Domestic violence: The only safe place for battered Orthodox Jewish women in Israel
By Dvora Meyers (JTA) — Twenty years ago, when Noach Korman was starting out as a rabbinic lawyer in Jerusalem, a young woman pushing a…
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How Jerusalem is coping with the attacks: Police and pepper spray
By Ben Sales JERUSALEM (JTA) — “No pepper spray, no tear gas, no nightsticks,” sighed Itzhak Mizrahi to three disappointed men, as if it were…
Kerry to Netanyahu and Abbas: Condemn violence, restore calm in Israel
(JTA) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called for efforts to restore calm in Israel during telephone conversations with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Kerry…
Third intifada? Palestinian violence is tragically Israel’s new normal
By Ben Sales JERUSALEM (JTA) – Israelis have become accustomed to dismal news in the past few weeks – mornings and evenings punctuated by stabbings,…