It’s not often you encounter a Rabbi with a Palestinian flag pinned to their jacket. But then Neturei Karta are anything but conventional. They are a religious group of Haredi Jews whose name in Aramaic means ‘Protectors of the City’. The city in question is Jerusalem and the group is …
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“We must not be dragged into provocations and inflicting harm on people or property,” Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said in a statement on Wednesday. “The Torah of Israel grants no license for taking the law into one’s hands and acting violently.” Tensions between Israelis and Palestinians came to a …
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Chaim Kanievsky, who is considered a leading authority in the Jewish Orthodox community, gave an affirmative answer when asked by Israeli outlet News 12 about the possibility of the Israeli right forming a coalition with Israeli Arab parties. The 93-year-old cleric and spiritual leader of the United Torah Judaism party …
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The chief Rabbi of Sochi Ari Edelkopf said that he and his family face deportation from Russia. How to write Edelkopf on his Facebook, the reason for deportation “referred to the provisions of sub-clause 1 of clause 1 of article 7, N115-FZ, that is, our actions threaten the security of …
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