7 years in prison for praying at the Western Wall? Netanyahu’s coalition is threatening a war on Jewish unity.

During the recent Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations’ mission to Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded that Jews around the world stand strong and unified in support of Israel and against antisemitism. “Fight, fight, fight,” he told us, celebrating Jewish strength and unity in the face of existential challenge. Indeed, since Oct. 7, […]

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Israel’s High Court sides with egalitarian prayer advocates in long-running Western Wall dispute

Israel’s highest court has delivered a unanimous rebuke to state and municipal authorities over long-stalled plans to upgrade the Western Wall’s egalitarian prayer section, intensifying a dispute that has come to symbolize broader tensions over religious pluralism in Israel. In a decision issued Thursday, an expanded seven-justice panel of the High Court of Justice ordered […]

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At this Jerusalem museum, everyday objects tell the story of the Holocaust in a unique way

JERUSALEM — A guitar played by Jewish teenager Nina Simon of Skopje, Yugoslavia. A shortwave radio that once belonged to Raphael Ahav of Lyon, France. An embroidered prayer shawl, or tallit, used by 7-year-old Yosef Valdman of Borsczców, Poland. These everyday artifacts are among 33 displayed in glass cubicles at the entrance to “Living Memory” […]

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Netanyahu draws criticism after asking to excise the word ‘massacre’ from title of Oct. 7 commemoration bill

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ignited outcry after his office requested to remove the word “massacre” from the title of a bill commemorating the Oct. 7 attacks. During a discussion of the bill in the Knesset on Wednesday, Yoel Elbaz, a Netanyahu representative, proposed that the title of the bill should use the Hebrew word […]

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After 3-hour White House meeting, Trump says he ‘insisted’ to Netanyahu that Iran talks should continue

Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday in an effort to push the U.S. leader to widen negotiation with Iran to include Israeli security priorities. “Nothing definitive” came out of the highly anticipated meeting between the leaders, which lasted roughly three hours, Trump wrote in a post on […]

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Former Moscow rabbi says he rebuffed proposal to convert a million Russians discussed in Epstein files recording

When newly released audio recordings revealed former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak discussing mass conversion and selective immigration with Jeffrey Epstein, disgraced financier and the convicted sex trafficker, the reaction in Israel was swift and deeply political. Israel’s current prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, accused Barak of seeking to “select” Jews for immigration and charged that […]

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