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“Neighborhood rabbonim and the Religious Council in Yerushalayim are protesting deliberate actions by the municipality to furtively take down dozens of eruv posts in the southern part of the city. The recent incident - the worst of four recent incidents - caused extensive damage to costly, mehudar posts, leaving thousands of residents in south Jerusalem […]

” Orthodox Jewish youth stand on a roof of a disputed house in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in east Jerusalem, Dec. 25, 2009.” DayLife.com

“In an effort to spread some holiday cheer, the Jerusalem Municipality on Wednesday announced that it would be distributing free Christmas trees to the capital’s Christian residents in front of the Old City’s Jaffa Gate on the morning of Christmas Eve. The distribution will take place from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m. next Wednesday, and […]

“An ultra-orthodox Jewish man is detained by Israeli border policemen outside Intel’s office building, in Jerusalem, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009. Police dispersed thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews who demonstrated outside an Intel facility in Jerusalem Saturday in protest of the U.S. company operating on the Jewish Sabbath, which they view as a desecration of the sanctity […]

“Intel will not employ Jewish workers on Saturday shifts in its Jerusalem plant, the chip-maker has suggested in a new compromise proposal. The move comes after large crowds of ultra-Orthodox protesters attacked the plant on Saturday, in protest of it continuing operations on Shabbat. The plant, in the Har Hotzvim industrial area in Jerusalem, employs […]

“Jerusalem District Court Judge Moshe Ravid ruled Tuesday that the mother from Mea Shearim suspected of starving her toddler son will remain under house arrest and will not be separated from her children. Judge Ravid, however, ruled that she and her children must remain outside of the Jerusalem haredi neighborhood and that they will be […]

But Sheik Tamimi doesn’t need to take the Jews’ word for any of this, or that of legions of world-class scholars. For proof of the Jewish connection to Jerusalem, he need only look at writings from his own religious tradition.
The Koran, which references many biblical stories and claims figures like Abraham as Islamic prophets, also […]

” The mystery was soon resolved, with the appearance at the door of Rav Sholom Mordechai Hoffman, a respected member of the Toldos Aharon chassidus in Yerushalayim, accompanied by his son Chaim Zavil. The faces of the two shone with the ethereal joy of the performance of a rare mitzvah. Chaim Zavil, his youthful countenance […]

“A Palestinian worker prays at the site of a new housing project at the Jewish settlement of Har Homa in east Jerusalem on September 7, 2009.” DayLife.com

“Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, the hareidi-religious Jew who heads the Zaka emergency service, said Thursday that hareidi demonstrations will continue. Interviewed by Arutz 7, Meshi-Zahav said that the public does not recognize the dynamic under which the community acts. He explained that the community does not recognize the secular state and that demonstrations are the community’s only […]

“An Ultra Orthodox Jewish man, who attempted to block traffic at a central Jerusalem road, is pushed away by an Israeli police officer during a protest against a public parking lot that is open on the Jewish Sabbath August 22, 2009. ” DayLife.com