'Coercive, threatening and wholly inappropriate conduct': Israel's oldest Reform synagogue in jeopardy

by mgall74 | Jan 8, 2026 | Israeli News

[ad_1] Kehilat Har-El in Jerusalem says the World Union for Progressive Judaism is threatening it with a lawsuit and eviction if it does not withdraw its objection to a development plan on an adjacent lot. WUPJ denies the allegations in an urgent letter sent this week...

Former Jerusalem mayor and Yad Sarah founder, MK Uri Lupolianski, dies at 74

by mgall74 | Jan 7, 2026 | Israeli News

[ad_1] MK Uri Lupolianski, the founder of the Yad Sarah volunteer organization and mayor of former Jerusalem, died Wednesday at the age of 74. His funeral will take place today on Thursday in Jerusalem.Lupolianski was born in 1951 in Haifa. He was married and is...

A Jerusalem tragedy that contains all the ills of this sick Israeli government

by mgall74 | Jan 7, 2026 | Israeli News

[ad_1] News Life and CultureColumnists and OpinionHaaretz Hebrew and TheMarkerPartnershipsHaaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World.©...

When anarchy becomes catastrophe: Israel police let Haredi riots run unchecked in Jerusalem

by mgall74 | Jan 7, 2026 | Israeli News

[ad_1] It has happened again. A large demonstration by the ultra-Orthodox community against the government’s military draft exemption bill ended in tragedy on Tuesday in Jerusalem, when 14-year-old Yosef Eisenthal was killed after being run over by a bus driver...

One killed, three wounded as bus runs over Haredi protesters in Jerusalem

by mgall74 | Jan 6, 2026 | Israeli News

[ad_1] The incident took place as an estimated 15,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews protested against military conscription in Jerusalem. An eyewitness told Israeli media the protesters ‘stopped the bus and spat on the driver and then he saw that he had no way out’...