Jerusalem, to combat the high cost of hotels in the city. Scheduled to open in October 2020, it would be the first camping site in the capital and will be located withi…

An estimated 100,000 men, women and youth took part, Monday night in the central Selichot penitential prayers, held at the Western Wall of the Temple in Jerusalem with the participation of leading rabbis and public figures. The Western Wall Heritage Fund say…

Authorities were completing their preparations for Yom Kippur Tuesday, as Israel was set to slow down to a halt for the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. Public transportation was to end services in the early afternoon, and roads were expected to largely c…

Last week Demi Lovato made a series of social media posts from Israel, celebrating her experiences there. After a number of people left comments criticizing the singer for legitimizing an apartheid state, Lovato shared a (quickly deleted) apology in which she…