Religious Jews stabbed and wounded in altercation with secular Jews in Jerusalem

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.

September 9th, 2009 Israel: anti-assimilation ads yanked over uproarJERUSALEM — An ad campaign against Jewish assimilation, co-sponsored by the Israeli government, has been yanked after outraging Jews abroad, an official said Wednesday, laying bare the sometimes fraught relations between residents of the Jewish homeland and world Jewry. The Hebrew-language campaign was launched by Masa, a joint venture of the quasi-governmental Jewish Agency and the Israeli government.

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 27th, 2009 Survivors, officials remember Lodz ghetto inmatesLODZ, Poland — Survivors and state officials are walking in a March of Remembrance in the central city of Lodz to mark 65 years since the deportation of the last Jews from the city's Litzmannstadt Ghetto. Hundreds of people gathered at the Radegast station, which is now a memorial.

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 Police: Religious Jews stabbed in Jerusalem fightJERUSALEM — Two religious Jews were stabbed and another beaten in a Saturday altercation with secular Jewish residents of Jerusalem, said a police spokesman, in an incident that could worsen already tense relations between the city's residents. The three men were moderately wounded and hospitalized in the dawn incident which took place in a conservative Jerusalem neighborhood, said spokesman Shmuel Ben Ruby.

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.

April 14th, 2009 JERUSALEM - New archaeological evidence has emerged which suggests that ancient Jews used human skulls in ceremonies, despite a strict prohibition on touching human remains. According to a report in Haaretz News, British researcher Dan Levene from the University of Southampton published findings in Biblical Archaeological Review about the human skulls, known as incantation bowls, some of which bear inscriptions in Aramaic.