Out of the spotlight, Israel and Vatican negotiate holy sites
Vatican flags raised outside Jerusalem's Old City before Pope Benedict's visit, 6 May 2009/Baz Rattner There have been a series of significant and highly publicised events recently in Vatican-Jewish...
View ArticleBerlusconi charms Israel with EU talk
Berlusconi and Netanyahu shake hands during a meeting in Italy last year Silvio Berlusconi is seldom shy about making headlines, and he's also known to turn on the charm when he meets foreign leaders....
View ArticleSex abuse claims against famed rabbi grip Israel
Ultra-orthodox Jewish men praying in the Old City of Jerusalem, 11 March 2008/Yiorgos Karahalis Israeli police said on Friday they were looking into allegations of sexual abuse against one of the...
View ArticleAs Afghan civilians killed, Israel complains of ‘double standards’ over Gaza
A NATO air strike in Afghanistan that mistakenly killed 27 civilians has added a new dimensionto a divide between Israel and Western critics of its conduct in last year’s Gaza war. Commentators in...
View ArticleJerusalem: heart of the Mideast conflict
Jerusalem, December 8, 2009/Ammar Awad Next week is the time of year when millions of people around the world look to Jerusalem as the source of inspiration for the Christian festival of Easter and...
View ArticleJerusalem Power
To spend the past few days in the crowded, narrow streets of Jerusalem’s Old City, among the multilingual throngs marking Passover or Easter, was to get an unforgettable sense of the power this place...
View ArticleDesperately seeking… Madonna? Enlightenment?
“You’re so beautiful!” a middle-aged American woman in a modern Orthodox Jewish headscarf called out across the street to a complete stranger as I was walking through the northern Israeli town of...
View ArticleUltra-Orthodox protest against Israeli ruling to integrate Jewish schools
Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews protested in Israel Thursday against a court order to desegregate a religious school and force Jewish girls of European and Middle Eastern descent to study...
View ArticleWriting on the walls
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip may just feel a little less isolated today. Israel is bowing to international pressure and rejigging its embargo on the enclave in the wake of the bloodshed 3 weeks ago...
View ArticleGiving no quarter, Jerusalem’s Armenians keep flame alive
The rare sense of space and calm that marks out the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City is both its blessing and its curse. The acquisition of the land, and construction of the beautiful St. James...
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