This week, Israel’s far-right government acceded to its ultra-Orthodox coalition partners and torpedoed a compromise years in the making, which had been intended to offer Israeli women a means of worshipping at the Western Wall in an egalitarian manner. Women of the Wall have long protested the segregation and second-class status of women who choose […]
FBI Arrests White Supremacist Planning Synagogue Attack After Trump Bristles at Anti-Semitism Question
This has been a bad day for Donald Trump. Not a bad day perhaps on a national scale. But today he lost even those 20% of Jews who voted him in the last election. His problems began with today’s press conference in which a Jewish reporter asked him (after having been asked virtually the same question yesterday) […]
Netanyahu Corruption Scandal Envelops Wealthy U.S. Haredi Family
The only thing better than a nice, juicy sex scandal is a nice, juicy corruption scandal. Bibi Netanyahu has already had his very own sex scandal. But it didn’t manage to wreck his career or his marriage. The brewing corruption scandal threatens to do at least one, if not the other. I reported yesterday on an […]
Terror Rules Jerusalem
All the U.S. national news headlines speak of yesterday’s heinous synagogue terror attack by Palestinians in the West Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Nof (largely populated by Haredi Jews). The assault resulted in five Israeli dead with the two Palestinians attackers killed as well. U.S. news programs have also focused on the American citizenship of three of the […]
