Jerusalem is Israel’s biggest city, the Central Bureau of Statistics announced Monday. In a slew of Jerusalem-related statistics, released in honor of Jerusalem Day, to be celebrated later this week, the CBS announced that at the end of 2011, there were 804,400 people living in the city, 499,400 (62%) of them Jewish. Of the rest, 281,000 (35%) were Muslim, 14,700 (2%) Christian, and 9,000 (1%) “other” or no declared religion. In addition, 200 Druze lived in the city. Continue reading
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Shoshanna Hararri: From Cabin Fever to Aliyah Fever!
Musician, author, artist and natural healer. Meet Shoshanna Hararri. Once a carefree wanderer going from place to place, seeking to find the ultimate location on Earth to enjoy a serene romantic life of simplicity and contentment with her husband Micha. Continue reading
Diaspora Affairs: ‘We are ready to fight’
Eduard Dolinsky has a youthful face and composed expression that belie his intense responsibilities. As the executive director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, the main representative body of Ukrainian Jewry, Dolinsky is on the front lines of the Jewish community’s battle against the Svoboda party, a far-right nationalist faction that is widely perceived as anti-Semitic. Continue reading
Earth’s core far hotter than thought
New measurements suggest the Earth’s inner core is far hotter than prior experiments suggested, putting it at 6,000C – as hot as the Sun’s surface. Continue reading
Military grooms new officers for war in cyberspace
The U.S. service academies are ramping up efforts to groom a new breed of cyberspace warriors to confront increasing threats to the nation’s military and civilian computer networks that control everything from electrical power grids to the banking system. Continue reading
At evangelical colleges, a shifting attitude toward gay students
Combing through prayer requests in a Wheaton College chapel in 2010, then-junior Benjamin Matthews decided to do something “absurdly unsafe.” Continue reading
How an unwieldy romantic poem and a Romanian folk song combined to produce ‘Hatikva’
Romanian oxen and a chronic alcoholic are not the likeliest progenitors of the Israeli national anthem. But that’s “Hatikva” for you. Continue reading
Palestinians building museum to tell their story
Palestinians on Thursday began construction of the West Bank’s largest museum devoted to their history, planning to tell diverse stories of Palestinians in their land and of millions who live abroad. Continue reading
Masada, tragic fortress in the sky
When you glance at it from the highway, Masada looks much like any other mountain in the Judean desert. Yet it was on these heights, and in the middle of this dreary landscape, that King Herod the Great erected a luxurious desert fortress. And it was here, as well, that a group of besieged and desperate Jews fought the Romans with inhuman valor, then placed their belongings in a corner, set each pile afire, and committed a well-publicized mass suicide. Continue reading
US official: Nations must do more to indict Nazis
WASHINGTON – A leading American prosecutor who works to bring Nazi war criminals to court on Thursday criticized nations for not doing all they could to aid in such cases. Continue reading