Jerusalem 101
A third of Jerusalemites, the Arab population, lives in East Jerusalem, an area not visited by Jewish Israelis or American ...
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Is the Orthodox ban on homosexuality wavering?
Rabbis in Israel are reinterpreting Jewish law, and Orthodox gays are coming out of the closet By MOSHE GIT Two ...
Dead Sea Scrolls go on exhibit at Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul
It was media preview day today for the extensively publicized new exhibit, The Dead Sea Scrolls: Words That Changed the World, at ...
Israeli police interrogate, fingerprint Reform movement activist involved with Women of the Wall
Israeli police questioned a prominent Reform movement activist in connection with the wearing of prayer shawls by women at the ...
Elevating mythology
The glorification of Operation Solomon, the 1991 airlift of Ethiopian Jews to Israel, has become the vested interest of certain ...
JTA: Woman wearing tallit arrested at Western Wall
Jerusalem police arrested a woman praying at the Western Wall for wearing a tallit, according to JTA. The woman, who ...
White House 'dismayed' by Israel's planned expansion of neighborhood in East Jerusalem
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs issued a statement on Tuesday expressing official disapproval of plans to build 900 additional units ...
5769: The year in review
Terrorists kill Chabad emissaries in Mumbai; Madoff’s Ponzi scheme leads to collapse; Franken elected to U.S. Senate JTA Staff Report ...
Wayward New Jersey rabbis
The recent arrests of mayors, other elected officials and Orthodox rabbis in a New Jersey corruption investigation have been widely ...
PBS’ 'Jerusalem' delivers history without controversy
Reviewed by MICHAEL FOX The most surprising aspect, frankly, of the engaging two-hour PBS documentary, Jerusalem: Center of the World, ...
