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The Schmooze The Western Wall’s Makeover
The Western Wall is very, very old, and no one seems to mind. (In, fact, that’s kind of the point.) But it’s about to get two decidedly un-Biblical upgrades. As reported in The Jerusalem Post, the Jerusalem Planning and Building Committee is currently considering a proposal to build an elevator and pedestrian tunnel that would…
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The Schmooze Officials: Israeli Light Rail Survey Is Racist
Dear New Yorkers: We’re expanding the subway. It’ll pass through some bad neighborhoods. And we’re allowing Muslim-Americans to ride without security checks. Is that OK? It sounds outrageous, but an Israeli company asked a very similar question of Jerusalemites after it won a city contract to run the city’s light rail system. Haaretz reported today…
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Opinion Bibi Bombshell: ‘Many Jewish Neighborhoods in J’lem Will Remain in Israel’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dropped a bombshell today in a speech at the Plaza Hotel to about 500 people gathered by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations: Israel might accept a peace agreement in which parts of Jerusalem are handed over to a Palestinian state. He said it backwards, but the…
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The Schmooze Tickets to Jerusalem: From Russia With Design (via Brooklyn)
Radik Shvarts’ idea was simple enough: design your ideal plane ticket to Jerusalem and mail it to Shvarts care of a PO Box in Brooklyn. A highlight of the 120 tickets he has received from around the world over the past year form the basis of a new exhibition, Ticket to Jerusalem, which opened last…
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Opinion Vatican and the Jews: The Pius Spat, The Pious Spit
A new blog post by John Allen of the National Catholic Reporter, routinely described as the most authoritative English-language journalist covering the Vatican, reports on a seldom-discussed irritant in Catholic-Jewish relations: Haredi youth spitting on robed Catholic clerics on the streets of Jerusalem. Here’s an excerpt: Jews move to halt spitting at Christians in Jerusalem…
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Opinion The N.Y. Times and the Jewish Nationalism Question. Bring Your Own Elephant.
The New York Times touched off a lively little debate Wednesday morning, probably unwittingly, with an article from its Jerusalem bureau that was headlined “Jewish Nationalists Clash With Palestinians.” You don’t see the term “Jewish nationalist” very often these days, except in historical discussions of Zionism and its attempt to rebuild the Jewish nation. Suddenly,…
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Life Israel’s Monument to 9/11
Whatever tensions may exist between Jerusalem and Washington at the moment, there was a show of unity this week as Israeli leaders and American officials came together to unveil a 9/11 memorial. With that, Jerusalem became one of the first cities outside the U.S. with a memorial to 9/11 victims. Visitors of Arazim Park in…
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Culture Who’s Afraid of Jerusalem?
Who’s afraid of Jerusalem? Who loathes and despises her? Who execrates her, heart and tongue? Who says, What am I doing in this city of black hats And maniacs This city of blood and enmity Where Hillel the Elder pursues peace Amid the broken cups and carnage? Who hates Jerusalem For the love wherewith he…
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Culture Why saying ‘L’shana Tova’ on Rosh Hashanah may not be the correct phrase
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Opinion With killing of Hezbollah’s chief, Israel occupies the inarguable moral high ground
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In Case You Missed It
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Special Report At the kibbutz hit hardest on Oct. 7, a wrenching debate over how to rebuild
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Opinion Oct. 7 changed Israel. A year later, it must change American Jews, too
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Oct. 7: One Year Later Helpless and horrified: An oral history of 5 Jews in America on Oct. 7, 2023
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Opinion I study the relationship between Zionism and Judaism. Oct. 7 may have changed it forever
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