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Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Jordanian FM accused of aggravating Temple Mount tensions

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The diplomatic dispute between Jerusalem and Amman over the security situation on the Temple Mount remains hot, with a senior Israeli official accusing the Jordanian foreign minister of fanning the flames. Senior Israeli officials are pointing the...
Israeli security personnel stand guard as Jews visit the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, July 18, 2021. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.

2,200 Jews ascend Temple Mount since start of Passover

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More than 2,200 Jews have ascended Temple Mount, located in Jerusalem’s Old City, since Passover began on April 5. Of those, some 1,200 visited Judaism’s holiest site on Monday, Israeli officials said. Tensions remain high at...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, March 9, 2022. Source: Isaac Herzog/Twitter.

Erdogan calls Herzog to express concern over security escalation on Temple Mount

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Israeli President Isaac Herzog spoke on Saturday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who expressed his concern over the security situation in Jerusalem and on the Temple Mount. Erdoğan also expressed his condolences for the...

‘Israel is an independent country’: Ben-Gvir vows to return to Temple Mount

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Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir vowed on Wednesday to continue visiting the Temple Mount, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Jordan’s king that he would uphold the status quo governing interfaith...
American Jewish conservative political commentator and columnist Ben Shapiro at the Temple Mount on July 24, 2022. Photo by Michael Miller.

Ben Shapiro at Temple Mount: Jews face apartheid there

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On Sunday afternoon, Ben Shapiro, the editor emeritus of The Daily Wire, ascended to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to pray with his parents and a group of followers. Shapiro’s first visit to the Temple Mount was...
The hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Credit: Pixabay.

Judaism deserves as much respect as Islam

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It turns out that there are some stunts in the era of clickbait journalism that really do go too far. When news reporter Gil Tamari of Israeli TV Channel 13 snuck into the city of Mecca earlier...
Following a winter storm, melted snow and rain fill up several Herodian-period water installations. Credit: Michal Haber/Hebrew University.

Ritual bath dating to eve of Second Temple’s destruction uncovered near Temple Mount

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced on Wednesday that it had unearthed an ancient Jewish ritual bath (mikveh) dating back to the Late Second Temple period, or the first century C.E. The ritual bath was...
Gaza City residents burn Israeli flags and pictures of Israeli officials after a Jerusalem Magistrate's Court ruled that Jews may pray on the Temple Mount. May 25, 2022. Photo by Attia Muhammed/Flash90.

Shavuot, the Six-Day War and the sorry ‘status quo’ on the Temple Mount

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Israeli and Diaspora Jews visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Sunday to celebrate Shavuot—the holiday marking the revelation of the Torah to Moses at Mount Sinai—were greeted by angry Palestinians. The latter, mostly young...
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Israeli security forces clash with Palestinians on Temple Mount during Shavuot

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Clashes erupted on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Sunday between Israeli security forces and Palestinians, as Jews marked the Shavuot holiday. The Palestinian rioters barricaded themselves inside the Al Aqsa mosque, and hurled rocks...
Ra'am Party leader Mansour Abbas attends the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, on Feb. 22, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s foreign minister

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The responses elicited by the death of Al-Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh were written hundreds of years ago. Blood libels—the practice of using the death of non-Jews as a means to set up the Jewish collective...