Police: Religious Jews stabbed and wounded after altercation with secular Jews in Jerusalem

October 6th, 2009 Police increase presence in volatile JerusalemJERUSALEM — Israeli police have mobilized reinforcements from across the country to secure volatile Jerusalem after days of violent Palestinian protests. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said thousands of police were securing the city on Tuesday, including officers mobilized from other areas.

October 5th, 2009 Israeli police deploy around tense holy siteJERUSALEM — Israel deployed thousands of policemen in and around Jerusalem's Old City on Monday to prevent a new round of disturbances around a tense site holy to Jews and Muslims. Police have been clashing sporadically for several days with Muslim protesters in and around the compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary.

October 4th, 2009 Unrest erupts at Jerusalem shrineJERUSALEM — Police say Palestinian protesters are hurling rocks and bottles at Israeli police after being barred from one of the holiest shrines in Jerusalem. Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby says police have dispersed about 150 demonstrators who had gathered near the disputed hilltop compound.

October 1st, 2009 JERUSALEM - Fifty-six percent of American Jews support military action against Iran to prevent the Teheran regime from obtaining nuclear weapons, a new study has claimed. Thirty-six percent opposed such a move, according to the American Jewish Committee's 2009 Annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion.

September 30th, 2009 Israeli police, protesters clash at holy siteJERUSALEM — Israeli police used stun grenades Sunday to disperse Palestinian rioters at a volatile Jerusalem site holy to Jews and Muslims, police said. The incident took place during a visit by a Jewish group to the compound in Jerusalem's Old City known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary.

August 27th, 2009 JERUSALEM - The Palestinian Authority's chief Islamic judge, Sheikh Tayseer Rajab Tamimi, has said there was no evidence to back up claims that Jews had ever lived in Jerusalem or that the temple ever existed. Tamimi claimed that Israeli archeologists had "admitted" that Jerusalem was never inhabited by Jews, the Jerusalem Post reports.

August 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 41-year-old woman was allegedly stabbed to death by her husband Sunday when an altercation turned violent and they attacked each other with a knife in their south Delhi home, police said. Almanta, 45, a tea kiosk owner in Madangir area of south Delhi, had a fight with his wife Maria over some issue in the morning.

July 17th, 2009 Jerusalem court and ultra-Orthodox reach dealJERUSALEM — A judge in Jerusalem and leaders of the city's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community agreed Friday to a compromise aimed at ending days of rioting by religious protesters, Israeli police said. The protesters have been enraged at the arrest of a mentally ill Hasidic woman who authorities say was starving her child.

July 17th, 2009 Jerusalem police fear more ultra-Orthodox riotsJERUSALEM — Smoldering trashcans and broken glass littered Jerusalem streets Friday as police prepared for a fourth day of rioting by ultra-Orthodox Jews enraged at the arrest of a mentally ill Hasidic woman who authorities say was starving her child. Security forces armed with water cannon and backed by mounted units battled through the night protesters hurling bricks and bottles and blocking main thoroughfares with piles of garbage.

July 16th, 2009 Ultra-Orthodox Jews riot in Jerusalem over arrestJERUSALEM — Ultra-Orthodox Jews throwing rocks and firecrackers clashed with police using horses and water cannon in Jerusalem on Thursday, in the third day of rioting over the arrest of a mentally ill Hasidic woman who authorities say was starving her child. Late in the day, the unrest spread to a city outside Jerusalem with a large ultra-Orthodox population, where dozens of protesters tried to block a road.

July 11th, 2009 Religious Jews stabbed in Jerusalem fightJERUSALEM — Two religious Jews were stabbed and another was beaten in a fight with secular Jews in Jerusalem on Saturday, a police spokesman said — an incident that could worsen tense relations between the city's observant and non-observant Jewish residents. Resentment has been simmering for years as the ultra-Orthodox community has grown in size and influence.

July 11th, 2009 Police, ultra-Orthodox Jews scuffle in JerusalemJERUSALEM — Ultra-Orthodox Jews threw themselves under the wheels of an idling bus and in front of waiting cars to protest the opening of a parking lot on the Jewish Sabbath — an act they consider an abomination. The municipality opened the lot on Saturdays last month to limit illegal parking in the city's ancient walled quarter.

July 7th, 2009 JERUSALEM - Notwithstanding the anti-government protests in Iran, Jewish Iranians living in Israel and abroad think that Iran under the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is much better than it would be under opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi. At a conference of Iranian Jews in Jerusalem on Monday, leaders of the Mashadi Jewish community said that despite Ahmadinejad's blustery rhetoric against Israel, Iran is a safe place for Jews to practice their religion.

June 27th, 2009 Israel: Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest for 2nd dayJERUSALEM — Police turned water cannons on a raucous demonstration by Ultra-Orthodox Jews Saturday, the second consecutive day of protests over the opening of a city parking lot on the Jewish Sabbath when religious Jews are forbidden to drive. Thousands of Ultra-Orthodox protesters were on the streets throughout the city Saturday, Jerusalem Police Spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said.

June 27th, 2009 Israel: Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest parking lotJERUSALEM — Police turned water cannons on a raucous demonstration by Ultra-Orthodox Jews Saturday, the second consecutive day of protests over the opening of a city parking lot on the Jewish Sabbath when religious Jews are forbidden to drive. Thousands of Ultra-Orthodox protesters were on the streets throughout the city Saturday, Jerusalem Police Spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said.