From Sustainability To Sovereignty
After the Six Day war when the euphoria of the miraculous world changing victory subsided and Israel got into the nitty gritty of managing a foreign populace that had moved into much of Jerusalem’s Old City from the early 1920s to 1960s, the task of reclaiming and restoring rightful Jewish ownership over much of the […]
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Family of the Murderer of Rabbi Nehemiah Lavi and Aharon Banita Receives $42,000 from the PA
Pay to slay has returned and this time the family of the murderer of Rabbi Nehemiah Lavi and Aharon Banita got their reward from the Palestinian Authority whose pockets have now once again been lined with American money. Muhannad Halabi murdered Rabbi Nehemiah Lavi and Aharon Banita on Rechov HaGai on October 3, 2015. Halabi […]
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Sheikh Jarrah, Silwan, and the Need For Historical Justice
The violence carried out against the Jewish state during the Ramadan war with Hamas and its agents within Israelis cities like Ramle, Lod, and even Jerusalem was said to be rooted in the false narrative that “ethnic cleansing” was currently underway by Israel against the Arab residents of Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan. This lie was […]
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Sustainability, Sovereignty, and a United Jerusalem
For nearly 2,000 years the Jews living in the Land of Israel and those dispersed in exile longed for the day that the Nation of Israel would restore its sovereignty over its holy capital, the resting place of the Divine Presence, and the seat of both the earthly Jewish Kingship and the heavenly one. In […]
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Arab Residents of Silwan Warn Israel Against Demolishing Their Illegal Buildings
The Supreme Council for Muslim Law for “Palestine” has now officially warned the Jerusalem municipality and the State of Israel over destroying Arab buildings in Silwan/Shiloach that were illegally built after the Arabs stole and squatted on old Jewish property. Silwan, was really the Jewish neighborhood of the Shiloach or the Yemenite Village up until […]
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Jerusalem and Real Freedom
There is something about Jerusalem that feels different. Despite the modernity that surrounds the Old City and the City of David, when we stop and breathe in those places of our past that we have returned to, there is a feeling of freedom that is hard to replicate elsewhere. Why? Where is this inner connection […]
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Will Jerusalem’s Coming Green Roof Help Bridge Both The New and Old Jewish Quarters?
The Hebrew language Jerusalem news site Kol HaIr is reporting that a wealthy Jewish businessman from Canada, Ronnen Harary is set to invest millions of shekels to install a green roof on the large roof top plaza known as the Galitzia Courtyard. While no one argues the biophilic necessity of such projects in bringing ecosystem […]
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Contiguity Leads To Sovereignty
In the winding maze of streets that make up much of Jerusalem’s Old City, much of the emphasis on Jewish land reclamation initiatives has been the establishment of urban homesteads. Isolated Jewish compounds, secured in a sea of hostile arabs has never been seen as the aim of Ateret Cohanim. Rather, it was a strategy […]
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Antisemitic Attack At The Shiloach Spring Proves The Need For A New Approach To Sovereignty In Jerusalem
For years Jews have been returning to neighborhoods on the seam line of Jerusalem and beyond, turning once homogeneous Arab neighborhoods back to the blended areas historic Jerusalem had before the Arab pogroms of the 1920s and 1930s. These blended neighborhoods could be the vanguard of coexistence, but as anyone who has spent time in […]
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Green Sovereignty Is Key To Jerusalem’s Future
Day to day life in Jerusalem’s cramped Old City is a mixture of spiritual highs and in many places, especially in many of the mixed Jewish and Arab neighborhoods is also tense with a degree of uncertainty. While much of the Old City is slowly returning to Jewish hands as it was before the pogroms […]
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