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Archives: Judaism
Can Israeli institutions include both more Women and more Gender-Segregating Orthodox?
Shulamit Almog | (The Conversation) | - - In one sense, women are making great strides in the Israeli Defence Force (IDF). In October, the army declared it was examining the possibility…
Israel’s sliding definition of anti-Semitism in the Trump era
By Heike Schotten | (Ma'an News Agency) | - - You would think that support for Israel is fundamentally at odds with anti-Semitism. If you thought that, however, you would be wrong.The…
Holy Lands: Reviving Pluralism in the Middle East
by JOSEPH RICHARD PREVILLE and JULIE POUCHER HARBIN | ( ISLAMiCommentary) | - - Column » ‘By the Book’ with Joseph Preville How did the rise of nation-states in the 20th century…
Israel’s “chained women” fight for right to divorce
By Michael Blum | ( Your Middle East | - - Israel's "chained women" fight for right to divorce. She is one of Israel's "chained women" -- the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of…
Muslims who saved Jews from Holocaust Honored (& Case of Albania)
Interfaith Peacemakers | - - [N.B. The interfaith 'I am your Protector" Campaign, founded by Dani Laurence, last week commemorated in several cities the Muslims who saved Jews from the Holocaust. Laurence…
Violent clashes in Jerusalem fed by extreme Israeli counter-measures
By Yoav Galai | (The Conversation) | - - On the evening of Monday September 14, Alex Levlovich was driving back from the Rosh-Hashana Seder, the celebration of the Jewish new year,…
Ashrawi: “Israel is provoking a global holy war” over Aqsa
By IMEMC News | - - PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi met with [British Consul General to Jerusalem] Dr. Alastair McPhail at the PLO Headquarters in Ramallah, September 14, 2015.…
Israel: Rosh Hashanah Dancing Robots – Happy New Year with a Technion Touch
Technion | Shana Tova - Video| - - "Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has the touch to get you ready for the New Year - a robot picks a pomegranate from the tree…
Clashes rock Al-Aqsa Compound, 3rd Holiest Muslim Shrine, for 2nd day
Ma'an News Agency | - - JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces and Palestinians clashed for the second consecutive day at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Monday, with several journalists injured as Israeli…
‘Bibi in Bible Land’: The Likud Party Miscalculates and loses on Iran Deal
By Shalom L. Goldman | (Informed Comment) | - - Now that the Democratic senators have blocked a challenge to the Iran deal, pundits are looking at what the most persuasive arguments…
Defending Natalie Portman on Holocaust: Sometimes it can be subverted to fear-mongering
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Actress Natalie Portman has kicked off a controversy with remarks about how to remember the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews, in which the…
Leader of extremist Israeli organization calls for torching churches
Ma'an News Agency | - - JERUSALEM (Ma'an) --The leader of a Jewish extremist group in Israel allegedly called for arson attacks on churches in front of Israeli students, Israeli media reported…
A demolished Palestinian village comes back to life
By Melanie Nakashian | (Waging Nonviolence) | - - Among the hundreds of Palestinian villages that were evacuated between 1947 and 1951, there is one whose descendants are actually getting close to…
Grandson of Meir Kahane arrested for burning baby; part of extremist network
By Celine Hagbard | (IMEMC News ) As Israeli investigators release their findings that a right-wing Jewish terrorist network is gaining power throughout Israel and illegal West Bank settlements, an arrest has…
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Man Allegedly Stabs 6 At Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade
By IMEMC | - - An ultra-Orthodox Jew stabbed six Gay Pride marchers in occupied East Jerusalem on Thursday, in a repeat of a 2005 attack for which he served 10 years…
Jerusalem: Ultra-Right Israelis again invade Aqsa Mosque compound; UN condemns provocation
Ma'an News Agency | - - JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Right-wing Israelis broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Monday for the second day in a row, as the UN expressed concern over…
Jerusalem: Israeli forces, extremist Jews, storm Aqsa mosque compound
JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces broke into Al-Aqsa mosque compound Sunday morning firing stun grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets at Muslim worshipers as they cleared way for right-wing Jews who were visiting…
Israel releases 16 Squatter Youth suspected in arson of Church of Loaves & Fishes
By IMEMC | - - Israeli police detained and have now released 16 young Jewish settlers, Thursday, after an overnight arson attack damaged a revered shrine in northern Israel. The arson attack…