North American Jewish leaders say they are shocked that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has canceled the Kotel compromise and agreed to promote the Orthodox conversion bill. They shouldn't be....
By Doni Kandel Living in the Old City of Jerusalem for eighteen months was enough for me. While I'm eternally appreciative of Jerusalem, it is loud and overcrowded; the Old City is no exception. However, there is no more significant religious or cultural place...
According to The Jerusalem Post, the Kotel rabbi, Shmuel Rabinovitch, has sent Sen. Barack Obama a letter apologizing for the publication of the note the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee left in the Kotel last week: "As the rabbi of the Western Wall and the...
Controversy has erupted regarding Sen. Barack Obama's recent trip to Israel, because an Israeli newspaper, Ma'ariv, published the note Obama put in the Kotel. Many people, including the staff of Yedihot Aharonot, a newspaper that also obtained Obama's note but decided not to publish it, feel...