Jerusalem Controversy

It was long ago but I can still not forget my disappointment at seeing nothing of Istanbul's 16th-century Suleymaniye Mosque but the entrance to its courtyard. It was an impressive entrance of big grey walls surmounted by popping domes and minarets like mis…

Between 1989 and the mid-2000s, as the Soviet Union unraveled and fell into ongoing turbulence, about 1.5 million Jews made their way across newly opened borders and fled. One million of them went to Israel, where they were received as long-lost brethren and…

On a scorching summer afternoon in Israel, an 18-year-old woman is waiting at a bus stop on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Shes on her way to her first day of work waitressing, eager to arrive on time. When the bus pulls up, a man waiting with her boards. But t…

The concept of beauty, which had ostensibly been disdainfully erased from 20th century architectural theory, reverberates again in international discourse, and the results are already visible on the ground. We can assume that some Israeli architects, partic…

Roughly half a million people visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem during the Hanukkah festival, according to the Western Wall Heritage Foundation. "This year, the Hanukkah holiday season was more crowded than in previous years. It is touching to see the Je…

Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef said, during a candle-lighting ceremony at the Western Wall of the Temple in Jerusalem, "There must be no incitement against sectors among the people of Israel."

Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel Yitzhak Yosef and Chairman Benny Gantz of the Blue and White Party took part, Sunday evening, in the lighting of the eighth candle of Hanukkah at the Western Wall of the Temple in Jerusalem. Also taking part in the ceremony wa…

The Women of the Wall have demanded that Blue and White Party Chairman Benny Gantz cancel his planned participation in the lighting of the eighth candle of Hanukkah on Sunday evening at the holy site. They noted, in a l…

POMPEII, Italy — In the gift shop at the Pompeii archaeological site, tourists might notice a book entitled, The Jews in Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae and in the Cities of Campania Felix. Dedicated to the Jewish victims of the eruption of 79 CE, it claims th…

Last Friday the International Criminal Court (ICC) became the latest UN body that chose to side with the Palestinian Arabs and to go after Israel. After finishing her preliminary investigation into Israeli and Palestinian actions in Gaza, eastern Jerusalem, …