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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 368

Yom Kippur

Craig Berko, director of membership at Temple Beth Sholom, prepares to hand out prayer books during a Shabbat service, September 27, 2024, in Miami Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
October 1, 2024, 9:44 am
US Jews report ‘difficult time’ as High Holidays and October 7 anniversary coincide
At peak of religious calendar, synagogues to commemorate deadly Hamas attack on Israel, amid rising antisemitism and pain over ongoing war, remaining hostages
By AP and ToI Staff
Alina Plahti (Courtesy)
November 14, 2023, 2:25 am
The Jewishness of some Hamas victims sparks bitter disputes over their burial
At the rabbinate’s insistence, two non-Jewish Israelis have been buried ‘outside the fence’ despite their families’ wishes, while others fight to cremate their loved ones
By Canaan Lidor
Head of Rosh Yehudi, Israel Zeira, bottom right, attends a hearing on Tel Aviv Simhat Torah celebrations at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on October 6, 2023 (Chaim Goldbergl/Flash90)
October 6, 2023, 1:53 pm
At High Court, Tel Aviv officials acquiesce to Orthodox group holding Sukkot event
After judges criticize municipality’s conduct, sides agree on Saturday night Simhat Torah celebration in city center provided no physical barriers are erected to separate sexes
By ToI Staff
Israel Zeira (R), the head of Rosh Yehudi, arrives for an arbitration hearing at the Tel Aviv District Court in Tel Aviv, October 4, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
October 4, 2023, 4:30 pm
Court affirms Tel Aviv’s right to yank Orthodox group’s permits for Sukkot
Rosh Yehudi plans fresh Supreme Court petition following the ruling on the municipality’s decision to deny permission to hold events over holiday after Yom Kippur clashes
By Canaan Lidor
Jewish worshippers pray at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City, during the Birkat HaKohanim priestly blessing at the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, October 2, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 2, 2023, 8:16 pm
Worshipers hail ‘remedial’ priestly prayer in Jerusalem after Tel Aviv confrontation
Many at the vast event at the Western Wall describe it as a corrective experience
By Canaan Lidor
United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni speaks at a UTJ event in Kibbutz Hafetz Haim on September 30, 2023. (Screen capture/Twitter)
October 1, 2023, 3:13 am
Haredi MK: Yom Kippur scuffles prove anti-gov’t protesters waging ‘religious war’
Moshe Gafni says confrontations show activists ‘are not referring to judicial reform,’ claims warnings that reforms would harm economy disproved: ‘The economy is excellent’
By ToI Staff
Protesters shout at Israel Zeira (right), founder of the Orthodox Jewish group Rosh Yehudi, which set up a gender divider for a public prayer event on Yom Kippur in Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on September 24, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90)
September 29, 2023, 11:11 am
Fearing religious takeover, activists see ‘secular awakening’ in Yom Kippur fray
The breaking up of a prayer event over gender segregation has galvanized liberals worried about a slide into coercion, with battle lines mirroring divisions found in overhaul fight
By Canaan Lidor
Hila Galili demonstrates at a prayer rally against the government on September 29, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
September 29, 2023, 7:28 am
At a Tel Aviv prayer rally, anti-government protesters channel ‘a different Judaism’
Event born out of secular-religious clashes and a demonstration against far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir marks an unusual mix of faith and politics
By Canaan Lidor
Secular and Orthodox Israelis at a contested public prayer service in Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, September 24, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
September 28, 2023, 2:26 am
We all know who to blame for the Jewish intolerance of Yom Kippur 5784
And we all find it abhorrent and inexplicable that the other side acted in the way it did. But mutual accusation is not going to heal our destructive national divide
By David Horovitz
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visits south Tel Aviv on September 3, 2023, a day after Eritrean migrants rioted in the area. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
September 27, 2023, 6:55 pm
Facing wave of pressure, Ben Gvir cancels planned Tel Aviv prayer rally
Far-right minister says he is happy ‘the extreme left’ backed down from plans to protest future prayers; Gantz condemns ‘both sides’ of Yom Kippur clashes in city
By ToI Staff
File: National Security Itamar Ben Gvir visits south Tel Aviv, September 3, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
September 27, 2023, 2:45 pm
Pressure mounts on Ben Gvir to ‘lower the flames,’ call off Tel Aviv prayer rally
Many in coalition, including PM, urge minister to stay away following Yom Kippur clashes; Opposition Leader Lapid tells secular activists not to give him limelight by protesting
By Michael Horovitz
Yossi Klein Halevi
September 27, 2023, 8:17 am
Yossi Klein Halevi
The state of our brokenness
Something elemental has been desecrated in our shared Israeliness, and Yom Kippur has again forced us to face ourselves
President Isaac Herzog speaks at a state ceremony marking 50 years since the Yom Kippur War at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, September 26, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)
September 26, 2023, 2:29 pm
Herzog on Yom Kippur prayer clashes: Polarization a ‘true danger to Israeli society’
At ceremony marking 50 years since Yom Kippur War, president urges Israelis to set aside differences and unite like in 1973, since ‘internal threat is the most acute of all’
By Michael Bachner
Two Israeli soldiers sit beneath a road sign, with a tank in the background, somewhere in the Sinai Desert, October 8, 1973. (AP Photo/Robert Dear)
September 26, 2023, 2:03 pm
Daily Briefing Sep 26: Yom Kippur prayer leads to furor in TA; 1973 war remembered
Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman gives behind-the-scenes look at United Nations trip; religion reporter Canaan Lidor on US President Joe Biden’s off-the-cuff ultra-Zionist plug
By ToI Staff
Secular activists take down a gender divider made of Israeli flags that was set up by the Rosh Yehudi group in defiance of a municipality decision at a public prayer service in Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur. September 24, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
September 25, 2023, 11:18 pm
PM slams ‘left-wingers rioting against Jews’; Lapid: Messianists brought religious war
Netanyahu condemns extremist hatred at Tel Aviv prayers; Lapid raps him for backing ultra-nationalists who defied public gender-separation ban; Ben Gvir: I’ll pray there Thursday
By ToI Staff
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