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A bus pulls up to a stop in Jerusalem and the waiting crowd divides -- men flock to the front and women to the back, an illustration, activists say, of a disturbing trend of gender segregation.Israel's Supreme Court has ruled that the ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The women turned heads as they got on Jerusalem's number 56 bus.Startled ultra-Orthodox Jewish men looked away as the group mounted a challenge to growing gender segregation in the holy city by boarding the public vehicle from the front ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A sign at the ice cream parlour may caution men and women not to lick cones in public, but the warning didn't stop Jewish zealots vandalising the shop in Jerusalem's main ultra-Orthodox neighborhood.Other businesses in Mea Shearim, including a ...

A tiny golden bell which was lost in Jerusalem some 2,000 years ago during the Second Temple period has been found among ruins near the Old City, Israel's Antiquities Authority said on Friday.The bell, which is thought to have been an adornment ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police briefly detained a leading rabbi Sunday as part of a widening probe into a treatise suspected of inciting the murder of Arabs.The investigation has pitted authorities in the Jewish state against far-right West Bank settlers and has ...

An Israeli court on Tuesday released on bail 20 rightist activists a day after they rioted when detectives detained a leading settler rabbi suspected of inciting racist violence, police said.But controversy over the issue raged on, with supporters of Rabbi Dov Lior ...

More than 3,000 police were deployed in and around the Holy City on Wednesday as Israelis marked Jerusalem Day to remember their capture of its Arab eastern sector 44 years ago, during the Six Day War."We have deployed extra police, border guards ...

Police launched an investigation Monday into the vandalism of Jewish centers and synagogues in the Montreal area over the weekend.Rock throwers smashed the windows of three synagogues in the boroughs of Hampstead and Cote St-Luc, and a Jewish school and a kindergarten ...

The mayor of Jerusalem, a rising star in Israeli politics, has vowed that the city would never be divided to allow the eastern side to become the capital of a future Palestinian state."It's not going to happen, it's not natural, it's the ...

New iPhone app allows worshippers worldwide to visit Jerusalem's Western WallIPhone users can now visit Judaism's holiest prayer site from anywhere in the world.The Israeli foundation that administers the Western Wall has launched an iPhone application that streams live from the site ...

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Topic: Jerusalem

Israeli activists battle 'growing' sex segregation

Israel takes gender fight to buses, billboards

Religious zealots attack "immodest" Jerusalem shops

Tiny 2,000-year-old golden bell found in Jerusalem

Israel targets top rabbis for anti-Arab incitement

Israel court frees supporters of rightist rabbi

Israel marks Jerusalem Day amid tight security

Vandals strike Montreal synagogues

Jerusalem will never be divided, says city mayor

Jerusalem's Western Wall gets an iPhone app

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