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Rival factions of the Ger Hasidic sect fought running battles in three Israeli cities over the weekend. This is why the fur is flying

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: “Big things can be done with 60 mandates, including passing a budget, and we intend to do it,” Lapid said.

Ashkenazi Jews have a tradition of not eating kitniyot (legumes) over Passover.

Eight is a time for beginnings. Seven represents fullness, completeness. There are seven days to creation, seven days to a week. Then comes the eighth.

That I had been born there at all was a function of knowing when to leave — and when to come back.

Three weeks ago we read the Ten Commandments. In the following week’s Torah portion, Mishpatim, God translates those lofty ideas into concrete commandments. The Torah det

The rioters who left the Havat Maon and Avigayil outposts on Simhat Torah to wreak destruction in the village of Khirbat Mufkara also disrupted the idyll we’d been living

News program repeats soldier's lie that Basil al-Adraa started a fire to blame it "on the Jews."

As world leaders spoke about global challenges, the Israeli premier took the time to reeducate – as he sees it – his COVID experts ■ To counter Islamist rival's growing influence, the Joint List's Odeh goes rogue