Jerusalem Controversy

LONDON: Forty days in and the protests that have rocked Iran since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini at the hands of the regime’s notorious morality police show no sign of abating, yet experts remain divided over whether the movement can achieve real change.  Multiple waves of anti-government protest have…

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JERUSALEM (AP) — Installing an elevator doesn’t normally involve a 2,000-year plunge into an ancient city’s history. But in Jerusalem, even seemingly simple construction projects can lead to archaeological endeavors. Archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem say they have made numerous discoveries, including an ornate first-century villa with its…

The Times of Israel liveblogged Tuesday’s events as they unfolded. UK prime ministerial debate halted after moderator faints in studio A televised British Conservative leadership debate is pulled off the air after a medical incident in the studio. Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, who are running to replace Prime Minister…

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After initially believing Russia’s moves against the Jewish Agency to be a relatively minor spat, Israeli officials now view them as the makings of a potentially major diplomatic rift, and the Jewish Agency is preparing accordingly, a senior official in the organization said Sunday. Moscow’s reasons for attacking the quasi-governmental…

Tamar Eshel, a former Israeli diplomat and lawmaker who was Israel’s oldest ex-MK, died Sunday in Jerusalem on her 102nd birthday. Eshel, a career diplomat, made history as the first Israeli to head the UN Commission on the Status of Women. She later served as a member of the Knesset…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister on Thursday said he would send a delegation to Moscow in hopes of halting a Russian order to shutter the operations of a major nonprofit organization that promotes Jewish immigration to Israel. Yair Lapid’s decision came after a spokeswoman for a Moscow District Court…

Paisley, the teardrop-shaped pattern that has decorated everything from Torah scrolls to bandannas, has its moment in “Paisley, A Princely Pattern,” an exhibit at Jerusalem’s Museum of Islamic Art. The design-focused exhibit, open since May, weaves between past and present as it follows the metamorphosis of paisley from its origins…

I have been a rabbi for more than four decades. I have seen many young people become b’nai mitzvah. I have been to celebrations with all sorts of tasteless themes. But, there is one theme that I have not experienced, and would have hoped not to experience. “Torn prayer books.”…