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increase font size At least 45 killed, dozens injured in stampede at religious festival in Israel Tens of thousands of mostly ultra-Orthodox men and some children had gathered at the base of the mountain to celebrate Lag Ba'Omer, a holiday that in part commemorates a Jewish uprising in the 1st century against Roman rule. By Steve Hendrix, Miriam Berger, Shira Rubin and Jaclyn PeiserWashington Post Share Israeli security officials and rescuers carry bodies of victims who died during a Lag Ba'Omer celebrations at Mt. Meron in northern Israel, Friday, April 30. David Cohen/JINIPIX via AP JERU...

A masterful writer obsessively preoccupied with whether and how he’d be valued by history; a deeply sensitive charmer with a real mean streak; a transgressive who disavowed the labels usually affixed to Jewish writers, but who wanted his work to be understood in the company of the Jewish greats. If Philip Roth wasn’t a good man, he was certainly an original one. Courtesy of W.W. Norton & Company Blake Bailey’s “Philip Roth.” Capturing the problem of Roth became the task of Blake Bailey, the literary biographer who, after writing about the lives of Richard Yates, John Cheever and Cha...

121 shares Police at the scene where a man was injured after being hit by a car in the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem on February 28, 2021 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90) The Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office on Sunday filed charges against three Haredi teenagers for a racially motivated attack against an Arab driver in Jerusalem last month that allegedly led the victim to run over a bystander while trying to flee the scene. Shimon Natan Sheetrit, 19, Yitzhak Sabro, 18, and a 17-year-old suspect who was not named as he is a minor were charged with participating i...

220 shares Ibrahim Hamed, the driver accused of running over a man last night in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem arrives to the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court for a court hearing on March 1, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Police said Thursday that 14 people, five of them minors, were arrested over an attack on a driver who hit and killed a man while trying to flee, as well as other violence at a Jerusalem protest earlier in the week. Ibrahim Hamed said he was assaulted by a group of protesters in an anti-Arab attack and was attempting to escape when he plowed his vehicle on Sund...

Ultra-Orthodox protesters have clashed with police in Jerusalem in the latest confrontation over Covid-19 restrictions It was among several reported in Israel and the West Bank on Tuesday, which saw protesters block streets and throw objects at police Non-compliance with lockdown restrictions among some sections of Israel's ultra-Orthodox community threatens to undercut the country's highly successful vaccination campaign Despite inoculating more than a quarter of its 9.2million people in just a month, Israel still faces a high infection rate