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BREAKING NEWS

6:44 AM
Israeli plane takes off for Turkey to return bodies of Israelis killed in Istanbul attack (Haaretz)
5:04 AM
Arson suspected in Palestinian village of Duma: home of Dawabasheh relative catches fire (Haaretz)
2:32 AM
First plane of wounded from Istanbul attack land in Israel; 3 Israelis taken to hospital (Haaretz)
10:44 PM
Two American citizens killed in Istanbul blast, White House says (Reuters)
8:35 PM
Netanyahu: Israel looking into whether Istanbul bomber targeted its nationals (Haaretz)
7:17 PM
Three Israelis killed in Istanbul attack, Turkish media report (Haaretz)
7:04 PM
U.S., allies conduct 26 strikes against ISIS, U.S. military (Reuters)
6:44 PM
Turkey's Davutoglu condemns bombing as 'treason,' says multi-pronged probe continues (Reuters)
6:12 PM
At least one Iranian and one Israeli killed in Istanbul blast (AP)
5:55 PM
American soldier killed by rocket fire near Mosul in northern Iraq (AP)
5:54 PM
One Israeli fatality confirmed in Istanbul attack (Haaretz)
2:44 PM
Jordan: Video cameras to be up 'in days' at Temple Mount (AP)
2:28 PM
Monitor: Dozens killed or wounded in airstrikes on Syria's Raqqa (Reuters)
1:24 PM
Israel's Foreign Ministry in emergency preparedness mode following Turkey blast (Haaretz)
12:29 PM
Three Israeli citizens wounded in Istanbul blast; at least four others killed (Haaretz)

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Jerusalem & Babylon

by Anshel Pfeffer

What's so holy about the Western Wall anyway?

The farcical agreement over cloning the Kotel has taken the debate over the future of Judaism to a parochial and demeaning place.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Feb 5, 2016 | 12:03 AM | 5

New Western Wall prayer space signals shift among ultra-Orthodox politicians
By Yossi Verter
Former Minister Eli Yishai says Kotel compromise is an opening for more concessions to Reform
By Haaretz | 1
Netanyahu denounces Israeli tourism minister's attack on U.S. Reform Jews
By Barak Ravid | 7

Jerusalem 10:45: First responders at the site of a terror attack in Jerusalem, October 7, 2015

We don't have the luxury to play the blame game

We're acting stupidly, and I don't want my loved ones to die because of our stupidity.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Oct 16, 2015 | 01:30 AM

Scene of the terror attack on Jerusalem's Malkhei Yisrael Street, October 13, 2015.

Jerusalem, back to its dismal bloody normal

If things don’t calm down very soon Jerusalem will be back to 'normal' with a slump in tourism, conferences shifting their venues and European soccer and basketball teams demanding to play matches in Cyprus.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Oct 13, 2015 | 07:03 PM

No one on either side is fighting for the people of Jerusalem

Forty-eight years after ostensibly being reunified, Jerusalem remains divided into three cities — Zionist-Jewish, Arab-Palestinian and Jewish ultra-Orthodox.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Oct 10, 2015 | 04:13 AM

Pope Francis stands in the popemobile during a parade in Philadelphia September 27, 2015.

Give me a bigoted but honest rabbi or priest before a phony pope like Francis

One especially pities American liberals who took him to their hearts, disregarding his canonization of a priest who, 250 years ago in California, took part in the genocide of native Americans.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Oct 3, 2015 | 03:33 AM | 16

Breslov Hasidim check in to flights headed for Uman at Ben-Gurion International Airport.

The darker side of Bratslav

Many of the 30,000 adherents who made the annual pilgrimage to Uman for Rosh Hashanah were there for the wrong reasons.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Sep 25, 2015 | 11:08 AM | 5

Labeling of settlement products and BDS are two different things

To lump together the European Union's labeling of West Bank products with the boycott of Israel is to risk shooting oneself in the foot.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Sep 18, 2015 | 12:47 AM | 5

Children sit under covers as they wait with migrants and refugees in Serbia.

Looking for my grandfather among the refugees in Europe

Comparisons between today’s refugees fleeing war and and those who fled the Nazis 70 years ago are wrong, but also inevitable.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Sep 10, 2015 | 09:02 PM | 2

Lifejackets are seen abandoned by Syrian refugees on a beach

World wants to forget Syria, but refugees won't go away

Four years and four million people into the tragedy, the West is finally paying notice as the victims come out of the sea.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Sep 3, 2015 | 06:28 PM | 7

File photo of a Chief Rabbinate-run conversion court in Jerusalem, May 23, 2004.

Who are you to call me a goy? The dawn of Judaism as a personal choice

After a millennium and a half as the gatekeepers to being Jewish, the rabbis and their conversion courts are in danger of becoming quaint throwbacks.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Aug 14, 2015 | 12:52 AM

True Judaism will kill us if we don’t reject it in time

This religion did not survive by remaining true to its roots. It deliberately lost its authenticity and assimilated and adapted and evolved.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Aug 6, 2015 | 11:00 PM | 52

French Jews marching in Paris in March 2012.

Jerusalem and Babylon || Jews in America may be drifting from Israel, but east of U.S., there's no problem

As Russian and Ukrainian Jews have told me, 'When Israel bombs Gaza and kills Palestinians, our neighbors here fear and respect us.'

By Anshel Pfeffer | Jul 31, 2015 | 03:09 AM | 7

Settlers being evacuated from Gush Katif during the disengagement

Disengagement, 10 years later: how little things change

Ariel Sharon’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza may have been flawed, but at least it showed a leader who took Israel’s destiny seriously.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Jul 23, 2015 | 07:45 PM

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by Allison Kaplan Sommer

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David's Harp

by David Rosenberg

Diplomania

by Barak Ravid

Exposure: Haaretz Photo Blog

by Daniel Tchetchik

Modern Manna

by Vered Guttman

Strenger than Fiction

by Carlo Strenger

The Fifth Question

by Mira Sucharov

Haaretz Select

Obama attends a meeting at the National Security Council at the U.S. State Department.

U.S. history repeats itself with Obama's foreign policy mistakes

Obama weakened the moderate forces and undermined the stable pillars of American policy in the Middle East - in some sense, much like Eisenhower did.

By Gadi Taub | Opinion

Putin shows Obama how Mideast intervention is done

By Amos Harel | Middle East News

Down with Trump: Hating each other is not the answer

Donald Trump and others are able to inject hatred and racism into the hearts of the masses, to fan the flames of enmity among the deprived and the oppressed. It’s going to take something major to stop the rot.

By Sayed Kashua | Opinion

The 'straight Jewish white man' making bespoke suits for New York's queer

By Neta Alexander | Jewish World Features

Is a boycott of Israel feminist?

By Tsafi Saar | Israel News

When your Birthright group flies out of Israel without you

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