Jerusalem Controversy

An anti-Semitic vandal scrawled “Slaughter the Jews” on a section of the sacred Western Wall in Jerusalem over the weekend, according to local reports. The chilling phrase was spray-painted in Arabic on the Kotel HaKatan, or “Little Western Wall,” on Saturda…

The phrase Slaughter the Jews was spray painted on the Little Western Wall, a section of the Western Wall located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The vandalism took place on Saturday. At least one Arab girl was arrested on Saturday night …

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Many have visited the Western Wall plaza since nighttime for prayers and reciting Selichot on the occasion of the 17th of Tammuz fast, commemorating the beginning of the siege on Jerusalem.

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A new religious, right-wing political party has been established by a highly conservative faction in the religious Zionist community to advance policies against LGBT rights and what its backers have called “the destruction of the family.” According to one of…

The “Noam” party, whose name and logo were revealed last week, on Sunday released its first campaign video, in which it takes aim at values propagated by the LGBT and Reform movements. The party is associated with the Har Hamor yeshiva in Jerusalem. Har Hamo…

JERUSALEM - Israels new education minister has likened intermarriage among North American Jews to the Holocaust in a recent Cabinet meeting. A spokesman for Education Minister Rafi Peretz confirmed Tuesday that Peretz said that assimilation is like the Holoc…

JERUSALEM (AP) Israel’s new education minister has likened intermarriage among North American Jews to the Holocaust in a recent Cabinet meeting. A spokesman for Education Minister Rafi Peretz confirmed Tuesday that Peretz said that “assimilation is like the …

In the fierce morning light of Caesarea, we hike down the beach, following the line of a ruined aqueduct that dates from the era of Herod the Great. The golden sand is littered with tiny russet tiles. Peering up into the dunes, we shade our eyes as our guide …