A leading Chabad calls on Israeli settlers to fire at police and Israeli army soldiers; A Knesset member should be "boycotted" because she is intermarried; and a Satmar hasid illegally wears a police badge and drives with flashing police lights
A leading rabbi-led Israeli Orthodox Zionist organization advocates "death camps" for "Amalekites," Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Israelis think Israel's parliament is too democratic, disgraced rabbi Leib Tropper gets warm welcome in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox community, a riot breaks out during a lecture by an ultra-Orthodox rabbi, an ultra-Orthodox woman was arrested during a family wedding by the FBI, a contaminated kosher dairy is shuttered by New York State, a Jerusalem "modesty squad" leader is sentenced to jail for a viscous assault, and a right wing Israeli organization has decided to give kosher certificates to restaurants that refuse to hire Arabs.
In an open letter to Barack Obama (published last month in "The Washington Post," "The Wall Street Journal" and "The New York Times"), author Elie Wiesel declared Jerusalem above politics. "It is mentioned more...