Ilene Prusher

New regulations were announced only one day after a bank shooting in Be'er Sheva, yet the government has been unable to move forward with the Palestinians.

While its noble aim was to honor felled reporters, the Newseum wound up walking into a minefield when it included then deleted from its list of honorees two Gazans who were killed in an Israeli airstrike while working for Al-Aqsa TV.

The 'First Station,' which opened Tuesday, showcased a rich mix of past and present. Its non-kosher restaurants and commerce on Shabbat may be a test of how well secular and religious Jerusalem can get along in a public space.

The Jerusalem I don’t live in - but visit often, largely by dint of my work as a journalist - is not a normal city. Gardens, gelato and Gucci will not bring peace.

In her one-woman show, Chaya Lester traces a personal and spiritual trajectory, from a charmed life along the Mississippi River to challenging one amid the sea of Torah in Jerusalem.

A new park named for the late Jerusalem mayor, not far from the Old City’s Jaffa Gate, will have a state-of-the-art musical fountain where water does not spout so much as sashay and swing.

Jorgen Nilsson set foot from Sweden last November carrying a message of peace, and making a statement against xenophobia and mistrust.

WATCH: Jerusalemites East and West express their wishes - and the American who captured them says he hopes they’ll be heard in Tehran.

The story of Daniel Pearl, whom I saw just days before he went to Karachi, inspires me so much because, while he fearlessly chipped away at stories on the perils of war, he also had fun.

Brand New Mamas, a successful Facebook group, holds its first-ever expo in Jerusalem, giving mothers the chance to talk about the things they usually won’t online.

Francine Gordon, artist-activist from Ohio who splits her time between the U.S. and Israel, writes musical response to many of the most controversial issues of religious freedom, personal status and women’s rights, which have piqued Diaspora interest as never before.

Plans to preserve and strengthen the Islamic character of Jerusalem may have their merits, but do they have to go hand in hand with alarmist warnings that the Al-Aqsa mosque could be destroyed at any minute?

Any person in their right mind would move to the settlements. You can get two or three times the space for your money; and face little more than a tsk-tsk from Barack Obama.

The students who were invited to hear U.S. President Barack Obama deliver the keynote speech of his landmark visit to Israel were as diverse as the rest of the Israeli population.

U.S. president shown the social side benefits of bi-national cooperation.

'We walked here on foot during the snowstorm, and if we have to do that again, we will' says the manager of the neighborhood supermarket closest to where Obama will be staying.

A spontaneous musical performance of Tchaikovsky in the ward of a Jerusalem hospital raises the question of whether flash mobs can be purely a deed to 'make people feel good,' or whether they're inherently – and unavoidably - political.

When an Arab attacks a Jew, he’s a terrorist, he’s been taught to hate. When a Jew attacks an Arab, he’s just a loner, an oddball, a bad egg. But we’ve seen so many bad eggs at this point that something here has begun to stink.

The entire King David Hotel, where he’ll be staying with an entourage that will fill all 233 rooms from Wednesday March 20 to Friday March 22, will be made kosher for Passover (Pesach) ahead of his visit.

A group of Jerusalem students say city signs don’t do justice the great women they’re supposed to commemorate.

The almond trees are in full bloom around Jerusalem, but when it comes to forming a government, things seem to be stubbornly frozen.

Jerusalemites cheer the runners on, tolerate our roads being closed to traffic, our kids being home from school, but don’t ask me to be an ambassador.

It's common on Purim to do things upside down, and this year, Jerusalem Police seemed to go completely inside out by choosing not to arrest any female worshippers at the Kotel.

Every Jerusalem resident that doesn't feel commanded to avoid mixed dancing has been to the Boogie at least once, or should have.

Residents of Jerusalem's Beit Safafa say the city's plan to build a highway right through the middle of the Arab neighborhood will end life as they know it, and will only serve settlers.