Jerusalem Controversy

Among the finds are this spectacular broken menorah, or ceremonial candlestick, representing the seven-branched menorah in the Temple in Jerusalem. (Image credit: Volnoe Delo Foundation) Archaeologists in southern Russia say they've discovered the ruins of a 2,000-year-old synagogue — a rare discovery given that buildings for Jewish worship from this…

(August 24, 2023 / JNS) Sgt. Maj. Avishag Shiran Malka, 38, is the only female ultra-Orthodox member of the Israel Border Police. The stringent religious practice of the ultra-Orthodox combined with the intense nature of her work can be challenging, she acknowledges, which in part explains why she’s the only…

Source: LinkedIn / CanvaBusiness tycoon and former owner of Beitar Jerusalem FC, Moshe Hogeg, has been accused by the Israeli police of orchestrating a $290 million crypto scam. According to the authorities, Hogeg raised a staggering $290 million from investors both in Israel and internationally through four cryptocurrency projects between…

Paramedics take victim to hospital; police say assailant fired shot, fled on motorbike A man was moderately hurt in an apparent criminal shooting in Jerusalem on Tuesday, police and medics said. Paramedics treated the man for gunshot wounds, then took him to Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center, according to a…

JERUSALEM (RNS) — As anti-Christian incidents perpetrated by religious Jewish extremists have increased in number during the past several months, church leaders are pleading with government officials to take the matter more seriously.    Until recently, those pleas have gone largely unheeded. Preoccupied with an unprecedented political crisis sparked by…

Ukraine over the weekend renewed threats to close its borders to Israeli pilgrims making their way to the city of Uman for Rosh Hashanah next month to retaliate for Israel deporting Ukrainian tourists. In a weekly address on Saturday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky urged that the “rights of Ukrainian citizens…

New York: Qatar is prepared to take on the role of an international mediator in the wake of the recent Doha-brokered prisoner swap deal between Iran and the US, the nation’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari said on Wednesday. “Our job as mediator is to make sure that…

(August 18, 2023 / JNS) The U.S. State Department described Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s Thursday morning meeting with Israel Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, who is known as “Bibi’s brain,” as low-key. “The secretary reaffirmed the United States’ enduring friendship and steadfast commitment to Israel’s security,” Matthew Miller, the…

A conference for educators that featured supporters of gay conversion therapy and other homophobic content went ahead at a hall in Jerusalem on Tuesday after two other locales declined to host the event. The conference, put together by the Even Yisrael organization, was disavowed earlier this month by the Education…

Notorious Feelings, a new book by Ever Abott, has been released by RoseDog Books. Notorious Feelings has many poems with true rhymes. Each poem is a translation of the many feelings and emotions that were created in a short or a long period of time and which are the result…