Judaism

July 2, 2024

‘We will not enlist:’ Ultra-Orthodox in Israel vow to defy orders to serve in the military

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July 1, 2024

CNN — Protests in Jerusalem against the drafting of ultra-Orthodox Jews into the Israeli military turned violent on Sunday, with…

March 25, 2024

Tel Aviv CNN — Two of the three members of Israel’s war cabinet signalled their opposition to government proposals on…

September 17, 2023

The Jewish community in Egypt organized a celebration for the Jewish New Year in the Vitali Madjar Synagogue in Heliopolis,…

June 24, 2023

Jerusalem CNN — In the hushed, ornate St James cathedral in the Armenian Quarter, one of Jerusalem’s most famous photographers…

March 19, 2023

Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, the top religious institution for Sunni Islam, rejected calls to form a doctrinal entity that brings together the…

March 8, 2023

The United Arab Emirates on March 1 inaugurated the “Abrahamic Family House,” an interfaith complex housing a mosque, a church,…

February 20, 2023

A Hebrew Bible more than 1,000 years old and described as “one of the most important and singular texts in…

October 17, 2021

JERUSALEM (AP) — The man known as the last Jew of Kabul could soon be heading to Israel, after agreeing…

May 3, 2021

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s governmental watchdog agency said Monday it would launch an investigation into the deadly stampede at a…