Two weeks in July: Jerusalem tensions, Israel and the Palestinians
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN ON FRIDAY July 14th I awoke, hungover and tired, with news that there had been a terror attack in the Old City. It had all the […]
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If the Temple was rebuilt, those people visiting it wouldn’t be allowed near it
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Over the last years there has been increasing media attention to small groups of Jews who ascend to the Temple Mount area and seek to show […]
Why the argument over prayer on the Temple Mount IS NOT about “religious liberty”
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I keep seeing this theory: “[The US] pressures another democracy [Israel] to continue to curtail religious freedom for one group, goes beyond hypocrisy. This is not the […]
