Religion

If you had to find the one Hasidic Rebbe that would attract President Elect Donald Trump's attention, it would have to be Reb Israel Friedman of Ruzhin.

Israel's Rabbinate is caught in a pool of political quicksand over the issue of plurality at the Western Wall.

"In Judaism buildings aren’t so important, they are places that we use… but we move, we move a lot."

Jerusalem Jews protested having to endure the loud sound of the Islamic call to prayer, even during their sleep.

Rabbi Riskin tried to put a leash on this cat and take it on a walkie when he told Ha'aretz he would accept Reform conversions should the Reform agree to the requirements of "immersion in the mikveh, circumcision, and basic knowledge and practice of Judaism."

PM Netanyahu reminded Italy's Pres. Matarella the Arch of Titus, a Roman description of Jewish Jerusalem events, was not 'Zionist propaganda.'

The Interior Minister will keep his cabinet post but resign as a Knesset Member.

It is impossible to paint lipstick on either of these pigs, but in the competition between Halloween and Christmas over which of the two holidays is more dangerous Halloween wins out, hands down.

Using the great, eye opening Pew study of 2013, Cohen points out that the signs of Jewish life in intermarried Jewish families are fast diminishing.

"The money that modern forgers and dealers can make on modern forgeries is astronomical, consistently in the five and six figure range. The motivation is strong."

Participants in the Jerusalem conference were particularly excited by this revelation in light of two recent UNESCO resolutions which disavowed any connection between Jewish history and the Temple Mount.

My Genizah is a hard-edge, personal commentary on the making of the Jewish archive from the documents of the Genizah.

Israeli Jews and Arabs both live in the central city of Lod; now the prayers of both will be heard on public loudspeakers.

"That scandalous decision ... that the Jewish People have no connection to the Temple Mount, or to Jerusalem at all, is contradicted by the Bible and the entire historical record.

An IDF soldier is hit in the face, his glasses shattered by metal balls fired by Arab terrorists.

PM Netanyahu says the second UNESCO resolution adopted on Jerusalem is more "theater of the absurd."

To be fair, the media, Jewish and otherwise, have yet to catch Abedin in a scandalous anti-Israel statement, the kind that White House staff resignations are made of.

Israel Police have recommended the prime minister allow MKs to resume ascending to the Temple Mount.

Tens of thousands of signatures are on a petition demanding that UNESCO stop denying ancient Jewish ties to Jerusalem.

Bidders are required to agree to place the object on public exhibition, as per a stipulation by the Israel Antiquities Authority, which designated the artifact a "National Treasure" of Israel.

Another UNESCO resolution on Jerusalem is coming up for a vote, this one by the World Heritage Committee."

Italy's prime minister vows to oppose, not abstain against future UNESCO resolutions against Israel.

Iraq has a homegrown industry satisfying the market's need for beer and Arak.

On December 5, 2012, clashes broke out outside the Ittihadiya presidential palace between Muslim Brothers and protesters that left 11 Egyptians dead.

Thousands of Christians from around the world showed their solidarity in the capital on the Festival of Sukkot in the annual Jerusalem March.

The dispute MK Tibi has just entered is not, as he put it, religious, but scientific.

Trump's view on third-trimester abortion conflicts with mainstream Jewish halakha.

"Most of the people who write about him don't [know him]. I do. So that gives me an ability to shrug off the things that I read about him that are wrong."

Mexico's envoy to UNESCO is an envoy no longer because he refused to vote against history and Jerusalem.

UNESCO has adopted the controversial resolution advanced by the Palestinian Authority obliterating the historic link between Judaism and Jerusalem's holy sites.