About a month ago, after four years of building, the Jerusalem neighborhood of Maaleh Zeitim was reborn. Located just east of the Old City in Ras al-Amud, Maaleh Zeitim has been populated once again by Jews – this time in permanent homes. The neighborhood, which has been surrounded by political controversy in the past that […]

Public Security Minister Tzachi HaNegbi announced in the Knesset last night that, “soon, very soon,” Jews would be permitted once again to visit the Temple Mount. He said that Jews would be allowed to “pray individually” at the holy site, in accordance with the status quo between 1967 and 2000. The last Jew to publicly […]

Why does the State Department refuse to allow “place of death” on the death certificate of Ben Blutstein of Pennsylvania – who was killed last July when Arab terrorists bombed a Hebrew University cafeteria – to read, “Jerusalem, Israel”? Why do the American passports of his children state that they were born in “Jerusalem,” without […]

Several large signs have been affixed near the entrances to Jerusalem’s Western Wall plaza. In addition to the usual guidelines regarding modesty and respect for the sanctity of the holy site, the centrality of the Temple Mount to Judaism and the Jewish people is clearly expressed. The signs, ten feet tall, read: “Jewish tradition teaches […]

Army Radio reported today that the Bush Administration is pressuring Israel not to allow Jews to move into their homes in the Maaleh HaZeitim (Ras el-Amud) neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem. It’s apparently too late, however, as Arutz-7’s Shimon Cohen reports that some residents have already been living there for a week. It was reported that […]

A tiny Jewish outpost in the Mount of Olives cemetery stakes its claim to become a permanent settlement. A group of young Jewish men have been living for several months in “Ma’aleh Hazeitim,” the official name of a tiny Jewish settlement on the outskirts of the Arab East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al Amud. Only […]

A very large and unusual room, with a mikveh [ritual bath] from the Hashmonaim period (some 2,100 years ago), was discovered accidentally in Jerusalem’s Old City a number of weeks ago, near the Hasmonean Tunnels. The room is 20 meters high, 10 by 10 meters wide, with the mikveh at the bottom, including a stairwell […]

An inscribed stone tablet from the time of Yehoash, King of Judah, has apparently been discovered on the Temple Mount. The black stone tablet, containing ten lines of Phoenician script, describes activities carried out by King Yehoash in the First Temple some 2,700 years ago. The inscription corresponds to the biblical account as recorded in […]

House by house, old Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem are being reclaimed for Jews. The Uvneh Yerushalayim association, formed for the purpose of locating and reclaiming Jewish-owned properties in eastern Jerusalem and environs, very recently scored a very dramatic success in its efforts. The story began when a property in a largely Jewish-owned, but currently Arab-inhabited, […]

Cecilia Cohen has rarely had the opportunity to spend Sukkot in a sukka. In her native Patagonia in Southern Argentina she explained that her family had built a sukka several times in her childhood, but with her home city of Comodoro Rivadavia continually buffeted by end of winter high winds, sitting in the booth was […]