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Despite top court ruling, religious group moves Tel Aviv gender-segregated Yom Kippur prayer to synagogue

Haaretz - 11:10 Oct 10, 2024

After facing opposition from the Tel Aviv Municipality, which had banned gender-segregated prayer in public spaces, the Supreme Court upheld the group's right to hold the service. However, citing 'plans to ruin this lawful prayer,' Rosh Yehudi announced it will move the event to a synagogue
Archaeologists may have evidence of ancient Jerusalem bracing for Assyrian onslaught

Haaretz - 11:08 Oct 10, 2024

An imposing royal building erected atop an earlier one in Mordot Arnona, Jerusalem, may attest to King Hezekiah and Judah preparing for the arrival of an angry Sennacherib – and its aftermath

Tags: Jerusalem
'We don't feel at home in Germany anymore': How October 7 and Gaza changed Jewish life in Berlin

Haaretz - 10:17 Oct 10, 2024

What has October 7 and the subsequent Gaza war meant for the tens of thousands of Jews living in Berlin? How it has changed their lives and politics, reshaped their city and country, and what does it portend for their future?

Tags: Gaza Berlin
Israeli citizen arrested in Beirut deported from Lebanon

Haaretz - 10:11 Oct 10, 2024

Joshua Tartakovsky, a 42-year-old that holds British and Israeli citizenships, was arrested in the Lebanese capital, which he entered as a journalist

Tags: Israeli
Origin of Yom Kippur: Not Moses, but a Murder in the Temple?

Haaretz - 10:08 Oct 10, 2024

While tradition says that observance of the Day of Atonement was initiated by Moses, careful reading of the Bible indicates that the holiday was a much later contrivance.
10 Things You Probably Don't Know About Yom Kippur

Haaretz - 10:04 Oct 10, 2024

How to appease the demon Azazel, our Akkadian roots, self-flagellation and sheep - read on.
Australia, Alaska or Madagascar: Ideas for a Jewish homeland that weren't Israel

Haaretz - 09:25 Oct 10, 2024

Would things have worked out differently if the Jews had established their state in a less hostile part of the world? Should they have settled for less than full statehood? Here's a look at what could have been if other proposals panned out
Breaking Israel's last taboo: Childless by choice

Haaretz - 09:21 Oct 10, 2024

This may be the first time in the history of birth-crazed Israel, in which it is permissible to question the choice to bring children into the world
From summer staple to symbol of Palestinian solidarity: In Israel, the watermelon had a turbulent year

Haaretz - 09:19 Oct 10, 2024

Heat waves, war, and an increasing political weight has put pressure on the seemingly sturdy but really quite fragile fruit
One killed, six wounded in stabbing rampage in central Israeli city of Hadera

Haaretz - 09:14 Oct 10, 2024

The victim of the attack was named as Raphael Mordechai Fishoff, a 35-year-old Hadera resident. Medics reported that six others were also wounded after a 36-year-old resident of the Israeli-Arab city of Umm al-Fahm carried out a suspected terror attack, according to Israel Police

Tags: Hadera
Arab Israeli educator released after arrest over video allegedly celebrating October 7 attack

Haaretz - 06:31 Oct 10, 2024

Intisar Hijazi was arrested after posting a video of herself dancing and smiling with the caption 'On This Day 7/10/2023.' Israel Police later released her under restrictive conditions but stated that the investigation is still ongoing
IDF names Israeli soldier killed in fighting in southern Lebanon

Haaretz - 05:39 Oct 10, 2024

Ronny Gazinate immigrated with his family from France to Israel, and is survived by his wife and three children. In the same incident in which Gazinate was killed, another reservist was seriously wounded
Why is it that we 'must' respond to the Iranian attack?

Haaretz - 03:44 Oct 10, 2024
Israel must face the real threat posed by Iran and avoid retaliation for its own sake

Haaretz - 03:42 Oct 10, 2024
Efforts for Haredim stranded in Europe display Israel's shameful selective outrage

Haaretz - 03:29 Oct 10, 2024
22 killed in Israeli-attributed strike in central Beirut

Haaretz - 03:17 Oct 10, 2024

Target of Beirut strike was senior Hezbollah official Wafiq Safa, according to Saudi report ■ IDF says it aerially attacked a terror cell in West Bank city of Tul Karm ■ Israel's UN envoy tells UNIFIL to relocate north to avoid danger after the peacekeeping group says its HQ, nearby positions 'repeatedly hit' ■ IDF says strike on Gaza school targeted militants; rescuers say 28 killed

Tags: Beirut
'How can I go back to routine when my son is in the tunnels of Gaza?'

Haaretz - 03:01 Oct 10, 2024

Israeli hostage Omer Wenkert was abducted from the Nova Festival on October 7. He was documented alive in a Hamas video, tied up in a pickup truck next to lifeless bodies. 'We then realized that Israel doesn't have him, and our crusade to get him back home began,' says his mother, Niva Wenkert
Brown University votes against divestment proposal, angering pro-Palestinian students

Haaretz - 01:37 Oct 10, 2024

University heads said in a statement that 'Brown's mission doesn't encompass resolving or adjudicating global conflict,' after rejecting a proposal to divest from 10 companies student groups say enable 'Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory'

Tags: Palestinian
What if Israel's right-wing justice minister committed to doing his job?

Haaretz - 00:45 Oct 10, 2024
Two Israeli police officers investigated for arrest of women calling for hostage release at synagogue

Haaretz - 23:52 Oct 09, 2024

Two senior Israeli officers are suspected of abusing their authority, fraud and breach of trust after ordering the arrests of women who handed out leaflets calling to release Israeli hostages in a synagogue attended by MK Yuli Edelstein. One is also suspected of obstruction of justice

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