Archive for the ‘Jerusalem’ Category
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
In the latest Jerusalem Issue Brief, published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat outlines his blueprint for Jersualem:
Jerusalem has a population of 800,000 people today, which will grow to a million people twenty years from now. The current population ratio is one-third Muslim, two-thirds Jewish, ...
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
In commemoration of the Ninth of Av, the Jewish holiday marking the destruction of the Temple, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs presents the following review of Jerusalem's centrality to Israel:
Claim: Jerusalem is of equal significance to Christians, Muslims, and Jews.
Response: Jerusalem is the Jewish people's holiest city. Though both ...
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
In his weekly Canadian Jewish News media analysis column “According to Reports,” Paul Michaels, CIC Director of Communications, looks at a disturbing media trend to call Jewish neighbourhoods in Jerusalem "settlements."Can Israel be covered journalistically with equanimity – that is, a sense of calmness and perspective? Or ...
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
In March, The War and Peace Index, now a joint venture of The Evens Mediation and Conflict Resolution Center at Tel Aviv University and The Israel Democracy Institute, looked at recent U.S.-Israeli tensions over the settlement freeze issue. Among the findings: A large majority (62%) of the Jewish public ...
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Friday, March 19th, 2010
In his weekly Canadian Jewish News media analysis column “According to Reports,” Paul Michaels, CIC Director of Communications, looks at media reaction to the Israeli/US diplomatic spat over the announcement of housing starts in Jerusalem. U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel last week was met with controversy ...
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
Great story on International Women's Day. Israel working to get more women in its parliament (Knesset). Bill would reward parties that boast more women By Mazal Mualem Haaretz: March 8, 2010 Efforts to increase the number of female Knesset members have frequently been stymied ...
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Here is the introduction to a new publication from the Global Law Forum of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs: Demography, Geopolitics, and the Future of Israel's Capital: Jerusalem's Proposed Master PlanBy Nadav Shragai The aspiration to create and preserve a stable Jewish majority in the unified capital of the ...
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
In his weekly Canadian Jewish News media analysis column “According to Reports,” Paul Michaels, CIC Director of Communications, finds that AP is consistently measured in its reporting on east Jerusalem housing starts.
The recent announcement that Israel intended to build 900 housing units in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Gilo was ...
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
An ancient fortification, dating from the time of Abraham, has been uncovered by archeologists in Jerusalem. The 26-foot-high and very thick wall was likely used by the Canaanites some 3,700 years ago to protect the path to an important water source, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority. ...
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
Here's a new way to use the popular micro-blogging site Twitter: send your prayers to Jerusalem to be placed in the Western Wall.
The project was founded by Tel Aviv university student Alon Nir. In the CBC radio interview below, Nir says he was inspired by the Iranians who used Twitter ...
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