NewsEDINBURGH — The Church of Scotland will reword a controversial report which said “scripture” provides no basis for Jewish claims to Israel, the church said in statement.
The 10-page report, titled “The Inheritance of Abraham” and published online earlier this month, has been taken down from the Church of Scotland’s website until it is rewritten.
A message posted on the church’s website said that following talks on May 9 with Jewish leaders, the church has agreed to change the report by adding “a new introduction to set the context for the report and give clarity about some of the language used.”
The statement, co-signed by Board of Deputies of British Jews and three other Jewish groups, also said the church “needs to be explicit “ about its recognition of Israel’s right to exist.
JERUSALEM — Orthodox youths mobbed the Western Wall plaza by the thousands to protest Women of the Wall as they held their monthly prayer service.
The youths, male and female, filled the Western Wall Plaza by 6:40 a.m. on Friday, May 10, 20 minutes before Women of the Wall, a women’s prayer group that holds monthly services at the site, also called the Kotel, began praying.
Because haredi Orthodox women had packed the women’s section of the plaza earlier in the morning, Women of the Wall...
WASHINGTON — King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew unveiled the Raoul Wallenberg Congressional Gold Medal.
The medal unveiled May 9 at the US Treasury in Washington is inscribed with “hero of heroes” beneath the likeness of the Swedish diplomat who rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.
On the flip side, a depiction of a hand distributing the protective passports that Wallenberg distributed among Hungarian Jews is accompanied by the text, ...
JERUSALEM — The activist group Women of the Wall will face no more legal challenges after Israeli Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein decided this week not to appeal a court decision favoring the group.
Weinstein’s office announced Monday, May 6, that he would not appeal last month’s ruling by the Jerusalem District Court that Women of the Wall were not breaking the law by conducting their monthly service.
Members of the group have been routinely arrested or detained in recent months for w...